Mallow Pokemon Card Guide: Every Japanese Trainer Print & the Mallow & Lana Supporters

Mallow vs Mallow & Lana: Two Different Cards

Before anything else, it helps to separate what you are looking at. Both cards carry Mallow’s name and artwork style, but the Japanese card names, sets, and effects do not overlap.

Solo Mallow is a straightforward one-Trainer card. Mallow & Lana is a Tag-style Supporter that puts both trial captains on a single card, and it plays nothing like the solo print. Keep the two families separate when you are searching marketplaces or comparing prints below.

Mallow & Lana (マオ&スイレン): The Alter Genesis Prints

The combo card debuted in Alter Genesis (SM12), and a separate promo print later circulated through the Sword & Shield Promotional Cards series. Three prints are verified.

Mallow & Lana (089/095) — Uncommon

Illustrated by Ken Sugimori. The effect: switch your Active Pokemon with one of your Benched Pokemon, with an optional secondary effect to discard 2 cards and recover 120 HP on the Pokemon that was switched in. That’s a positioning-plus-healing Supporter, distinct in every respect from solo Mallow’s deck-manipulation effect above.

Mallow & Lana Extra Battle Day Promo (S-P 256)

This print, illustrated by aoki, carries the Sword & Shield Promotional Cards series number 256. It doesn’t use a standard rarity letter — S-P promos are numbered sequentially rather than assigned a tiered rarity. Multiple secondary marketplace sources describe it as an Extra Battle Day tournament participation prize distributed in Japan, with one such source dating the event to 5 February 2022; that date is reported by secondary sources rather than confirmed by an official record, so treat it as a reported detail. A directly-fetched card listing does confirm the same framing — an Extra Battle Day participation prize, not distributed through regular packs or retail shelves.

Mallow & Lana SR (107/095)

This is the anchor print for this guide’s Mallow & Lana half. Our own listing identifies it as an SR out of Alter Genesis; a dedicated card-database rarity page for this exact number could not be independently confirmed at time of writing, so we’re presenting the rarity as our own listing states it rather than as independently re-verified.

Where These Prints Sit in Japanese Rarity Tiers

Both families follow the same general shape common to Japanese Supporter cards from this era: a standard-rarity print at Uncommon, sitting below a full-art or textured Secret Rare/SR print in the same set’s numbering run above the set’s stated card count. Solo Mallow’s 055/050 Secret Rare and Mallow & Lana’s 107/095 SR both sit in that higher tier relative to their Uncommon counterparts (049/050 and 089/095).

The Extra Battle Day promo (S-P 256) runs on a separate numbering track entirely — Sword & Shield Promotional Cards promos are not assigned into a set’s rarity tier at all, since they are distributed outside normal boosters. We are not ranking these tiers by market price here, only by their printed rarity designation and card-number convention.

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