Pokémon card glossary

1st Edition

Cards & printings

The first print run of an early Wizards of the Coast set, marked with a small "1st Edition" stamp on the front. Every English set up to and including Neo Destiny (February 28, 2002) had one except Base Set 2; no English set since has.

A

ACE SPEC

Cards & printings

A powerful card labeled ACE SPEC; a deck can include only one ACE SPEC card of any kind. Introduced in Boundaries Crossed (November 7, 2012) and revived in Temporal Forces (March 22, 2024), where the cards got their own ACE SPEC Rare rarity.

Also called: ACE SPEC Rare

AFA

Funko & Ninja Turtles

Action Figure Authority, a toy grader that operates under the Collectible Grading Authority (CGA). It grades on a Standard 10–100 scale or an equivalent Unified 1.0–10 scale; an AFA 85 is a Unified 9.2.

Also called: Action Figure Authority, CGA

Alternate art

Cards & printings

Collector shorthand for a Sword & Shield–era Pokémon V or VMAX printed with a second, full-scene illustration instead of the standard full art. The closest Scarlet & Violet equivalent is the Special Illustration Rare.

Also called: Alt art

Amazing Rare

Rarity

A Sword & Shield–era rarity introduced in Vivid Voltage (November 13, 2020), where the Pokémon's art breaks out of its frame over a shiny, multicolored background.

Authentic

Grading

A grading result that confirms a card is genuine without giving it a number. PSA, for example, slabs a card as Authentic when its cut exceeds its visible border, and can label it Authentic Altered when it finds evidence of trimming, restoration or recoloring.

Also called: Authentic Altered

B

Base Set

Cards & printings

The first English Pokémon TCG expansion: 102 cards, released January 9, 1999 by Wizards of the Coast. Its English print runs include 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited, which is why the printing matters as much as the card.

BGS

Grading

Beckett Grading Services, known for grading centering, corners, edges and surface separately and for the Black Label it gives a perfect BGS 10 Pristine.

Also called: Beckett, Beckett Grading Services

Bio card

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A character profile printed on the back of a figure's card. The vintage Playmates Ninja Turtles cards had one designed to be cut out and collected, so an uncut card back is the more complete piece.

Also called: File card

Black Label

Grading

Beckett's rarest label: a BGS 10 Pristine where every subgrade is also a 10.

Also called: BGS Black Label

Blister

Sealed product

One or more booster packs sealed in clear plastic on a cardboard backing, usually with a promo card, such as the single-pack checklane blister and the three-pack blister.

Also called: Blister pack, Checklane blister, Three-pack blister

Booster box

Sealed product

A sealed display box of 36 booster packs from one expansion, the standard English format for a set's main release.

Also called: BB, Booster display

Booster bundle

Sealed product

A small box of 6 booster packs from one expansion, introduced during the Scarlet & Violet series.

Also called: Bundle

Booster pack

Sealed product

A sealed, randomized pack of cards from one expansion; a modern English booster pack holds 10 cards from the set. The Pokémon Company has never published the odds of pulling specific ultra-rare cards.

Also called: Pack, Booster

Box number

Funko & Ninja Turtles

The number printed on a Pop!'s box, giving the figure's place in its line's numbering. Lines such as Marvel and Star Wars are numbered separately, so the same number turns up on different figures.

BREAK

Cards & printings

An XY–era card printed sideways that evolves from the Pokémon of the same name and keeps that card's attacks, introduced in BREAKthrough (November 4, 2015).

Also called: Pokémon BREAK, BREAK Evolution

Bubble

Funko & Ninja Turtles

The clear plastic shell that holds a carded figure against its card. Toy graders score it separately from the card and the figure.

Also called: Blister (toys)

Bulk

Buying & selling

Commons, uncommons and other low-value cards, priced by the hundred or the thousand rather than one by one. Pull out the holos, reverse holos and hits before you sell the rest as bulk.

Also called: Bulk cards

Buylist

Buying & selling

A shop's list of the prices it will pay for specific cards. Buylist prices sit below market value because the shop still has to resell the card.

Also called: Buy list

C

C/B/F subgrades

Funko & Ninja Turtles

Subgrades on a graded carded toy: C for the card, B for the bubble or blister and F for the figure, as in C80 B90 F90. Collector Archive Services says it never averages them to reach the overall grade.

