Phantom Forces Set Guide

Overview

Phantom Forces is the fourth XY expansion: 119 cards up to the printed total and three secret rares above it, M Manectric-EX, M Gengar-EX and Dialga-EX (120 to 122).

It introduced Team Flare Gear and Hyper Gear. The Hyper Gear Tools, Head Ringer and Jamming Net, are attached to your opponent's Pokémon-EX; the plain Gear cards, such as Battle Compressor and Robo Substitute, are Items you play on your own side. Lysandre's Trump Card, which shuffles both discard piles back into the decks, is on the Expanded banned list.

Cards and rarities

Phantom Forces has 122 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "1/119", next to the set code PHF.

The printed total is 119, so the 3 cards from 120 to 122 are secret rares. The catalog also files two more cards under this set with a letter after the number: M Manectric-EX (24a) and Aegislash-EX (65a). Each is an alternate printing outside the numbered set, so they aren't counted here. 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

Pokémon-EX give up two Prize cards when Knocked Out. A Mega Evolution Pokémon-EX evolves from its Pokémon-EX, and evolving into one ends your turn unless a Spirit Link Tool says otherwise:

M Gengar-EX

Phantom Forces #35

220 HP Mega Evolution. Phantom Gate uses one of your opponent's Pokémon's attacks as its own.

Gengar-EX

Phantom Forces #34

170 HP. Night Attack puts 3 damage counters on any of your opponent's Pokémon; Dark Corridor does 60, Poisons and switches it out.

Dialga-EX

Phantom Forces #62

180 HP. Full Metal Impact does 150; Chrono Wind does 60 and stops a Pokémon-EX from attacking on your opponent's next turn.

Trainers worth knowing

Two Items reprinted many times since:

VS Seeker

Phantom Forces #109

Item. Put a Supporter card from your discard pile into your hand.

Battle Compressor Team Flare Gear

Phantom Forces #92

Item. Search your deck for up to 3 cards and discard them.

The chase card: Dialga-EX

Dialga-EX

Phantom Forces #122

Rarity Rare Secret

Card number 122/119

Market price, October 22, 2026 $1,022.31

Illustrator 5ban Graphics

Phantom Forces' chase card is Dialga-EX, numbered 122/119, a Rare Secret, illustrated by 5ban Graphics, at $1,022.31 on October 22, 2026.

The Rare Ultra Gengar-EX (114/119) was second at $753.67 and the Rare Secret M Gengar-EX (121/119) third at $503.58.

Dialga-EX is printed twice in Phantom Forces. The Rare Holo EX (62/119) was $11.73.

Every Dialga-EX in Phantom Forces

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

The secret Dialga-EX leads, then Gengar in three versions: the full-art Gengar-EX, the secret M Gengar-EX and the regular M Gengar-EX.

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 Phantom Forces, bought as singles, cost $2,792.53 on October 22, 2026. That is the third most expensive of the fifteen sets in the XY series.

The three most valuable cards, Dialga-EX, Gengar-EX and M Gengar-EX, come to $2,279.56, or 82% of the total. Without them the set costs $512.97. Of the 117 cards, 92 were under $2.00, together $42.25; the other 25 add up to $2,750.28.

Five cards had no TCGplayer price on file and aren't counted: Battle Compressor Team Flare Gear, Head Ringer Team Flare Hyper Gear, Jamming Net Team Flare Hyper Gear, Robo Substitute Team Flare Gear and Target Whistle Team Flare Gear.

Left out: two alternate printings the catalog files under this set with a letter after the number, M Manectric-EX (24a) and Aegislash-EX (65a). They aren't part of the numbered 122.

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 Phantom Forces 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. Phantom Forces is legal in Expanded, which takes every set from Black & White on, except for Lysandre's Trump Card (99/119 and 118/119), 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