List of cards featuring Shiny Pokémon
This is the list of cards featuring Shiny Pokémon.
Overview
Many cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game feature Shiny Pokémon. Most of these cards are regular cards. Usually, they have especially high Rarity compared to cards that do not have Shiny Pokémon, assuming they are not released as a Black Star Promo. Sometimes, that means they are released as secret cards, cards with a collection number greater than the listed number of cards in the set itself. In certain cases, mostly seen in older sets like Stormfront, that instead meant giving them a unique set of collectors numbers with the special prefix of SH or SL. Later sets introduced dedicated "shiny" rarities for Shiny Pokémon cards. Either way, these cards are generally harder to obtain than they would be otherwise. Furthermore, the high rarity also usually means the cards are available exclusively as holofoil cards, giving the cards a physical sparkle to match the ones seen in the video games.
Shiny Pokémon were major parts of the Hidden Fates, Shining Fates, and Paldean Fates sets, with the prior two sets having a subset named Shiny Vault dedicated to the Shiny Pokémon cards. The sheer number of included Shiny Pokémon was a selling point for all three sets, with Hidden Fates advertised as having over 75 such cards, Shining Fates advertised as having over 100 Shiny Pokémon, and Paldean Fates taking the crown with more than 130 such creatures.[1][2][3] The Shiny Pokémon in these sets are reprints of other cards from their series, with new artwork showing the Shiny variation of the species.
These three sets also introduce a convention of having Shiny Pokémon artwork consist of the Pokémon on a white background with star and sparkle visuals, which is always followed within these sets and on promotional cards related to these sets. Hidden Fates and Shining Fates cards additionally use action lines. The Pokémon VMAX cards in Shining Fates instead use a background with a rainbow gradient. Said VMAX exclusive background is sometimes drawn with a swirl.
There are also mechanics in the TCG that involve Shiny Pokémon. All Pokémon cards that use mechanics are Basic Pokémon, even if the species would normally be printed as Evolution Pokémon, and are generally restricted to 1 per deck.
- Shining Pokémon, introduced in the Neo Revelation expansion. There may be only 1 Shining Pokémon with the same name in a deck. The costs of attacks of these cards include Energy of multiple types.
- Later reintroduced in the Shining Legends expansion, but no longer with the rule restricting the number of copies played nor costs including multiple Energy types..
- Pokémon
, introduced in the EX Team Rocket Returns expansion. Only 1 Pokémon is allowed to be in a deck total. This means that no other Pokémon can be in the deck. - Radiant Pokémon, introduced in the Astral Radiance expansion. They have the Radiant Pokémon rule, contained within a Rule Box, which only allows for 1 Radiant Pokémon to be in a deck total. This means that no other Radiant Pokémon can be in the deck. They are, in fact, a subgroup of Shiny Pokémon.[4]
The Dual-type Pokémon cards featured in the Steam Siege expansion feature Shiny Pokémon, except for Volcanion-EX. This group of cards is not associated with Shiny Pokémon otherwise, use normal evolutionary stages, and do not have a restriction on number of copies per deck.
List of cards in TCG
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