
Shiny Star V (S4a) is the Japanese “High Class Pack” that built its entire identity around one idea: every Pokemon in the secret tier gets printed in a shiny, differently-colored variant. That single design choice produced one of the largest secret tiers in the Sword & Shield era — 139 cards deep, more than half of them shiny-colored commons and rares that never existed anywhere else.
This page transcribes every catalogued row in S4a Shiny Star V from Limitless TCG: the full Amazing Rare, Secret Rare, and Shiny Ultra Rare (SSR) tables number-by-number, plus a count-and-highlights summary of the 104-card Shiny Rare tier that gives the set its name. Card counts here are as catalogued by Limitless TCG as of August 2026, not an official Pokemon Company denominator, and no MSRP is stated below — only our own current listing for the set’s headline chase card.
For current secondary-market context on the cards below, see our sibling Shiny Star V best cards and insertion-odds guide.
Shiny Star V (S4a) catalogues 326 total rows as of August 2026, with a 139-card secret tier split across four rarities: 104 Shiny Rare, 23 Shiny Ultra Rare (SSR), 9 Secret Rare, and 3 Amazing Rare. The set’s best-known chase card — Charizard VMAX SSR, 308/190 — is one of only 23 SSR-tier cards ever printed for this release, and a PSA 10 copy is currently listed at ¥43,252 (~$272) (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order).
Set data is transcribed from Limitless TCG’s Shiny Star V card index as catalogued as of August 2026. Prices below are our own listed prices, converted at ¥159/USD (August 2026).
Set Overview
Shiny Star V released in Japan on November 20, 2020, as a Sword & Shield-era “High Class Pack” — a premium product format built around a single mechanical theme rather than a normal expansion’s mix of new attackers. Limitless TCG’s index catalogues 326 total rows for the set, made up of 187 base-set rows (derived as total minus secret tier, catalogued as of August 2026 — not an official Pokemon Company denominator) and a sprawling 139-card secret tier numbered 191/190 through 326/190.
That secret tier is the reason Shiny Star V is still discussed five years after release. It splits into four rarity bands, and the split is heavily weighted toward one tier: 3 Amazing Rare, 9 Secret Rare, 104 Shiny Rare, and 23 Shiny Ultra Rare — the last of which carries the widely used shorthand “SSR” and includes the set’s most recognizable single card, Charizard VMAX.
The Shiny Rare tier alone — 104 cards — accounts for roughly three-quarters of the entire secret run. Every one of those 104 cards is the exact same Pokemon species and card layout as its normal-colored base-set counterpart, just recolored in the shiny palette, which is the mechanic the whole set is named for. The tables below cover the three smaller, fully-listed tiers in full, then summarize the 104-card Shiny Rare tier by count and named highlights.
Amazing Rare Tier: 021, 036, 117
Shiny Star V’s secret tier opens with its smallest and most unusual band — three Amazing Rare cards, numbered within the set’s normal range rather than above it:
| No. | Japanese Name | English Name | Rarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 021/190 | レシラム | Reshiram | Amazing Rare |
| 036/190 | カイオーガ | Kyogre | Amazing Rare |
| 117/190 | イベルタル | Yveltal | Amazing Rare |
Unlike Secret Rare or Shiny Ultra Rare cards, which are numbered past the set’s printed total to mark them as chase pulls, Amazing Rare cards sit inside the normal 001–190 numbering — Reshiram at 021, Kyogre at 036, Yveltal at 117 — and are identified by their distinct card frame and rarity marking rather than a number past the base set. Legendaries only: all three Amazing Rares catalogued in this set are Legendary Pokemon, and none of the three repeats elsewhere in the secret tier.
Secret Rare Tier: 191–199
Nine Secret Rares follow immediately after the base set’s printed total, numbers 191/190 through 199/190 — and every one is a Trainer or Supporter character rather than a Pokemon:
| No. | Japanese Name | English Name | Rarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 191/190 | ウカッツ | Cara Liss | Secret Rare |
| 192/190 | ジムトレーナー | Gym Trainer | Secret Rare |
| 193/190 | とりつかい | Bird Keeper | Secret Rare |
| 194/190 | ネズ | Piers | Secret Rare |
| 195/190 | フウロ | unconfirmed | Secret Rare |
| 196/190 | ボールガイ | Ball Guy | Secret Rare |
| 197/190 | ポケモンごっこ | Poke Kid | Secret Rare |
| 198/190 | マリィ | Marnie | Secret Rare |
| 199/190 | ローズ | Rose | Secret Rare |
Every card in this nine-card band is a Trainer/Supporter, drawn from Galar-region gym staff and story characters — Marnie (198), Piers (194), and Rose (199) among the more recognizable names, alongside Gym Trainer, Bird Keeper, Cara Liss, Poke Kid, and Ball Guy as generic character archetypes rather than named story figures. English name data for 195/190 isn’t confirmed in our source index, so it’s listed above by its Japanese name only rather than a guessed English equivalent.
