The most coveted Pokemon on the color spectrum are arriving in Pokemon TCG Pocket when the Shining Revelry expansion set arrives on March 26, 2025.
The new set includes 110 new virtual cards for collectors to chase, including shiny Pokemon, Paldean Pokemon and new powerful Pokemon Ex cards. A new animated immersive card and full art versions of cards from the base set will also be available to pull at their normal odds.
While the full set list for Shining Revelry isn't yet available, we know that shiny variants for Beedrill, Varoom, Charizard, Wugtrio, Pachirisu and Lucario have been confirmed. If the new expansion follows the Hidden Fates TCG shiny vault convention, the rest of these evolution lines could also have shiny variant cards revealed for the set.
As with any Pokemon TCG Pocket expansion, player resources are likely to funnel into pulling Pokemon Ex cards. These are the new Pokemon Ex cards confirmed for the Shining Revelry set.
The lynchpins of Shining Revelry decks
The shiny Charizard Ex full art will no doubt be the biggest chase card in the set.
DeNACharizard and Lucario are getting additional Pokemon Ex cards in the new expansion, and their full art variants are among the shinies being introduced to the game.
Whereas the first Charizard Ex card chewed up energy to use its strongest attack, the new card is much more economical. If players have one fire energy on the new Charizard Ex, they can use the Stoke move to add three more fire energies for free.
Getting a 150 damage move functional in three turns can be a huge boon in battle, so Charizard might find a place in speed-based Pokemon TCG Pocket decks.
The new Lucario Ex card is well-rounded, but doesn't particularly do anything that another card can't. Aura Sphere takes three fighting energies to use and does 100 damage to the opposing Pokemon, but the real draw is that it also does 30 damage to a Pokemon on your opponent's bench.
This can make the generation four fighter a clinch pick for nabbing prize cards off of weaker, unevolved Pokemon, but the damage numbers don't pressure opponents the same way that other Pokemon Ex often do.
Shiny Pokemon in the Pokemon TCG
Pokemon TCG Pocket's inclusion of shiny Pokemon isn't totally unprecedented. The physical Pokemon TCG has a rich and storied history when it comes to including the oddly pigmented monsters on the cards.
The first time shinies appeared in the Pokemon TCG, players were limited in how many could be included in a deck. All "Shining Pokemon" counted as basic Pokemon forms and did not need to be evolved.
Mechanically unique shiny Pokemon first appeared in the generation two base set Neo Destiny, and this was how shinies were treated until the Sun and Moon Hidden Fates set was released.
Hidden Fates introduced the idea of the shiny vault for special sets, where there would be upwards of 70 shiny variants printed within a TCG expansion's set list. These cards would function the same as any base set card or Pokemon Ex.
The Hidden Fates set was followed by the Shining Fates set for the Sword and Shield era and the Paldean Fates set for the Scarlet and Violet era of the Pokemon TCG. Between these three sets, over 300 Pokemon were added to the shiny vault.
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