Storm Emeralda (M6) Card List, Chase Cards & Pull Rates Guide

The structure first. Storm Emeralda's main set runs 76 printed cards (numbered 001–076): 38 Commons, 25 Uncommons, 8 Rares and 8 Double Rares — the Double Rare tier being where the set's eight ex Pokémon live, including all four Mega debuts. Above the printed total sit 37 secret numbers: 12 Art Rares (077–088), 18 Super Rares (089–106, including three gold Special Energy cards), 6 Special Art Rares (107–112) and one Mega Ultra Rare (113). Add the alternate "Set of 2" printings of the three split Stadiums and the physical checklist lands at 116 cards. If rarity tiers are new territory for you, our rarity symbols guide covers how the Japanese tiers work.

The product itself follows the standard Japanese formula: 30 packs per box, 5 cards per pack, ¥200 per pack (¥6,000 per box at MSRP). Distribution is the story of the year, though — like other recent MEGA-era sets, initial supply moved through store lotteries and allocations rather than open retail, which is a big part of why aftermarket box prices opened far above MSRP.

Thematically, this is the Emerald chapter of the Mega era. Where M5 Abyss Eye went dark with Darkrai, M6 goes up into the stratosphere: the checklist is built around the Hoenn weather trio and the sky-dragon lore that the Emerald generation told best. Kyogre and Groudon appear as printed Rares with Art Rare encores, the three split Stadiums are literally the trio's homes — the Marine Trench, the Summit, the Lava Tube — and the Trainer roster (Zinnia, Aarune, Tate & Liza) reads like an ORAS cast reunion. It is a coherent, affectionate set design, and collectors have responded to it.

One structural note worth internalizing before you read the card-by-card commentary: this set's value is extraordinarily top-heavy even by modern standards. Of the 116 cards in the snapshot, the top two numbers — the MUR and the Rayquaza SAR — carry roughly two thirds of the set's total market value. Everything below the Special Art Rare tier is, by chase-set standards, affordable.

The summit is **Mega Rayquaza ex MUR #113**, at $1,299.99 in our August 9 snapshot. The Mega Ultra Rare tier — introduced in this block as the rarity above Special Art Rare — turns the set mascot into a trophy card, and this is only the second MUR ever printed after Abyss Eye's Mega Darkrai ex. Japanese market reports in the first week put raw copies above ¥200,000 with graded copies asking substantially more, which matches the USD figure you see here. It is a genuine trophy: the hardest pull in the set, of the most beloved Mega of all time, in the set named after its signature move.

One tier down live the six Special Art Rares, and the gap between them is instructive. **Mega Rayquaza ex SAR #110** is the clear second chase at $791.32 — an outlier by SAR standards and priced like a mini-trophy in its own right. Then comes a huge drop to Raikou ex SAR #108 at $92.83, Zinnia's Trust SAR #112 at $76.26, Mega Golurk ex SAR #109 at $54.89, Mega Golisopod ex SAR #107 at $54.40, and Aarune SAR #111 at $27.76. In other words: five of the six SARs combined cost less than half of the Rayquaza SAR alone.

The Super Rare tier has its own headline act: Mega Rayquaza ex SR #095 at $75.98 — a gold-frame version priced above two of the SARs, which tells you everything about where demand in this set concentrates. The strongest non-Rayquaza SRs are the character cards: Tate & Liza's Training #103 ($24.98), Aarune #101 ($21.10), Raikou ex #092 ($20.70) and the surprisingly strong Emcee's Hype #100 ($18.96). Among Art Rares, the standouts are Kecleon #088 ($32.37), Kyogre #080 ($27.21) and Groudon #084 ($23.40).

Every price in the previous paragraphs is a launch-window number, captured nine days after release. If the Abyss Eye cycle taught the market anything, it is that week-one prices on chase cards are opening bids, not valuations — we cover what that means for trading further down.

Community tracking gives us early numbers. An aggregate of 1,380 opened packs (46 booster boxes) published by TCGtalk in the first opening wave found the typical box produced roughly 2 Art Rares, 2 Super Rares and 1 gold Ultra Rare item card — with about 83% of packs containing nothing above a regular Rare or Double Rare. That is a noticeably leaner box than the community reported for Abyss Eye, where three-plus ARs per box was the norm.

At the top end, the same sample saw Special Art Rares and the Mega Ultra Rare each land at roughly 1 per 23 boxes — but that figure rests on just four combined top-tier pulls across the entire sample, and all four were Mega Rayquaza ex variants. Treat it as directional at best. The honest framing: SAR-or-better pulls are rare enough that no realistic number of boxes guarantees one, and The Pokémon Company publishes no official odds.

