Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration is the first expansion in the game's thirty-year history to launch on the same day everywhere on Earth. That day is Wednesday, September 16, 2026. What nobody tells you is that "the same day" only applies to the booster packs, and the products wrapped around those packs are completely different depending on which language you collect.
Below is every official product so far, broken out by language and then by date, with contents and confirmed pricing. This list is subject to change. If you're deciding what to chase and when, Rare Candy's Pokémon marketplace is where these land once they hit the market.
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Key Takeaways
Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration booster packs release Wednesday, September 16, 2026 in all twelve official languages at once, the first simultaneous worldwide launch in the game's history.
The English-language product line rolls out in five waves through December 4, 2026. The Japanese line runs two waves. Simplified Chinese runs one.
Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China each get products that never see an English printing, including the ¥27,500 FUTURISTIC BOX and a Simplified Chinese Charizard figure box.
Every card in the set is foil, including Basic Energy, and every pack contains one of 30 unique-artist Pikachu cards.
Booster packs are not sold individually in any international language. Every pack comes inside a product.
What Makes Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Different
Pokémon has run anniversary sets before. *Celebrations* handled 25 years with a 25-card main set and a Classic Collection bolted on. *30th Celebration* is a different animal entirely.
The set runs over 160 cards internationally, and there is not a single non-foil card in it. Basic Energy is foil. The commons are foil. That has never happened before at this scale.
It also debuts a brand new rarity. Futuristic Rare, shortened to FUR, is a chrome-and-neon treatment designed by Japanese artist YOSHIROTTEN, and it launches on Mewtwo ex, Mew ex, and Pikachu ex. Alongside it sits the Classic Collection, 30 reprints spanning Base Set Pikachu in 1996 through a Paldea Evolved Illustration Rare, all wearing a gold border and a "30" Pikachu stamp. Those reprints are not Standard legal. They exist purely for collectors.
And then there are the Pikachu. Thirty of them, one per illustrator, one in every single pack. There is no scenario where you open a pack of this set and don't get one.
One more thing before the calendar, and it's the part that catches people out: booster packs are not sold on their own. There is no loose pack SKU and no traditional booster box for the international release. If you want packs, you buy a product that contains packs. Which product, and on which date, is the whole game this time.
Pokémon TCG Live gets the set a day early, on September 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM PDT, across iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese
The international lineup runs fourteen products across five waves, from September 16 to December 4, 2026. The Pokémon Company International handles six languages out of one product line, so the calendar below is identical whether you're buying in Ohio, Lyon, Munich, Milan, Madrid, or São Paulo. Only the name on the box changes:
Packs in these six languages contain five foil cards plus one foil Basic Energy, which is one card fewer than the Asian printings. Keep that in mind when you're comparing product value across regions later on.
September 16, 2026
Seven products land on day one, and this is the wave with the most pack-per-dollar variety.
Elite Trainer Box (*Coffret Dresseur d'Élite* / *Set Allenatore Fuoriclasse* / *Caja de Entrenador Élite*). Nine booster packs, a full-art Nidorina promo, 65 card sleeves, 16 foil Basic Energy, damage counters, a coin-flip die, a plastic coin, a storage box with six dividers, and a player's guide. The Nidorina pick is a nice touch, since Nidorina is Pokédex number 30.
Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box. Eleven packs instead of nine, and two Nidorina promos rather than one, with the second carrying the Pokémon Center logo. Pokémon Center exclusive, so it sells through its own channel and not general retail.
Pokémon ex Box (Sylveon ex or Greninja ex). Four packs, a foil promo, and an oversize version of the same promo.
Poster Collection. Three packs, a double-sided poster showing images of over 160 cards from the set, and three foil promos of Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres.
Tech Sticker Collection (Alolan Exeggutor or Lucario). Three packs, a foil promo, and a sticker sheet.
Knock Out Collection. Two packs, a foil Eevee, and a plastic coin.
2-Pack Blister. Two packs, a foil Eevee, and a commemorative coin.
October 2, 2026
Booster Bundle. Six packs, no extras. This is the closest thing the international release has to buying loose packs.
