Emerging Powers Set Guide

Overview

Emerging Powers is a small set: 98 cards, all within the printed total, so it has no secret rares. Its two Rare Ultra cards are full-art versions of Tornadus and Thundurus, and each is also printed as a regular holo.

For players, its Trainers matter more than its rares. Bianca and Cheren, two draw Supporters reprinted later in the series, first appeared here, alongside Great Ball and Pokémon Catcher.

Cards and rarities

Emerging Powers has 98 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "1/98", next to the set code EPO.

Every card is numbered within the printed total of 98, so Emerging Powers has no secret rares. 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

No rule-box Pokémon yet. The legendary Basic Pokémon carry the set:

Tornadus

Emerging Powers #89

110 HP. Energy Wheel moves an Energy from one of your Benched Pokémon to it; Hurricane does 80 and moves a basic Energy from it to your Bench.

Thundurus

Emerging Powers #35

110 HP. Charge attaches a Lightning Energy from your deck to it; Disaster Volt does 80 and discards an Energy from it.

Gothitelle

Emerging Powers #47

130 HP Stage 2. Magic Room: while it is your Active Pokémon, your opponent can't play Item cards from their hand.

Trainers worth knowing

The two draw Supporters the series kept reprinting:

Bianca

Emerging Powers #90

Supporter. Draw cards until you have 6 cards in your hand.

Cheren

Emerging Powers #91

Supporter. Draw 3 cards.

The chase card: Tornadus

Tornadus

Emerging Powers #98

Rarity Rare Ultra

Card number 98/98

Market price, October 22, 2026 $23.32

Illustrator 5ban Graphics

Emerging Powers' chase card is Tornadus, numbered 98/98, a Rare Ultra, illustrated by 5ban Graphics, at $23.32 on October 22, 2026.

The Rare Ultra Thundurus (97/98) was second at $23.16 and the Rare Unfezant (82/98) third at $5.49.

Tornadus is printed twice in Emerging Powers. The Rare Holo (89/98) was $1.35.

Every Tornadus in Emerging Powers

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

Tornadus and Thundurus are almost level at the top, and nothing else in the set reaches $6.

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 Emerging Powers, bought as singles, cost $111.51 on October 22, 2026. That is the least expensive of the twelve sets in the Black & White series.

The three most valuable cards, Tornadus, Thundurus and Zoroark, come to $49.34, or 44% of the total. Without them the set costs $62.17. Of the 98 cards, 92 were under $2.00, together $55.45; the other 6 add up to $56.06.

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 Emerging Powers 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. Every card in Emerging Powers 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