Burning Shadows Set Guide

Overview

Burning Shadows is the third Sun & Moon expansion: 147 cards up to the printed total and 22 secret rares above it (148 to 169), thirteen Rainbow Rares and nine Rare Secret cards, three of them basic Energy.

Its twelve Pokémon-GX include Charizard-GX, Gardevoir-GX, Darkrai-GX and Marshadow-GX. Among its Supporters are Guzma, Acerola and Kiawe, each also printed as a full art.

Cards and rarities

Burning Shadows has 169 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "1/147", next to the set code BUS.

The printed total is 147, so the 22 cards from 148 to 169 are secret rares. The catalog also files eight more cards under this set with a letter after the number: Charmander (18a), Tapu Fini-GX (39a), Darkrai-GX (88a), Kirlia (92a), Porygon-Z (105a), Acerola (112a), Guzma (115a) and Kiawe (116a). Each is an alternate printing outside the numbered set, so they aren'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

Pokémon-GX give up two Prize cards when Knocked Out, and each has a GX attack; you can use only one GX attack in a game. Three of this set's:

Charizard-GX

Burning Shadows #20

250 HP Stage 2. Crimson Storm does 300 and discards 3 Fire Energy from it.

Gardevoir-GX

Burning Shadows #93

230 HP Stage 2. Secret Spring: once during your turn, attach a Fairy Energy from your hand to one of your Pokémon.

Marshadow-GX

Burning Shadows #80

150 HP. Shadow Hunt lets it use the attacks of any Basic Pokémon in your discard pile.

Trainers worth knowing

Two Supporters, both also printed as full arts:

Guzma

Burning Shadows #115

Supporter. Switch one of your opponent's Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon, then switch your own Active Pokémon.

Acerola

Burning Shadows #112

Supporter. Put one of your Pokémon that has any damage counters on it, and everything attached to it, into your hand.

The chase card: Charizard-GX

Charizard-GX

Burning Shadows #150

Rarity Rare Rainbow

Card number 150/147

Market price, October 22, 2026 $840.75

Illustrator 5ban Graphics

Burning Shadows' chase card is Charizard-GX, numbered 150/147, a Rare Rainbow, illustrated by 5ban Graphics, at $840.75 on October 22, 2026.

The Rare Secret Fairy Energy (169/147) was second at $96.98 and the Rare Ultra Wicke (147/147) third at $63.81.

Charizard-GX is printed twice in Burning Shadows. The Rare Holo GX (20/147) was $26.29.

Every Charizard-GX in Burning Shadows

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 rainbow Charizard-GX is far ahead. A secret-rare Fairy Energy is second.

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 Burning Shadows, bought as singles, cost $1,842.33 on October 22, 2026. That is the 9th most expensive of the sixteen sets in the Sun & Moon series.

The three most valuable cards, Charizard-GX, Fairy Energy and Wicke, come to $1,001.54, or 54% of the total. Without them the set costs $840.79. Of the 169 cards, 116 were under $2.00, together $37.38; the other 53 add up to $1,804.95.

Left out: eight alternate printings the catalog files under this set with a letter after the number, Charmander (18a), Tapu Fini-GX (39a), Darkrai-GX (88a), Kirlia (92a), Porygon-Z (105a), Acerola (112a), Guzma (115a) and Kiawe (116a). They aren't part of the numbered 169.

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 Burning Shadows card carries a regulation mark, so none is Standard-legal as printed, apart from its basic Energy cards, which Standard allows from any set. Standard has allowed only the H, I and J marks since April 10, 2026. Every card in Burning Shadows is legal in Expanded, which takes every set from Black & White on.

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