Three Hoenn starters, three completely different card histories. Treecko’s line got a Mega Evolution EX and a GX before Sun & Moon closed out, with the GX currently sourceable through a Japanese booster box we hold in stock. Mudkip’s line got one clean Stage 2 print with a card-advantage ability built in, packed inside a box that’s since become one of the pricier sealed products we carry. Torchic’s line’s fully evolved form is Blaziken, and we cover it separately.
This guide tracks six Japanese printings across the Treecko, Torchic, and Mudkip evolution lines, from a 2013 Shiny Collection Torchic through a 2021 Eevee Heroes Mudkip. None of these six are graded or raw singles we hold as fixed shelf stock right now, but three of them come packed inside Japanese booster boxes currently listed in our catalog — so where a box exists, we’ve pointed to it directly instead of sending you to a sourcing request for no reason. We ship Japanese sealed product and singles out of Tokyo every week.
Six current Japanese Hoenn-starter prints span four sets and eight years. Three come packed inside boxes we currently carry: Fairy Rise (contains Sceptile-GX) is currently listed at ¥57,750 (~$354) (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), Tag All-Stars (contains Treecko) is currently listed at ¥212,100 (~$1,301) (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), and Eevee Heroes (contains Mudkip) is currently listed at ¥159,600 (~$979). M Sceptile-EX, Swampert, and the Torchic print don’t have a matching box in our current catalog, so those three route through Schnellbestellung sourcing. For Blaziken specifically — the line’s fully evolved form — see our dedicated Blaziken cards guide.
Card details below come from Limitless TCG’s Japanese card database as of August 2026. Sealed-box pricing reflects our own catalog as of the same date, converted at ¥163/USD. We don’t currently hold any of these six prints as fixed graded or raw singles — where no matching box exists, sourcing requests go through Quick Order.
Every Hoenn Starter Print and Where It’s From
Six prints, grouped by evolution line, spanning 2013 to 2021:
| Karte | Number | Rarity | Set | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M Sceptile-EX | XY7 008/081 | RR | Bandit Ring | 2015 |
| Sceptile-GX | SM7b 005/050 | RR | Fairy Rise | 2018 |
| Treecko | SM12a 008/173 | C | Tag All Stars | 2019 |
| Swampert | SM7 024/096 | R | Charisma of the Ripped Sky | 2018 |
| Mudkip | S6a 019/069 | C | Eevee Heroes | 2021 |
| Torchic (Shiny) | SC 005/020 | C | Shiny Collection | 2013 |
The Treecko line carries the most weight here — a 2015 XY-era Mega Evolution EX and a Sun & Moon-era GX, plus the Basic Treecko print that supports them. The Mudkip line gets a single clean pairing: a Basic and its Stage 2. The Torchic line’s only current entry in this guide is the Basic itself, in its shiny-illustrated 2013 form — Blaziken’s own chase prints are covered in a separate guide, linked below.
The Treecko Line: M Sceptile-EX, Sceptile-GX, and Treecko
M Sceptile-EX (XY7 008/081) comes from Bandit Ring, released June 20, 2015 — the Japanese set that lines up with the English-language Ancient Origins. It’s a Mega Evolution card, evolving from Sceptile-EX, printed as a Grass type with 220 HP and illustrated by 5ban Graphics. Limitless data confirms a 100-damage attack on this print, though the attack’s exact name wasn’t confirmed in the same pass, so we’re not printing one here. A same-set SR version is also on record at a different card number, though we haven’t independently verified its details. We don’t currently carry a Bandit Ring booster box, so a copy of this one runs through Schnellbestellung sourcing.
Sceptile-GX (SM7b 005/050) followed three years later out of Fairy Rise, released August 3, 2018 (aligning with the English-language Lost Thunder). It’s a Stage 2 Grass type at 230 HP, illustrated by Yoshinobu Saito, and it carries two standard attacks — Mach Cut for 60 damage plus a special-energy strip, and Leaf Cyclone for 130 damage with an energy-movement effect — alongside the GX attack Jungle Heal GX, which fully heals every Grass-energy-attached Pokemon on your side. A separate SR version of the same card exists at a different number in the same set. Unlike M Sceptile-EX, this one has a real box-pull route: see the sourcing section below.
Mega Evolution EX and GX cards from this stretch of the Japanese TCG are numbered past the set’s base count when they’re secret rares, so don’t assume the RR you’re holding and an SR listing online with a different number are the same print at different rarities — check the card number first.
The line’s Basic support comes from Treecko (SM12a 008/173), out of the high-class pack Tag All Stars, released October 4, 2019. It’s a Common, Grass-type Basic at 60 HP, with an attack that searches your deck for a Grass Pokemon and adds it to your hand for a single Grass Energy — a straightforward line-starter attack that supports building toward either Sceptile print above. Tag All Stars is also currently in our sealed-box catalog, covered below.
The Mudkip Line: Swampert and Mudkip
Swampert (SM7 024/096) is the line’s only current Stage 2 entry, from Charisma of the Ripped Sky, released June 1, 2018 — the Japanese counterpart to the English-language Celestial Storm. It’s a Water type at 160 HP, illustrated by Satoshi Nakai, and its standout feature is the ability Power Draw: discard a card from your hand and draw three, once per turn. Its attack, Hydro Pump, costs three Energy of any type for 80 damage plus 20 more for each Water Energy attached. We don’t currently carry a Charisma of the Ripped Sky booster box, so this one is a Quick Order sourcing request.