Also called: Card, bubble, figure

Card back

Funko & Ninja Turtles

The printed back of a figure's card. Vintage Ninja Turtles cards are known by their backs: the first 1988 series cards are called 10-backs, matching the 10 figures in that first wave.

Also called: Cardback, 10-back

Card number

Cards & printings

The "number/total" printed at the bottom of a card, such as 123/193. The second figure is the set's printed total; a card numbered above it, like 250/193 in Paldea Evolved, is a secret rare.

Also called: Collector number

Centering

Condition

How evenly the borders sit around the art, written as a ratio such as 55/45 (left to right, or top to bottom). CGC's Gem Mint 10 allows about 55/45 on the front and 75/25 on the back; its Pristine 10 calls for 50/50.

Cert number

Grading

The unique certification number on a slab's label. Type it into the grading company's own online lookup to check that the card, grade and label match the slab in your hand.

Also called: Certification number, Cert

CGC

Grading

CGC Cards, the trading-card grading side of Certified Guaranty Company. It grades from 1 to 10 in half-point steps, with a Pristine 10 above its Gem Mint 10.

Also called: CGC Cards, Certified Guaranty Company

Chase (Funko)

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A limited variant of a Funko Pop! packed at random among the regular figures, often glow-in-the-dark, flocked, metallic or in a different color or outfit, and marked with a Chase sticker. Funko doesn't publish the odds on its chase page.

Also called: Chase variant, Chase sticker

Chase card

Rarity

The card most people open a set hoping to pull, usually its headline Special Illustration Rare or another top hit. It's also shorthand for any card you're actively hunting.

Also called: Chase

Comps

Buying & selling

Short for comparables: recent sold prices for the same item, meaning the same card, the same printing and the same condition or grade, used to price something you're buying or selling.

Also called: Comparables

Consignment

Buying & selling

Selling through a shop or auction house that lists your item and takes a commission when it sells. You're paid after the sale, not up front.

Convention exclusive

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A Pop! released at a fan convention such as San Diego Comic-Con or New York Comic Con. Some are shared with retailers afterward, and collector guides say the event-only stickered version usually sells for more.

Also called: Con exclusive, Shared exclusive

Cosmos holo

Cards & printings

A holofoil pattern of scattered dots and circles of different sizes. Bulbapedia records it as the pattern on every holo card from Base Set 2 through Call of Legends.

Crease

Condition

A fold line that breaks a card's surface. Even a light crease usually moves a card down to Moderately Played or worse on TCGplayer's scale.

Also called: Bend

Crimp

Cards & printings

A pinched zigzag ridge pressed into a card where the pack's crimped seal caught it at the factory. It's a production flaw rather than handling damage, but TCGplayer's condition guide still counts a crimped card as Damaged.

Crossover

Grading

Sending a card that's already slabbed by one grading company to another to be graded again. Crossover services usually let you set a minimum grade, so check the company's current terms before you send it.

D

Damaged

Condition

Wear beyond Heavily Played, or damage to the card itself, such as major border wear, tears, water damage or writing that affects the card's integrity.

Also called: DMG

Deck

Playing the game

A tournament deck is exactly 60 cards of Pokémon, Trainers and Energy, with no more than 4 copies of any card with the same name, basic Energy excepted.

Double Rare

Rarity

Two black stars: the regular, non-full-art Pokémon ex of Scarlet & Violet–era sets, found in the rare slot of a pack. Japanese sets mark it RR.

Also called: RR

E

Elite Trainer Box

Sealed product

A boxed kit of booster packs plus play accessories: card sleeves, basic Energy, dice, a player's guide and a storage box. Standard ETBs have held 9 packs since Scarlet & Violet; Pokémon Center editions hold 11.

Also called: ETB, Pokémon Center ETB

Energy card

Playing the game

The cards attached to Pokémon to pay for attacks. Basic Energy provide one Energy of their type; Special Energy provide more than one, or add an extra effect.

Also called: Basic Energy, Special Energy

Error card

Cards & printings

A card printed with a mistake: wrong or missing text, a missing symbol, misplaced foil or an ink fault. Bulbapedia separates errors that were corrected during the print run, the scarcer kind, from uncorrected errors that were mass-produced and are notable but common.

