Storm Emeralda Set Guide: 76 Cards, Prices, How to Buy

Storm Emeralda has been on Japanese shelves for three weeks, and the useful questions from overseas were never about card art — they’re about how big the set is, what the products cost, and what you can realistically get. Storm Emeralda (ストームエメラルダ) released in Japan on Friday, July 31, 2026. The base set is 76 cards, packs are ¥200 for five cards, and three MEGA Starter Set ex decks landed the same day at ¥1,800 each. Here is the set as it actually exists, read off the official pages.

Storm Emeralda card list: how many cards are in the set?

The base set is 76 cards. The official card list feed for the set holds exactly 76 entries, numbered 1 through 76 with no gaps, and the rarity split is 38 Common, 22 Uncommon, 8 Rare and 8 Double Rare. Anything rarer than that is a secret rare and carries a collection number above 076.

That denominator never changes, which is why the set’s most expensive print is numbered 113/076 — a card outside the 76, still counted against it. If you are hunting the expensive end specifically, we broke the chase cards down in the Storm Emeralda card list and chase cards.

One search note, because it costs people results: the set is frequently typed as “Storm Emerald” without the final -a. The official romanization is Storm Emeralda, and the Japanese string that actually surfaces listings is ストームエメラルダ.

The product lineup and prices

Everything below comes from the official product pages. Prices are Japanese suggested retail, tax included.

There is no Basic Energy in the expansion at all. The product page repeats that warning three times under different card spotlights. Packs give you Pokémon and Trainers only, which is normal for modern Japanese sets and is why the starter decks — 16 Basic Energy apiece — are the sane entry point if you want a playable Japanese deck rather than art.

When did Storm Emeralda come out?

Friday, July 31, 2026, in Japan. That is the date on the official product page, and it applies to all four SKUs above — the packs and the three MEGA Starter Set ex decks released together. There is no separate later Japanese wave, and no English-language release has been dated. The full Japanese schedule for what came before and after it lives on our JP Release Calendar.

Storm Emeralda new cards: what’s actually in the set

English names are unannounced for everything below, so the renderings are our translations of the Japanese.

Mega Rayquaza ex is the headline. Its Ability, Hasha no Houkou (はしゃのほうこう), lets you look at the top four cards of your deck when you Bench it from hand and attach a Basic Energy you find there, and its attack — also called Storm Emeralda — scales with every Fire and Lightning Energy attached across your board.

The mechanical novelty is the paired Stadium. Storm Emeralda introduces Stadium cards split into a left half and a right half sharing one name; you need both halves in hand and play them together as a single Stadium, and the left and right copies combined max out at four in a deck. Two exist: Legendary Summit (伝説の山頂) at 073/076 and Legendary Trench (伝説の海溝) at 074/076.

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

One card in the set never appears in a pack. The SAR Mega Gallade ex comes from Japan-only sealed-battle campaigns — the in-store 「メガエルレイドexSARゲットバトル」 at Pokémon Card Gyms and a play-at-home version — both entered by lottery through the Japanese Players Club, with the card mailed from December 2026 to a verified Japanese address. If you are overseas, the only route to that card is the Japanese secondary market once winners start listing it.

How much is a Storm Emeralda booster box, and is there an ETB?

No manufacturer box price exists, and there is no Elite Trainer Box. The official set page publishes one price only: ¥200 including tax for five cards. The box figures that circulate come from stores — Pokémon Center Online listed 1 BOX = 30 packs at ¥6,000 tax included, and Amazon.co.jp listed the same box at ¥6,006.

Neither of those is a price you can walk up and pay. Pokémon Center Online sold the box as 抽選販売 — a lottery, one per person, credit card only, delivery inside Japan only — and Amazon’s listing was restricted to invited buyers. What is left for everyone else is resale supply, and sealed boxes on Yahoo! Shopping asked ¥19,800 to ¥34,980, median ¥25,000, on August 6, 2026. The full four-shop read is in Storm Emeralda booster box price in Japan.

On the ETB: Japan’s product lineup for this set is the ¥200 pack, the 30-pack BOX, and the three MEGA Starter Set ex decks. That is the entire list on the official pages — no Elite Trainer Box, and no promo-carrying ETB variant. The ETB is an English-language product format, so if one ever exists for this material it will be attached to an English set with a different name, not to Storm Emeralda.

Storm Emeralda rarities: SAR, MUR, AR and the SIR question

The 76 base-set cards use only four codes — C, U, R and RR. Every premium print in this set is a secret rare numbered above 076, filed by Japanese shops as AR (Art Rare), SR (Super Rare), SAR (Special Art Rare) and, at the very top, a single MUR: Mega Rayquaza ex 113/076.

If you searched for “Storm Emeralda SIRs” and found nothing, that’s why. SIR is English-collector shorthand for Special Illustration Rare; Japanese cards print SAR instead, and Japanese set lists and shop pages use the printed code. Same tier, different label — we lay the whole ladder out in Japanese rarities like SAR and AR explained.

The practical consequence is a very steep set. Our price read three days after release found the median Storm Emeralda single at ¥80 with 93 of 113 listed singles at ¥500 or less, while the two Mega Rayquaza ex chase prints alone asked ¥128,000 and ¥298,000 — full numbers in Storm Emeralda prices in Japan.

Is there an English version of Storm Emeralda?

Not as of August 22, 2026. The Pokémon Company International’s official product schedule lists 30th Celebration on September 16, 2026, Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution—Delta Reign on November 6, 2026, and one unnamed “Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution” entry with a TBA date. None of them has been identified as Storm Emeralda’s English counterpart.

What can be said is the pattern, not a date: Japanese sets release first, and English sets are typically assembled by merging two or more Japanese sets under a new English name, historically landing somewhere between six and twelve weeks later. That is why you should expect a different title rather than a translated one. We break the mapping down with verified examples in how Japanese sets become English sets. Treat any specific English date you see for this set as a projection until it appears on that schedule.

Getting Storm Emeralda from overseas

Japanese retail for this set moved almost entirely to lotteries and invitation systems, which require a Japanese address and account. The JP Lottery Tracker lists which retailers will and won’t accept an overseas entry, and the short version is that a proxy service can buy things for you but cannot enter a lottery on your behalf.

So the realistic options, in order of how well they usually work out:

For any of these you need a forwarding or proxy account, and signup plus verification takes days rather than minutes. Our side-by-side of the two most-used services is in ZenMarket vs Buyee.

One last practical note: search in Japanese. “Storm Emeralda booster” returns almost nothing on Japanese marketplaces. ストームエメラルダ, メガレックウザex and スターターセットex are the strings that actually surface listings, and adding シュリンク付き (“shrink-wrapped”) is how Japanese sellers flag factory-sealed boxes.