Neo Destiny Set Guide

Overview

Neo Destiny came out on February 28, 2002, with 113 cards: 98 Pokémon, 14 Trainers and Miracle Energy. Its printed total is 105, and the eight cards above it are all Shining Pokémon, from Shining Celebi to Shining Tyranitar.

It brought back Team Rocket's Dark Pokémon, 26 of them, and added their opposite, 20 Light Pokémon. Miracle Energy works only on Shining and Light Pokémon.

Cards and rarities

Neo Destiny has 113 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "4/105". 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 105, so the eight Shining Pokémon, 106 to 113, are above it. 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

Shining, Dark and Light Pokémon:

Shining Charizard

Neo Destiny #107

One per deck. White-hot Flame does 100 and discards a Fire and a Lightning Energy, and on tails it does 30 to itself.

Shining Mewtwo

Neo Destiny #109

One per deck. Psyburst does 40 plus 10 for each Energy on the Defending Pokémon.

Dark Espeon

Neo Destiny #4

Psysplash does 10 to each of your opponent's Pokémon for each Energy attached to it.

Light Dragonite

Neo Destiny #14

While Active, Miraculous Wind turns every Special Energy into plain Colorless Energy.

Trainers worth knowing

Two of its Trainers and its one Energy:

Impostor Professor Oak's Invention

Neo Destiny #94

Look at your opponent's Prize cards, and you may have them shuffled into their deck and replaced from the top.

Team Rocket's Evil Deeds

Neo Destiny #103

Your opponent shuffles a card you choose from their hand into their deck, then may draw up to 2.

Miracle Energy

Neo Destiny #16

One per deck, for Shining or Light Pokémon only; counts as every type but provides 2 Energy, and is discarded at the end of your turn.

The chase card: Shining Charizard

Shining Charizard

Neo Destiny #107

Rarity Rare Shining, Unlimited

Card number 107/105

Market price, October 22, 2026 $1,300.00

Illustrator Hironobu Yoshida

Neo Destiny's chase card is Shining Charizard, 107/105, illustrated by Hironobu Yoshida: $1,300.00 Unlimited on October 22, 2026 and $8,250.00 in 1st Edition.

The other Shining Pokémon fill most of the list. In 1st Edition the order changes: the catalog lists Shining Raichu at $14,999.00 and Shining Mewtwo at $3,000.00, figures from very few sales.

Dark Gengar would be second in Unlimited, but its prices are inverted in the catalog (see the note under the table).

Every Shining Charizard in Neo Destiny

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

Shining Pokémon and one Dark Pokémon, priced as Unlimited copies. Left off the list: Dark Gengar (Rare Holo, $1,064.00 Unlimited against $1,000.00 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 Neo Destiny, bought as singles, cost $9,655.73 on October 22, 2026. That is the most expensive of the four sets in the Neo series.

The three most valuable cards, Shining Charizard, Dark Gengar and Dark Espeon, come to $2,949.99, or 31% of the total. Without them the set costs $6,705.74. Of the 112 cards, 23 were under $2.00, together $23.84; the other 89 add up to $9,631.89.

One card had no TCGplayer price on file and isn't counted: Dark Exeggutor.

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

The catalog marks every card in Neo Destiny as legal in neither Standard nor Expanded, the two formats Play! Pokémon sanctions. Expanded starts with the Black & White series in 2011.

Standard, Expanded and deck building rules →

Frequently Asked Questions