Ancient Origins Card List: The Japanese XY7 Bandit Ring Prints

The Japanese Set Behind Ancient Origins

Bulbapedia lists Ancient Origins’ Japanese expansion as Bandit Ring, which it calls “the seventh and final expansion in the Pokémon Card Game XY Era,” featuring Generation VI Pokémon and the Mythical Pokémon Hoopa in its Hoopa Unbound form. The English set released on August 12, 2015, after the Japanese one. The code XY7 comes from our store listings and from the pokemon-card.com image folder XY7; Bulbapedia itself prints no code field for the set.

The Japanese list on Bulbapedia has 97 rows. Its rarity labels split as 37 C, 24 U, 9 R, 11 RR, 11 SR, 5 UR. The SR run 082 to 092 is eleven Pokémon-EX and M Pokémon-EX cards, and the five URs at 093 to 097 are Primal Kyogre-EX, Primal Groudon-EX, M Rayquaza-EX, Energy Retrieval and Trainers’ Mail.

The Japanese RR, SR and UR run

These are the 27 highest-rarity cards of the Japanese set in Bulbapedia’s numbering. In the English list the same names appear as Rare Holo ex and Rare Ultra cards, and the five URs appear as the Rare Secrets 96 to 100.

The full Japanese rarity list with every common and uncommon sits on our XY7 card list page. For single-card reading on the headline prints, see our guides to Primal Kyogre EX UR 093/081, Giratina EX SR 091/081, Genshi Groudon EX UR 094/081 and Gyarados R 021/081. Our listings use “Genshi” for the Primal cards; that is our listing’s wording, not an official term.

Ancient Origins Card List: 001–100

Bulbapedia numbers the English set 1/95 to 95/95, with the five Rare Secret cards at 96/95 to 100/95. Its rarity labels split as 28 Uncommon, 23 Common, 13 Rare, 12 Rare Ultra, 11 Rare Holo ex, 8 Rare Holo, 5 Rare Secret. The Japanese numbering is given for the top-rarity prints in the secret-rare table, matched to the official Japanese card database by card name.

Japanese vs English Ancient Origins: Numbering and What Changes

Bulbapedia prints the English set against a total of 95 (1/95 to 95/95, then 96/95 to 100/95 for the Rare Secrets) and the Japanese set against 081 (001/081 to 097/081). The two lists are separate tables on the same page and are not row-mapped, so an English number tells you nothing about the Japanese number. A Japanese print is identified by set code plus number, for example XY7 095/081.

The English set has 100 cards against 97 in Japan. In the English list, 19 names appear at two numbers: Sceptile-EX, M Sceptile-EX, Vespiquen, Entei, Volcarona, Gyarados, Kyurem-EX, Ampharos-EX, M Ampharos-EX, Baltoy, Golurk, Hoopa-EX, Machamp-EX, Tyranitar-EX, M Tyranitar-EX, Metagross, Giratina-EX, Porygon-Z, Lugia-EX. The eleven Pokémon-EX names among them are printed once as Rare Holo ex and once as Rare Ultra, and the Japanese list gives the same eleven names an RR and an SR each.

Rarity names differ by side. The English list uses Common, Uncommon, Rare, Rare Holo, Rare Holo ex, Rare Ultra and Rare Secret; the Japanese list uses C, U, R, RR, SR and UR. Bulbapedia does not print an official conversion between the two schemes.

Promo and theme-deck prints

Bulbapedia’s Additional cards table lists 19 promo or theme-deck prints of English Ancient Origins numbers, from Tin and Blister exclusives to Regional Championships promos. Bulbapedia does not say whether Japanese prints carry the same promos.