2025 English edition almanac

• 01-17

  Prismatic Evolutions opens the English year at 180 cards — 49 of them secret — and it is the one product of the year that is a Japanese set carried across whole. It also holds the last Tera Pokémon and the last ACE SPEC cards English will print: 34 and 6, both from 2024’s SV8a.

• 03-28

  Journey Together is the first English set since 2022 with no Tera and no ACE SPEC at all — 190 cards, assembled from January’s SV9, and the set where the Trainers’ Pokémon block reaches English.

• 05-30

  Destined Rivals is the largest English expansion of the year at 244 cards, taking April’s SV10 and March’s SV9a in one product and putting Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex at the head of it.

• 07-18

  Black Bolt and White Flare ship together, 172 and 173 cards, and they are the only English pair of the year: 69 and 70 Illustration Rare cards, with exactly ten cards traded between the two sets.

• 09-26

  Mega Evolution brings the MEGA generation into English at 188 cards, assembling both August Japanese products — Mega Brave and Mega Symphonia — into one set, with 30 Mega Evolution cards in it. 26 September is the year’s one shared release date, and the two languages share no card on it.

• 11-14

  Phantasmal Flames closes the year at 130 cards, built on September’s Inferno X and carrying Mega Charizard X ex and the Excite mechanic across — the second and last English product of the MEGA generation in 2025.

• 2026-01-30

  Ascended Heroes carries Japan’s November compilation into English at 185 of this year’s cards, five weeks after 2025 ends — the English printing of the year’s largest Japanese product, and the only 2025 Japanese set with no English counterpart inside 2025.

What 2025 settles in English is that the two calendars now share a mechanic, not a schedule. Japan changes generation on 1 August and English follows on 26 September; Japan ships a compilation in November and English prints it the following January. Seven products against nine, one shared date, and not a single card printed in both languages on the same day.