Cosmic Eclipse Set Guide

Overview

Cosmic Eclipse closed the Sun & Moon series in November 2019 with 236 cards up to the printed total and 35 secret rares above it (237 to 271): twelve regular Pokémon printed as secret rares, Pikachu (241) among them, fourteen Rainbow Rares and nine secret-rare Trainers and Energy.

It added TAG TEAM Pokémon-GX with three Pokémon, such as Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX and Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX, and TAG TEAM Supporters like Cynthia & Caitlin and Red & Blue. Its value is spread across many cards: its top three make up less than a quarter of the set's cost.

Cards and rarities

Cosmic Eclipse has 271 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "1/236", next to the set code CEC.

The printed total is 236, so the 35 cards from 237 to 271 are secret rares. The catalog also files one more card under this set with a letter after the number: Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX (143a). 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

TAG TEAM Pokémon-GX are Basic Pokémon with two or three Pokémon on one card; each gives up three Prize cards when Knocked Out, and some GX attacks do more if you pay extra Energy. Three of this set's:

Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX

Cosmic Eclipse #156

280 HP TAG TEAM. Ultimate Ray does 150 and attaches up to 3 basic Energy from your deck to your Pokémon.

Reshiram & Zekrom-GX

Cosmic Eclipse #157

270 HP TAG TEAM. Fabled Flarebolts discards basic Fire and Lightning Energy from your Benched Pokémon for 90 damage each.

Blastoise & Piplup-GX

Cosmic Eclipse #38

270 HP TAG TEAM. Splash Maker does 150 and lets you attach up to 3 Water Energy from your hand to your Pokémon.

Trainers worth knowing

A TAG TEAM Supporter and a Supporter for any deck:

Cynthia & Caitlin

Cosmic Eclipse #189

TAG TEAM Supporter. Put a Supporter card from your discard pile into your hand, other than Cynthia & Caitlin.

Professor Oak's Setup

Cosmic Eclipse #201

Supporter. Search your deck for up to 3 Basic Pokémon of different types and put them onto your Bench.

The chase card: Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX

Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX

Cosmic Eclipse #221

Rarity Rare Ultra

Card number 221/236

Market price, October 22, 2026 $595.06

Illustrator Kouki Saitou

Cosmic Eclipse's chase card is Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX, numbered 221/236, a Rare Ultra, illustrated by Kouki Saitou, at $595.06 on October 22, 2026.

The Rare Ultra Blastoise & Piplup-GX (215/236) was second at $490.39 and the Rare Ultra Reshiram & Zekrom-GX (222/236) third at $425.44.

Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX is printed four times in Cosmic Eclipse. The Rare Holo GX (156/236) was $29.77. The Rare Ultra (220/236) was $60.91. The Rare Rainbow (258/236) was $102.03.

Every Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX in Cosmic Eclipse

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

Alternate full-art TAG TEAM cards lead, Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX first, with the full-art Rosa and Red & Blue among them.

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 Cosmic Eclipse, bought as singles, cost $6,577.82 on October 22, 2026. That is the second most expensive of the sixteen sets in the Sun & Moon series.

The three most valuable cards, Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX, Blastoise & Piplup-GX and Reshiram & Zekrom-GX, come to $1,510.89, or 23% of the total. Without them the set costs $5,066.93. Of the 271 cards, 175 were under $2.00, together $70.08; the other 96 add up to $6,507.74.

Left out: one alternate printing the catalog files under this set with a letter after the number, Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX (143a). They aren't part of the numbered 271.

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 Cosmic Eclipse 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. Cosmic Eclipse is legal in Expanded, which takes every set from Black & White on, except for Duskull (83/236) and Island Challenge Amulet (194/236 and 265/236), 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