Run the arithmetic before romanticizing the gamble. At ¥6,000 MSRP — if you can even find MSRP given the lottery-allocation rollout — 23 boxes is roughly ¥138,000, and aftermarket boxes have been trading well above face. Against a $1,299.99 MUR that math can look tempting, but it is precisely the lottery math that Abyss Eye's price correction punished: the expected value of a box collapses the moment chase prices normalize. If a specific card is the goal, acquiring the single — by trade or otherwise — beats opening product in almost every scenario.

What a box does reliably deliver: a full or near-full run of Commons and Uncommons, most of the Rare slots, a handful of the eight Double Rare ex cards, and two or three secret rares that will most often come from the Art Rare and lower Super Rare tiers. For set-completion collectors, that is genuinely decent — for chase hunters, it is a slow way to get lucky.

Here the calendar gets more interesting than usual. The next international release is ME: 30th Celebration on September 16, 2026 — but that is *not* Storm Emeralda's counterpart. 30th Celebration is a standalone anniversary set built around Eeveelutions, Pikachu and three decades of franchise history; we cover it in our 30th Celebration set guide. Storm Emeralda's actual English home, per the current release calendar reported by set trackers, is Delta Reign (ME06) on November 6, 2026 — the anniversary set claimed the September slot and pushed the M6 material back.

That three-month gap changes the collecting decision. With M5 Abyss Eye, the English Pitch Black set followed the Japanese release by about eight weeks; with M6 the wait is over three months, and the anniversary set will absorb much of the market's attention in between. If you want Storm Emeralda cards in hand this year, the Japanese printing is the only game in town until November.

The Japanese-versus-English question itself has stable rules that this set does not change: Japanese printings come first, usually carry lower prices for equivalent rarities once supply normalizes, and use the same artwork; English versions integrate into the international tournament card pool and reach a wider trading audience. We walk through the full trade-offs — legality, price behavior, grading, liquidity — in our Japanese vs English cards guide. The short version for M6: collect Japanese if the art and the early window matter to you, wait for Delta Reign if you trade mostly within the international community.

One caution that applies specifically to chase math: English counterpart sets in this block have not reprinted the Japanese MUR tier one-for-one, and until Delta Reign's checklist is finalized nobody knows which of Storm Emeralda's secrets cross over, at which rarities, or with which exclusives added. Decisions that hinge on "the English version will/won't have it" are speculation until the ME06 list is public.

Every price in this guide is nine days old at most, and launch-window prices have a documented pattern in this block: they open high on scarcity and hype, then drift — sometimes sharply — as boxes keep getting opened and the initial demand spike is fed. Abyss Eye's headline cards lost roughly half their launch value within weeks. That is not a prediction that Storm Emeralda repeats the move; it is a reason to structure trades so that you are not the one holding the hype premium if it deflates.

Framework one: trade like-for-like freshness. Swapping one week-one M6 chase for another week-one M6 chase keeps both sides exposed to the same correction risk — the trade stays fair even if the whole set reprices. The asymmetric version — giving up stable older cards for freshly launched chases at snapshot prices — is where week-one trades go wrong, because one side of the trade can deflate while the other cannot.

Framework two: price the tier, not the card. In a nine-day-old market, individual card prices are noisy but tier relationships are informative: the MUR above the Rayquaza SAR, that SAR far above the other five, SARs above SRs, the Rayquaza SR trading like a SAR. Deals that respect the tier ladder survive repricing; deals built on one card's exact dollar figure often do not.

Framework three: let the commons move now. The one part of a launch-window market that is genuinely liquid and fairly priced is the bottom: Commons through Double Rares are cheap, abundant, and in demand from set-completion collectors racing to finish the checklist while the set is the newest thing in the hobby. Week one is the best moment to trade away duplicate bulk — and the worst moment to be forced to acquire a specific chase at any cost.

The set opens with a compact Grass corner that runs from fan-favorite beetles to the first of the set's four Mega debuts. Heracross leads off at an unusually respectable price for a Common, and the block builds through two complete evolution lines to Mega Golisopod ex, the armored isopod's long-awaited Mega form. Nothing here is expensive — this is binder-filler territory with one playable payoff at the end.

Seven Fire cards, and the market has already picked its favorite: Growlithe, a Common trading at nearly five dollars purely on character devotion — the classic proof that in Japanese sets, popularity beats rarity. Around it sit the Arcanine payoff, a Magmar line, and Heat Rotom ex, the tier's Double Rare.

