Battle Partners (SV9) Complete Card List: All 132 Cards & Rarities

Battle Partners (SV9) at a Glance

Battle Partners is a main expansion pack in the Scarlet & Violet era, released in Japan on Friday, January 24, 2025. Each pack costs ¥180 (tax included) and contains 5 random cards, with 30 packs per sealed box.

The base set runs 100 cards. Above that sits a 32-card secret tier, numbered 101 through 132, broken into four rarity bands as catalogued by Limitless TCG as of August 2026:

• AR (Art Rare) — #101–112, 12 cards
• SR (Secret Rare) — #113–123, 11 cards
• SAR (Special Art Rare) — #124–129, 6 cards
• UR (Ultra Rare) — #130–132, 3 cards

The set’s defining feature is what Pokemon officially calls the “Trainer’s Pokemon” concept: Pokemon cards tagged to four specific Trainers — N, Lillie, Hop, and Iono — rather than generic wild-Pokemon art. That concept runs through the AR tier as flavor pairings and through the SR/SAR/UR tiers as full-art ex cards, and it’s the throughline that connects most of the set’s chase cards.

Which Cards Get Printed Twice

Cross-referencing the SR and SAR tables below shows the same pattern the Trainer’s Pokemon mechanic sets up: not every SR card gets an SAR follow-up.

Six cards get the full SR-then-SAR treatment: Volcanion ex (#113 SR / #124 SAR), Iono’s Bellibolt ex (#114 SR / #125 SAR), Lillie’s Clefairy ex (#115 SR / #126 SAR), N’s Zoroark ex (#117 SR / #127 SAR), Hop’s Zacian ex (#118 SR / #128 SAR), and Salamence ex (#119 SR / #129 SAR). Five other SR-tier cards — Mamoswine ex (#116), Dudunsparce ex (#120), Iris’s Fighting Spirit (#121), Ruffian (#122), and Brock’s Scouting (#123) — appear once, at SR only.

Of the six cards that reach SAR, only two go a step further into the UR tier: Iono’s Bellibolt ex (#130) and N’s Zoroark ex (#131). Volcanion ex, Lillie’s Clefairy ex, Hop’s Zacian ex, and Salamence ex all stop at SAR with no UR printing — which is part of why N’s Zoroark ex, with four separate printings across the whole set, is the card most collectors treat as the set’s true flagship chase.

The Chase Card: N’s Zoroark ex in Four Rarities

No other card in Battle Partners gets this treatment. N’s Zoroark ex is printed four separate times across the set, starting in the 100-card base list and running all the way through the top of the secret tier:

The base RR at #061/100 is the printing a regular pull slot inside the 100-card base list can produce. From there, the same card repeats through SR #117, the full-art SAR #127, and finally the UR #131 that sits inside the secret numbering just one slot ahead of the set’s closing Spike Energy at #132.

All four printings share the same /100 denominator, so telling them apart starts with the number before the slash: 061/100 falls inside the base set’s own 001–100 range and is the RR. 117/100, 127/100, and 131/100 all carry numbers above 100, which is your signal that you’re holding one of the three secret-tier prints — and from there, the rarity stamp printed on the card tells you whether it’s the SR, SAR, or UR.

A PSA 10 graded copy of the UR printing, PSA10 N’s Zoroark ex UR [SV9 131/100], recently listed at ¥15,998 (~$109) (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order). Restock requests go through our Quick Order page.

Art Rare Spotlight: N’s Zorua & N’s Reshiram

N’s Zorua 108/100 AR

N’s Reshiram 109/100 AR

Of the twelve Art Rare cards that open the secret tier (#101–112), two belong to N: N’s Zorua at #108 and N’s Reshiram at #109, sitting back to back in the numbering. Together with N’s Zoroark ex covered above, that gives the N storyline three cards across the AR and secret tiers — more than any other Trainer in this set, since Lillie, Hop, and Iono each get one AR card plus one ex line.

The AR band as a whole runs Maractus, Articuno, Wailord, Iono’s Kilowattrel, Lillie’s Ribombee, Swinub, Lycanroc, N’s Zorua, N’s Reshiram, Furret, Noibat, and Hop’s Wooloo (see the full table above) — a mix of wild Pokemon and Trainer’s Pokemon cards inside the same twelve-card band.

A Base-Set Notable: Salamence #072 vs Salamence ex SR #119

Salamence 072/100 (base set)

Salamence ex 119/100 SR

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Not every notable card in Battle Partners lives in the secret tier. Salamence appears twice across the set: once as a regular base-set card at #072/100, well inside the 1–100 base range, and again as Salamence ex in the Secret Rare band at #119 (see the SR table above), which also goes on to an SAR printing at #129 (see the double-prints section).

We carry a PSA 10 graded copy of the SR printing, currently out of stock: PSA10 Salamence ex SR [SV9 119/100] (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) — restock requests go through Quick Order. If you’re building a Salamence collection from this set, both prints are worth tracking down: the base #072/100 for the standard artwork, and SR #119 (or SAR #129) if you want the ex-card treatment.

The English Counterpart: Journey Together

Battle Partners’ English-language counterpart is Journey Together, released March 28, 2025 — almost exactly two months after the Japanese set. Journey Together combines the Battle Partners card pool with leftover cards from the ex Starter Deck Generations line, so its checklist runs somewhat wider than a straight translation of the Japanese set.

Because the Japanese release comes first, Japanese collectors and international buyers importing from Japan get access to this card pool roughly two months ahead of buyers waiting on the English set. That gap is one of the main reasons collectors outside Japan import Japanese sealed product and singles directly rather than waiting for the English print run to catch up.

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