Surging Sparks has 165 cards with a reverse holo version.
Reverse holos in Surging Sparks
A reverse holo foils the card body instead of the artwork, giving the same card two finishes. Surging Sparks has 165 reverse holo cards, mostly from its 88 Commons, 61 Uncommons and 16 non-holo Rares — 165 cards in those everyday tiers. Even staples for Pikachu, Latias, Milotic and Hydreigon usually get one.
Star Pokémon to grab reverse copies of in Surging Sparks
- Pikachu — Pikachu ex (#57), Pikachu ex (#219), Pikachu ex (#238), Pikachu ex (#247)
- Latias — Latias ex (#76), Latias ex (#220), Latias ex (#239)
- Milotic — Milotic ex (#42), Milotic ex (#217), Milotic ex (#237)
- Hydreigon — Hydreigon ex (#119), Hydreigon ex (#223), Hydreigon ex (#240)
- Latios — Latios (#203)
Why Surging Sparks' reverse holos matter
None of these 165 show on the base checklist of 191, so they're extra cards to track when finishing Surging Sparks. There are no pattern variants in Surging Sparks, so reverse holos are the main extra layer. Counted in, a full Surging Sparks master set is 417 cards — about 47 9-pocket pages versus 22 for the base set.
By contrast the top pulls — Pikachu ex, Latias ex and Milotic ex — come as full-art rares, not reverse holos, so they sit outside this 165-card pool. The reverse run is the cheap everyday cards: lots of slots, low cost.
Collecting the Surging Sparks reverse holos
At 165 cards, the reverse-holo set is roughly 86% the size of Surging Sparks' 191-card base — a whole second pass through the everyday slots. They sleeve into about 19 extra 9-pocket pages, so factor that in before committing to a full Surging Sparks master set.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.