Paradigm Trigger (S12) Complete Card List: All 125 Cards & Lugia SA

What Is Paradigm Trigger (S12)?

Paradigm Trigger is a 拡張パック (Expansion Pack) — Japan’s main expansion format. It launched at ¥165 tax included per 5-card pack, with 30 packs to a box for a box MSRP of ¥4,950 tax included.

The set carries no かがやく (Radiant) cards — that mechanic sat out this release entirely. Instead, the pull is built entirely around the V / VSTAR line topped by Lugia, spread across a 98-card base set and a 27-card secret tier that pushes the total to 125.

What makes Paradigm Trigger worth mapping out card by card is exactly that extended secret block: 27 secret cards, nearly a third the size of the base set itself, split across three distinct rarity bands (SR, HR, UR) instead of one. That’s a lot of surface area for a listing to get wrong, whether it’s the card number, the rarity tier, or which of two identically-named printings is actually pictured.

The practical upshot for buyers: treat the card number as the primary identifier, not the Pokemon name. Four different Pokemon in this set share a name across two consecutive secret numbers, and the set’s single highest-value card is distinguished from a much cheaper sibling by exactly one digit in that number.

That base-of-/098 numbering is the single most common source of confusion when shopping this set secondhand — the base set stops at 098, and everything from 099 onward is a secret card layered on top of that same 98-card denominator.

It’s a useful habit any time you’re comparing Japanese sets side by side: the denominator in a card’s number tells you the base set size, not the set’s true total. Paradigm Trigger’s /098 base plus 27 secrets is exactly the kind of case where relying on the denominator alone would undercount the set by more than 20%.

Base Set Breakdown (001–098/098)

The 98-card base set runs the standard Japanese rarity ladder: 44 Commons, 32 Uncommons, 10 Rares, 8 Double Rares, and 4 Triple Rares — every one of them numbered under the same /098 denominator the secrets build on top of. A five-card evolution line from early in the set gives a good sense of the base-set art style before the secret tier takes over:

Oddish 001/098

Gloom 002/098

Bellossom 003/098

Tangela 004/098

Tangrowth 005/098

Oddish through Bellossom and Tangela through Tangrowth open the numbering — both full evolution lines land inside the first five cards of the set, ahead of the RR and RRR tiers that carry the base set’s higher-value pulls. For the complete numbered 001–098 base list, see our full Paradigm Trigger card list page.

Commons and Uncommons together make up 76 of the 98 base-set cards — over three-quarters of the base list — which is fairly typical for a Japanese expansion pack of this size. The RR and RRR tiers (12 cards combined) are where the base set’s real chase pulls sit, ahead of any secret. Our own PSA10-graded Lugia V RR, 079/098 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), is an example from that RR band — a base-set card, not a secret — and it’s sold out at the time of this update; restock requests go through Quick Order.

Inside the Duplicated SR Pairs

Four Pokemon get two consecutive SR slots each in this set: Unown V (102/103), Skuntank V (105/106), Regidrago V (107/108), and Lugia V (109/110). In every pair, the higher-numbered printing carries the special-art (SA) treatment: Lugia V SA is 110/098, Unown V SA is 103/098, Skuntank V SA is 106/098, and Regidrago V SA is 108/098.

Unown V 102/098

Unown V 103/098

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If you’re buying singles from this set and the SA distinction matters to you, match the exact card number printed in the corner: 103/098 (Unown V SA), 106/098 (Skuntank V SA), and 108/098 (Regidrago V SA) carry the special-art treatment, while 102/098, 105/098, and 107/098 are the plain SR printings — rather than trusting a listing title alone.

This is worth being deliberate about because the Lugia pair shows just how large the gap between a regular and special-art printing of the same Pokemon can be inside one set. The same pattern holds across all four duplicated pairs: the higher card number in each is the SA. Always check the printed card number before assuming which of the two you’re being offered.

Hisuian Arcanine V at 104/098 is the one SR in this stretch of the set that does not have a duplicate slot — a single printing, no SA-identification ambiguity.

Where to Buy Paradigm Trigger from Japan

We ship Paradigm Trigger sealed product and graded singles from Tokyo; if your country appears at checkout we can ship to you. A sealed box is currently listed at ¥20,580 (~$134).

For the graded Lugia V SA, Lugia V RR, and other Paradigm Trigger singles, check our full S12 card list page or browse our PSA 10 collection; place a restock request through Quick Order for anything currently unlisted.

Since sealed boxes are where every secret in this list originates — the 001–098 base pulls alongside all 27 secrets from 099 through 125 — a box is also the only way to chase Lugia V SA yourself rather than buying a graded single outright. Given the card counts above, that’s a long shot on any individual box, but it’s the route that gets you the complete rarity spread rather than one targeted card. For a closer look at box economics and chase cards, see our S12 Paradigm Trigger booster box buying guide.