Mini Tins. Ten different designs, each with two packs, a sticker sheet, and an art card. Ten designs means ten different tins if you're a completionist, and mini tin waves have a habit of disappearing from shelves quietly.
October 30, 2026
Battle Deck (Espeon ex or Umbreon ex). An all-foil 60-card deck, a deck box, a coin, and a playmat. The Espeon deck carries an Illustration Rare Victini and the Umbreon deck carries an Illustration Rare Zeraora, and those two cards are the reason this product will move well beyond the play crowd.
November 6, 2026
This is the collector wave, and it's the one to plan for.
Ultra-Premium Collection, Day (Espeon ex) and Night (Umbreon ex). Thirty packs total, which breaks down as 29 standard *30th Celebration* packs and one Classic Collection booster pack containing three etched cards from the gold-bordered reprint subset. Also inside: a Pikachu ex foil promo, an Espeon ex or Umbreon ex foil promo, a playmat, 65 sleeves, a deck box, a metal coin, and six damage-counter dice. The Classic Collection pack is exclusive to this product. There is no other way to open one.
Ditto Premium Collection. Eight packs, a Ditto promo, and an acrylic display.
Figure Collection, Mew and Mewtwo. Five packs, a foil promo, an oversize card, and a sculpted figure. Sold as two separate products, one per Pokémon.
If you missed a wave, single cards from earlier products show up fast. Rare Candy's Pokémon browse page is the fastest way to pick up the specific Ultra-Premium promo you want without buying a second box.
December 4, 2026
Binder Collection. A nine-pocket binder in 30th anniversary artwork plus five packs.
Pokémon ex Tin (Sylveon ex or Greninja ex). Four packs and a foil promo.
A quick note on the Binder Collection, because you'll see this wrong in a lot of places. Several roundups list it on October 2. Pokémon's own product showcase and the PHD Games distributor sheet both put it on December 4, and those are the two sources that actually matter for street dates.
Japanese
Japan runs four product types across two dates, September 16 and October 16, under a completely separate line catalogued as M6a. Packs contain six cards, and unlike the international release, Japan sells sealed booster boxes.
September 16, 2026
Expansion Pack "30th CELEBRATION." ¥360 per pack, ¥7,200 for a 36-pack box.
30th CELEBRATION Premium Deck Set Espeon & Umbreon. ¥6,200. Two ready-to-play 60-card decks, one built on Espeon ex and one on Umbreon ex, with both Pokémon appearing as product-exclusive Special Illustration Rares, plus damage counters, two coins, a playmat, and a two-deck metal storage case.
30th CELEBRATION FUTURISTIC BOX. ¥27,500, and the single most expensive product in the entire global lineup. Two Pikachu ex promos in the FUR treatment, deck sleeves, a playmat case, damage counter dice, two coins, a deck case, a half playmat, a damage counter case, Poison and Burn markers, and a display frame.
October 16, 2026
30th CELEBRATION Card Sets. Nine of them, ¥1,200 each, one per region from Kanto through Paldea. Each set holds three foil promos of that region's starter trio, two *30th CELEBRATION* packs, and a paper stand that displays all three cards together.
That's 27 starter promos across nine boxes. If you've ever wanted a shelf of every first partner in the series in one art style, this is the product that finally does it, and Japan is where it starts. Japanese product tends to reach Western collectors through the secondary market rather than retail, so keep an eye on Rare Candy's Japanese card selection from mid-October.
Korean
Korea follows the Japanese product structure rather than the international one, with six-card packs and Korean text on every card. Two products are confirmed for September 16, 2026.
Expansion Pack "30th CELEBRATION."
30th CELEBRATION Premium Deck Set 에브이 & 블래키 (Espeon & Umbreon).
Korean pricing has not been published, and Pokémon Korea has not confirmed whether the FUTURISTIC BOX or the nine Card Sets are coming to the region. Korea usually mirrors the Japanese lineup on a short delay, so both are reasonable to expect, but neither is announced. If you collect Korean, watch the Pokémon Korea product page rather than trusting an English aggregator on this one.
Traditional Chinese
Taiwan and Hong Kong get five products, all on September 16, 2026, and two of them do not exist in any other language.
Expansion Box. NT$1,980.
