2014 English edition almanac

All 494 cards of the four English products are listed. The counts match the card database that holds the English scans: 146 in XY, 110 in Flashfire, 114 in Furious Fists and 124 in Phantom Forces. 8 cards print past the printed total and are shown as printed; XY's official count and its card count are the same number, so it contributes none.

The English card is the first-hand source for the English page, and the Japanese card is the first-hand source for the Japanese one — the two pages are not translations of each other. Where a Japanese card exists, the pairing is shown and the stats on this page stay English: HP, type, stage, retreat cost, illustrator and every attack are read from the English printing, because the English and Japanese cards occasionally differ in wording even when the numbers match.

The pairing is the whole method, and it was done card by card. 292 cards trace to Japan's 2014, 125 to Japan's 2013, and 77 to nothing. The test is name, HP, number of attacks, each attack's damage reduced to its digits, and at least one attack name matching after normalising case and punctuation. Team Flare Gear and Team Flare Hyper Gear are the one place the names do not match, because English prints the category inside the card name — Battle Compressor Team Flare Gear against Japan's バトルコンプレッサー（フレア団ギア） — so those five cards were matched on effect text instead. No card is called the same card on a guess.

292 of the 452 Japanese cards of 2014 reach English inside 2014, 160 on 4 February 2015, and none is left behind. The English year is 494 cards because it adds 77 of its own, and because its first product — XY — is entirely Japan's 2013. 125 of the 494 cards belong to the Japanese page for 2013, which is why this page and that one share those cards.

Every -EX card is a Basic, and Mega is not. All cards whose name ends in EX are Basic on the face. Mega Evolution is printed as its own stage, evolves from the EX of the same Pokémon, and ends your turn when it appears — the rule that Manectric Spirit Link at 113 switches off. M Charizard EX is the card to look at if you want to see how the two languages differ: Japan prints the Fire 220 HP version as gold only, English prints it as an ordinary card at 069 and then prints two gold Charizards that Japan's set does not contain.

The rarity names are the English ones, not the Japanese ones. English 2014 uses Common, Uncommon, Rare, Holo Rare, Ultra Rare and Secret Rare, and its full-art cards are numbered inside the printed total — the opposite of Japan, where the full-art is an SR past the end. That is why the counts on this page and the counts on the Japanese page for the same set do not line up: 110 English cards against 90 Japanese for the same March release.

Ancient Traits and Primal Reversion do not appear on this page at all. Neither mechanic exists in English 2014: they arrive with Primal Clash on 4 February 2015. What this year's English cards carry instead is the XY base set of Trainers — Lysandre, Professor Sycamore, Ultra Ball, Muscle Band — and the four Special Energy of the era, plus Fairy Energy in XY.

About the scans and what is not here. All 494 card faces are full-size English scans, each one shown here scaled down from that original, never enlarged from a smaller copy. The XY Black Star Promos, the prerelease cards, the league and tournament handouts, the Trainer Kits and the deck products sold beside the packs are all real 2014 cards and none is listed, because none has a per-card release date and distribution condition that could be verified. 40 artists are credited across the four sets and every card carries a credit. The four boosters are complete — 494 cards, 58 of them full-art and 8 secret — and that is the whole claim this page makes.