Roaring Skies Card List: The Japanese XY6 Emerald Break Prints

The Japanese Set Behind Roaring Skies

Bulbapedia lists Roaring Skies as the English release of a single Japanese expansion, Emerald Break (エメラルドブレイク). It describes Emerald Break as the sixth expansion in the Pokémon Card Game XY Era, based on Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and featuring Generation VI Pokémon and Rayquaza. The code XY6 is the one used in the official database’s image folders and in our store listings; Bulbapedia’s page prints no code for the set.

Bulbapedia’s infobox gives the English set 110 cards and the Japanese set 91. The English list is numbered against a total of 108: cards run 1/108 to 108/108, and the two Rare Secret cards, Energy Switch and VS Seeker, are printed 109/108 and 110/108. Emerald Break is numbered 001 to 091 against a main-set total of 078, so everything from 079 upward is a card numbered above the main set.

Bulbapedia’s set page does not say which English cards have no Japanese counterpart, and its English list has no column for Japanese numbers. For that reason the Japanese numbers are given where the official database confirms a card of the same name in Emerald Break, and they are labelled as matched by name.

Roaring Skies Card List: 001–110

This is the complete English list from Bulbapedia, in set order, with card type and rarity as the page prints them. Bulbapedia’s English list carries no Japanese-number column, so the Japanese numbering is given for the top-rarity prints in the secret-rare table above, matched to the official Japanese card database by card name.

Bulbapedia also keeps a separate table for variants of Roaring Skies cards that were handed out outside the main boosters. It lists 12 rows, shown here as printed, with the same English numbers as the cards they repeat. Bulbapedia does not say whether the Japanese prints carried the same promotional versions.

Japanese vs English Roaring Skies: Numbering and What Changes

Bulbapedia states the release gap directly: the English expansion was released on May 6, 2015, while the Japanese expansion came out earlier. The infobox also gives the card counts (110 English, 91 Japanese) and a "set number" for each side, 64 for English and 58 for Japanese; the page does not explain that label, so it is quoted only as printed.

Numbering is the practical difference. The English list is printed against 108, with 109/108 and 110/108 as the Rare Secret cards. Japanese Emerald Break runs 001 to 091 against 078, and pokemon-card.com confirms the numbered-above-078 range from 079 to 087. Bulbapedia states no number mapping between the two lists, which is why the top-rarity cards are matched by name and labelled that way in the table.

On finishes and editions, Bulbapedia states that English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian Roaring Skies cards were also available as Reverse Holos, and that the Portuguese version had none. For Japan it states only that the set is available in both 1st and unlimited edition. It prints no rarity names for the Japanese cards on the set page, so the Japanese rarity codes come from our store listings.

Bulbapedia’s mechanics note for the English set names Pokémon-EX, M Pokémon-EX and Ancient Traits; no BREAK, GX or Prism Star cards are listed. Each Japanese print is therefore written as set code plus number, for example XY6 085/078.

Roaring Skies Card List FAQ