Sun & Moon Set Guide

Overview

Sun & Moon started its series in February 2017 with the Pokémon of the Alola region. Its 149 numbered cards are followed by 23 more above the printed total: eight Rainbow Rare Pokémon-GX, six other secret rares and nine basic Energy cards (164 to 172), which the catalog lists as Common.

It replaced Pokémon-EX with Pokémon-GX. A Pokémon-GX still gives up two Prize cards, and each has a GX attack, a stronger move you can use only once a game across all your GX attacks. Many are Evolution Pokémon rather than Basics, such as Decidueye-GX and the Umbreon-GX and Espeon-GX that evolve from Eevee.

Cards and rarities

Sun & Moon has 172 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "1/149", next to the set code SUM.

The printed total is 149. The 23 cards from 150 to 172 are numbered above it: 14 secret rares (eight Rainbow Rares and six Rare Secret cards) and nine basic Energy cards the catalog lists as Common. The catalog also files one more card under this set with a letter after the number: Eevee (101a). It is an alternate printing outside the numbered set, so it isn'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-GX give up two Prize cards when Knocked Out, and each has a GX attack; you can use only one GX attack in a game. Three of this set's:

Decidueye-GX

Sun & Moon #12

240 HP Stage 2. Feather Arrow: once during your turn, put 2 damage counters on any of your opponent's Pokémon.

Umbreon-GX

Sun & Moon #80

200 HP Stage 1. Strafe does 30 and lets it switch out; Shadow Bullet does 90, and 30 to a Benched Pokémon.

Lunala-GX

Sun & Moon #66

250 HP Stage 2. Psychic Transfer moves Psychic Energy between your Pokémon as often as you like during your turn.

Trainers worth knowing

Two Trainers from the set:

Lillie

Sun & Moon #122

Supporter. Draw until you have 6 cards in your hand, or 8 if it is your first turn.

Nest Ball

Sun & Moon #123

Item. Search your deck for a Basic Pokémon and put it onto your Bench.

The chase card: Umbreon-GX

Umbreon-GX

Sun & Moon #154

Rarity Rare Rainbow

Card number 154/149

Market price, October 22, 2026 $130.02

Illustrator 5ban Graphics

Sun & Moon's chase card is Umbreon-GX, numbered 154/149, a Rare Rainbow, illustrated by 5ban Graphics, at $130.02 on October 22, 2026.

The Rare Ultra Umbreon-GX (142/149) was second at $56.90 and the Rare Rainbow Espeon-GX (152/149) third at $54.57.

Umbreon-GX is printed three times in Sun & Moon. The Rare Holo GX (80/149) was $25.17. The Rare Ultra (142/149) was $56.90.

Every Umbreon-GX in Sun & Moon

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

Umbreon-GX takes two of the top three places, and the full-art Lillie is fourth.

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 Sun & Moon, bought as singles, cost $653.42 on October 22, 2026. That is the 14th most expensive of the sixteen sets in the Sun & Moon series.

The three most valuable cards, two Umbreon-GX cards and Espeon-GX, come to $241.49, or 37% of the total. Without them the set costs $411.93. Of the 163 cards, 126 were under $2.00, together $31.71; the other 37 add up to $621.71.

Nine cards had no TCGplayer price on file and aren't counted: Grass Energy, Fire Energy, Water Energy, Lightning Energy, Psychic Energy, Fighting Energy, Darkness Energy, Metal Energy and Fairy Energy.

Left out: one alternate printing the catalog files under this set with a letter after the number, Eevee (101a). They aren't part of the numbered 172.

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 Sun & Moon card carries a regulation mark, so none is Standard-legal as printed, apart from its basic Energy cards, which Standard allows from any set. Standard has allowed only the H, I and J marks since April 10, 2026. Every card in Sun & Moon is legal in Expanded, which takes every set from Black & White on.

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