Shiny Ultra Rare (SSR) Tier: 304–326
The top of Shiny Star V’s secret tier is 23 cards deep, numbered 304/190 through 326/190. This is the band collectors and our own product listings refer to by the shorthand “SSR,” and it’s exclusively V and VMAX cards — no Trainers, no Supporters:
| No. | Japanese Name | English Name | Rarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 304/190 | ゴリランダーV | Rillaboom-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 305/190 | ゴリランダーVMAX | Rillaboom-VMAX | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 306/190 | ワタシラガV | Eldegoss-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 307/190 | リザードンV | Charizard V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 308/190 | リザードンVMAX | Charizard VMAX | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 309/190 | マルヤクデV | Centiskorch V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 310/190 | マルヤクデVMAX | Centiskorch VMAX | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 311/190 | ラプラスV | Lapras-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 312/190 | ラプラスVMAX | Lapras-VMAX | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 313/190 | パルスワンV | Boltund-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 314/190 | ストリンダーV | Toxtricity-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 315/190 | ストリンダーVMAX | Toxtricity-VMAX | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 316/190 | イエッサンV | Indeedee-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 317/190 | ドラパルトV | Dragapult-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 318/190 | ドラパルトVMAX | Dragapult-VMAX | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 319/190 | タイレーツV | Falinks-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 320/190 | クロバットVMAX | Crobat VMAX | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 321/190 | オーロンゲV | Grimmsnarl V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 322/190 | オーロンゲVMAX | Grimmsnarl VMAX | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 323/190 | メタモンV | Ditto V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 324/190 | メタモンVMAX | Ditto VMAX | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 325/190 | バイウールーV | Dubwool-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
| 326/190 | ウッウV | Cramorant-V | Shiny Ultra Rare |
The pattern across this tier is a V-and-VMAX pair for most featured Pokemon: Rillaboom, Centiskorch, Lapras, Toxtricity, Dragapult, Grimmsnarl, and Ditto each get both a V and a VMAX printing back to back in the numbering. Five Pokemon — Eldegoss, Charizard, Boltund, Indeedee, and Falinks — only get a single V (Charizard is the exception with both 307 V and 308 VMAX), and Crobat VMAX, Dubwool-V, and Cramorant-V close the tier without a paired counterpart.
Charizard VMAX, 308/190, is the card this set is best known for. It’s the card this High Class Pack is best known for, and it’s the card behind our own current stock listing — a PSA 10-graded copy is currently listed at ¥43,252 (~$272) (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order).
The 104-Card Shiny Rare Tier
Numbers 200/190 through 303/190 make up the tier that gives Shiny Star V its name: 104 cards, every one a shiny-palette recolor of a Pokemon that also appears normally in the base set. That’s the largest single rarity band in the entire set — more than a quarter of every catalogued row in Shiny Star V, and roughly three-quarters of the secret tier alone. Transcribing all 104 rows individually is outside the scope of this summary; the full list is catalogued in the same Limitless index linked throughout this page. What follows is a representative sample rather than the complete 104-card table.
The clearest pattern inside the tier is that it runs almost entirely in complete evolution lines rather than scattered single Pokemon. Four fully-evolved starter trios sit inside the 104 — each stage of the line printed shiny, back to back in the numbering:
| No. | Japanese Name | English Name | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200/190 | モクロー | Rowlet | Alola grass starter |
| 201/190 | フクスロー | Dartrix | Alola grass starter |
| 202/190 | ジュナイパー | Decidueye | Alola grass starter |
| 203/190 | サルノリ | Grookey | Galar grass starter |
| 204/190 | バチンキー | Thwackey | Galar grass starter |
| 205/190 | ゴリランダー | Rillaboom | Galar grass starter |
| 214/190 | ヒバニー | Scorbunny | Galar fire starter |
| 215/190 | ラビフット | Raboot | Galar fire starter |
| 216/190 | エースバーン | Cinderace | Galar fire starter |
| 224/190 | メッソン | Sobble | Galar water starter |
| 225/190 | ジメレオン | Drizzile | Galar water starter |
| 226/190 | インテレオン | Inteleon | Galar water starter |
Beyond the starter trios, a handful of individually recognizable Pokemon also fall inside the 104-card Shiny Rare run: Suicune (221), Rotom (237), Dragapult (261, the un-evolved final-stage form alongside its own Shiny Ultra Rare V/VMAX pair higher in the tier list), and Corviknight (288), Galar’s regional taxi Pokemon.
| No. | Japanese Name | English Name | Rarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 221/190 | スイクン | Suicune | Shiny Rare |
| 237/190 | ロトム | Rotom | Shiny Rare |
| 261/190 | ドラパルト | Dragapult | Shiny Rare |
| 288/190 | アーマーガア | Corviknight | Shiny Rare |
Outside of these highlighted rows, the remaining Shiny Rare cards cover dozens of other Galar-region and cross-generation Pokemon in evolution-line order, from Blipbug through Dubwool. If you’re trying to confirm whether a specific card number between 200/190 and 303/190 belongs to this tier, every card in that range is a Shiny Rare by definition — there’s no further split within the band.
