Solgaleo & Lunala Card Guide: Best Printings

The Sun & Moon Story Behind the Cards

Solgaleo and Lunala are the version-exclusive Legendary Pokemon of Pokemon Sun and Moon (2016). In the games, the player’s companion Pokemon — “Nebby” — evolves into Solgaleo in the Sun version or Lunala in the Moon version late in the story, at an altar where the player and Lillie play the Sun Flute and Moon Flute together. The transformed Legendary then opens a path into Ultra Space, which the story uses to rescue Lusamine and Guzma.

On the card side, the Sun & Moon TCG block (2017 onward) introduced Pokemon-GX: cards with a powerful GX attack usable once per game, and a knockout on a GX Pokemon gives the opponent two Prize cards instead of one. Solgaleo and Lunala each got a solo GX card before the block introduced Tag Team GX — cards pairing two or three Pokemon that share a type, with higher HP and a three-Prize knockout. Solgaleo & Lunala GX is one of those Tag Team GX cards; for the full lineup of that mechanic, see our Tag Team GX value guide.

2019: The Tag Team GX Arrives in Dream League

Nearly three years after their solo debuts, Solgaleo and Lunala were paired into a single Tag Team GX card in SM11b “Dream League,” released August 2, 2019. The set uses Japan’s standard numbering split — regular cards run 001–049, and the set’s secret-rare-tier cards continue past that denominator into the 050s, 060s, and 070s, which is why a card numbered 063/049 or 070/049 isn’t a misprint.

Solgaleo & Lunala GX 020/049 RR, Dream League (SM11b)

Solgaleo & Lunala GX 063/049 SA SR — our stock

The standard version, Solgaleo & Lunala GX (020/049), is a Double Rare (RR) — the card you’d expect to open straight from a Dream League booster pack. It’s a Psychic-type card at HP 270, well above either solo GX’s HP 250, reflecting the Tag Team GX HP bump. Its English structural counterpart is Solgaleo & Lunala-GX from Cosmic Eclipse, #75/236, an Ultra Rare.

The version in the set’s chase slot is the alternate art at 063/049, listed by limitlesstcg as a Secret Rare, full-art treatment, illustrated by Hideki Ishikawa (romanized spelling per Bulbapedia; we haven’t confirmed the Japanese kanji rendering of the illustrator’s name). Same stats — Psychic type, HP 270 — but in the special-art frame the set’s chase slot uses. English collectors know it as Solgaleo & Lunala-GX, Cosmic Eclipse #216/236, a Full Art Ultra Rare.

This is the printing we stock as a PSA 10 graded single:

Picked for this articleSM11B-Dream League Japanese Pokemon Booster Box

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It’s listed as a graded PSA 10 single — availability changes as it sells, and we source another when we can. If you’d rather chase your own copy from sealed product, our SM11b Dream League pull rates guide covers how often the set’s top cards actually show up per box.

After GX: Checking for V, VSTAR, and ex

GX as a card mechanic ended with the Sun & Moon block, and the games moved on to Sword & Shield (V/VSTAR) and then Scarlet & Violet (ex). We specifically checked whether Solgaleo or Lunala — solo or as a pair — picked up a V, VSTAR, or ex card in either of those later mechanics.

Across the Bulbapedia card indexes for both Pokemon, we didn’t find a Solgaleo V, Solgaleo VSTAR, Solgaleo ex, Lunala V, Lunala VSTAR, Lunala ex, or a Solgaleo & Lunala ex Tag Team-style card. That’s not a confirmed statement that none of these exist anywhere — it means nothing turned up in the two index pages we checked, and we haven’t cross-referenced additional databases yet. As it stands, the GX era covered above is the complete Solgaleo & Lunala card history we can verify.

For more on how the Sun & Moon block fits into the broader Japanese card timeline, see our sibling guide to the Sun & Moon era.

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