Gym Heroes Set Guide

Overview

Gym Heroes came out on August 14, 2000, with 132 cards: 91 Pokémon, 35 Trainers and 6 basic Energy. Each of the 91 Pokémon carries an owner's name, one of six Kanto Gym Leaders (Brock, Misty, Lt. Surge, Erika, Sabrina and Blaine) or Team Rocket.

An owner's Pokémon is its own card: Misty's Seadra evolves only from Misty's Horsea, not from a plain Horsea. Some Gym Leader Trainers work only with that leader's Pokémon, as Misty does, and Gym Heroes added the first Stadium cards, seven of them, which stay in play and affect both players.

Cards and rarities

Gym Heroes has 132 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "4/132". The cards print a set symbol, not a set code; the code here is the short one the catalog and TurnZero HQ file the set under.

The printed total is 132 and nothing is numbered above it. The 19 Rare Holos include five Trainers: Brock, Erika, Lt. Surge, Misty and The Rocket's Trap. The six cards without a rarity are basic Energy. 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

Four of the owners' holos:

Blaine's Moltres

Gym Heroes #1

Phoenix Flame does 90, then on tails shuffles Blaine's Moltres and its cards into your deck.

Erika's Dragonair

Gym Heroes #4

Take Away shuffles itself and the Defending Pokémon, with everything attached, into their owners' decks.

Rocket's Scyther

Gym Heroes #13

Shadow Images makes each attack against it flip a coin, doing no damage on tails, until it takes damage.

Rocket's Moltres

Gym Heroes #12

Rebirth returns it to your hand when it is Knocked Out; Fire Wall does 40 and hits back for 10 next turn.

Trainers worth knowing

Two of the holofoil Gym Leaders and Team Rocket's trap:

Misty

Gym Heroes #18

Discard 2 other cards to add 20 damage to this turn's attack by a Pokémon with Misty in its name.

Brock

Gym Heroes #15

Remove 1 damage counter from each of your damaged Pokémon.

The Rocket's Trap

Gym Heroes #19

Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent shuffles up to 3 random cards from their hand into their deck.

The chase card: Blaine's Moltres

Blaine's Moltres

Gym Heroes #1

Rarity Rare Holo, Unlimited

Card number 1/132

Market price, October 22, 2026 $139.06

Illustrator Ken Sugimori

This guide's chase card for Gym Heroes is Blaine's Moltres, 1/132, illustrated by Ken Sugimori: $139.06 Unlimited on October 22, 2026 and $243.32 in 1st Edition.

In 1st Edition, Erika's Dragonair ($388.58) is worth more. Sabrina's Gengar would lead both lists on the catalog's figures, but its prices are inverted (see the note under the table), so check its card page before relying on them.

Blaine's Moltres is printed once in the set.

Every Blaine's Moltres in Gym Heroes

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

Gym Leader and Team Rocket holos, priced as Unlimited copies. Left off the list: Sabrina's Gengar (Rare Holo, $515.81 Unlimited against $499.00 1st Edition). The catalog prices its Unlimited copy above the 1st Edition, the reverse of the rest of the set, which looks like a data error.

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 Gym Heroes, bought as singles, cost $2,090.35 on October 22, 2026. That is the least expensive of the two sets in the Gym series.

The three most valuable cards, Sabrina's Gengar, Blaine's Moltres and Erika's Dragonair, come to $760.87, or 36% of the total. Without them the set costs $1,329.48. Of the 132 cards, 54 were under $2.00, together $63.29; the other 78 add up to $2,027.06.

Each card is counted at its cheapest priced variant, usually an Unlimited copy rather than a 1st Edition one, or a stamped or error copy where the catalog prices one lower, 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

Gym Heroes is not legal in Standard or Expanded as a set: Expanded starts with the Black & White series in 2011. The catalog marks six of its 132 cards as legal anyway, six of them in Standard too.

They are the six basic Energy, which are always legal.

Standard, Expanded and deck building rules →

Frequently Asked Questions