Mudkip (S6a 019/069) supports it from Eevee Heroes, released May 28, 2021 (the Japanese set that lines up with the English-language Fusion Strike). It’s a Common, Water-type Basic at 70 HP, illustrated by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, with a low-cost attack around 20 damage for two Energy of any type. Eevee Heroes is one of the three sets we currently hold sealed — see the sourcing section below.
Between the two Hoenn lines with current entries here, this is the tighter pairing — one Basic, one Stage 2, no gap in between, and an ability on the Stage 2 that gives the line a genuine reason to see play beyond the collecting side.
The Torchic Line: A Shiny 2013 Concept-Pack Print
Torchic’s only current entry in this guide is a shiny-colored print from the Shiny Collection, a kira-finish concept pack released February 1, 2013 whose Torchic uses the shiny color palette. It’s a Common, Fire-type Basic at 60 HP, illustrated by Kanako Eo. We don’t currently carry a Shiny Collection booster box or a graded single of this print, so a copy runs through Quick Order sourcing.
We’re deliberately not going deeper into the Torchic line here. Blaziken — the line’s fully evolved form — has its own dedicated chase prints and its own pricing history, and we cover that ground in full in our separate Blaziken cards guide. If Torchic is your entry point into the line, that guide is the next stop.
Where These Prints Sit in the Wider Japanese Card Timeline
Split across eras, these six prints land in two distinct windows of the Japanese TCG. M Sceptile-EX belongs to the XY block’s run of Mega Evolution EX cards, a mechanic era that also produced the ex/Mega-EX cards covered in our XY-era EX and Mega-EX cards guide, useful if you’re trying to place M Sceptile-EX against its contemporaries from the same mechanic generation. Sceptile-GX, Swampert, and Treecko all come from the Sun & Moon era’s later sets (2018–2019), while Mudkip is a 2021 Sword & Shield-era print and the Torchic Shiny Collection card predates all of them at 2013.
If you’re building out starter-line coverage more broadly, we’ve run the same identification approach across other regions: see our Johto starters cards guide for Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile’s lines, and our Sinnoh starters cards guide for Turtwig, Chimchar, and Piplup’s.
Sourcing the Treecko and Mudkip Lines Through Sealed Boxes
Half of the six prints above — Sceptile-GX, Treecko, and Mudkip — ship inside Japanese booster boxes currently listed in our catalog. M Sceptile-EX, Swampert, and the Torchic print don’t have a matching box in stock right now, so those three route through Quick Order.
Tag All-Stars and Eevee Heroes both sit well above Fairy Rise in current listed price. If you’re specifically chasing the Treecko-line Basic or the Mudkip Basic rather than the full set’s headline pulls, Fairy Rise is the more accessible entry point of the three for the Sceptile-GX print.
We don’t hold single-card stock of M Sceptile-EX, Swampert, or the Torchic Shiny Collection print, and none of their source sets are currently sealed in our catalog. Restock requests and sourcing for these three run through Schnellbestellung.
Where to Buy Hoenn Starter Cards from Japan
We ship Japanese sealed product and singles worldwide from Tokyo with tracked delivery. For Sceptile-GX, Treecko, and Mudkip, sealed product from Fairy Rise (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), Tag All-Stars (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), and Eevee Heroes is the direct route in. For M Sceptile-EX, Swampert, and the Torchic Shiny Collection print, use our Quick Order page to send a sourcing request — include the set code and card number from the table above, plus whether you’re after a raw or graded copy.
For Blaziken specifically, our Blaziken cards guide covers current listings for that line directly. For other regional starter lines from the same research pass, see our Johto starters cards guide and our Sinnoh starters cards guide.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
How many Japanese Hoenn starter Pokemon cards are there?
This guide covers six current Japanese prints across the three Hoenn starter lines: M Sceptile-EX and Sceptile-GX plus a Treecko Basic from the Treecko line, Swampert plus Mudkip from the Mudkip line, and a shiny-illustrated Torchic from 2013’s Shiny Collection. None are cards we currently hold as fixed graded or raw singles, though three come packed inside booster boxes we do carry sealed.
What set is M Sceptile-EX from?
Bandit Ring (XY7 008/081), released June 20, 2015 — the Japanese set that lines up with the English-language Ancient Origins. It’s a Mega Evolution EX card, Grass type, 220 HP, illustrated by 5ban Graphics. We don’t currently carry a Bandit Ring booster box, so a copy runs through Quick Order sourcing.
Can I pull a Hoenn starter card from a booster box you currently sell?
Yes, for three of the six prints. Fairy Rise contains Sceptile-GX, Tag All-Stars contains Treecko, and Eevee Heroes contains Mudkip — all three sets are currently listed as sealed booster boxes in our catalog. M Sceptile-EX, Swampert, and the Torchic Shiny Collection print don’t have a matching box in stock right now.
Is the Torchic card in this guide the same as Blaziken?
No. This guide’s Torchic entry is the line’s Basic Pokemon, a shiny-illustrated print from 2013’s Shiny Collection. Blaziken, the fully evolved chase card in this line, has its own dedicated prints and pricing history covered in our separate Blaziken cards guide.
Where can I buy Hoenn starter Pokemon cards from Japan?
We ship Japanese sealed product and singles worldwide from Tokyo with tracked delivery. Sealed Fairy Rise, Tag All-Stars, and Eevee Heroes boxes are the direct route to Sceptile-GX, Treecko, and Mudkip respectively. For M Sceptile-EX, Swampert, and the Torchic print, sourcing goes through our Quick Order page — send the set code and card number and we’ll check current availability.
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