Sword & Shield has 165 cards with a reverse holo version.
Reverse holos in Sword & Shield
A reverse holo foils the card body instead of the artwork, giving the same card two finishes. Sword & Shield has 165 reverse holo cards, mostly from its 60 Commons, 56 Uncommons and 32 non-holo Rares — 148 cards in those everyday tiers. Even staples for Snorlax, Morpeko, Zacian and Lapras usually get one.
Star Pokémon to grab reverse copies of in Sword & Shield
- Snorlax — Snorlax V (#197), Snorlax VMAX (#206)
- Morpeko — Morpeko V (#190), Morpeko VMAX (#204)
- Zacian — Zacian V (#195), Zacian V (#211)
- Lapras — Lapras V (#189), Lapras VMAX (#203)
- Sableye — Sableye V (#194)
Why Sword & Shield's reverse holos matter
None of these 165 show on the base checklist of 202, so they're extra cards to track when finishing Sword & Shield. There are no pattern variants in Sword & Shield, so reverse holos are the main extra layer. Counted in, a full Sword & Shield master set is 390 cards — about 44 9-pocket pages versus 23 for the base set.
By contrast the top pulls — Snorlax VMAX, Snorlax VMAX and Marnie — 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 Sword & Shield reverse holos
At 165 cards, the reverse-holo set is roughly 82% the size of Sword & Shield's 202-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 Sword & Shield master set.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.