Also called: Misprint

Exclusive sticker

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A sticker on a Pop!'s box naming where an exclusive was sold: a retailer such as Target, Hot Topic or BoxLunch, Funko Shop, or a convention. A missing or reproduced sticker changes what the figure is worth.

Also called: Retailer exclusive

Expanded format

Playing the game

A tournament format that allows every card from Black & White onward, minus a short ban list, and has never rotated. It began in the 2014–15 season.

Also called: Expanded

F

Factory sealed

Sealed product

Still in the manufacturer's original, unopened wrap or seal. Check the wrap on boxes and the crimps on packs before you trust the label.

Also called: Sealed, Sealed product

Full Art

Cards & printings

A card whose artwork covers the whole face, with the text printed over the art instead of inside a frame. In Scarlet & Violet and Mega Evolution sets, full-art Pokémon ex and Supporters are Ultra Rares, numbered past the set's printed total.

Also called: FA

Funko Pop!

Funko & Ninja Turtles

Funko's line of stylized vinyl figures. A preview line debuted at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010, and the full line was revealed at New York Toy Fair and went on sale in 2011.

Also called: Pop!, Pop vinyl

G

Gem Mint

Grading

The name for a 10 at PSA (PSA 10 Gem Mint) and for CGC's standard 10 (Gem Mint 10), which sits one step below CGC's Pristine 10.

Also called: PSA 10, GEM MT

Gem rate

Grading

The share of a card's graded copies that came back a 10, worked out from the pop report. A low gem rate means 10s of that card are scarce.

Grail

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A collector's most-wanted piece, the one at the top of the list. The word is used across Pokémon, Funko and toy collecting alike.

Also called: Grail piece

H

Heavily Played

Condition

A major amount of wear, often creasing, whitening and several flaws together, but the card is still intact. Not to be confused with HP, the Hit Points printed on the card.

Also called: HP

Hit

Rarity

A valuable pull from a pack. In modern sets, collectors usually count anything from a Double Rare up, including any Illustration Rare that turns up in a reverse-holo slot, as a hit.

Holo

Cards & printings

Short for holofoil: a shiny, light-scattering foil layer, traditionally on a card's artwork. Before Scarlet & Violet, a set's Rares were split between holo and non-holo cards; since Scarlet & Violet, every Rare pulled from a pack is holofoil.

Also called: Holofoil, Holographic, Foil

Hyper Rare

Rarity

Three gold stars: a gold-etched version of a card, used through the Scarlet & Violet series. Collectors often call them gold cards; the Japanese code is UR.

Also called: Gold card, Gold rare, UR

I

Illustration Rare

Rarity

One gold star: a full-art illustration of a Pokémon that isn't an ex, with the art running edge to edge. Introduced with Scarlet & Violet (March 31, 2023); the Japanese code is AR.

Also called: IR, AR

L

Lightly Played

Condition

Minor edge wear, scuffs or light scratches, with no major flaw and nothing wrong with the card's structure.

Also called: LP

Loose

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A figure out of its packaging. Loose vintage figures are valued on paint, joints and completeness, meaning every weapon and accessory it originally came with.

Also called: Loose complete

LV.X

Cards & printings

A Diamond & Pearl and Platinum–era card laid on top of the same Pokémon to "level it up", adding new attacks while keeping the ones on the card underneath.

Also called: Level X

M

Mega Evolution Pokémon ex

Cards & printings

A Mega Pokémon printed as a Pokémon ex in the Mega Evolution series, which began with the Mega Evolution set (September 26, 2025). They give up 3 Prize cards when Knocked Out, instead of 2 for a regular Pokémon ex.

Also called: Mega ex

Mega Hyper Rare

Rarity

A gold star with a black outline: a gold Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, one or two per Mega Evolution–series set and numbered last. The Japanese code is MUR.

Also called: MUR

Mint in box

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A figure in its original box with both the figure and the box in top shape. Sellers use "MIB" loosely, so ask for photos of every side of the box.

Also called: MIB

Miscut

Cards & printings

A card cut off-center at the factory, so part of the neighboring card's border shows along one edge. Slight off-centering just lowers the grade; dramatic miscuts are collected as error cards.

MOC

Funko & Ninja Turtles

Mint on card: a figure still sealed in its original bubble on the printed card it was sold on, with both in top condition. Carded vintage figures are judged on the card, the bubble and the figure.

