30th CELEBRATION Premium Deck Set Espeon & Umbreon: What's Inside

Japan gets a two-player Pokémon box this September, and the official page publishes both 60-card lists in full — so you can decide whether you want it before it exists. The 30th CELEBRATION Premium Deck Set Espeon & Umbreon (30th CELEBRATION プレミアムデッキセット エーフィ・ブラッキー) is ¥6,200 including tax, on sale in Japan on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, and contains two complete, ready-to-play 60-card decks — one built on Espeon ex, one on Umbreon ex — plus the coins, counters, playmat and tin deck case to play a game the moment you open it. Here is what is actually inside, and what an overseas collector has to do to get one.

What’s in the 30th CELEBRATION Premium Deck Set Espeon & Umbreon, and what does it cost?

¥6,200 tax included for 120 cards in two finished decks, out September 16, 2026 in Japan. The official product page lists the box contents line by line, and nothing in it is random — this is a constructed-deck product, not a booster.

The deck case is the piece worth flagging: the page specifies a 缶製 (kansei, tin) slide-open double deck case that carries both decks. The ¥1,800 MEGA Starter Set ex decks don’t include a case at all.

Where it sits in the rest of the 30th CELEBRATION lineup

Four Japanese products carry the 30th CELEBRATION name, and they don’t all land on the same day. All prices below are suggested retail on the official 30th anniversary site, tax included.

The booster goes out worldwide on the same day — we covered that flip in 30th CELEBRATION: Pokémon’s first worldwide TCG release. The Premium Deck Set is the opposite case, which is the whole reason this article exists. Everything on the Japanese schedule sits on our JP release calendar.

What’s actually in the two decks

The official page publishes both lists card by card, and read side by side they are near-mirror images. Each deck is built to exactly the same skeleton: 21 Pokémon, 21 Trainers, 18 Energy.

They also share 19 of their 21 Trainer cards: two ハイパーボール (Ultra Ball), two ポケパッド, two ポケモンいれかえ (Switch), two ポケモンキャッチャー (Pokémon Catcher), two アイリスの闘志, one ウエートレス, one ジャッジマン (Judge), three リーリエの決心, and four copies of the Supporter ガイ (Gai). The only divergence is two cards — the Espeon deck adds きずぐすり (Potion) and タケシのスカウト, the Umbreon deck adds クラッシュハンマー (Crushing Hammer) and ボスの指令 (Boss’s Orders).

The symmetry holds on the attacks. Espeon ex hits with 「サンシャインビート」 (Sunshine Beat) for two Energy, dealing 30 damage times the number of your own Pokémon in play. Umbreon ex answers with 「ルナティッククロー」 (Lunatic Claw), also two Energy, for 100 damage plus 140 more if the opponent’s Active Pokémon already has damage counters on it. Day and night, board width versus finisher.

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

One detail for anyone chasing the full arts: the set code is MF and the base count is 040, but the full-art Espeon ex is numbered 043/040 and the full-art Umbreon ex 044/040 — they sit past the numbered set the way secret cards do. Add the full-art Victini in the Espeon deck and the full-art Zeraora in the Umbreon deck and you have four full arts, one pair per side.

Two decks in one box: the thing a ¥1,800 starter deck can’t do

The official page for the ¥1,800 MEGA Starter Set ex decks states outright that a match requires two decks — one box is one player’s worth of equipment. The 30th CELEBRATION page says the reverse here: because two 60-card decks plus the coins, counters and playmat are all in the box, 「すぐに対戦を始めることができる」 — you can start a game right away.

The math follows. ¥6,200 for two complete decks is ¥3,100 per deck against ¥1,800 for a single MEGA Starter Set ex box — roughly ¥1,300 more per deck, and what that buys is the tin double deck case, the second coin, the anniversary playmat and four full-art cards a ¥1,800 box does not have. If the goal is “two people can sit down and play tonight,” this is the only 30th anniversary product that does it in one purchase.

Is there an English version? What the international lineup actually says

The Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration product showcase on Pokémon.com lists the announced international lineup in full — Elite Trainer Boxes, the Poster Collection, the Tech Sticker Collection, the ex Box, Booster Bundle, Mini Tins, the Ditto Premium Collection, the Ultra-Premium Collection and more, running September 16 to November 6, 2026. The Premium Deck Set Espeon & Umbreon is not among them. That is not the same as The Pokémon Company declaring it Japan-only — no such statement exists that we could find — so the accurate phrasing is that it is not listed in the announced international lineup.

What that lineup does contain is a product with confusingly similar branding, and it is a different thing:

The two products overlap on characters and diverge on everything else: how many decks, when, in what packaging, in which language. If you want the two-deck Japanese box with the tin case, waiting for the English release does not get you there.

How an overseas collector actually gets one

Two live routes exist in Japan, and only one is open to you.

The first is Pokémon Center Online’s lottery. For this exact SKU the entry window runs August 10 at 12:00 JST to August 14 at 16:59 JST, results publish August 21 from 15:00 JST, payment is due by August 25, and winning units ship by September 15 with free shipping. It is also, structurally, not your route: Pokémon Center Online limits delivery to addresses inside Japan and states the right to order a won item is valid only for the applicant and cannot be transferred to a third party. The priority frame sits behind My Number Card verification, issued off a Japanese resident record — the mechanism is in Pokémon Players Club My Number verification.

The second route is ordinary Japanese retail from September 16 onward at the ¥6,200 shelf price. That is the one that works from abroad: the barrier there is logistics, not identity.

What it costs to land in your country

The product is ¥6,200. The parcel is the other number. Japan Post’s EMS rate table has no bracket below 500g — “up to 500g” is the lightest row that exists — and the official product page publishes neither the box weight nor its dimensions. Treat any weight claim, including ours, as an assumption. What we can say without inventing a figure: a tin deck case, 120 cards, a full-size paper playmat, two coins and two counter sheets is plainly not a sub-500g parcel once it is boxed for export. Budget from the 1kg row.

Add your country’s import duty or VAT, charged on declared value plus freight in most places — our import tax and customs breakdown has the thresholds. The takeaway is the usual one for Japanese boxed products: one item in one parcel is the worst possible ratio. Put the ¥360 boosters or the ¥1,200 Card Sets in the same shipment and let the bracket carry more product.

The August window is not yours; the September 16 shelf date is, and this is a general-retail product with a published price rather than a Pokémon Center exclusive. So the decision is narrower than it looks: do you want two Japanese decks and a tin case, or four full-art cards? Those are very different orders, and only one of them needs a ¥6,200 box.