Stellar Crown

What Stellar Crown is

Stellar Crown is the seventh main expansion of the Scarlet & Violet Series, released in English on September 13, 2024 under the set code SCR. It has 142 cards in the numbered set plus 33 secret rares, for 175 cards in total. The set is built around the Terastal phenomenon and the Area Zero underdepths from The Indigo Disk, the second part of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero expansion for the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet video games, with the Legendary Terapagos as its face.

The checklist holds 14 Double rare Pokémon ex, four of them the new Stellar Tera Pokémon ex, three ACE SPEC Trainer cards, 13 Illustration rares, 11 Ultra rare full art etched Pokémon ex and Supporters, six Special illustration rares and three gold etched Hyper rares. Grass is the most represented type at 23 cards, with Fighting close behind at 21 and a single Dragon card.

The cards come from the Japanese Stellar Miracle expansion and the Pokémon Card Game Battle Academy Deck Kit. Most of the set carries the H regulation mark; eight cards keep the older G mark.

What makes Stellar Crown different

• The first Stellar Tera Pokémon ex Terapagos ex, Cinderace ex, Lapras ex and Galvantula ex debut the Stellar Tera type. Each keeps the Pokémon's usual TCG type and carries a powerful attack named after a gemstone that needs three different types of Energy, and the set adds Trainer cards that attach extra Energy or reduce Tera attack costs to make them work.
• Terapagos ex four times over The set mascot appears as a Double rare (128), Saboteri's Special illustration rare (170) and a gold Hyper rare (173), and the 128 print also exists as a Premier Ball League promo in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
• Three ACE SPEC cards inside the numbering Deluxe Bomb 134, Grand Tree 136 and Sparkling Crystal 142 are the ACE SPEC Rares, the last of them a Pokémon Tool built for Tera Pokémon.
• Starter Illustration rares Orca's Bulbasaur 143 and Saboteri's Squirtle 148 open the Illustration rare run, and the two Kanto starters are the most collected pack pulled cards in the set. Zeraora 151 by Kazumasa Yasukuni and Toshinao Aoki's Archaludon 155 close it.
• A retailer stamp map Archaludon 107 exists with a GameStop stamp (Canada), an EB Games stamp (Australia and New Zealand) and a Stellar Crown stamp (Europe), Raging Bolt 111 with a Stellar Crown stamp (USA), and Lapras 31 with a 7-Eleven stamp (Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore), all on Cosmos Holofoil.
• Briar, the Regionals promo Briar 132 was printed as a Regionals promo in orange and red logo versions, each with a separate staff print, while Fan Rotom 118 and Terapagos 128 exist as Premier Ball League promos and judge promos in Southeast Asia.

How Stellar Crown arrived

Japan released Stellar Miracle on July 19, 2024, a set of 135 cards including secret rares that followed Transformation Mask and preceded Super Electric Breaker. The English set combined it with the Battle Academy Deck Kit cards and released on September 13, 2024, two weeks after Trick or Trade 2024 and ahead of Surging Sparks in November. Traditional Chinese followed on August 2, 2024, Thai on August 30, 2024 and Indonesian on September 20, 2024.

Prerelease tournaments ran on the weekends of August 31 to September 1 and September 7 to 8, 2024. Each Stellar Crown Build & Battle Box held four booster packs, a 40 card ready to play deck built around one of four SVP Black Star Promos, a deck building tip sheet and a Pokémon TCG Live code card. The promos were Ledian (SVP 133), Crabominable (SVP 134), Drifblim (SVP 135) and Bouffalant (SVP 136), with non holofoil Ledian 3 and Bouffalant 119 deck prints.

The Hobby Co-Op Marketing Kit for stores carried a lenticular Lapras sign with the set logo on the reverse, a double sided Terapagos and Stellar Tera Galvantula poster, and Pokéween hanging decorations and diecut cards for the Halloween season. Cards from the set kept appearing later: Rhyperior 76, Klinklang 101, Melmetal 104 and Archaludon 107 as Cosmos Holofoil prints in the Journey Together checklane blisters, and non holofoil Ledian 3, Grimmsnarl 96 and Archaludon 107 in the Battle Box League distribution of April 2026.

Stellar Crown products and what came in them

The Elite Trainer Box features Terastal Form Terapagos and holds nine booster packs, 65 card sleeves and four dividers, 45 basic Energy cards, a player's guide, six damage counter dice, a coin flip die, two Special Condition markers and a Noctowl promo (SVP Promo 141). The Pokémon Center version adds two more packs and a second Noctowl with a Pokémon Center stamp. The basic Energy cards introduced a new design with a Terastal crystal background, numbered SVE 9 to 16.

Single pack blisters carry Horsea (SVP 137) or Porygon2 (SVP 138), three pack blisters carry Latias (SVP 139) or Tinkaton (SVP 140), the last one found on both Pixel and Smooth Cosmos Holofoil. Instead of evolution lines, the premium checklane and Stage 1 blisters focused on Paradox Pokémon from Temporal Forces, with Cosmos Holofoil Roaring Moon, Iron Thorns, Koraidon and Miraidon on top. Every blister but the three pack version includes a Dragonite coin. Display boxes hold 36 packs (18 in European half displays), the Booster Bundle holds six packs in two configurations, and the Collector's Kit added a double sided poster and playmat, one pack and a paper album. Ultra Pro also released four pocket binders featuring Cinderace and Tera Galvantula and nine pocket binders featuring Terapagos and Tera Lapras.

Collecting and grading Stellar Crown

Stellar Crown is a set where the promo variants outrun the pack pulled cards. The Fan Rotom 118 Premier Ball League Judge promo tops the PSA 10 list, and the stamped Raging Bolt 111, GameStop Archaludon 107, Regionals staff Briar 132 and 7-Eleven Lapras 31 all sit among the tracked chase cards. Each is a separate row in the checklist below, so check the variant label before comparing a price with the ordinary print.

Among the pack pulled cards, Squirtle 148 and Bulbasaur 143 lead, and Terapagos ex 170 and Dachsbun ex 169 follow. Beyond them the graded market thins quickly, and the live chase list above shows the gap between raw and PSA 10 for every tracked card. Only a handful of tracked singles clear a meaningful raw price, which makes Stellar Crown an affordable master set to build compared with its neighbors.

The Special illustration rares and gold Hyper rares use the same etched stock as the rest of the Scarlet & Violet Series, so check edges and the textured surface for print lines before submitting. Sealed product was printed in volume and remained on shelves through the Surging Sparks release, so booster boxes, Elite Trainer Boxes and bundles are for opening, and the sealed table above tracks what they trade for today.