Nine tails, one evolution line, and a lot more Japanese prints than most collectors realize — Ninetales full art cards among them. If you’re searching for a Ninetales Pokemon card or a Vulpix Pokemon card, the two are almost always sold separately — but they share the same sets, the same release windows, and in a few cases, the same box.
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Part of what makes Ninetales worth tracking across printings is that it’s a single-stage evolution — Vulpix to Ninetales, no branching path, no third stage. A classic-design reprint, an Ability-driven Stage 1, a V card, and the current ex/AR pairing all show up in the seven prints below, each one a snapshot of how the Japanese game was built in that particular year.
Seven Japanese Ninetales prints are covered here, spanning 2016–2023. The PSA 10 Ninetales AR [SV3 110/108] is sold out at the time of this update — sourcing requests go through Quick Order.
- Ninetales AR and SR prints, with set marks, numbers, rarity codes, illustrators and store status.
- The Ruler of the Black Flame booster box page shows its current options. USD figures convert at ¥154/USD, approximate.
- More Japanese singles are on the Japanese Pokemon card list.
Pricing here reflects our own catalog as of October 22, 2026.
Ninetales & Vulpix Full Art Cards: Every Japanese AR / SR Print
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. This page lists every Ninetales print of those rarities that our Japanese database checks cover.
| Card | Set mark · number | Rarity | Illustrator | Our listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ninetales | SV3 · 110/108 | AR | SIE NANAHARA | PSA 10: sold out at the time of this update |
| Ninetales ex | SV2a (151) · 188/165 | SR | PLANETA Tsuji | not listed |
| Ninetales V | S2 · 098/096 | SR | Saki Hayashiro | not listed |
For how these treatments compare across other Pokemon, see our full art Pokemon cards guide.
Seven Verified Japanese Ninetales Prints
Seven Ninetales prints across five Japanese sets, from the current Scarlet & Violet era back to a 2016 anniversary reprint:
| Card | Number | Rarity | Set | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ninetales AR AR | SV3 110/108 | Art Rare | Ruler of the Black Flame | 2023 |
| Ninetales | SV3 015/108 | Standard | Ruler of the Black Flame | 2023 |
| Ninetales ex RR | SV2a 038/165 | Double Rare | 151 | 2023 |
| Ninetales ex SR | SV2a 188/165 | Secret Rare | 151 | 2023 |
| Ninetales V SR | S2 098/096 | Secret Rare | Rebel Clash | 2020 |
| Ninetales U | SM9 015/095 | Uncommon | Tag Bolt | 2018 |
| Ninetales | CP6 015 | 20th Anniversary reprint | 20th Anniversary Pack | 2016 |
The 2023 Ruler of the Black Flame pair is where most current searches for a Ninetales Pokemon card land, since it’s the newest print. The older prints below it — a Rebel Clash V, a Tag Bolt Uncommon, and a 20th Anniversary reprint — show how far back the Japanese card actually goes.
Read top to bottom, the table also doubles as a rough map of Ninetales’s print history: two prints from the same 2023 Scarlet & Violet set, two more from Pokemon Card 151 a month earlier, one Sword & Shield-era V from 2020, one Sun & Moon-era Uncommon from 2018 (later reprinted in 2019), and one 20th Anniversary reprint of the card’s original design from 2016.
The Chase Print: Ninetales AR, SV3 110/108
Ruler of the Black Flame (SV3), released July 2023, is where the current Ninetales Pokemon card most collectors are searching for actually comes from. The Art Rare at 110/108 is a 120 HP, Fire-type Stage 1 evolving from Vulpix, illustrated by SIE NANAHARA. It carries two attacks: a 20-damage attack, and a second attack that drops 9 damage counters onto the opponent’s Pokemon in exchange for skipping your own attack the following turn.
The same card also has a standard-rarity print at 015/108 in the same set — same Ninetales, different rarity slot, and the one you’re more likely to pull in bulk from a booster box rather than chase as a single. Both prints carry the same attack text; the AR slot is what separates a common box pull from the one collectors go looking for by name.
Ruler of the Black Flame itself is a Fire-focused Scarlet & Violet set, and Ninetales’s AR sits as one of its headline chase cards for anyone building a Fire-type collection rather than a competitive deck — the kind of card that gets pulled, graded, and sold on as a single rather than played out of a binder.
Our roundup of PSA 10 Japanese cards under ¥10,000 lists other graded cards in that range. For the wider set context, see our Ruler of the Black Flame set guide.
110/108 and 015/108 are the same Ninetales design in two different rarity slots — the card number in the corner is what tells them apart, not the artwork at a glance.
Ninetales ex from Pokemon Card 151
One month before Ruler of the Black Flame, Ninetales got the ex treatment in Pokemon Card 151 (SV2a, June 2023). This is a bigger card on paper — 260 HP, Fire-type, Stage 1 ex — with two attacks: one that deals 30 damage plus a burn, and a second that does 80 damage, plus 140 more damage when both players are holding the same number of cards in hand.
