Evolving Skies Set Guide

Overview

Evolving Skies is the seventh Sword & Shield expansion: 203 cards up to the printed total and 34 secret rares above it (204 to 237), 22 Rainbow Rares and twelve Rare Secret cards.

Every Eeveelution, Vaporeon to Sylveon, is printed as a Pokémon V and a Pokémon VMAX, alongside Rayquaza VMAX, Dragonite V and Duraludon VMAX. Many have alternate full arts, and those cards, numbered above the printed total as Rare Rainbow in the catalog, are where its value is: the alternate-art Umbreon VMAX and Rayquaza VMAX lead. Medicham V from this set is on the Expanded banned list.

Cards and rarities

Evolving Skies has 237 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "001/203", next to the set code EVS.

The printed total is 203, so the 34 cards from 204 to 237 are 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

A Pokémon V gives up two Prize cards when Knocked Out, and a Pokémon VMAX three. Three of this set's VMAX:

Umbreon VMAX

Evolving Skies #95

310 HP VMAX. Dark Signal: when you evolve into it from your hand, you may switch one of your opponent's Benched Pokémon into the Active Spot. Max Darkness does 160.

Rayquaza VMAX

Evolving Skies #111

320 HP VMAX. Azure Pulse: once during your turn, discard your hand and draw 3 cards. Max Burst adds 80 for each basic Fire or Lightning Energy it discards.

Glaceon VMAX

Evolving Skies #41

310 HP VMAX. Crystal Veil: prevent all damage done to it by attacks from your opponent's Pokémon VMAX other than Glaceon VMAX.

Trainers worth knowing

Two Trainers from the set:

Toy Catcher

Evolving Skies #163

Item. Switch one of your opponent's Benched Pokémon that has 50 HP or less remaining into the Active Spot.

Copycat

Evolving Skies #143

Supporter. Shuffle your hand into your deck, then draw a card for each card in your opponent's hand.

The chase card: Umbreon VMAX

Umbreon VMAX

Evolving Skies #215

Rarity Rare Rainbow

Card number 215/203

Market price, October 22, 2026 $2,324.50

Illustrator KEIICHIRO ITO

Evolving Skies' chase card is Umbreon VMAX, numbered 215/203, a Rare Rainbow, illustrated by KEIICHIRO ITO, at $2,324.50 on October 22, 2026.

The Rare Rainbow Rayquaza VMAX (218/203) was second at $1,267.32 and the Rare Ultra Dragonite V (192/203) third at $483.77.

Umbreon VMAX is printed three times in Evolving Skies. The Rare Holo VMAX (095/203) was $30.22. The Rare Rainbow (214/203) was $83.33.

Every Umbreon VMAX in Evolving Skies

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 arts fill the top: Umbreon VMAX first, Rayquaza VMAX second, then the alternate-art Dragonite V and Rayquaza V.

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 Evolving Skies, bought as singles, cost $8,037.18 on October 22, 2026. That is the most expensive of the seventeen sets in the Sword & Shield series.

The three most valuable cards, Umbreon VMAX, Rayquaza VMAX and Dragonite V, come to $4,075.59, or 51% of the total. Without them the set costs $3,961.59. Of the 237 cards, 147 were under $2.00, together $39.30; the other 90 add up to $7,997.88.

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

Evolving Skies cards carry the D and E regulation marks, and Standard has allowed only H, I and J since April 10, 2026, so none is Standard-legal as printed, apart from its basic Energy cards. Evolving Skies is legal in Expanded, which takes every set from Black & White on, except for Medicham V (083/203, 185/203 and 186/203), 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