Pokemon Ascended Heroes ex Boxes vs Japanese MEGA Dream ex (M2a) Box

What Is Inside an Ascended Heroes ex Box

The official page is titled Pokemon TCG: Mega Evolution—Ascended Heroes Mega Meganium ex, Mega Emboar ex, and Mega Feraligatr ex Boxes and prints a launch of April 24, 2026. There is no fourth product called the Ascended Heroes ex Box; that phrase is the collective name in the page’s includes line, and the three boxes differ only in which Pokemon they feature.

The product text sets the scene around partner Pokemon and Mega Evolution. It says each box contains a playable foil promo card and an oversize lenticular card with dynamic artwork, plus four booster packs from the special Mega Evolution—Ascended Heroes expansion. It describes Mega Meganium ex presenting a Giant Bouquet, Mega Emboar ex lashing out with a Crimson Blast and Mega Feraligatr ex using Mortal Crunch.

Bulbapedia’s merchandise page (October 2, 2026) fills in the numbers: the three promos are MEP Black Star Promos 034, 035 and 036, and the lenticular card is a Jumbo version of the same card. Limitless TCG lists the same three numbers.

The Three Promo Cards: MEP 034, 035 and 036

As of October 2, 2026, Limitless TCG lists the three promos as Stage 2 Pokemon in regulation mark J, credited to 5ban Graphics (MEP 034 and MEP 036) and Keisuke Azuma (MEP 035). Bulbapedia’s card pages say that each promo is a print of the Regular card with alternate artwork, and that a Jumbo lenticular version of the same card is packed in the box.

For Meganium and Feraligatr the promo credits 5ban Graphics, the same credit as the Regular print, and Bulbapedia still calls the promo an alternate artwork print. For Emboar the promo credits Keisuke Azuma while the Regular print credits 5ban Graphics. A shared credit therefore does not make the promo and the set print the same card.

Bulbapedia also says the three promos were reused: its merchandise page describes a set of three Ascended Heroes Tins released on August 28, 2026 that contained the standard-size promo cards from these boxes, each with four Ascended Heroes booster packs. That is reported by Bulbapedia, not confirmed on a pokemon.com page, but it matters for a buyer: the promos are not described as box-exclusive. Our Ascended Heroes Tin, Poster and Pin Collection comparison covers that range.

Mega Emboar ex: Promo, English Prints and the Japanese Start Deck 100 Cards

The Emboar line follows the same pattern with different credits. Limitless lists ASC 31, a Double Rare credited to 5ban Graphics, and ASC 273, a Special Art Rare credited to nagimiso. The official Japanese database lists メガエンブオーex as MC 113/742 (5ban Graphics) and MC 762/742 (nagimiso), again with matching credits on each pair.

The Japanese card is a 2 Stage Pokemon with 380 HP, Fire type, a Water weakness (×2), no resistance and a retreat cost of 4. Its attack, クリムゾンボム, costs two Fire Energy and one Colorless and does 320 damage, with an effect that deals 60 damage to this Pokemon as well (rendering). The evolution line is Tepig, Pignite, Emboar. The Mega Emboar ex promo MEP 035 is the odd one among the three, since its credit, Keisuke Azuma, differs from both the Regular print and the Start Deck 100 card.

The PSA 10 of MC 762/742 is offered as a PSA 10 back order at ¥11,118 (~$72).

English and Japanese Prints Paired by Illustrator Credit

The sources support one kind of pairing: a shared illustrator credit between an English print on Limitless TCG and a Japanese print in the official database. That is a credit match. No source states that the English and Japanese images are identical, and Bulbapedia reports no Japanese print of the promos. Six Japanese MC prints (018, 761, 113, 762, 169 and 763 of 742) pair with six English prints (ASC 10, 272, 31, 273, 43 and 274).

Rarity names also differ by source. Limitless calls the English 272, 273 and 274 Special Art Rare, and the SAR label on the Japanese cards comes from SNKRDUNK’s titles. The English set numbers, written with a denominator of 217, are Bulbapedia’s.

The Japanese MEGA Dream ex (M2a) Box

The official M2a page gives a price of ¥550 per pack with tax, ten 張／包 and a release of Friday, November 28, 2025. As of September 30, 2026, the official card database returns 250 cards for the set with a printed set size of 193, and the 57 cards numbered beyond 193 split into AR 20, SR 9, MA 10, SAR 17 and MUR 1, which adds up to 57 and, together with the 193 numbered cards, to the 250 total. The page names Mega Dragonite ex among its featured cards; Mega Meganium ex, Mega Emboar ex and Mega Feraligatr ex have database rows only in Start Deck 100.

What the English boxes share with M2a is the expansion they draw on: Bulbapedia says Ascended Heroes includes cards from the MEGA Dream ex subset and from Start Deck 100.

The SNKRDUNK product page shows a lowest ask of ¥12,500 (~$81) for the sealed M2a box and ¥10,799 (~$70) for the No Shrink box, both as of October 2, 2026. The Sealed option of our standard box is sold out at the time of this update — restock requests go through 快速訂購.

The Damaged Box and the No Shrink Damaged Box are separate products with their own terms, not options of the standard box. The set’s numbering is on our MEGA Dream ex card list, and the older write-ups are the MEGA Dream ex complete guide and the Ascended Heroes Japanese card list.

Buying Checklist: English ex Box or Japanese Counterparts

Five checks apply to purchases in this line.

• Decide whether you want the promo. The MEP promos come in the English boxes, and Bulbapedia reports the Tins too. Bulbapedia reports no Japanese print of that artwork.
• Read the number and the denominator. The Japanese cards are MC numbers over 742; the English prints are Ascended Heroes numbers. The promo is MEP 034, 035 or 036.
• Match the credit, not just the name. A shared credit is not evidence that two cards show the same image.
• Check the product type. A Damaged Box, a No Shrink Damaged Box and the standard M2a box are separate products, and a Start Deck 100 box is one random deck.
• Date every ask. A SNKRDUNK figure is an asking price on one day, and a ¥1,000 entry is its display floor.

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