Ancient Origins Set Guide

Overview

Ancient Origins is the seventh XY expansion: 98 cards up to the printed total. Above it are three secret-rare Pokémon, Primal Kyogre-EX, Primal Groudon-EX and M Rayquaza-EX (96 to 98), and two secret-rare Trainers, Energy Retrieval and Trainers' Mail (99 and 100).

Its eleven Pokémon-EX include three Mega Evolution lines, Sceptile, Ampharos and Tyranitar. Giratina-EX's Renegade Pulse blocks every effect of attacks from Mega Evolution Pokémon, and Hoopa-EX's Scoundrel Ring finds three Pokémon-EX when it comes onto your Bench.

Cards and rarities

Ancient Origins has 100 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "1/98", next to the set code AOR.

The printed total is 98, so the 2 cards from 99 to 100 are secret rares. The catalog also files one more card under this set with a letter after the number: Hex Maniac (75a). It is an alternate printing outside the numbered set, so it isn't counted here. Set completion in TurnZero HQ counts a set against its printed total and keeps the secret rares apart, so finishing the main set and chasing the cards above it read as two separate goals. How set completion works →

Headline Pokémon

Eleven Pokémon-EX, each worth two Prize cards when Knocked Out. Three of them:

Giratina-EX

Ancient Origins #57

170 HP. Renegade Pulse: prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to it by your opponent's Mega Evolution Pokémon.

Hoopa-EX

Ancient Origins #36

170 HP. Scoundrel Ring: when you play it onto your Bench, you may search your deck for up to 3 Pokémon-EX other than Hoopa-EX.

M Tyranitar-EX

Ancient Origins #43

240 HP Mega Evolution. Destroyer King does 110 plus 60 for each damage counter on your opponent's Active Pokémon.

Trainers worth knowing

A Supporter for the player who is behind, and one that shuts off Abilities:

Ace Trainer

Ancient Origins #69

Supporter, played only if you have more Prize cards left than your opponent. Each player shuffles their hand into their deck; you draw 6 cards and your opponent draws 3.

Hex Maniac

Ancient Origins #75

Supporter. Until the end of your opponent's next turn, every Pokémon in play, in each hand and in each discard pile has no Abilities.

The chase card: M Rayquaza-EX

M Rayquaza-EX

Ancient Origins #98

Rarity Rare Secret

Card number 98/98

Market price, October 22, 2026 $1,172.00

Illustrator 5ban Graphics

Ancient Origins' chase card is M Rayquaza-EX, numbered 98/98, a Rare Secret, illustrated by 5ban Graphics, at $1,172.00 on October 22, 2026.

The Rare Secret Primal Kyogre-EX (96/98) was second at $449.74 and the Rare Secret Primal Groudon-EX (97/98) third at $324.77.

M Rayquaza-EX is printed only once in Ancient Origins, here.

Only the exact version is worth its price. The number at the bottom of the card and the rarity symbol beside it tell you which one you pulled. Reading the number and rarity symbol →

Chase cards and prices

The secret M Rayquaza-EX leads by more than double, followed by the secret Primal Kyogre-EX and Primal Groudon-EX.

These are each card's headline TCGplayer market price on October 22, 2026. Prices can move a long way, most of all in a set's first months, so treat them as a snapshot. Each card's page shows today's price for every variant and its 90-day chart. How Pokémon card prices work →

What a complete set costs

One copy of every card in Ancient Origins, bought as singles, cost $3,350.98 on October 22, 2026. That is the most expensive of the fifteen sets in the XY series.

The three most valuable cards, M Rayquaza-EX, Primal Kyogre-EX and Primal Groudon-EX, come to $1,946.51, or 58% of the total. Without them the set costs $1,404.47. Of the 100 cards, 65 were under $2.00, together $21.56; the other 35 add up to $3,329.42.

Left out: one alternate printing the catalog files under this set with a letter after the number, Hex Maniac (75a). They aren't part of the numbered 100.

Each card is counted at its cheapest priced variant, a Normal copy rather than a Reverse Holofoil where both exist, at its TCGplayer market price. This is what it costs to buy the set as singles. It is not what opening packs returns, and not what a complete set would sell for, which after fees and the many cards worth cents would be noticeably less.

Playing it

No Ancient Origins card carries a regulation mark, so none is Standard-legal as printed. Standard has allowed only the H, I and J marks since April 10, 2026. Ancient Origins is legal in Expanded, which takes every set from Black & White on, except for Forest of Giant Plants (74/98) and Hex Maniac (75/98), on the Expanded banned list.

A reprint with a legal mark makes older printings of the same card legal again, so check a card's name before you rule it out.

Standard, Expanded and deck building rules →

Frequently Asked Questions