Evolving Skies has 132 cards with a reverse holo version.
Reverse holos in Evolving Skies
A reverse holo foils the card body instead of the artwork, giving the same card two finishes. Evolving Skies has 132 reverse holo cards, mostly from its 42 Commons, 51 Uncommons and 19 non-holo Rares — 112 cards in those everyday tiers. Even staples for Umbreon, Rayquaza, Dragonite and Leafeon usually get one.
Star Pokémon to grab reverse copies of in Evolving Skies
- Umbreon — Umbreon V (#188), Umbreon V (#189), Umbreon VMAX (#214), Umbreon VMAX (#215)
- Rayquaza — Rayquaza V (#193), Rayquaza V (#194), Rayquaza VMAX (#217), Rayquaza VMAX (#218)
- Dragonite — Dragonite V (#191), Dragonite V (#192)
- Leafeon — Leafeon V (#166), Leafeon V (#167), Leafeon VMAX (#204), Leafeon VMAX (#205)
- Sylveon — Sylveon V (#183), Sylveon V (#184), Sylveon VMAX (#211), Sylveon VMAX (#212)
Why Evolving Skies' reverse holos matter
None of these 132 show on the base checklist of 203, so they're extra cards to track when finishing Evolving Skies. There are no pattern variants in Evolving Skies, so reverse holos are the main extra layer. Counted in, a full Evolving Skies master set is 369 cards — about 41 9-pocket pages versus 23 for the base set.
By contrast the top pulls — Umbreon VMAX, Rayquaza VMAX and Dragonite V — come as full-art rares, not reverse holos, so they sit outside this 132-card pool. The reverse run is the cheap everyday cards: lots of slots, low cost.
Collecting the Evolving Skies reverse holos
At 132 cards, the reverse-holo set is roughly 65% the size of Evolving Skies' 203-card base — a whole second pass through the everyday slots. They sleeve into about 15 extra 9-pocket pages, so factor that in before committing to a full Evolving Skies master set.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.