Paldean Fates Set Guide: Full Card List, Chase Cards, Pull Rates, and Sealed Prices
Paldean Fates' shiny-heavy card list, estimated pull rates, live chase prices led by the Mew ex Special Illustration Rare, and the sealed market board.
By Chase Society Desk
Paldean Fates is the Scarlet & Violet era's shiny set, the line that runs back through Shining Fates and Hidden Fates: a special expansion packed with shiny Pokemon and crowned by one card that towers over the rest, the Mew ex Special Illustration Rare. It came out in a limited print window, and the singles have behaved like a set that won't see a reprint.
Every card in the set, 245 of them with live prices, lands on the full Paldean Fates card list. Save that page; it's the main thing people want here.
What follows is everything else: how a list this shiny-heavy is laid out, the cards that carry the value, the odds of hitting them, and where the sealed sits.
Paldean Fates at a Glance
- Release date: January 26, 2024, a Scarlet & Violet special set
- 91 cards in the main numbering, 245 total
- The secret run, 092 through 245, holds the shiny slate, over a hundred Shiny Rare cards in all
- Shiny Rare "baby" shinies, Shiny Ultra Rare full-art shiny ex, eight Special Illustration Rares, and gold Hyper Rares
- The successor to Shining Fates and Hidden Fates, built on the same shiny-Pokemon hook
- The headline chase: Mew ex #232, the Special Illustration Rare
The main set is mostly familiar reprints. The reason people buy into Paldean Fates is everything stacked above card 091, where the shinies and the painted ex cards live. That part of the list is the whole set.
The Paldean Fates Card List: How It's Structured
The numbering splits cleanly in two.
The main set, 001 to 091. Reprinted staples and the base ex cards. Useful for deck-builders, light on chase value.
The secret run, 092 to 245. This is where the set lives. The Shiny Rare baby shinies fill most of the range, the Shiny Ultra Rare shiny ex sit above them, and the eight Special Illustration Rares plus the gold Hyper Rares close it out. The Mew ex, Charizard ex, and Gardevoir ex Special Illustration Rares are the top three names in the whole numbering.
The full list, shiny by shiny with prices, is on the interactive set page.
Paldean Fates Chase Cards: What's Worth Money
Mew ex #232 is the set, and it isn't close. It runs several times the price of the next card in the set, and it's one of the most recognized Special Illustration Rares the Scarlet & Violet era has produced. The market has treated it as the face of Paldean Fates since release.
Charizard ex #234 holds second, because a Charizard chase always finds its level, and Gardevoir ex #233 sits third. Those three Special Illustration Rares are the premium tier on their own.
Under them, the shinies take over. Pikachu #131 leads the shiny slate, with Snorlax #202 and the shiny Charmander #109 behind it. Beloved Pokemon in alternate colors, and the chart sorts itself by which names people love most.
The rest of the chase board:
The Paldean Fates Shiny Slate Is the Whole Pitch
Most sets sell on their top card. Paldean Fates sells on a hundred of them.
The shinies are the reason this set exists, and they price the way a shiny binder always does: by name recognition. A shiny Pikachu, a shiny Charmander, a shiny Snorlax, all carry a premium over equally rare shinies of Pokemon nobody grew up wanting. The Special Illustration Rare ex sit on top as the trophy pulls, but the depth of the value table, the part that keeps the set busy on the singles market, is the shiny lineup running underneath them.
That depth is also why the set rewards a focused want-list. Pick the shinies you actually care about and chase those, because trying to complete the full slate is a long road.
Paldean Fates Pull Rates (Estimated)
Pokemon publishes no pack odds, so read the rates here as community estimates.
- Shiny Rare (baby shiny): about 1 in 4 packs
- Shiny Ultra Rare (full-art shiny): about 1 in 13 packs
- Illustration Rare: about 1 in 14 packs
- Ultra Rare (full art): about 1 in 15 packs
- Special Illustration Rare: about 1 in 58 packs
- Gold Hyper Rare: about 1 in 62 packs
The baby shinies come fast, which is part of why the set is fun to open and why the cheaper shinies stay cheap. The Special Illustration Rares are the long shots, and the Mew ex sits inside that slot sharing it with seven other cards. Landing that one takes serious volume, and that scarcity is the bulk of its price.
Paldean Fates Sealed: ETB and Booster Bundle Prices
The sealed board:
Paldean Fates skipped the standard booster box, like the era's other special sets. It came in Elite Trainer Boxes, Booster Bundles, tins, and premium collections, which leaves the ETB as the benchmark most collectors watch. For where retired sealed product is heading more broadly, we walk through the split in Sealed Pokemon Is Splitting Into Two Markets.
One thing to watch with a shiny set: a fat pull rate on the cheap shinies caps how high a loose pack can run, since most packs deliver a baby shiny and not much more. The premium lives in the sealed ETB, where the Mew ex is still theoretically inside.
Why Paldean Fates Endures
Take the prices away and the appeal is obvious.
Shiny Pokemon have been a chase since the games first hid them, the one-in-thousands recolor you bragged about on the playground. Paldean Fates puts that feeling on cardboard at scale, a whole binder of alternate-color favorites, and tops it with a Mew ex that became one of the era's signature cards. Mew is the mythical that learns any move in the games, a fitting cover star for a set whose whole pitch is a recolor trick.
The Charizard ex does its usual job of dragging eyes to the set, and the shiny Pikachu and Snorlax are the cards people actually frame.
In the Scarlet & Violet run, Paldean Fates slots in among the main expansions Paradox Rift and Temporal Forces. Shiny sets get reprinted rarely and ripped relentlessly, and the binder pages they leave behind are the kind collectors keep coming back to fill. This one has a hundred of them and a Mew on the cover.
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