Destined Rivals Chase Cards: Current Prices, Pull Rates, and Buying from Japan

Search for Destined Rivals chase cards and you’ll find lists naming anywhere from five to 20 cards, rarely the same list twice, and often no price attached to any of them. This guide starts with the numbers instead. Below you’ll find what every chase card in the set trades for right now, how to tell which version you pulled, what a booster box realistically gives you, and how the same cards are priced in Japan. Prices come from TCGplayer and were checked on September 22, 2026.

Every Destined Rivals Chase Card and What It Costs

Card name	Card number	Rarity	Market price (USD)
Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex	231/182	Special Illustration Rare	$428.32
Cynthia’s Garchomp ex	232/182	Special Illustration Rare	$220.87
Ethan’s Ho-Oh ex	230/182	Special Illustration Rare	$150.06
Team Rocket’s Moltres ex	229/182	Special Illustration Rare	$92.91
Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex	233/182	Special Illustration Rare	$91.59
Team Rocket’s Crobat ex	234/182	Special Illustration Rare	$61.02
Misty’s Psyduck	193/182	Illustration Rare	$57.12
Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex	240/182	Hyper Rare	$55.74
Ethan’s Adventure	236/182	Special Illustration Rare	$34.73
Cynthia’s Garchomp ex	241/182	Hyper Rare	$30.55

Market prices from TCGplayer, checked September 22, 2026.

Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 231/182 leads the set at $428.32, nearly double the next most expensive card. Cynthia’s Garchomp ex 232/182 follows at $220.87, then Ethan’s Ho-Oh ex 230/182 at $150.06. Below that, prices bunch together. Team Rocket’s Moltres ex 229/182 and Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex 233/182 are within $2 of each other, at $92.91 and $91.59.

From Team Rocket’s Crobat ex 234/182 at $61.02, the table slides down to Cynthia’s Garchomp ex 241/182 at $30.55. Collectors generally chalk those prices up to character popularity and full-art illustrations.

What Counts as a Chase Card in Destined Rivals?

There’s no official definition of a chase card, so for this guide we’re drawing the line at a market price of $30. Ten cards clear it: seven Special Illustration Rares, two Hyper Rares, and one Illustration Rare.

That leaves 52 of the 62 secret rares below the line, running from $2.66 to $29.24. If you pulled a secret rare that isn’t in the table above, it’s worth less than $30 at current prices.

The 62 break down into 23 Illustration Rares, 22 Ultra Rares, 11 Special Illustration Rares, and six Hyper Rares. Rarity alone doesn’t determine value. The cheapest Special Illustration Rare in the set, Team Rocket’s Ariana 237/182, is $19.59, below several Illustration Rares.

How to Tell Which Destined Rivals Chase Card You Pulled

A few details on the card tell you exactly what you pulled, no price guide needed.

☐ Is the card number higher than 182?
☐ How many stars are in the bottom-left corner, and are they gold or silver?
☐ Does the artwork run to the edges, and is the whole card gold?

Check the Card Number and the Rarity Symbol

The card number is printed as X/182, and anything numbered 183 or higher is a secret rare. Cards numbered 182 or lower belong to the regular set, whatever the artwork looks like.

The rarity symbol is in the bottom-left corner. One gold star means an Illustration Rare, two gold stars a Special Illustration Rare, and three gold stars a Hyper Rare. Two silver stars mean an Ultra Rare.

The card itself backs up what the stars tell you. Illustration Rares have full-art illustrations that extend to the edges of the card. Special Illustration Rares add a textured foil finish, and Hyper Rares are gold from edge to edge, frame and border included.

Compare the Two Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex Versions

Destined Rivals has two cards called Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex, and they’re nowhere near each other in value. Card 231/182 is the Special Illustration Rare and card 240/182 is the Hyper Rare.

On September 22, 2026, that meant $428.32 vs. $55.74, making the Special Illustration Rare worth roughly eight times as much. The all-gold treatment on 240/182 lets you tell them apart at a glance, before you even check the number.