The rain half of the weather-trio story lives here — Kyogre as a printed Rare with its far pricier Art Rare encore waiting in the secrets — alongside a schooling Wishiwashi ex, the legendary beast Raikou ex, and a pair of Electric bird lines. Mantine quietly joins Growlithe in the club of Commons that cost more than most Rares.

The middle of the checklist covers a lot of typing ground: a Drowzee line and Giratina for the Psychic corner, the automaton Mega Golurk ex — the sleeper favorite among the new Megas — and then the continent-raising Groudon heading the Fighting block with Sandshrew, Onix and Steelix in support. Landorus and Enamorus continue the genie roll call that Thundurus and Tornadus start elsewhere in the set.

A Nidoran family opens the Poison corner before the block turns dark: Spinarak, Ariados, the gem-eyed Sableye — another Common with a Rare-sized price — and the Inkay line that culminates in Mega Malamar ex, the most expensive Double Rare in the set after Rayquaza itself.

The heart of Storm Emeralda. The Dragon block builds through Druddigon and the full Jangmo-o line, the Colorless corner adds Altaria and the oddball Kecleon, and then number 058 delivers the reason the set exists: Mega Rayquaza ex, a Double Rare at $10.90 — five times the price of any other RR in the set, and still the cheapest way to own the card everyone is here for. The Talonflame ex line closes out the printed Pokémon.

The Trainer block is where Storm Emeralda innovates. After a run of flavorful Items (rice balls, lanterns, a Rayquaza cap) and three ORAS-cast Supporters — Aarune, Zinnia's Trust, Tate & Liza's Training — come the six numbers that make history: three split Stadiums, each printed as two cards (071+072, 073+074, 075+076) that share one panoramic artwork and are played together as a single Stadium. The Marine Trench, the Summit and the Lava Tube are, of course, the homes of Kyogre, Rayquaza and Groudon. Numbers 071, 073 and 075 also exist as "Set of 2" sealed pairings, which is why the physical checklist outruns the numbered one.

The first secret tier gives twelve Pokémon the full-scene illustration treatment, at roughly two per box. The spread is classic AR economics: most sit between $7 and $23, with Kecleon ($32.37), Kyogre ($27.21) and Groudon ($23.40) at the top. Notably, the two legendaries' ARs cost roughly ten times their printed Rare versions — the illustration premium in its purest form.

Eighteen gold-frame cards: the eight ex Pokémon, seven Trainers, and three Special Energies. One number towers over the rest — Mega Rayquaza ex SR #095 at $75.98, priced above two of the set's SARs. Below it, the character Supporters (Tate & Liza, Aarune, Zinnia) and the strangely beloved Emcee's Hype outprice most of the Pokémon, while the gold Energies and Item cards fill the affordable end of the tier.

Six Special Art Rares, and a market that has already sorted them into one king and five commoners: Mega Rayquaza ex #110 at $791.32, then everything else between $27 and $93. At a community-estimated rate of roughly one SAR per 23 boxes, any of these is a genuinely rare pull — but the market only treats one of them as a trophy.

One number, one card, one reason the set sold out through lotteries: the Mega Ultra Rare Mega Rayquaza ex, the second MUR ever printed and the most expensive card of the launch window at $1,299.99.

Everything in this guide points the same way: the set's value is concentrated in two cards, boxes are scarce and trading above MSRP, and the community's own pull data says the top tier appears about once per 23 boxes. That is lottery math, and the launch window is when lottery tickets cost the most. The alternative is the one this platform exists for: plenty of collectors are opening Storm Emeralda right now, which means duplicates of every tier — ARs, gold SRs, even SARs — are entering binders and looking for their right owners.

If a specific card from this checklist belongs in your collection, post it as a want and let holders come to you with offers. And if your own boxes left you with doubles — a second Golurk SAR, a spare gold Rayquaza, a stack of Double Rare exes — list them for exchange while launch demand is at its peak. A week-one duplicate is at its most tradeable exactly now; the same card in three months competes with the entire opened supply of the set.

For quick trade-table math, the snapshot sorts the set into clean tiers. The MUR ($1,299.99) and Rayquaza SAR ($791.32) are trophy pieces — trades at this level are one-for-one negotiations, not bundle material. The mid-chase band runs from the Raikou SAR ($92.83) through the Rayquaza SR ($75.98) and Zinnia SAR ($76.26) down to the Golisopod and Golurk SARs in the mid-$50s. Below that, ARs and character SRs live mostly in the $10–35 range and trade fluidly against each other. And the entire printed set — all 76 numbers — can realistically be assembled for less than the price of one mid-tier SAR, which makes completion swaps the best value in the set.

Whatever tier you are trading in, anchor on current numbers, not launch headlines: prices this young move weekly, and both sides of a fair trade should be looking at the same day's data.