Aquapolis Set Guide

Overview

Aquapolis came out on January 15, 2003, with 182 cards: 152 Pokémon, 24 Trainers and 6 Energy. Its printed total is 147. Above it sit three secret rares, 148 to 150, and a list of 32 holofoil Pokémon numbered H1 to H32.

The secret rares are Crystal Pokémon, whose Crystal Type Poké-Body changes their type to match the basic Energy you attach. Every Pokémon on the H list also has a card in the main set, which has no holofoil Rares of its own.

Cards and rarities

Aquapolis has 182 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "4/147". The cards print a set symbol, not a set code; the code here is the short one the catalog and TurnZero HQ file the set under.

The printed total is 147. Above it are three Crystal Pokémon secret rares, 148 to 150, and the 32 Rare Holo cards, numbered H1 to H32. 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

Two H holos and a Crystal Pokémon:

Umbreon

Aquapolis #H29

Dark Moon, while it is Active with Darkness Energy, shuffles cards from your opponent's hand into their deck; Shadow Bind stops retreat.

Tyranitar

Aquapolis #H28

Gigacrush does 60 and makes each player discard the top 3 cards of their deck.

Nidoking

Aquapolis #150

Crystal Type: attach a Grass, Lightning or Fire basic Energy and Nidoking becomes that type for the turn.

Trainers worth knowing

Three of its Supporters:

Forest Guardian

Aquapolis #123

Look at the top 7 cards of your shuffled deck and take one.

Juggler

Aquapolis #126

Discard 1 basic Energy from your hand to draw 3, or 2 to draw 5.

Seer

Aquapolis #133

Take every basic Energy from the top 6 cards of your deck.

The chase card: Houndoom

Houndoom

Aquapolis #H11

Rarity Rare Holo

Card number H11/147

Market price, October 17, 2026 $1,571.99

Illustrator Hajime Kusajima

Aquapolis's chase card is the Houndoom holo, H11/H32, illustrated by Hajime Kusajima, at $1,571.99. That is the last price the catalog read for it, on October 17, 2026.

The Umbreon holo ($1,252.62) and the Crystal Nidoking ($1,200.00) follow. Houndoom is the only one of the three not priced on October 22, 2026, and several of these are round figures, so check each card's page.

Houndoom is printed three times in the set: the H holo and two different Rares in the main list.

Every Houndoom in Aquapolis

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

H holos and Crystal Pokémon, priced as holofoil copies. The price for Houndoom (October 17) is the last the catalog read before October 22, 2026.

These are each card's headline TCGplayer market price on October 22, 2026, except where a row gives an earlier day because the catalog had no newer price. 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 Aquapolis, bought as singles, cost $16,032.73 on October 22, 2026. That is the second most expensive of the three sets in the e-Card series.

The three most valuable cards, Houndoom, Umbreon and Nidoking, come to $4,024.61, or 25% of the total. Without them the set costs $12,008.12. Of the 177 cards, 7 were under $2.00, together $11.85; the other 170 add up to $16,020.88.

Five cards had no TCGplayer price on file and aren't counted: Golduck, Drowzee, Mr. Mime, Porygon and Slowking.

One card's price is older than October 22, 2026, because the catalog had no newer one: Houndoom (H11), $1,571.99 on October 17. It is counted at that price.

Each card is counted at its cheapest priced variant, usually a Normal copy rather than a Reverse Holofoil, or a stamped promo copy where the catalog prices one lower, 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

Aquapolis is not legal in Standard or Expanded as a set: Expanded starts with the Black & White series in 2011. The catalog marks three of its 182 cards as legal anyway, one of them in Standard too.

They are Energy Switch, legal in both formats; and Rainbow Energy and Warp Energy, legal in Expanded only.

Each shares its name and text with a later, legal printing, which is what makes an older copy playable. Every other card in the set is legal in neither format.

Standard, Expanded and deck building rules →

Frequently Asked Questions