Shiny Treasure ex
Paldean Fates
Every collector's favourite shiny showcase — Paldean Fates pairs the most wanted shiny Pokémon from the SV era with the set's true prize: Mew ex SAR.
Shiny Treasure ex (SV4A) arrived in Japan on 1 December 2023 as a special shiny set — a celebration of Generation IX's first full year. The concept is built around shiny variants: over 200 base cards with alternate-colour shiny Pokémon illustrations, capped by a secret rare section that includes some of the most valuable cards in the SV era. Mew ex SAR became the headline pull almost immediately after the JP card list dropped — the illustration of Mew as a psychic star map placed it in a different artistic category from most SAR pulls. EN release came six weeks later on 26 January 2024 as Paldean Fates, with different base numbering but the same secret rare structure. Charizard ex (Shiny) SIR and Iono SIR were the secondary targets that kept the set in active demand for months after launch.
Chase Pulls
Mitsuhiro Arita illustrates the shiny Charizard ex SIR — a black-scaled, red-eyed Charizard whose alternate colouration gives it a menacing new identity. Arita's composition mirrors the darkness of the shiny form: the Charizard is depicted at night, the blue flames of the shiny version replacing the standard orange, illuminating a volcanic landscape from below. The combination of Arita (the artist behind the original Base Set Charizard) and the black shiny form creates a card with exceptional cross-generational appeal.
Shibuzoh's Mew ex SAR is one of the most distinctive cards in the SV era. Rather than depicting Mew in the natural world, the illustration renders it as a celestial map — the legendary Pokémon at the centre of a star chart, with the psychic energy of its body tracing out constellation lines connecting various Pokémon silhouettes in the background. It is simultaneously scientific and mystical. The SAR holo treatment makes the star-chart background shimmer and shift with movement, giving the card an almost three-dimensional quality in hand.
Shibuzoh's Iono SIR in SV4.5 is the most sought-after Iono card in the SV era. The electric-pink Gym Leader is depicted mid-broadcast — phone raised, winking at the viewer, a Wattrel perched on her shoulder. The SIR framing gives her outfit and the neon lighting full-art room to breathe. Iono has attracted a collector following that treats her cards similarly to Trainer fans of Misty or Serena — the SIR premium reflects that sustained demand.
Naoki Saito's Gardevoir ex SIR in SV4.5 is the third major Gardevoir alt-art treatment across the SV and ME eras — and arguably the most elegant. Set in what appears to be a moonlit ballroom, Gardevoir stands at the centre of a ring of psychic energy, its dress-like form rendered with extraordinary textural detail. Gardevoir maintains consistent collector demand across every set it appears in; this SIR version has pricing still being established but strong baseline demand.
Edition Notes
Shiny Treasure ex (SV4A) is a 190-card Japanese base set, but the JP version reaches card number 351/190 at its upper secret rare limit — the largest secret rare expansion of any SV-era JP set. The JP shiny cards use a distinct holo treatment for the shiny variants that differs from the standard SV holo pattern, with a finer scatter effect that shows the alternate colour more cleanly. JP Mew ex SAR established its pricing benchmark within days of the December 2023 release and has sustained it consistently since.
Paldean Fates (SV4.5) restructured the JP set for EN distribution with a 91-card base (shiny Pokémon numbered within the base set rather than as secret rares) and an EN secret rare section from 092/091 upward. The EN numbering system is entirely different from JP — EN card 234/091 is the Charizard ex Shiny SIR, whereas the equivalent JP card sits at 351/190. This numbering divergence is the most extreme in the SV era and requires careful cross-referencing. EN Mew ex SAR maintains a slight EN premium over JP.