Premium Deck Set (Sunstorm Eevee / Moonlight Eevee). NT$1,888. Two 60-card decks built on Espeon ex and Umbreon ex, full-art cards, a metal dual-deck box, damage counters, a coin, and a playmat.
FUTURISTIC BOX. NT$7,490. Two Pikachu ex FUR promos, special sleeves, metal damage counter dice, a coin, a storage box, a display frame, and a rubber playmat.
Special Deck Set, Starter Pokémon. NT$540. Three Illustration Rare starter cards from one randomly selected region, plus four booster packs.
Card Frame Keychain, Starter Pokémon Set. NT$255. One random Illustration Rare from the 27 starters, one booster pack, and a keychain in one of three designs.
Those last two are the interesting ones. Traditional Chinese covers the same 27 starter Illustration Rares that Japan splits across nine ¥1,200 Card Sets, but does it through a randomized NT$540 box and a NT$255 keychain pack. Same art, wildly different acquisition math, and it all lands six weeks earlier than the Japanese version.
Simplified Chinese
Mainland China gets the most unusual lineup of the twelve, with seven products plus accessories, all on September 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM local time. Three of them have no equivalent anywhere else.
Booster Pack. ¥18 per pack, six foil cards.
Deluxe Deck Set, Sun Eevee / Moon Eevee. ¥99. One Pokémon ex deck, a metal deck box with damage counter storage, a coin, a paper playmat, a paper damage counter sheet, a deck strategy guide, two booster packs, and a beginner's guide.
Iridescent Future Memorial Box. ¥1,099. Two Pikachu ex FUR promos, two coins, twelve damage counter dice, Poison and Burn markers, 64 art sleeves, a deck storage box, a card display frame, a rubber playmat, a damage counter storage box, and a playmat storage box. This is China's answer to the FUTURISTIC BOX and it is loaded differently.
Collection Display Gift Box, Sun Eevee ex & Moon Eevee ex. ¥390. One Espeon ex foil, one Umbreon ex foil, a daytime celebration magnet, a nighttime celebration magnet, a dual card display frame, and fifteen booster packs.
Figure Collection Gift Box, Charizard. ¥780. A Charizard figure, an oversize Charizard card measuring roughly 13.3cm by 18.7cm, and fifteen booster packs. Charizard does not appear in a figure product in any other language.
Card Display Sleeve Set (Greninja ex or Sylveon ex). ¥88. One foil promo, a themed display sleeve, and three booster packs.
Accessories. Art card sleeves at ¥40 for 64, a deck box at ¥30, a damage counter storage box at ¥20, and a 30-slot coin album at ¥40.
Two products carrying fifteen packs each, in the only region where a fifteen-pack product exists, is a genuinely strange piece of set design. I've been trying to work out the logic and I don't have it yet. Whatever the reason, it's going to do something to Simplified Chinese pack availability in the weeks after launch.
Indonesian and Thai
Both languages are part of the September 16, 2026 simultaneous launch, with six-card packs matching the Japanese and Korean configuration. The Asia-region product lineup follows the Japanese structure of an expansion pack plus supporting boxes rather than the international Elite Trainer Box model.
Full product-level detail and pricing for these two markets has not been broken out publicly the way it has for Japan and Taiwan. What is confirmed is the language availability and the launch date, which is itself the headline. Indonesian and Thai collectors have historically waited weeks or months behind the Japanese release, and this is the first time they haven't.
How Do the 30th Celebration Language Versions Differ?
The twelve language versions of Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration differ in four ways: pack size, set size, whether sealed booster boxes exist, and which products are region-exclusive. Only one of those is the language printed on the card.
Packs hold five foil cards plus a foil Basic Energy in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, and six cards in Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, and Thai.
Set size splits the same way. The international release runs over 160 cards while the Asian releases run closer to 190 or more, which changes the completion math depending on which language you're chasing.
Sealed boxes are the bigger gap. Japan sells a 36-pack booster box. The international release doesn't sell one at all, which is why the Ultra-Premium Collection at 30 packs is doing so much heavy lifting on the English side.
