Unseen Forces Set Guide

Overview

Unseen Forces came out on August 1, 2005, with 145 cards: 124 Pokémon, 16 Trainers and 5 Energy. Its 12 Pokémon-ex include Lugia ex, Ho-Oh ex, the Johto starters, Espeon ex and Umbreon ex, and its Pokémon Stars are Entei ★, Raikou ★ and Suicune ★.

Its printed total is 115. Above it are two secret rares, Rocket's Persian ex and Celebi ex, and 28 Unown numbered with a letter, A to Z, ! and ?, rather than a number. Each Unown can swap itself for another from your deck with its Shuffle Poké-Power.

Cards and rarities

Unseen Forces has 145 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "4/115". 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 115. Above it are Rocket's Persian ex and Celebi ex, 116 and 117, and 28 Unown lettered A to Z, ! and ?. 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

Lugia ex, a Gold Star and the secret Celebi ex:

Lugia ex

Unseen Forces #105

Elemental Blast does 200 and discards a Fire, a Water and a Lightning Energy; Silver Sparkle may bounce an attacker's Energy.

Raikou ★

Unseen Forces #114

One Pokémon Star per deck. Lightning Turn does 20 and switches it to the Bench.

Celebi ex

Unseen Forces #117

Spiral Leaf damages each of your opponent's Pokémon or heals each of yours, on a flip.

Unown

Unseen Forces #A

One of 28 Unown. Hidden Power searches your deck for up to 2 Supporters.

Trainers worth knowing

Two of its Supporters:

Professor Elm's Training Method

Unseen Forces #89

Search your deck for an Evolution card.

Mary's Request

Unseen Forces #86

Draw a card, or 3 if you have no evolved Stage 2 Pokémon in play.

The chase card: Lugia ex

Lugia ex

Unseen Forces #105

Rarity Rare Holo EX

Card number 105/115

Market price, October 22, 2026 $2,500.00

Illustrator Hikaru Koike

Unseen Forces' chase card is Lugia ex, 105/115, illustrated by Hikaru Koike, listed at $2,500.00 on October 22, 2026.

The three Gold Stars follow: Raikou ★ ($1,600.00), Suicune ★ ($1,100.00) and Entei ★ ($1,067.00). Most of these are round figures on cards that seldom sell ungraded, so check each card's page.

Lugia 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

Lugia ex, the three Gold Stars, the secret Celebi ex and the Typhlosion holo.

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 Unseen Forces, bought as singles, cost $13,154.25 on October 22, 2026. That is the fourth most expensive of the sixteen sets in the EX series.

The three most valuable cards, Lugia ex, Raikou ★ and Suicune ★, come to $5,200.00, or 40% of the total. Without them the set costs $7,954.25. Of the 145 cards, 51 were under $2.00, together $48.00; the other 94 add up to $13,106.25.

One card's price is older than October 22, 2026, because the catalog had no newer one: Umbreon ex (112), $500.50 on October 1. It is counted at that price.

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

Unseen Forces is not legal in Standard or Expanded as a set: Expanded starts with the Black & White series in 2011. The catalog marks seven of its 145 cards as legal anyway, four of them in Standard too.

They are Energy Search, Energy Switch, Poké Ball and Potion, legal in both formats; and Energy Recycle System, Sitrus Berry and Warp Energy, legal in Expanded only.

Each 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