Crown Zenith Set Guide

Overview

Crown Zenith is a special set that closed the Sword & Shield series, released two months before Scarlet & Violet. Its cards are the Pokémon V, VSTAR and VMAX of that era rather than Pokémon ex, and they use that era's rarity names: Rare Holo V, Rare Ultra, Rare Secret.

It comes in two parts. The main set has 160 cards, only one of them above the printed total. The Galarian Gallery adds 70 more, numbered GG01 to GG70, with full-art VSTAR cards and Trainer Gallery cards, and that is where every one of the set's chase cards is.

Cards and rarities

Crown Zenith has 160 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "001/159", next to the set code CRZ.

The printed total is 159, so only Pikachu, 160/159, is a secret rare in the main set. The Galarian Gallery's 70 cards are a separate list. 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

Rule-box Pokémon of the Sword & Shield era. A Pokémon V or VSTAR gives up two Prize cards when Knocked Out, a VMAX three:

Charizard VSTAR

Crown Zenith #19

Explosive Fire does 230 if it has any damage on it; Star Blaze, its once-a-game VSTAR Power, does 320.

Rayquaza VMAX

Crown Zenith #101

Azure Pulse discards your hand to draw 3; Max Burst adds 80 for each Fire or Lightning Energy it discards.

Radiant Charizard

Crown Zenith #20

Excited Heart makes its attacks cost one less Energy for each Prize card your opponent has taken; Combustion Blast does 250.

Trainers worth knowing

Two Supporters from the main set:

Friends in Sinnoh

Crown Zenith #131

Draw 3 cards.

Elesa's Sparkle

Crown Zenith #147

Attaches a Fusion Strike Energy from your deck to each of up to 2 Fusion Strike Pokémon. Printed in this set as a full-art Rare Ultra.

The chase card: Giratina VSTAR

Giratina VSTAR

Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG69

Rarity Galarian Gallery, Rare Secret

Card number GG69/GG70

Market price, October 1, 2026 $296.38

Illustrator AKIRA EGAWA

Crown Zenith's chase card is in its Galarian Gallery: the gold Giratina VSTAR, GG69, illustrated by AKIRA EGAWA, at $296.38 on October 1, 2026.

The Gallery's Mewtwo VSTAR (GG44) was second at $250.99 and its gold Arceus VSTAR (GG70) third at $204.00. The most valuable card in the main set, the secret Pikachu 160/159, was $44.82.

Giratina VSTAR is printed only once in Crown Zenith, 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 Galarian Gallery's VSTAR cards fill the list. The main set's best card comes seventh.

These are each card's headline TCGplayer market price on October 1, 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 Crown Zenith, bought as singles, cost $235.75 on October 1, 2026, and its Galarian Gallery $2,253.05 more. Together that is the most expensive of the six sets released in 2023.

The three most valuable cards, Pikachu, Elesa's Sparkle and Rayquaza VMAX, come to $72.29, or 31% of the total. Without them the set costs $163.46. Of the 160 cards, 133 were under $2.00, together $46.45; the other 27 add up to $189.30.

The Galarian Gallery's 70 cards are priced separately, and 33% of their $2,253.05 is in its top three cards, Giratina VSTAR, Mewtwo VSTAR and Arceus VSTAR.

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 Crown Zenith card is Standard-legal as printed: it carries the D, E and F regulation marks, and eight cards have none. It is legal in Expanded.

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