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The Gem Pack Foil Ladder, and What Changed in Vol. 6

Every Pokémon in a Gem Pack set gets seven cards, and six of them are foil treatments. Two were reprinted in Vol. 6 - but because the tier names didn't chang...

Storm Emeralda: Eleven Years Since the Last Mega Rayquaza

Mega Rayquaza's last new card came out in 2015, in a Japanese set called Emerald Break. Eleven years later the set is Storm Emeralda - and so is Rayquaza's a...

Two Cards, One Stadium: The Split Stadiums of Storm Emeralda

Storm Emeralda revives a fifteen-year-old idea and puts it somewhere it has never been - the Stadium slot. Legendary Summit and Legendary Trench are the firs...

Start Deck 100: The MEGA Series' Best Kept Secret

The Start Deck 100 Battle Collection is the MEGA Series product most people scroll past - and the one with some of the most exclusive cards in the entire era...

Gem Pack Vol. 5 Announced

Pokemon China has announced Gem Pack Vol. 5 for April 24, 2026. The set matches Vol. 4’s 196-card structure and brings back the Pokemon Horizons crew - but w...

MEGA Dream ex - Ten Cards That Changed the MEGA Series

MEGA Dream ex introduced the Mega Attack Rare - a pop art, comic book style rarity that puts the attack name front and centre across the card. Ten Mega Evolu...

Gem Pack Exclusive Cards - Every China-Only Art Rare

Every Gem Pack volume has included original artwork that exists nowhere else in the world - no other language, no other print run. From the Pokemon Horizons ...

Gem Pack Vol. 4: The Tightest Set in the Series Yet

Vol. 4 is the most refined set in the Gem Pack series to date. Every ★★★ is now a full art, the rarity pool is clean, and the paired Deerling and Sawsbuck ar...

Welcome to SEALED | VAULT

What Sealed Vault is, what it isn't, and why the set information pages matter more than the shop. A collector-first store for Japanese and Chinese Pokémon TC...