If you’re looking to buy Zamazenta V, S8a 019/028, here’s what’s actually available: our own S8A booster box, a convenience-store-era Special Set that once carried these singles, and the card’s official text so you know exactly what you’d be adding to a deck or a collection.
Zamazenta V is one of 25 numbered cards in S8a, the 25th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION expansion pack that released in Japan on Friday, October 22, 2021, at ¥297 (tax incl.) per pack.
Zamazenta V (S8a 019/028) is a Fighting-type Basic with 220 HP, the Ability Roar of the Shield and the attack Heavy Impact, illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. It is not currently listed on our site as a graded single. Our S8A 25th Anniversary Collection Booster Box is currently listed at ¥67,200 (~$436) (September 17, 2026).
Buying Zamazenta V: What’s Actually Listed
Start with what is listed, in plain terms. Zamazenta V 019/028 is not listed on our site as a single at the moment; sourcing requests for it go through 快速訂購. The card originally shipped inside S8a booster packs and, through a promotional route, inside the 25th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION Special Set (four expansion packs plus a Promo Card Pack 25th ANNIVERSARY edition and a coin, official 2021 RRP ¥1,188 tax incl.).
What we do currently list: our S8A 25th Anniversary Collection Japanese Pokémon Booster Box, at ¥67,200 (~$436) (September 17, 2026), and our 25th Anniversary Collection Special Set, at ¥33,600 (~$218) (September 17, 2026). Because the official S8a page states no box-pack figure, we can’t tell you how many packs are inside a box, and the official page gives no per-card pull rate for any S8a card, Zamazenta V included. What the official page does state about the pack itself is exact: five holo cards, one of which is always a Basic Energy card, drawn at random from the set’s 全28種類 — its 28 kinds of card.
What Is Zamazenta V (S8a 019/028)?
Zamazenta V is one of the 25 numbered entries the official card database lists for S8a, printed 019/028, and it is illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita — the same artist credited on Zacian V (S8a 018/028), the card directly before it in the numbering, and on S8a 001/028 Pikachu. Its detail page shows only S8a’s own expansion logo mark; no G, H or I regulation-mark letter is printed on any S8a card page.
It’s a Basic Pokémon, playable straight from the opening hand. The database’s evolution panel for this card shows Zamazenta VSTAR above it and Zamazenta V itself as the highlighted entry — a card-family listing on the page, not a claim that Zamazenta VSTAR is one of S8a’s numbered cards.
One of the five cards in every S8a pack is a Basic Energy card rather than a numbered one, so a pack that produces Zamazenta V produces it alongside three other numbered cards at most; the eight Energy prints have their own database pages, covered in our S8a Basic Energy cards guide.
Card Text: Roar of the Shield and Heavy Impact
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Card number | 019/028 |
| JP name | ザマゼンタV |
| Illustrator | Mitsuhiro Arita |
| Type | Fighting |
| HP | 220 |
| Stage | Basic |
| Weakness | Psychic (×2) |
| Resistance | — |
| Retreat | 2 |
Zamazenta V’s Ability, Roar of the Shield (たてのうなり), reduces damage rather than dealing it: as long as this Pokémon is in play, each of your Pokémon takes 20 less damage from attacks from your opponent’s Pokémon VMAX, and the effect doesn’t stack no matter how many Pokémon with this Ability you have.
Its attack, Heavy Impact (ヘビーインパクト), costs two Fighting Energy and one Colorless Energy for 150 damage, with no additional text on the database page. The page lists that one attack and nothing further beyond the V special rule: when your Pokémon V is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
One question buyers ask before committing to a graded Zamazenta V is whether a separate parallel finish exists for it. On the official record, the question does not arise: the card’s database page carries no finish flag of any kind, and the set’s product page answers at set level instead, stating that every card in S8a is a holo card. There is nothing official to distinguish one printing of 019/028 from another on finish.
Zamazenta V’s Place in the Set, and How the Promo Pack Worked
Zamazenta V sits at 019 in a run of 25 numbered database pages that starts at 001/028 and ends at 025/028. The official product page gives the set’s own figure separately, 全28種類 — 28 kinds of card — which is the denominator printed on every card number.
That same product page singles out a short list of cards by species in its promotional copy — Lugia, Groudon, Dialga, Reshiram, Xerneas, Lunala and Zacian V (018/028). Zamazenta V is not among the cards it calls out, even though it sits directly beside its partner in the numbering. If you are building the pair, only one half of it was given that billing.
The anniversary line’s other card subset does not extend the pair either. The 25th ANNIVERSARY GOLDEN BOX carries its own set code, S8a-G, and its 16 database entries are built entirely around Pikachu — Pikachu V, Pikachu, Raichu, Pikachu VMAX, a run of Item and Supporter cards and one unnumbered Basic Lightning Energy. Zamazenta is not in that deck. 30th CELEBRATION’s own Zamazenta is a separate regular card at 086/103, covered in our Zacian & Zamazenta 30th Celebration Card Guide.
On how the card reached collectors: Zamazenta V came out of S8a packs, including the four expansion packs inside the convenience-store Special Set. The separate “buy 4 packs, get 1 promo pack” campaign yielded a card from the Promo Card Pack 25th ANNIVERSARY edition instead — not an S8a numbered card such as this one — and the official page states that campaign was not run at convenience stores.
Where to Buy
Our S8A 25th Anniversary Collection Booster Box is currently listed at ¥67,200 (~$436) (September 17, 2026), and our 25th Anniversary Collection Special Set is currently listed at ¥33,600 (~$218) (September 17, 2026). Zamazenta V 019/028 as a single is not listed on our site at the moment; sourcing requests go through 快速訂購.
Two sealed routes, then, and one request route. Beyond S8a itself, our sealed booster box collection carries Japanese boxes from other expansions, the PSA 10 collection holds the graded singles we currently list, and the Japanese Pokémon card collection is the wider catalogue. The box gets its own full write-up in our 25th Anniversary Collection (S8a) Booster Box Guide.
USD figures convert at ¥154/USD (approximate).
常見問題
Is Zamazenta V 019/028 listed on samuraiswordtokyo.com as a single?
Not at the moment. Our S8A booster box is currently listed at ¥67,200 (~$436) (September 17, 2026) and the Special Set at ¥33,600 (~$218) (September 17, 2026); sourcing requests for the single go through Quick Order.
What is Zamazenta V S8a 019/028?
It is one of the 25 numbered entries the official card database lists for the 25th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION (S8a), printed 019/028 against the set’s official 全28種類 (28 kinds) — a Fighting-type Basic Pokémon with 220 HP, illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita.
What does Zamazenta V do in-game?
Its Ability, Roar of the Shield, reduces damage from opposing Pokémon VMAX by 20 (non-stacking). Its attack, Heavy Impact, does 150 damage for two Fighting Energy and one Colorless Energy.
Does a second Zamazenta V double the Roar of the Shield reduction?
No. The database text states the effect does not stack, no matter how many Pokémon with this Ability you have in play.
How many packs are in an S8a booster box?
The official S8a product page does not state a box-pack figure, so this guide does not state one.
Which S8a products does Samurai Sword Tokyo list?
Two sealed ones. The S8A 25th Anniversary Collection Booster Box at ¥67,200 (~$436) (September 17, 2026), and the 25th Anniversary Collection Special Set — four expansion packs, a Promo Card Pack and a coin — at ¥33,600 (~$218) (September 17, 2026).
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