Raging Surf (Japanese: 強化拡張パック レイジングサーフEnhanced Expansion Pack: Raging Surf) is the name given to the third Japanese subset released during the Pokémon Trading Card Game's Scarlet & Violet Era. This subset, which is designed for use in Sealed format tournaments, features a variety of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon, as well as rare Pokémon such as Gholdengo.
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Enhanced Expansion Pack: Raging Surf continued to introduce type-shifted TeraPokémon ex after their introduction in the previous Ruler of the Black Flame set. It also reintroduced Technical Machine cards, which were last seen in the Rising Rivals expansion — Technical Machine cards as of this set are categorized as Pokémon Tool cards. Each booster pack of Raging Surf contains five cards.
Raging Surf is designed for use in Sealed format tournaments, in which participants are provided with sealed TCG products and have to build and battle their decks using only cards pulled from those products, along with any other cards provided by the tournament staff. To this end, certain cards such as Switch and Rare Candy see reprints in this subset.
Raging Surf was released in Japanese on September 22, 2023, followed by localized releases in Traditional Chinese on September 29, 2023, in Korean on October 13, 2023, and in Thai on October 27, 2023.
The majority of cards that debuted in Raging Surf were introduced in Paradox Rift, the rest were introduced in Paldean Fates.
This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
Pokémon Trading Card Game expansions and releases Bold indicates a main expansion. Italics indicate a special set. Releases that are entirely composed of prints from other releases are small.