Also called: Mint on card, Carded

Moderately Played

Condition

Clearly visible wear: edge and surface wear, scratching or scuffing, and possibly bends or creases, in moderate amounts.

Also called: MP

N

Near Mint

Condition

The top grade on TCGplayer's condition scale: minimal wear from play or handling, a nearly unmarked surface, crisp corners and clean edges. It's what "NM" means on a raw-card listing.

Also called: NM

O

Out of box

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A Pop! or figure that's been taken out of its packaging. Many Funko collectors keep figures boxed, so an out-of-box Pop usually sells for less than the same figure in a clean box.

Also called: OOB

P

Pack fresh

Condition

Straight from the pack into a sleeve, with no play or handling wear. It isn't a grade: a pack-fresh card can still have factory flaws like off-center borders or print lines.

Pack weighing

Sealed product

Weighing loose booster packs to guess which ones hold heavier foil cards, then selling the light packs as if they were untouched. It's the reason loose packs from unknown sellers are a gamble.

Also called: Weighed packs

Poké Ball and Master Ball reverse holos

Cards & printings

Parallel foil versions printed with a pattern of Poké Balls or Master Balls instead of the usual reverse-holo pattern. Prismatic Evolutions (January 17, 2025) has both alongside the regular reverse holo; in the Japanese 151 set, the Master Ball version is the rare one.

Also called: Poké Ball reverse, Master Ball reverse

Pokémon ex

Cards & printings

A powerful Pokémon marked with a lowercase "ex". The name first ran through the EX series, starting with Ruby & Sapphire (June 18, 2003), and returned with Scarlet & Violet (March 31, 2023); when a Pokémon ex is Knocked Out, the opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Also called: ex

Pokémon V

Cards & printings

The Sword & Shield–era special card type, introduced in the Sword & Shield set (February 7, 2020). Many were also printed as full arts and alternate arts.

Also called: V

Pokémon-EX

Cards & printings

A Black & White and XY–era card type written with a capital "EX", introduced in Next Destinies (February 8, 2012). Mega Evolutions of that era were printed as "M" Pokémon-EX, starting with the XY set (February 5, 2014).

Also called: EX, M Pokémon-EX

Pokémon-GX

Cards & printings

The Sun & Moon–era special card type, introduced in the Sun & Moon set (February 3, 2017). Each has a GX attack, and a player can use only one GX attack per game.

Also called: GX

Pop protector

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A clear plastic box that fits over a Pop!'s box to guard the corners and window. Soft protectors are thin and flexible; hard protectors, often called hard stacks, are rigid stackable cases, and some add UV protection against fading.

Also called: Soft protector, Hard stack, Hard protector

Pop report

Grading

A grading company's running count of how many copies of each card it has graded, at each grade. PSA says its Population Report is updated daily.

Also called: Population report, Pop

Prerelease

Playing the game

An event held shortly before a set comes out, where players open product from the new set and build a deck on the spot. The kit for it is sold as a Build & Battle Box.

Also called: Prerelease event, Build & Battle Box

Print lines

Cards & printings

Faint straight lines left by the printing process, most visible on foil and full-art surfaces. They come from the factory, but collectors and graders still treat visible print lines as a surface flaw.

Prism Star

Cards & printings

A Sun & Moon–era special card marked with a ◇ after its name, introduced in Ultra Prism (February 2, 2018).

Pristine

Grading

A grade above Gem Mint at some companies. CGC describes its Pristine 10 as "virtually flawless" to the naked eye with 50/50 centering; Beckett's top grade is BGS 10 Pristine.

Also called: Pristine 10

Prize cards

Playing the game

The six cards each player sets aside face down at the start of a game. You take Prize cards when you Knock Out an opposing Pokémon, and taking your last one wins.

Also called: Prizes

Cards & printings

A card released outside booster packs: in collection boxes, tins, blisters, at events or as a giveaway. Modern English promos carry a black star instead of a rarity symbol and a promo number with its own prefix, such as SVP for Scarlet & Violet or MEP for Mega Evolution.

Also called: Black Star Promo

PSA

Grading

Professional Sports Authenticator, a US company that grades cards on a 1–10 scale, where a 10 is Gem Mint. Every PSA slab carries a cert number you can look up on PSA's website.