The 038/165 Double Rare, illustrated by kawayoo, is the print most players open from a box. The 188/165 Secret Rare version, illustrated by PLANETA Tsuji, is the same card in the set’s alternate-art secret slot — the harder pull of the two.
151 covers the original Kanto Pokemon Card lineup, so this Ninetales ex releases alongside ex versions of many other Kanto favorites in the same set. It’s a different card type from the AR print in Ruler of the Black Flame — an ex rather than an Art Rare — so the two 2023 prints aren’t interchangeable even though they released a month apart.
Ninetales V and the Older Reprints
Before the Scarlet & Violet era, Ninetales had already gone through three distinct Japanese eras. Ninetales V (Rebel Clash, S2 098/096, March 2020) is a 200 HP Basic V in the game’s Sword & Shield secret-rare slot, illustrated by Saki Hayashiro. One of its attacks borrows whichever attack the opponent’s Active Pokemon knows and uses it as Ninetales V’s own; its other attack, a 180-damage Flamethrower, discards an Energy on use.
The Tag Bolt Uncommon (SM9 015/095, December 2018) is a smaller 100 HP Stage 1 with an Ability that discards two Fire Energy from hand to switch one of your opponent’s Benched Pokemon with their Active Pokemon, plus a 90-damage attack, illustrated by You Iribi. The same card was reprinted a year later in Tag All Stars (SM12a 018/173, October 2019).
The oldest print here is the 20th Anniversary Pack reprint (CP6 015, September 2016), a 100 HP Stage 1 built around the same classic card design that English collectors know from the Evolutions set, illustrated by Ken Sugimori. It’s the closest thing in this lineup to Ninetales’s original card-game look, reissued for the franchise’s 20th anniversary rather than redesigned for a new set.
Taken together, these three older prints track the game’s mechanical shifts one step at a time: the 2016 reprint uses the original, no-frills Stage 1 template; the 2018 Tag Bolt print adds an Ability on top of that same template; and the 2020 Rebel Clash print moves to the V mechanic entirely, with a bigger HP total and a Secret Rare slot to match.
Where Vulpix Fits In
Vulpix doesn’t get its own deep dive here the way Ninetales does, but a Vulpix Pokemon card is easier to find than you might expect: the Japanese card database we use for verification indexes 27 separate Vulpix prints. Several of them sit in the exact same sets covered above — a 151 print (SV2a-37), a Ruler of the Black Flame print (SV3-14, the same set as our AR anchor), a 20th Anniversary Pack print (CP6-14), and a Tag Bolt print (SM9-14).
We haven’t individually verified the rarity, illustrator, or attack text on each of those 27 prints yet, so we’re not going to put specifics here that we can’t back up. What we can say is that the overlap isn’t a coincidence — several of the sets that headline Ninetales, like Ruler of the Black Flame, the 151 set, the 20th Anniversary Pack, and Tag Bolt, also carry a Vulpix print in the same release.
Chasing Ninetales and Vulpix Through Sealed Boosters
Both the Ninetales AR and the standard 015/108 print come out of Ruler of the Black Flame packs — and so does the SV3 Vulpix print noted above. Sealed boxes from this set are the direct route if you want a shot at either Ninetales rarity alongside the rest of the set’s pulls, rather than buying the graded single outright. The Sealed option is currently listed at ¥19,671 (~$128); the No Shrink option is sold out at the time of this update.
It’s worth deciding upfront which approach fits your goal: a sealed box gives you a chance at the AR plus everything else Ruler of the Black Flame has to offer, while a graded PSA 10 single is the exact card and grade, with no pack variance.
Where to Buy Japanese Ninetales and Vulpix Cards
We ship Japanese sealed product and PSA-graded singles worldwide from Tokyo with tracked delivery. For the Ninetales AR through packs, the Ruler of the Black Flame booster box has a Sealed option.
For everything else — the 151 ex prints, the vintage reprints, and any Vulpix single you’re hunting — check our full PSA 10 card list for current graded stock.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which Ninetales cards are full art?
The Ninetales full art cards in this guide are the Ninetales AR 110/108 from Ruler of the Black Flame (SV3), the Ninetales ex SR 188/165 from Pokemon Card 151 (SV2a) and the Ninetales V SR 098/096 from Rebel Clash (S2).
What’s the difference between Ninetales 110/108 and 015/108?
Both are the same Ninetales card from Ruler of the Black Flame (SV3), released July 2023. 110/108 is the Art Rare print; 015/108 is the same card’s standard-rarity print in the same set.
Is there a Vulpix Pokemon card, or only Ninetales?
Vulpix has its own Japanese prints — the card database we use for verification indexes 27 of them, including entries in the same 151, Ruler of the Black Flame, 20th Anniversary Pack, and Tag Bolt sets covered in this guide.
Where can I buy Japanese Ninetales and Vulpix Pokemon cards?
We ship Japanese sealed product and PSA-graded singles worldwide from Tokyo. The Ruler of the Black Flame booster box has a Sealed option currently listed at ¥19,671 (~$128), and our PSA 10 card list and Quick Order cover everything else.
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