Explore Pokémon Card Sets

Every Pokémon TCG set is a small monograph — a window onto a region, a mechanic, a generation’s art direction.

Sets indexed: 192
Cards across them: 19,818
Years covered: 1999 — 2025

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The most iconic sets

Chapters that defined the medium — turning points the catalogue keeps returning to.

1999

Foundational eras.

A chronology of the catalogue — five chapters of art direction, mechanic, and material change, set out in plain order.

Chapter I

Founding generation

1996 — 2003

Where the medium begins. Yellow borders, 1st Edition stamps, the original 102-card box and its first true expansions — Mitsuhiro Arita, Ken Sugimori, Keiji Kinebuchi.

1999

Base

102 cards 4 illustrators

1999

Jungle

Base

64 cards 4 illustrators

1999

Fossil

Base

62 cards 5 illustrators

2000

Neo Genesis

Neo

111 cards 20 illustrators

Chapter II

EX & Diamond / Pearl

2003 — 2010

Holographic foils, EX cards, the e-Reader, and a generation of artists who arrived with a more cinematic, painterly hand. The medium opens up.

2009

Arceus

Platinum

111 cards 37 illustrators

Chapter III

Black & White · XY

2010 — 2016

Full-art trainers, alternate frames, and a tightening of art direction. The 20th-anniversary Evolutions reprint becomes a love letter to the original.