HeartGold & SoulSilver Set Guide

Overview

HeartGold & SoulSilver came out on February 10, 2010, with 124 cards: 99 Pokémon, 15 Trainers and 10 Energy. It brought back the Johto Pokémon of the HeartGold and SoulSilver remakes, and with them two new top rarities.

Pokémon Prime are the set's top-rarity regular Pokémon, six of them, including Typhlosion, Feraligatr and Meganium. A Pokémon LEGEND is two cards that go onto your Bench together as one Pokémon: Lugia LEGEND and Ho-Oh LEGEND here. The printed total is 123, and the one card above it is Alph Lithograph, numbered ONE.

Cards and rarities

HeartGold & SoulSilver has 124 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "4/123". 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 123. Each LEGEND counts as two cards, one per half. Alph Lithograph, numbered ONE, is the one secret rare. 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 LEGEND half, a Prime and a Gyarados holo:

Lugia LEGEND

HeartGold & SoulSilver #113

One half of Lugia LEGEND, played with the other. Ocean Grow attaches Energy from your top 5 cards; Elemental Blast does 200.

Typhlosion

HeartGold & SoulSilver #110

A Pokémon Prime. Afterburner attaches a Fire Energy from your discard pile with a damage counter; Flare Destroy does 70.

Gyarados

HeartGold & SoulSilver #123

Thrash does 30, or 50 on heads and 20 to itself on tails; Heavy Storm does 70.

Trainers worth knowing

A Supporter and the secret Item:

Pokémon Collector

HeartGold & SoulSilver #97

Search your deck for up to 3 Basic Pokémon.

Alph Lithograph

HeartGold & SoulSilver #ONE

Look at your opponent's hand.

The chase card: Lugia LEGEND

Lugia LEGEND

HeartGold & SoulSilver #113

Rarity LEGEND

Card number 113/123

Market price, October 22, 2026 $422.85

Illustrator Shinji Higuchi

HeartGold & SoulSilver's chase card is the top half of Lugia LEGEND, 113/123, illustrated by Shinji Higuchi, at $422.85 on October 22, 2026.

The Gyarados holo, 123/123, is second at $369.59, ahead of the other Lugia half ($329.26). Playing Lugia LEGEND takes both halves, so a playable Lugia costs their sum.

Lugia LEGEND is the set's only Lugia.

Every Lugia LEGEND in HeartGold & SoulSilver

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

Both halves of each LEGEND and two Gyarados holos, priced as holofoil copies.

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 HeartGold & SoulSilver, bought as singles, cost $3,152.65 on October 22, 2026. That is the third most expensive of the five sets in the HeartGold & SoulSilver series.

The three most valuable cards, two Lugia LEGEND cards and Gyarados, come to $1,121.70, or 36% of the total. Without them the set costs $2,030.95. Of the 124 cards, 40 were under $2.00, together $35.53; the other 84 add up to $3,117.12.

Each card is counted at its cheapest priced variant, usually a Normal copy rather than a Reverse Holofoil, or a stamped promo 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

HeartGold & SoulSilver is not legal in Standard or Expanded as a set: Expanded starts with the Black & White series in 2011. The catalog marks 20 of its 124 cards as legal anyway, twelve of them in Standard too.

They are the eight basic Energy, which are always legal; Energy Switch, Poké Ball, Pokégear 3.0 and Switch, legal in both formats; and Copycat, Double Colorless Energy, Fisherman, Full Heal, Magikarp, Moomoo Milk, Pokémon Communication and Rainbow Energy, legal in Expanded only.

Each card other than basic Energy shares its name and text with a later, legal printing, which is what makes an older copy playable. Every other card in the set is legal in neither format.

Standard, Expanded and deck building rules →

Frequently Asked Questions