Then there are the exclusives. The FUTURISTIC BOX is Japanese and Traditional Chinese only. The Classic Collection booster pack is international only. The Charizard figure box and the fifteen-pack gift boxes are Simplified Chinese only. The nine regional Card Sets are Japanese only. The keychain pack is Traditional Chinese only.
You might reasonably say none of this matters if you only collect English, and for most sets you'd be right. This one is the exception, because five of the set's most interesting products have no English printing at all. There is no single language where you can buy everything in this release, and that's a first for a Pokémon TCG set.
Final Thoughts
*30th Celebration* came by its name honestly. An all-foil set, a new rarity, thirty Pikachu, thirty reprints, and a simultaneous launch across twelve languages is about as much celebration as the game can physically fit into one release window. It's a bigger swing than anything in Pokémon's broader 30th anniversary plans, and that's saying something.
The thing to plan around is the wave structure, not the set. September 16 is loud, but the products that collectors will still be talking about in 2027 are the November 6 Ultra-Premium Collections, because that Classic Collection pack has no other home, and the Japanese Card Sets on October 16, because 27 starter promos in one art style is the kind of thing that gets expensive after the fact.
Simplified Chinese is the quiet story here. Two separate fifteen-pack products in a single market, plus a Charizard figure nobody else gets, in a region that until now has been running years behind on Scarlet & Violet.
If you're chasing this one across languages, Rare Candy's Japanese card selection is the fastest way to find the Japan-only products once they reach the secondary market, and our Pokémon browse page covers everything else. For more on how the anniversary got here, our Pokémon Day history breakdown fills in the thirty years leading up to it.
Which wave are you actually setting an alarm for?
FAQ
When does Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration release?
Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration releases Wednesday, September 16, 2026, simultaneously in all twelve official Pokémon TCG languages. It is the first Pokémon TCG expansion in the game's history to launch worldwide on a single date. Pokémon TCG Live receives the set one day earlier, on September 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM PDT.
What products are in the 30th Celebration lineup?
The international lineup includes the Elite Trainer Box, Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box, Pokémon ex Box, Poster Collection, Tech Sticker Collection, Knock Out Collection, and 2-Pack Blister on September 16; the Booster Bundle and Mini Tins on October 2; Battle Decks on October 30; the Day and Night Ultra-Premium Collections, Ditto Premium Collection, and Mew and Mewtwo Figure Collections on November 6; and the Binder Collection and ex Tins on December 4. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China each run separate product lines.
Can you buy 30th Celebration booster packs individually?
No. There is no loose pack SKU and no traditional booster box for the international release. Every 30th Celebration pack in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese comes inside a product. The Japanese release is the exception and does sell a sealed 36-pack booster box at ¥7,200, which typically reaches Western collectors through the secondary market rather than retail. Rare Candy's Japanese card selection is one place to find it.
Which languages is 30th Celebration printed in?
Twelve: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, and Thai. All twelve release on September 16, 2026.
What is a Futuristic Rare?
Futuristic Rare, abbreviated FUR, is a new rarity debuting in Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration, designed by Japanese artist YOSHIROTTEN. It launches on Mewtwo ex, Mew ex, and Pikachu ex. The Pikachu ex FUR cards are exclusive to the Japanese FUTURISTIC BOX, the Traditional Chinese FUTURISTIC BOX, the Simplified Chinese Iridescent Future Memorial Box, and the international Ultra-Premium Collections.
How do I get the Classic Collection cards?
The Classic Collection is a 30-card subset of gold-bordered reprints spanning Base Set through Paldea Evolved, each stamped with a "30" Pikachu mark. In the international release, the only way to open a dedicated Classic Collection booster pack is inside a Day or Night Ultra-Premium Collection, releasing November 6, 2026. Each contains one such pack holding three etched cards.
How many cards are in 30th Celebration?
The international release runs over 160 cards, with the Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, and Thai printings running larger at roughly 190 or more. Every card in every version is foil, including Basic Energy cards, which is a first for a Pokémon TCG expansion at this scale.
Is the Binder Collection releasing October 2 or December 4?
December 4, 2026. Several roundups list October 2, but Pokémon's official product showcase and the PHD Games distributor sheet both confirm December 4, alongside the Sylveon ex and Greninja ex ex Tins.
