Crown Zenith Set Guide: Full Card List, Chase Cards, Pull Rates, and Sealed Prices

Crown Zenith closed out the Sword & Shield era as a celebration set, a greatest-hits send-off built around a 70-card Galarian Gallery and a Giratina VSTAR that has led its value board for as long as the set has been out. It never shipped as a standard booster box, which shaped how the sealed side trades to this day.

Crown Zenith runs 230 cards, and the full Crown Zenith card list with live prices is on the set page. That's the one to bookmark if you're chasing Gallery cards or checking a single.

From there the guide walks through the numbering, the cards holding the value, the pull odds, and the state of the sealed product.

Crown Zenith at a Glance

• Release date: January 20, 2023, the final English set of the Sword & Shield (SWSH) era
• 159 cards in the main numbering, 230 total
• A 70-card Galarian Gallery subset, numbered GG01 through GG70
• No standard booster box, the set released through Elite Trainer Boxes, tins, and collection boxes
• A special-set format leaning on reprints and alternate arts rather than a new mechanic
• The headline chase: Giratina VSTAR #GG69, the Galarian Gallery secret

This was the victory lap for Sword & Shield. The set gathered fan favorites from across the era and dressed the best of them in the Galarian Gallery treatment. For the card list, the Gallery is the whole story: it holds the top of the value table and most of what people actually chase.

The Crown Zenith Card List: How It's Structured

Two blocks, and one of them is where the money lives.

The main set, 001 to 159. Commons through the full-art V and VSTAR cards, a broad SWSH-era roster with the usual holo rares and secret golds above the set number. It's a fine set to build from, but it's not the reason people open Crown Zenith.

The Galarian Gallery, GG01 to GG70. A 70-card subset of alternate-art cards, the largest gallery of its kind in the era. The Giratina VSTAR, Mewtwo VSTAR, and Arceus VSTAR sit at the top of it, and the lower-numbered Gallery cards are where collectors fill pages without chasing the secrets.

Every card across both blocks, priced, is on the full interactive list.

Crown Zenith Chase Cards: What's Worth Money

Giratina VSTAR, GG69 is the card that defines the set. Its Origin Forme was the face of Lost Origin a few sets earlier, and the Galarian Gallery version became the piece collectors point to when they talk about Crown Zenith at all. It has held the top of the board about as steadily as any card in the era.

Mewtwo VSTAR, GG44 runs second, a Gen-1 icon in the Gallery treatment, with Arceus VSTAR, GG70 closing the subset at its final number.

Below the top three, the Origin Forme Palkia and Dialga VSTARs carry the legendary side of the Gallery, and the Eeveelution Gallery cards fill in the tier below that.

The rest of the chase board:

Crown Zenith Singles30-day change

1

Leafeon VSTAR · GG35

▲+7%$90$97

2

Hisuian Zoroark VSTAR · GG56

▲+6%$51$54

3

Deoxys VMAX · GG45

▲+4%$76$79

4

Mewtwo VSTAR · GG44

▲+4%$291$302

5

Giratina VSTAR · GG69

▼-2%$403$394

6

Arceus VSTAR · GG70

▼-5%$248$235

7

Suicune V · GG38

▼-8%$72$66

The Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery

The Galarian Gallery is Crown Zenith. At 70 cards it's the biggest alternate-art subset the Sword & Shield era produced, and it's where nearly all of the set's value and demand concentrate.

The tone is different from a normal set. Because Crown Zenith was a celebration release, the Gallery pulls fan favorites from across the whole era and gives each one a painted alternate-art frame. Giratina, Mewtwo, and Arceus lead on price, the Origin Forme legendaries and the Eeveelutions sit in the middle, and the cheaper Gallery cards are the entry point for collectors who want the look without paying for the secrets.

The regular set has its own golds and full arts, but for most people the Gallery is the reason to open the product at all.

Crown Zenith Pull Rates (Estimated)

No official odds exist for this set, so the figures below are community-sampled and approximate.

• Galarian Gallery card: about 1 in 6 packs
• Ultra Rare (full-art V or VSTAR): about 1 in 9 packs
• VMAX or VSTAR: about 1 in 12 packs
• Secret rare (gold or rainbow): about 1 in 30 packs

The Gallery cards come often, which is what keeps the lower-numbered ones affordable and the product fun to open. The top Gallery secrets like the Giratina are the scarce slice, sharing one slot with dozens of others, so landing that specific card takes far more packs than the flat odds suggest, and that gap is what holds its price.

Crown Zenith Sealed: ETB and Booster Prices

The sealed board:

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1

Crown Zenith Booster Bundle

▲+9%$195$213

2

Crown Zenith Booster Pack

▲+4%$24$25

3

Crown Zenith Pokemon Center ETB Plus

▲+3%$581$598

4

Crown Zenith Elite Trainer Box

▼-2%$344$336

Crown Zenith never had a standard booster box, so the Elite Trainer Box (ETB) is the anchor sealed unit here, and the Booster Bundle sits under it as the other common way in. That absence is part of the set's story, and we've written about it in Crown Zenith, the Set the Market Forgot.

Without a booster box in the mix, the ETB and the Pokemon Center version above it carry the sealed demand that a box would in a normal set. The scarcer the sealed product gets, the more that ETB has to stand in for everything the era's collectors want from opened and unopened Crown Zenith alike.

Why Crown Zenith Endures

The value table is only part of why this set stays relevant.

Crown Zenith was the goodbye to Sword & Shield, an era that ran long and printed some of the most collected alternate arts in modern Pokemon. Instead of a new gimmick, it looked back and gave the era's best a final Gallery frame. The Giratina VSTAR became the emblem of that, and the set has aged into the kind of product collectors reach for precisely because it closed a chapter.

The Giratina is the object at the center of it. An Origin Forme legendary in the era's signature alternate-art style, on the last set of the run, it carries a weight most Gallery cards can't.

Crown Zenith sits at the very end of Sword & Shield, after Silver Tempest and Lost Origin, right before Scarlet & Violet took over. A set with no booster box, a Gallery bigger than any other, and a Giratina that never gave up the top spot.