Destined Rivals Chase Card Pull Rates and Whether to Open a Box

The TCGplayer Authentication Center opened more than 8,000 Destined Rivals booster packs to measure how often each rarity shows up.

Rarity	Odds per pack (any card of this rarity)	Odds of one specific card
Special Illustration Rare	1 in 94	1 in 1,033
Hyper Rare	1 in 149	1 in 894
Ultra Rare	1 in 16	1 in 344
Illustration Rare	1 in 12	1 in 278

Figures from the TCGplayer Authentication Center’s opening of more than 8,000 Destined Rivals booster packs, published May 30, 2025. The underlying rates carry 95% confidence intervals of ±0.17 to ±0.58 percentage points.

Special Illustration Rares show up in 1.06% of packs, about 1 in 94, while any one specific card of that rarity drops to 0.10%, about 1 in 1,033. Hyper Rares work the other way around: as a group they’re harder to hit, at 0.67%, about 1 in 149, but a specific Hyper Rare shows up in 0.11% of packs, better odds than a specific Special Illustration Rare, because only six cards share that rarity, versus 11 Special Illustration Rares. Illustration Rares appear in 8.29% of packs and Ultra Rares in 6.39%.

Multiply those rates by the 36 packs in a box and one box averages about 0.4 Special Illustration Rares, 0.2 Hyper Rares, 3.0 Illustration Rares, and 2.3 Ultra Rares. Divide the odds for a specific card by 36, and you’d need to open about 29 boxes on average to pull the Special Illustration Rare you want, about 25 for a Hyper Rare, and about eight for an Illustration Rare.

At about $390 a box on StockX, even the best-case scenario — about eight boxes for an Illustration Rare — runs around $3,100, while Misty’s Psyduck, the only Illustration Rare on the list, sells for $57.12 as a single. For every card on this list, buying the single beats opening packs.

Destined Rivals Chase Cards in Japanese: Glory of Team Rocket and Heat Wave Arena

Destined Rivals didn’t exist as one set in Japan. Its cards came from two Japanese releases, and the same artwork carries a different price there.

• The Japanese sets behind Destined Rivals
• Which chase cards appear in the Japanese sets
• How Japanese and English prices compare
• What changes if you buy the Japanese version

The Japanese Sets Behind Destined Rivals

The two sets are Glory of Team Rocket (ロケット団の栄光, SV10), a main expansion, and Heat Wave Arena (熱風のアリーナ, SV9a), a smaller “enhanced expansion” set. Neither has an official English name, but those are the names collectors use.

Glory of Team Rocket came out on April 18, 2025, with 132 cards, and Heat Wave Arena on March 14, 2025, with 92 cards. Both reached Japanese shelves before the English expansion arrived on May 30, 2025. Together the two Japanese sets hold 224 cards to the English set’s 244, so the contents don’t line up one to one.

Which Chase Cards Appear in the Japanese Sets

All 10 cards on the list have a Japanese counterpart, five in Glory of Team Rocket and five in Heat Wave Arena.

Japan uses its own rarity labels and its own numbering. Special Illustration Rares are SARs (Special Art Rares), Hyper Rares are URs (Ultra Rares), and Illustration Rares are ARs (Art Rares). Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 231/182 becomes a SAR numbered 125/098, Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex 233/182 becomes 126/098, the Hyper Rare Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 240/182 becomes UR 130/098, and Misty’s Psyduck 193/182 becomes AR 071/063. The table below lists the rest.

Beyond these 10, though, a Japanese match isn’t guaranteed. Because the Japanese sets are 20 cards short of the English card list, some cards outside the top 10 have no Japanese version.

