Destined Rivals Set Guide: Full Card List, Chase Cards, Pull Rates, and Sealed Prices
Destined Rivals' full 244-card list, estimated pull rates, live chase prices led by the Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex, and the sealed market board.
By Chase Society Desk
Destined Rivals built a Scarlet & Violet set around Pokemon owned by specific trainers, and it pointed the whole theme at Team Rocket, with Giovanni and Mewtwo on the booster art. The chase cards follow the concept: the trainer-owned Special Illustration Rares are the top of the table, led by Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex. It's one of the deepest trainer-themed sets the era has printed.
You'll find all 244 cards with live prices on the full Destined Rivals card list. That's the page worth saving, and what most readers arrive for.
The rest of this guide gets into the layout of the 244 cards, the ones worth money, the pull odds, and the sealed market.
Destined Rivals at a Glance
- Release date: May 30, 2025, a Scarlet & Violet expansion
- 182 cards in the main numbering, 244 total
- 62 cards above the set number, 183/182 through 244/182
- Illustration Rares, Special Illustration Rares, and gold Hyper Rares
- Built on Pokemon owned by specific trainers, weighted heavily toward Team Rocket, with Giovanni and Mewtwo on the booster
- The headline chase: Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex #231, the Special Illustration Rare
The hook is the apostrophe. Almost every marquee card belongs to a named trainer, Team Rocket's, Cynthia's, Ethan's, Misty's, Arven's, and that framing is most of why the value table reads the way it does. Team Rocket gets the deepest run of cards, and it gets the best one.
The Destined Rivals Card List: How It's Structured
Two blocks, and the trainer names cut across both.
The main set, 001 to 182. The trainer-owned ex cards in their base printings, the supporting trainers, and the commons through double rares. Plenty of deck fuel, with the Team Rocket's Pokemon making up a big share of the run.
The secret run, 183 to 244. The Illustration Rares open it, the Special Illustration Rare ex and trainers sit above them, and the gold Hyper Rares close the set. The Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex, Cynthia's Garchomp ex, and Team Rocket's Giovanni all live up here.
All 244, priced and sortable, sit on the interactive set page.
Destined Rivals Chase Cards: What's Worth Money
Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex #231 is the card the whole set points at. It trades for roughly double the next card down, and it pairs the most iconic villain Pokemon with the most iconic villain team. The booster art puts Giovanni beside it for a reason.
Cynthia's Garchomp ex #232 holds second, the signature Pokemon of the franchise's most respected champion, and Ethan's Ho-Oh ex #230 sits third, a Johto legendary tied to its game's hero.
Then the rest of the Team Rocket roster fills in. Team Rocket's Nidoking ex #233 and Team Rocket's Moltres ex #229 lead that group, with the Misty's Psyduck Illustration Rare slipping in among them on charm alone.
The rest of the chase board:
Team Rocket Owns the Top of Destined Rivals
Plenty of trainers lend their names to this set, but one team takes the value table.
Team Rocket has the most cards and the best ones. The Mewtwo ex leads, and the rest of the Rocket roster, Nidoking, Moltres, Crobat, stacks up right behind the champion and legendary cards from the other trainers. The villains-with-stolen-Pokemon angle is the kind of theme that sells itself to anyone who played the originals, and the artists treated the Rocket cards as the centerpiece they are.
The other trainers anchor the next tier. Cynthia, Ethan, and Misty each get a signature card that holds real value, which spreads the set's appeal across more than one fandom and keeps the demand from resting on Team Rocket alone.
Destined Rivals Pull Rates (Estimated)
Official odds don't exist for this set, so the numbers below are community estimates and only rough.
- Double Rare (ex): about 1 in 7 packs
- Illustration Rare: about 1 in 13 packs, so two to three per booster box
- Ultra Rare (full art): about 1 in 15 packs
- Special Illustration Rare: about 1 in 32 packs, a little under one per box
- Hyper Rare (gold): about 1 in 52 packs
The Special Illustration Rares sit at the far end of the odds, and the Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex splits that slot with the rest of the trainer-owned SIRs. Landing that exact card takes box volume against a deep field, and that scarcity against the demand for the best Mewtwo in years is the whole reason it leads the set.
Destined Rivals Sealed: ETB and Booster Box Prices
The sealed board:
Among the sealed options, the Elite Trainer Box (ETB) sees the most action, so its line is the handiest read on demand. For how sealed product tends to divide as a set gets older, we cover it in Sealed Pokemon Is Splitting Into Two Markets.
A long-running quirk of sealed pricing applies here too. A booster box carries 36 packs, and those packs are worth more sitting inside an unopened box than they are sold one at a time. People pay for the seal itself, and the gap between boxed and loose widens as supply tightens.
Why Destined Rivals Endures
Even setting the money aside, the set has a hook most don't.
Team Rocket is the original Pokemon villain, the syndicate Giovanni ran out of a Viridian City gym, and a set that hands them their own roster of stolen Pokemon taps a nostalgia almost every player shares. Putting Mewtwo, the legendary Rocket created in the first place, at the center of it is the cleanest possible match of card and story.
The trainer-owned framing does the rest. Cynthia's Garchomp, Ethan's Ho-Oh, Misty's Psyduck: these put a face you remember on a Pokemon you remember, and that combination is what people build binders around.
Destined Rivals sits late in the Scarlet & Violet run, after Journey Together and Prismatic Evolutions. The trainer-ownership idea gives it a longer shelf life than a set of plain ex cards would have, because the names on these cards mean something. A Mewtwo with Giovanni standing next to it is a card collectors keep reaching for.
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