Paldea Evolved Set Guide: Full Card List, Chase Cards, Pull Rates, and Sealed Prices

Paldea Evolved is the second main Scarlet & Violet expansion, the set that filled out the new region's roster and gave the era one of its most valuable Illustration Rares: a Magikarp, of all things, mid-leap. It's a big set with a deep art-card slate, and after a long stretch on shelves it sits in the in-between zone where the boxes are sold down but the singles keep moving.

All 279 cards, prices updating live, sit on the full Paldea Evolved card list. Save that one, and you've answered the question most people show up with.

The rest of this guide breaks down the 279-card layout, the singles that hold value, the rough odds per rarity, and where the sealed boxes stand.

Paldea Evolved at a Glance

• Release date: June 9, 2023, the second Scarlet & Violet main expansion
• 193 cards in the main numbering, 279 total
• 86 cards above the set number, 194/193 through 279/193
• Illustration Rares, ex cards as Ultra and Special Illustration Rares, and gold Hyper Rares
• The Paldea starters' final forms, Meowscarada, Skeledirge, and Quaquaval, as ex, plus the Treasures of Ruin legendaries
• The headline chase: Magikarp #203, the Illustration Rare

This is one of the bigger main sets the era printed, and it landed right as the Scarlet & Violet art-rare format hit full stride. The Illustration Rares are the reason the value table looks the way it does, and one of them runs away with the set.

The Paldea Evolved Card List: How It's Structured

Two blocks, and the second one is where the money lives.

The main set, 001 to 193. A long run of the Paldea regional roster, the three starter ex, and the Treasures of Ruin ex (Chi-Yu, Chien-Pao, Ting-Lu, and Wo-Chien). Deck-relevant, with the base rarities going deep before the painted cards start.

The secret run, 194 to 279. The Illustration Rares open it, the Ultra Rare and Special Illustration Rare ex sit above them, and the gold Hyper Rares finish the set. The Magikarp and the Iono Supporter are the names that matter most up here.

Every card in both blocks, priced, is on the interactive set page.

Paldea Evolved Chase Cards: What's Worth Money

Magikarp #203 out-prices the entire rest of the set by a wide margin. It's a plain Illustration Rare of the game's most famously useless fish, painted leaping over a waterfall, and it's become one of the signature Illustration Rares of the whole Scarlet & Violet era. When a joke Pokemon gets the best art in a 279-card set, the market notices.

Behind it, the Illustration Rares keep going. Raichu #211 and Maushold #226 hold the next two slots, both well clear of the painted ex cards.

The Special Illustration Rares anchor a tier below the best Illustration Rares. Iono #269 is the trainer everyone wants, and Tinkaton ex #262 leads the ex art among them.

The rest of the chase board:

Paldea Evolved Singles30-day change

1

Baxcalibur · Illustration Rare 210

▲+18%$35$41

2

Sudowoodo · Illustration Rare 219

▲+17%$27$32

3

Heracross · Illustration Rare 194

▲+16%$30$35

4

Iono · Special Illustration Rare 269

▲+15%$62$71

5

Chien-Pao ex · Special Illustration Rare 261

▲+10%$28$31

6

Sprigatito · Illustration Rare 196

▲+9%$60$66

7

Magikarp · Illustration Rare 203

▲+7%$399$425

8

Tyranitar · Illustration Rare 222

▼-12%$89$79

Paldea Evolved's Illustration Rares Run the Set

Scarlet & Violet changed where the value in a set lives. The painted Illustration Rares, the cards that drop a Pokemon into a full scene with no holo bling, became the real chase, and Paldea Evolved is one of the clearest cases of it.

Look at the top of the table and the pattern jumps out. A fish, an electric mouse, a family of mice, an old-school Tyranitar: the Illustration Rares out-price almost every gold and every painted ex in the set. The ex cards still matter for decks, but on the collector side, the scenes win. That's the format working as intended, and Magikarp is the poster child.

If you're building a want-list here, start with the Illustration Rares and decide how far down the list your budget reaches.

Paldea Evolved Pull Rates (Estimated)

Pokemon keeps its odds private, so the figures here come from big community samples and run approximate.

• 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 Illustration Rares come a few per box, which is why the cheap ones stay cheap and the demand concentrates on a handful of names. Magikarp is one Illustration Rare out of dozens in the set, so pulling that exact card is a long shot against the field, and that thin supply against heavy demand is the whole story behind its price.

Paldea Evolved Sealed: ETB and Booster Box Prices

The sealed board:

Paldea Evolved Sealed30-day change

1

Paldea Evolved Elite Trainer Box

▲+21%$204$248

2

Paldea Evolved Booster Pack

▲+11%$14$16

3

Paldea Evolved Pokemon Center ETB

▲+6%$555$590

4

Paldea Evolved Booster Box

▲+1%$497$504

Of the sealed forms, the Elite Trainer Box (ETB) moves most often, which makes its row the cleanest single number for tracking the set. For how older sealed product is dividing up as it ages, we lay it out in Sealed Pokemon Is Splitting Into Two Markets.

There's a structural reason a sealed box outruns its own contents. Thirty-six packs go into a booster box, and that unopened form commands more per pack than the same packs sold loose. The bigger the gap, the more the price is set by how scarce the box is rather than by what's likely inside it.

Why Paldea Evolved Endures

Ignore the chart for a moment and the set's identity is still clear.

It's the expansion that gave the Paldea region its depth, the one where the starter trios grew up into their ex forms and the Treasures of Ruin legendaries arrived as a menacing four. For anyone whose Pokemon story starts in Scarlet and Violet, this is one of the foundational sets.

And then there's the Magikarp. The franchise's running joke, the fish that can only Splash, given an Illustration Rare good enough to outvalue every Charizard-tier card in the set. That's the kind of card that gets passed around as a screenshot, and it's done more for this set's profile than any of its legendaries.

Paldea Evolved sits early in the Scarlet & Violet run, alongside Obsidian Flames and the Scarlet & Violet 151 special set. Years of openings later, the cards people still pull up first here are the painted ones, and a leaping Magikarp leads the lot.