How Japanese and English Prices Compare

Card (English / Japanese number)	English on TCGplayer	Japanese on TCGplayer	Japanese in Japan
Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 231/182 / 125/098	$428.32	$361.47	¥56,810
Cynthia’s Garchomp ex 232/182 / 087/063	$220.87	$211.46	¥27,100
Ethan’s Ho-Oh ex 230/182 / 086/063	$150.06	$133.21	¥21,050
Team Rocket’s Moltres ex 229/182 / 124/098	$92.91	$93.97	¥12,502
Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex 233/182 / 126/098	$91.59	$85.83	¥5,149
Team Rocket’s Crobat ex 234/182 / 127/098	$61.02	$54.84	¥4,150
Misty’s Psyduck 193/182 / 071/063	$57.12	$31.27 (from past sales; none listed now)	¥3,870
Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 240/182 / 130/098	$55.74	Not listed	¥5,380
Ethan’s Adventure 236/182 / 089/063	$34.73	$42.57	¥4,500
Cynthia’s Garchomp ex 241/182 / 091/063	$30.55	$29.13	¥5,000

English and Japanese prices on TCGplayer checked September 22, 2026. Japan prices from Suruga-ya, September 22, 2026. Figures cover the card only.

Buying the Japanese version on TCGplayer won’t save you much. Across the eight pairs with a copy for sale there, the Japanese copies run from about 23% above the English card to about 16% below it, with Ethan’s Adventure at the high end and Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 231/182 at the low end. Most of those pages carry one or two sellers, so the Japanese prices on TCGplayer rest on thin data.

The Japanese market itself is a different story. In Japan, the 10 cards run from 4% above to 64% below the English market price, at an exchange rate of ¥157.23 per dollar (September 21, 2026). The widest gaps land in the middle of the list: Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex is about ¥5,149 in Japan, roughly $33, while the English card is $91.59. At the bottom the gap closes and reverses, with Cynthia’s Garchomp ex 241/182 at about ¥5,000, roughly $32, next to $30.55 in English.

Sealed product follows its own logic. Japanese boxes pull from a different card list, so the pull rates above don’t apply to them.

Product	Packs per box	Cards per pack	Cards per box	Price
English booster display box	36	10	360	about $390
Glory of Team Rocket box	30	5	150	about ¥21,300–¥28,800

One caveat runs through all of these figures. The comparison is close, but not apples to apples: the English prices are Near Mint market prices on TCGplayer, while the Japanese ones come from used copies listed on Suruga-ya. Every price here covers the card only, with no fees, shipping, sales tax, or duty. The import section below covers what buying from Japan adds.

What Changes If You Buy the Japanese Version

Japanese cards are the same standard size as English cards, so your existing sleeves and binders fit. The backs are different: Japanese cards have a gold border with a multicolored design, while English cards have a navy-blue border with a white swirl.

Competitive play is where the difference shows. Play! Pokémon sets legal card languages by rating zone, and English is the only language listed for North America at Championship Series events; Japanese isn’t listed for any zone. Other tournaments and League sessions are left to the organizer’s discretion, and the World and International Championships allow any language that’s legal in the player’s home country.

You can get either version graded. CGC grades standard-sized Pokémon cards in all languages. PSA’s service tiers are based on declared value, not language, and its catalog lists Japanese Pokémon sets separately.

Selling later is the harder part. With only a seller or two per Japanese card on TCGplayer, and none for some, the resale market for Japanese copies in the United States appears far smaller than the market for English ones.

How to Order Destined Rivals Chase Cards from Japan

Ordering from Japan runs through a proxy service, which adds a step you wouldn’t deal with when buying domestically. The sequence is short. The sections below cover the proxy service, searching, and the costs to add up before you order.

1. Find the card and which Japanese set it’s from.
2. Search the Japanese marketplaces in English.
3. Add up the fees, shipping, and duty, and compare the total with what you’d save.
4. Place the order through a proxy service and have the parcel forwarded.

Have a Proxy Service Buy and Ship It

Many Japanese marketplaces don’t ship internationally, which is where a proxy service comes in. The service places the order for you, receives the parcel in Japan, and forwards it overseas. Neokyo runs a Pokémon TCG page that collects listings across Japanese marketplaces by set.

