30th CELEBRATION Card List: 165 Numbers in a 103-Card Set

30th CELEBRATION went on sale in Japan on Wednesday, September 16, 2026. The card list has been public since September 9, and it is still not finished. The list runs 001 to 165 while every card is printed out of 103, five of those numbers had no art when we re-opened the official list on September 17, and the thirty prettiest cards in the set are ones you are not allowed to play.

What follows is the count off the official page, and the full 136–165 reprint band written out with Japanese names, which is the thing you actually need to search a Japanese marketplace.

What is in the 30th CELEBRATION card list?

167 entries are published as of September 17: 159 card images covering 160 of the 165 numbers, plus eight basic Energy. The numbering breaks into four bands, and once you see the bands the set stops looking random.

Read the first two rows together and something jumps out: 30 of the 103 base-set numbers are Pikachu. Nearly a third of the actual set is one Pokémon. The remaining 73 base numbers carry the whole rest of the roster, from Exeggcute at 001/103 to Switch at 103/103.

Which cards are the 136–165 reprints?

Thirty cards, roughly one per era of the game, and here is every one of them by number and Japanese name. The official site publishes the images and nothing else: no English names, no artist credits, and no statement of which original set each card came from. Japanese sellers list singles by the Japanese name plus the number, so that pairing is the search string you need.

Two notes on reading that table. Numbers 151 and 152 are the two halves of a single LEGEND card and the official list shows them as one image, which is why 30 numbers produce 29 entries. And the fourth column is what the card’s own name tells you, not a set attribution: the official list never says which expansion any of these came back from.

Official product image © The Pokémon Company (from the linked official page).

The legality principle is not unique to this set. On September 9 the main site published a companion notice listing the 25 cards from the Promo Card Pack 25th ANNIVERSARY edition, all marked S8a-P, which became usable from September 16 under the same regulation as their originals. Same rule, opposite direction: an anniversary reprint inherits the legality of the card it copies, whatever that turns out to be. Our guide to Japanese card codes and regulation marks covers how to read that off a card.

Which 30th CELEBRATION cards are the chase cards?

The two FUR cards, Mewtwo ex 134/103 and Mew ex 135/103, are the top of the set, and both are drawn by the Japanese graphic artist YOSHIROTTEN. FUR stands for フューチャリスティックレア, Futuristic Rare, a brand-new rarity that exists on exactly two cards in this expansion. They sit at 134 and 135, one number below the reprint band.

The Mew ex on this page is that card. It is a Basic Psychic Pokémon at 160 HP with the ability きおくのらせん (Memory Spiral), which lets it use any attack belonging to your Benched Pokémon, plus テレポートブレイク for 30 damage. The same card exists in ordinary form at 057/103, and 135/103 is the FUR treatment of it.

Two things collectors keep conflating, so be precise about them:

• The FUR cards in the packs are Mew ex and Mewtwo ex. They come out of ¥360 boosters at whatever rate the set decides.
• The FUR Pikachu ex, 131/M-P and 132/M-P, are not in the packs at all. They are promos sealed inside the ¥27,500 30th CELEBRATION FUTURISTIC BOX. Same artist, same rarity name, different product, and the M-P suffix marks them as promos rather than set cards.

YOSHIROTTEN also designed the eight basic Energy cards, and one basic Energy is guaranteed in every pack. So the artist responsible for the two rarest cards in the set is also responsible for the one card you are certain to open.

Cards 017–046: thirty Pikachu, and a box hands you twenty of them

One 30th anniversary Pikachu is guaranteed in every pack, drawn from a pool of exactly thirty by thirty different illustrators. The pool is the 017–046 band. The guarantee is not on the anniversary site. It is on the Pokémon Center Online box listing, which spells out that of the six cards in a pack, one is a 30th anniversary Pikachu and one is a basic Energy.

Run that across the 20-pack box and the arithmetic is unusual for a booster product: 20 of your 120 cards are Pikachu, drawn from 30 possible, and another 20 are Energy. A third of the box is decided before you open it. We did the full box math in the ¥7,200 BOX breakdown.

One caveat the official page does not state: the thirty illustrators are not named anywhere on the site. The card list shows all thirty images and nothing else. No artist credits, no card names beyond ピカチュウ thirty times over. If you want a specific artist’s Pikachu, you will be identifying it by number and by eye rather than from a published index.

Is the card list complete now that the set is out?

No, and that is the most useful thing on this page today. We re-opened the official card list on September 17 and counted it again.

• Five numbers still have no art. 119, 121, 128, 129 and 131 remain absent, unchanged from September 10. All five sit inside the 104–135 alternate-illustration band, which is where the highest-rarity treatments live. They are in packs somewhere; the publisher has simply not posted them.
• pokemon-card.com still has no m6a set page. The usual home for a Japanese card list, pokemon-card.com/ex/m6a/, returned 404 on September 17, and so did the set’s cardlist.json. The sibling set m6 serves both. The only official list for this set is still the modal on the 30th anniversary site, which is why English databases are running behind.
• No rarity letters are published for anything. The list can sort by rarity but never prints the codes, so any English page assigning SAR, SR or UR to specific 30th CELEBRATION numbers is guessing. Our Japanese rarity guide explains what those codes mean when they do appear.

One more thing changed at release. The ¥7,200 Pokémon Center Online box listing is a third identity-verified lottery round, not a shelf. Entry closed at 16:59 JST on September 16, results are published from 13:00 on September 30, ordering runs to October 6, and winners are told to expect shipping between January 18 and 30, 2027. The official cheapest door is four months behind the shelf. Mechanics of these draws are in our round 2 lottery writeup.

How to buy one specific card now the set is out

The list going public a week before release moved everyone from “buy sealed and hope” to “buy the number I want,” and now that singles are listing, that is the whole game. Twenty packs get you twenty Pikachu out of thirty and twenty Energy. They do not get you 135/103.

Full route comparison for getting sealed product or singles out of Japan is in our eight Japanese channels checked piece, and the rest of the anniversary lineup that landed the same day is on our JP release calendar.

One closing note on how to read this set. A 103-card expansion with 62 numbers hanging off the end of it, thirty of which are legally dead on arrival, is not a set built for a format. It is a museum with a booster wrapper. Price it that way and you will not be disappointed by what falls out of the packs.