Also called: Professional Sports Authenticator

R

Radiant Pokémon

Cards & printings

A Sword & Shield–era card showing a Pokémon in its shiny colors, with its own Radiant Rare rarity, introduced in Astral Radiance (May 27, 2022).

Also called: Radiant Rare

Rare

Rarity

One black star: the guaranteed rare in each pack. Since Scarlet & Violet, every Rare pulled from a pack is holofoil; before that, a set's Rares were split between holo and non-holo cards.

Also called: Holo Rare, Rare Holo

Rarity symbol

Rarity

The mark near the bottom of a card that shows its rarity: a circle for Common, a diamond for Uncommon and a star for Rare. Modern sets add one to three black, silver or gold stars for the special rarities.

Raw

Condition

An ungraded card, not sealed in a grading company's slab. Raw cards are sold by condition name, such as Near Mint or Lightly Played, rather than by a number.

Also called: Ungraded

Regrade

Grading

Resubmitting a graded card in the hope of a higher grade. "Crack and resub" means breaking the slab open and sending the card in raw again; once the slab is cracked, the old grade can't be restored.

Also called: Crack and resub, Resubmission

Regulation mark

Playing the game

A letter printed at the bottom of cards since Sword & Shield (February 7, 2020), where the first mark was D, that tells players which Standard block a card belongs to. For the 2026–27 season, cards marked H, I and J are Standard-legal.

Reissue

Funko & Ninja Turtles

A later re-release of an older toy, often in vintage-style packaging. Playmates reissued the 1988 Ninja Turtles first series in January 2009 for the 25th anniversary, each figure packed with a DVD episode of the 1987 cartoon.

Also called: Re-release

Reseal

Sealed product

A pack or box that was opened or searched and then sealed again to pass as new. Warning signs include loose or bunched wrap, seams that look melted, uneven pack crimps and glue marks.

Also called: Resealed

Reverse holo

Cards & printings

A version of a card with the foil everywhere except the artwork, or with a different foil pattern on it. English packs have carried at least one since Legendary Collection (May 24, 2002), so most cards in a modern set exist in both a regular and a reverse holo version.

Also called: Reverse holofoil, RH

Rotation

Playing the game

The yearly change that drops the oldest regulation mark from Standard. The 2026 rotation retired the G mark, the first year of Scarlet & Violet sets, on March 26, 2026 in Pokémon TCG Live and on April 10, 2026 for tournaments.

Also called: Standard rotation

Rule Box

Playing the game

The box of special rules printed on cards such as Pokémon ex, V and GX, most often saying the opponent takes extra Prize cards when that Pokémon is Knocked Out. Some cards affect all Pokémon with a Rule Box as a group.

S

Secret rare

Rarity

Any card numbered past its set's printed total, such as 250/193. The first English one was Dark Raichu in Team Rocket (April 24, 2000); in Scarlet & Violet and Mega Evolution sets, every Illustration Rare, Ultra Rare, Special Illustration Rare and gold Hyper Rare is a secret rare.

Set code

Cards & printings

The letters printed at the bottom of current cards, beside the card number, that name the set: PAL for Paldea Evolved, MEW for 151, MEG for Mega Evolution. Older sets have codes in card databases even where the card itself doesn't print one.

Set symbol

Cards & printings

The small icon on a card's face that identifies its expansion. On cards without a printed set code, the symbol is the quickest way to tell which set a card belongs to.

Also called: Expansion symbol

Shadowless

Cards & printings

Base Set's second English print run: the art frame has no drop shadow beside it, and the HP and attack text is thinner than on Unlimited cards. It came between 1st Edition and Unlimited and exists only in English.

Shiny Rare

Rarity

A Pokémon printed in its alternate shiny colors. Whole subsets are built on them: the Shiny Vaults in Hidden Fates (2019) and Shining Fates (2021), and the Shiny Rares of Paldean Fates (January 26, 2024).

Also called: Shiny Vault, Shiny Ultra Rare

Silvering

Condition

Edge or corner wear on a foil or full-art card where the silver foil layer shows through instead of white. Look along the edges under a light before you call a modern card Near Mint.

Singles

Buying & selling

Individual cards bought and sold one at a time, as opposed to sealed product.

Slab

Grading

The sealed, tamper-evident plastic holder a grading company puts a card in, with a label that shows the card, the grade and a certification number.