Chase Cards Worth Watching
The nine-card Secret Rare tier is entirely Trainer and Supporter characters, and eight of the nine are shown below — the ninth, Cara Liss (191/190), doesn’t have a verified image available for this page.
Gym Trainer (192) and Bird Keeper (193) open the tier as generic character archetypes rather than named story figures, followed immediately by Piers (194), the Spikemuth Dark-type gym leader, and 195/190, whose English localization isn’t confirmed in our source index.
The tier closes with Ball Guy (196) and Poke Kid (197), then two of the set’s most widely recognized character names: Marnie (198), the series’ rival trainer for this generation, and Rose (199), the closing story antagonist — the final card in the Secret Rare run and, by numbering, the final Secret Rare in the entire set.
Availability & Our Current Listing
Shiny Star V sealed booster boxes are not currently listed in our inventory. If you’re looking to open the set yourself, the fastest route is to request a quote via our Quick Order page and we’ll confirm what’s available for the next restock.
What we do have confirmed in stock is a single-card listing for the set’s headline chase card: a PSA 10-graded Charizard VMAX SSR, 308/190, currently listed at ¥43,252 (~$272) (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order). PSA independently determines authenticity and grade on graded singles like this one; we’re not making any authenticity claim beyond the PSA slab and grade shown on the listing itself.
Because MSRP figures for this generation of Japanese High Class Packs aren’t part of the verified data behind this article, we’re not stating an original retail price for Shiny Star V here — only what’s actually listed, when it’s listed. For more on how the set’s Secret Rare and SSR cards have traded since release, our sibling Shiny Star V best cards and insertion-odds guide covers that side in more depth, and our dedicated Shiny Star V booster box buying guide covers box-level buying decisions specifically.
Shiny Star V vs Later Shiny-Themed Sets
Shiny Star V’s all-shiny secret tier wasn’t a one-off idea — the Japanese TCG has returned to the “entire secret tier in shiny colors” format more than once since this set’s November 2020 release. If you’re deciding whether to chase this specific release or a more recent shiny-themed set instead, our Shiny Star V vs Shiny Treasure ex comparison guide lays out the two side by side in more detail than we can verify within this card-list page alone.
What we can confirm from the catalogued data above: Shiny Star V’s 139-card secret tier, split across four rarities and topped by a 23-card Shiny Ultra Rare band, is one of the larger and more granularly-tiered “all-shiny” secret runs in the set’s era. Whether a later release matches, exceeds, or restructures that split is a question for the dedicated comparison article rather than this checklist.
Where to Buy Shiny Star V Cards
We ship Japanese sealed product and singles worldwide from Tokyo with tracked delivery. Shiny Star V boxes are not currently in active stock, so the fastest path to this set’s cards is either our confirmed PSA 10 Charizard VMAX SSR listing below or a direct Quick Order request for anything else from the 326-row checklist above.
For the full visual card checklist alongside pricing and rarity filters, see our Shiny Star V (S4a) card list hub. For any other card from this checklist — a specific Shiny Rare, one of the nine Secret Rares, or an Amazing Rare — request a quote via our Quick Order page and we’ll check current availability. Listing the exact card number from the tables above speeds up the quote.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many cards are in Shiny Star V (S4a)?
Limitless TCG catalogues 326 total rows for Shiny Star V as of August 2026: 187 base-set rows plus a 139-card secret tier.
What rarities are in the Shiny Star V secret tier?
Four rarities across 139 cards: 104 Shiny Rare, 23 Shiny Ultra Rare (commonly abbreviated “SSR”), 9 Secret Rare, and 3 Amazing Rare.
What is Charizard VMAX SSR from Shiny Star V?
Card 308/190, a Shiny Ultra Rare printing of Charizard VMAX and the set’s best-known chase card. A PSA 10-graded copy is currently listed at ¥43,252 (about $272).
How many Secret Rares are in Shiny Star V, and what are they?
Nine, numbered 191/190 through 199/190. All nine are Trainer or Supporter characters rather than Pokemon, including Marnie (198) and Rose (199).
Where can I buy Shiny Star V cards?
Sealed booster boxes for this set are not currently in active stock. The confirmed listing is a PSA 10 Charizard VMAX SSR single at ¥43,252 (about $272); for any other card from the checklist, request a quote via our Quick Order page.
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