Mega Evolution Set Guide: Full Card List, Chase Cards, Pull Rates, and Sealed Prices

Mega Evolution brought its namesake mechanic back to the Pokemon card game for the first time since the XY years, and it built the whole set around it. The chase is a stack of Mega ex cards led by a Mega Lucario ex that tops the board in two different rarities, backed by a new Mega Hyper Rare texture that gives the set its own look. It's the opening set of a new block, so it also sets the template for everything that follows it.

Mega Evolution runs 188 cards, and the full Mega Evolution card list with live prices is on the set page. That's the page to keep open while you sort the Mega ex rarities, because several of them come in more than one version.

From here the guide gets into the numbering, the cards holding the value, the pull odds, and where the sealed product stands.

Mega Evolution at a Glance

• Release date: September 26, 2025, the first set of the Mega Evolution (ME) block
• 132 cards in the main numbering, 188 total
• 56 cards above the set number, 133/132 through 188/132
• The return of the Mega Evolution mechanic as Mega ex cards
• A new Mega Hyper Rare finish sitting at the very top of the rarity ladder
• The headline chase: Mega Lucario ex #188, the Mega Hyper Rare

This is the set that reintroduced Mega Evolution to the format. The Mega ex cards anchor everything, the marquee ones show up as both a Special Illustration Rare and a Mega Hyper Rare, and the character Supporters fill out the top of the secret-rare stretch. For the card list, the thing to understand is which Mega ex you're looking at, since the versions price very differently.

The Mega Evolution Card List: How It's Structured

Two blocks, with the Mega ex line threading through both.

The main set, 001 to 132. Commons through the Mega ex double rares, the playable core of the set, with the Mega Pokemon leading the holo rares. The starter-line Mega ex cards sit here in their base printings.

The secret rares, 133 to 188. The Illustration Rares, the Mega ex Special Illustration Rares, the character Supporters, and the Mega Hyper Rares at the very top. The Mega Lucario ex and Mega Gardevoir ex each appear twice up here, once as a Special Illustration Rare and once as the textured Hyper Rare.

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

Mega Evolution Chase Cards: What's Worth Money

Mega Lucario ex, #188 leads the set as the Mega Hyper Rare, the new textured finish sitting at the top of the ladder. Lucario was always going to be the face of a Mega set, and pairing it with the block's flashiest new rarity put it at number one.

Right behind it is the Mega Lucario ex Special Illustration Rare, #179, the painted version of the same Pokemon, which tells you how much of this set's demand routes through one character in two frames. Mega Gardevoir ex does the same thing a tier down, leading with its Hyper Rare and its Special Illustration Rare close together.

Below the Lucario and Gardevoir pairs, Mega Venusaur ex, #177 is the next Mega art to know, with Lillie's Determination heading the character Supporters.

The rest of the chase board:

Mega Evolution Singles30-day change

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Mega Lucario ex · Hyper Rare 188

▲+5%$266$280

2

Lillie's Determination · 184/132

▲+0%$73$73

3

Mega Gardevoir ex · SIR 178

▼-2%$202$198

4

Mega Lucario ex · SIR 179

▼-4%$242$231

5

Mega Kangaskhan ex · 182/132

▼-12%$70$62

6

Mega Venusaur ex · 177/132

▼-14%$183$158

The Mega Evolution Mega ex Line and Hyper Rares

Mega Evolution doesn't have a Trainer Gallery, so its collecting hook is the Mega ex line itself, sold two ways.

The marquee Mega Pokemon each show up as a Special Illustration Rare, the painted full-art version, and as a Mega Hyper Rare, the new textured finish unique to this block. Lucario and Gardevoir are the clearest examples, and the gap between their two versions is one of the first things to learn about the set. The Hyper Rare is the scarcer, flashier card; the Special Illustration Rare is the one most collectors think of as the "art."

The character Supporters are the other thread. Lillie's Determination leads them, with Acerola and Wally rounding out the human cast that sits alongside the Mega Pokemon at the top of the list.

Mega Evolution Pull Rates (Estimated)

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

• Double Rare (Mega ex): about 1 in 5 packs
• Ultra Rare (full-art ex or Supporter): about 1 in 12 packs
• Special Illustration Rare: about 1 in 30 packs
• Mega Hyper Rare: about 1 in 60 packs

The Mega Hyper Rare is the scarce top tier, and the Mega Lucario shares that slot with the other marquee Megas, so pulling that specific card takes real box volume. Because this is the block's first set, the Mega ex cards also carry the extra pull of being the debut versions, which is part of what holds the top of the board.

Mega Evolution Sealed: ETB and Booster Box Prices

The sealed board:

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Mega Evolution Booster Pack

▲+9%$8$8

2

Mega Evolution Booster Box

▲+9%$304$331

3

Mega Evolution Elite Trainer Box (Mega Lucario)

▲+5%$118$124

4

Mega Evolution Booster Bundle

▲+4%$61$63

This set has a standard booster box, which the two special sets around it in the block do not, so the box is the natural anchor unit here. The Elite Trainer Box (ETB) comes in a Mega Lucario and a Mega Gardevoir version, splitting collector demand across two SKUs. How the Mega block's sealed product is trading is something we keep up with on the market movers board.

A booster box holds 36 packs, and the same rule the era runs on applies here: a pack left sealed inside a box tends to hold up better than the same pack cracked out on its own, and that gap widens as boxes get harder to find.

Why Mega Evolution Endures

The value table is only part of what gives this set staying power.

Mega Evolution was a fan-favorite mechanic that sat dormant for years, and bringing it back as its own block was the kind of move that pulls lapsed collectors straight back in. Lucario, Gardevoir, and the rest of the Mega line carry a nostalgia the newer mechanics can't, and this is the set that reintroduced them. As the block's opening chapter, it also holds a first-set status that the later Mega sets can't take back.

The Mega Lucario is the object at the front of it. One of the most popular Pokemon of its generation, given both the painted art and the block's new textured finish, on the set that started the whole run.

Mega Evolution opens the ME block, ahead of Phantasmal Flames and Ascended Heroes. A returning mechanic, a Lucario that leads in two rarities at once, and a first-set position nothing later can claim.