Paldea Evolved Booster Box vs Japanese SV2P & SV2D (Pokemon)

Paldea Evolved in English, Three Sets in Japan

English collectors meet Paldea Evolved through retail products. The tcg.pokemon.com expansion page lists seven: the Elite Trainer Box, the Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box, the Build & Battle Box, the Build & Battle Stadium, the Booster Box, the Booster Bundle and the Sleeved Booster. In Japan the expansion comes as three expansion packs: SV2P Snow Hazard and SV2D Clay Burst, released together, and the earlier SV1a Triplet Beat.

No official source states that the English set equals any Japanese set. The pairing above is Bulbapedia’s. The card-level matches below are Limitless TCG’s, and they cover only the cards listed there.

The English Set: What the Official Page Prints

The pokemon.com page for Scarlet & Violet—Paldea Evolved gives an approximate set size, not an exact one. Its overview names Meowscarada ex, Skeledirge ex and Quaquaval ex as first partners that have evolved; Forretress, Slowking and Dedenne as Tera Pokémon ex; and Chien-Pao ex, Ting-Lu ex and Pikachu ex among the others. Limitless TCG’s set list supplies the exact rows.

Limitless labels the rarity of each row. The labels are Limitless’s own, not the printed rarity names.

The 86 cards above number 193 are the Art Rare, Ultra Rare, Special Art Rare and Secret Rare rows.

Card-by-Card: What Limitless Matches to SV2P, SV2D and SV1a

Limitless TCG’s page for each English card lists its Japanese prints, meaning the Japanese cards that share the same game text. The tables show, for every English card numbered 194 to 279, the Japanese print in the same rarity tier and the set it belongs to. The pairing used is Art Rare with AR, Special Art Rare with SAR, Ultra Rare with SR and Secret Rare with UR. Japanese names, numbers and rarity codes are as printed in the official pokemon-card.com database.

PSA 10 cards for these Japanese prints are offered as back orders — sourced to order; the product page shows the current terms. The PSA 10 back order guide explains how a back order works. Where a physical PSA 10 row is priced as well, both are shown.

Art Rare Cards (36)

Twelve English Art Rare cards match each of the three Japanese sets, with Japanese AR numbers from 072/071 to 083/071 in SV2P and SV2D and from 074/073 to 085/073 in SV1a. Each Pokémon also has a lower-rarity print earlier in its set.

Ultra Rare Pokémon ex Cards (18)

Ultra Rare Trainer Cards (8)

Limitless lists the English Ultra Rare cards against Japanese SR prints: 084 to 091 in SV2P and SV2D, and 086 to 095 in SV1a.

Special Art Rare Cards (15)

Secret Rare Cards (9)

The nine English Secret Rare cards match Japanese UR prints: 097 to 099 in SV2P and SV2D, and 101 to 103 in SV1a. The Energy cards among them, Grass Energy (278) and Water Energy (279), are SV2D 099/071 and SV2P 099/071.

Six Special Art Rares in Pictures

Six Japanese Special Art Rare prints are pictured: three from SV1a, two from SV2P and one from SV2D. Limitless TCG matches them to the English cards numbered 256 to 261, and the official database credits the same illustrator as Limitless on every pair.

Rarity codes and numbers on the pictures are as printed in the official database. Prices for these prints are in the tables above.

Reading a Card’s Region at a Glance

Limitless lists these Japanese prints against the English cards, and the official database credits the same illustrator on each of the six pictured SAR pairs. These printed details identify the region instead:

1. The number denominator. Japanese SV2P and SV2D cards print a /071 denominator in the official database (Bramblin AR is SV2P 072/071), and SV1a cards print /073. The English set’s printed total is 193 per pokemon-tcg-data, and the English Art Rare and higher cards are numbered 194 to 279.
2. The number itself. The same card sits at a different number in each region: Chi-Yu ex SAR is 259 in English and 092/071 in SV2D; Chien-Pao ex SAR is 261 in English and 093/071 in SV2P; Iono SAR is 269 in English and 096/071 in SV2D.
3. The tier codes. The official Japanese rows carry AR, SR, SAR and UR icons; the English tiers are Limitless’s Art Rare, Ultra Rare, Special Art Rare and Secret Rare labels.
4. The language. The Japanese cards print Japanese names, such as イーユイex for Chi-Yu ex.

See our Japanese vs English Pokemon cards explainer for the wider differences and the Paldea Evolved and the Japanese sets behind it article for the set-level view.

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