Team Magma vs Team Aqua Set Guide

Overview

Team Magma vs Team Aqua came out on March 1, 2004, with 97 cards: 77 Pokémon, 17 Trainers and 3 special Energy. Of its 77 Pokémon, 59 belong to one of the two teams, like Team Aqua's Kyogre, and some of those count as two types at once.

Each team has its own leader Supporter, Maxie or Archie, and its own Ball, Belt, Hideout Stadium, Technical Machine and Energy. The printed total is 95, and two secret rares sit above it: Absol and Jirachi.

Cards and rarities

Team Magma vs Team Aqua has 97 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "4/95". 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 95, so Absol and Jirachi, 96 and 97, are secret rares. 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 Pokémon-ex, a team Pokémon and the secret Jirachi:

Suicune ex

Team Magma vs Team Aqua #94

Energy Flip hits a Benched Pokémon for 10 and can move its Energy; Reverse Stream does 50 plus 10 for each basic Energy it returns to your hand.

Team Aqua's Kyogre

Team Magma vs Team Aqua #3

Both Water and Darkness type. Power Saver stops it attacking unless more than 3 Team Aqua Pokémon are in play.

Jirachi

Team Magma vs Team Aqua #97

Swift's damage ignores Weakness, Resistance and every effect on the Defending Pokémon.

Trainers worth knowing

The two team leaders:

Maxie

Team Magma vs Team Aqua #73

Put a Team Magma Pokémon from your hand or discard pile onto your Bench as a Basic Pokémon.

Archie

Team Magma vs Team Aqua #71

Put a Team Aqua Pokémon from your deck onto your Bench as a Basic Pokémon.

The chase card: Suicune ex

Suicune ex

Team Magma vs Team Aqua #94

Rarity Rare Holo EX

Card number 94/95

Market price, October 22, 2026 $763.00

Illustrator Ryo Ueda

Team Magma vs Team Aqua's chase card is Suicune ex, 94/95, illustrated by Ryo Ueda, at $763.00 on October 22, 2026.

Team Aqua's Kyogre holo, at $542.60, is the most valuable team Pokémon, ahead of Entei ex ($499.95). The secret Jirachi was $210.10.

Suicune ex is printed once in the set.

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

Pokémon-ex, Team Aqua's Kyogre and the secret Jirachi, 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 Team Magma vs Team Aqua, bought as singles, cost $3,691.43 on October 22, 2026. That is the 12th most expensive of the sixteen sets in the EX series.

The three most valuable cards, Suicune ex, Entei ex and Sceptile ex, come to $1,757.94, or 48% of the total. Without them the set costs $1,933.49. Of the 97 cards, 44 were under $2.00, together $48.27; the other 53 add up to $3,643.16.

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

The catalog marks every card in Team Magma vs Team Aqua 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