Acerola Full Art Cards: Japanese SR and SAR Prints

Acerola Full Art Cards: The SR and SAR Prints Covered Here

Collectors use “full art” for prints whose artwork fills the whole card face. Japanese sets do not print those words: the official card database prints only a rarity code, and the full-art treatments are the SR (full-art ex and Supporter cards), SAR (Special Art Rare), AR (Art Rare), CHR / CSR (Character Rare) and the gold UR and rainbow HR printings. Among the Acerola prints covered here, the SR and SAR prints are 056/049, 255/184, 084/063 and 090/063; the 395/SM-P promo is full art without a rarity code.

For how the treatments differ across sets, see our full art Pokemon cards guide.

Acerola’s Mischief SAR and SR (M1S Mega Symphonia)

Acerola’s Mischief is the newest card on this list, released August 1, 2025 in M1S Mega Symphonia, the set that kicked off the Japanese MEGA era. The card exists in three forms out of that 63-card base set: a regular 059/063 (Uncommon), a regular-art SR at 084/063, and the SAR 090/063, illustrated by sui. The English counterpart is Mega Evolution 113/132, with a full art at 165/132 and a SIR at 183/132 — the SIR is the closest English equivalent to the Japanese SAR in terms of alternate-art treatment and rarity slot.

Effect-wise, Acerola’s Mischief is a conditional Supporter: it’s playable once your opponent has two or fewer Prize cards remaining, and it protects one of your Pokemon from damage and effects dealt by the opponent’s Pokemon ex through their next turn — a tempo tool built for closing out a game, not opening one.

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Acerola SR 056/049 (SM2+ Facing a New Trial, 2017)

Acerola SR 056/049 comes from SM2+ Facing a New Trial, a strengthened-expansion pack released April 21, 2017 — the same set that produced the regular 047/049 Acerola, a GX Battle Boost reprint at 103/114, and two later promos (223/SM-P and 395/SM-P). The English equivalent is Burning Shadows 112/147 for the regular version, with the full art at 142/147 sharing the same Megumi Mizutani artwork as the Japanese SR.

The card’s effect is simple on paper: return one of your damaged Pokemon and all cards attached to it to your hand. It is a secret rare from a set that has been out of print for most of the years since 2017.

Who Is Acerola?

In the games, Acerola is the ghost-type Trial Captain of Ula’ula Island, based at the abandoned Thrifty Megamart, and she later joins the region’s Elite Four. That dual role — a fan-favorite captain who becomes a postgame boss — is part of why her trainer cards have kept getting new treatments across nearly a decade of sets, from the 2017 Sun & Moon era through the 2025 MEGA era.

She’s part of a broader wave of Trial Captain and Trainer character cards that have become their own collecting lane in Japanese TCG — alongside figures like Lillie and Iono, whose own alternate-art ladders follow a similar shape: an accessible modern entry, a mid-tier alternate art, and one or two cards that sit well above the rest. If you’re building out a Trial Captain or Trainer-card collection, our guides to Lillie cards and Iono cards cover the same ground for those characters, and our PSA10 trainer cards guide looks at the category as a whole.

For more on the set that produced the Mischief SAR, see our M1S Mega Symphonia complete guide, and for general context on how Japanese PSA10 pricing works across sets and eras, our Japanese PSA10 Pokemon cards price guide is a good next stop.

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