Also called: Graded card, Slabbed

Sold listings

Buying & selling

Completed sales rather than asking prices, and the best evidence of what a card or collectible is worth. On eBay, filter a search to Sold Items to see them.

Also called: Sold comps, Completed sales

Special Illustration Rare

Rarity

Two gold stars: a full-art Pokémon ex or Supporter drawn as a full scene. Usually a set's most sought-after cards; the Japanese code is SAR.

Also called: SIR, SAR

Cards & printings

A card stamped on the front with a word or logo that marks where it came from, such as "Prerelease", "Staff", a set logo or an event name. The stamped version is a separate collectible from the regular print, so price it separately.

Also called: Prerelease stamp, Staff stamp

Standard format

Playing the game

The main tournament format, a rotating card pool set by regulation marks. The 2026–27 Standard format uses marks H, I and J (and later) for tournaments from April 10, 2026.

Also called: Standard

Subgrades

Grading

Separate scores for centering, corners, edges and surface that sit alongside the overall grade. Beckett grades those four areas, and a BGS 10 with all four subgrades at 10 gets its Black Label.

T

TAG Grading

Grading

A grading company that pairs the familiar 1–10 grade with a precise TAG Score from 100 to 1,000, so two 10s can be compared; TAG gives 950 as the lowest score for a 10.

Also called: TAG, TAG Score

TAG TEAM

Cards & printings

A Pokémon-GX card that puts two or three Pokémon together on one card, introduced in Team Up (January 31, 2019).

TCGplayer Market Price

Buying & selling

TCGplayer's estimate of what a card sells for, based on actual recent sales on its marketplace, averaged across several transactions with outliers ignored. It's a good baseline; check sold listings too for rare or graded cards.

Also called: Market price

Tera Pokémon ex

Cards & printings

A Scarlet & Violet–era Pokémon ex with the Tera rule: while it's on the Bench, it takes no damage from attacks.

Also called: Tera ex

TPCi

Cards & printings

The Pokémon Company International: the subsidiary of The Pokémon Company that runs the brand, including the trading card game, outside Asia. It started as Pokémon USA in 2001 and took its current name in 2009.

Also called: The Pokémon Company International

Trade credit

Buying & selling

Store credit offered instead of cash when you sell to a shop. Many shops offer more in credit than in cash because the value stays in the store, so ask for both numbers.

Also called: Store credit

Trainer card

Playing the game

Any card that isn't a Pokémon or an Energy: Items (play as many as you like in a turn), Supporters (one per turn), Stadiums (one per turn, and it stays in play) and Pokémon Tools (one attached to each Pokémon).

Also called: Item, Supporter, Stadium, Pokémon Tool

Trainer Gallery

Cards & printings

A 30-card subset in each of Brilliant Stars, Astral Radiance, Lost Origin and Silver Tempest (all 2022), numbered with a TG prefix and mostly showing Pokémon alongside a trainer. Crown Zenith (January 20, 2023) followed with the 70-card Galarian Gallery, numbered GG.

Also called: TG, Galarian Gallery

U

Ultra Rare

Rarity

Two silver stars: the full-art Pokémon ex and full-art Supporters of Scarlet & Violet–era sets, numbered past the set's printed total.

Unlimited

Cards & printings

Any print run of a Wizards of the Coast set without the 1st Edition stamp. On Base Set, Unlimited cards have the drop shadow beside the art and the thicker HP text that Shadowless cards lack.

V

Vaulted

Funko & Ninja Turtles

Funko's word for Pop! figures that are "officially retired from circulation" and no longer sold on Funko.com. Vaulting ends new supply; it doesn't guarantee a figure is worth more.

Also called: The Vault

VMAX

Cards & printings

A card that evolves from a Pokémon V and shows its Dynamax or Gigantamax form, introduced in the Sword & Shield set (February 7, 2020).

Also called: Pokémon VMAX

VSTAR

Cards & printings

A card that evolves from a Pokémon V, introduced in Brilliant Stars (February 25, 2022). Each has a VSTAR Power, an attack or Ability that, like a GX attack, can be used only once per game.

Also called: Pokémon VSTAR, VSTAR Power

W

Whitening

Condition

White specks or lines where the colored ink has worn off a card's edges or corners, easiest to see on the dark blue back of a Pokémon card.