Search Japanese Marketplaces for the Card or Sealed Box

You’ll find Japanese singles and sealed boxes on marketplaces like Suruga-ya, Mercari, Yahoo! Auctions, and Rakuten. Neokyo’s search box translates English into Japanese automatically, so you can type the English card name and let the site handle the rest.

Condition wording is where Japanese listings need a second look. Suruga-ya’s own stock is listed simply as used, while marketplace sellers add their own wording, from B-rank (playable, with noticeable wear) through free-text notes to graded slabs. Read the condition line before you buy.

What It Costs to Import

Cost	Amount	Source
Service fee	¥350 per item	Neokyo
Packing	¥500 up to 2 kg, plus ¥150 per extra kg	Neokyo
Shipping	Carrier’s rate, based on destination and parcel size	Neokyo estimator
Storage	Free for 45 days	Neokyo
Import duty and taxes	Depend on the destination country	Your country’s customs authority

Neokyo charges a flat ¥350 service fee per item, applied once when several copies of the same card go into one buy request, and packing costs ¥500 up to 2 kilograms plus ¥150 for each additional kilogram. Neokyo passes the carrier’s rate through with no markup, and its shipping estimator, which needs no account, quotes the rate for your own address, parcel size, and carrier. Storage is free for the first 45 days.

Import duty and taxes depend on the destination country and aren’t included in any of the prices in this guide. Check what applies where you live before you order.

Shipping is charged per parcel rather than per card, so if you order just one card, it bears the full shipping cost. A sealed box is heavy enough to raise both packing and shipping costs, so the comparison below covers single cards only.

Which Cards Are Worth Importing

Card (English number)	English market price	Japanese price plus service fee	Savings before shipping and duty (rounded)
Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 231/182	$428.32	$364	+$65
Team Rocket’s Nidoking ex 233/182	$91.59	$35	+$57
Cynthia’s Garchomp ex 232/182	$220.87	$175	+$46
Team Rocket’s Crobat ex 234/182	$61.02	$29	+$32
Misty’s Psyduck 193/182	$57.12	$27	+$30
Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 240/182	$55.74	$36	+$19
Ethan’s Ho-Oh ex 230/182	$150.06	$136	+$14
Team Rocket’s Moltres ex 229/182	$92.91	$82	+$11
Ethan’s Adventure 236/182	$34.73	$31	+$4
Cynthia’s Garchomp ex 241/182	$30.55	$34	−$3

Japanese prices from Suruga-ya, September 22, 2026, converted at ¥157.23 per dollar, plus Neokyo’s ¥350 service fee. Shipping and duty aren’t included; duty, where it applies, is charged on the declared value, so it cuts deeper into the savings on expensive cards. Differences of about $10 or less fall within the typical price gap between Near Mint and used copies.

Rounded to the dollar, the savings range from $65 on Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 231/182 down to −$3. As noted under the table, anything within about $10 is too close to call, which leaves Ethan’s Adventure 236/182 and Cynthia’s Garchomp ex 241/182 as cards to buy in English. The other eight come out ahead before shipping and duty, followed by Nidoking ex at $57 and Cynthia’s Garchomp ex 232/182 at $46.

Shipping is charged per parcel, so a card with only small savings rarely covers it on its own. Add up the savings for the cards you were going to buy anyway, compare the total with the shipping quote for your address, and if it comes out ahead, send them together in one parcel. You can check the current listings for both Japanese sets on Neokyo’s Pokémon TCG page.

Pokémon TCG on Neokyo

Destined Rivals Chase Cards: What to Buy and Where

Team Rocket’s Mewtwo ex 231/182 leads the set at $428.32, and the 10th card on the list comes in at $30.55. The card number and rarity symbol tell you which version you’re holding, and pulling one specific card takes eight to 29 boxes on average depending on rarity, so the single is the cheaper route for every card here.

A Japanese card isn’t legal at North American Championship Series events and has far fewer buyers in the United States, which makes it a better fit for a collection than for a deck or a quick resale. Buying the Japanese version on TCGplayer won’t save you much, and importing works best when several cards go into one order.

Shipping is charged per parcel, not per card. Start with the cards you already want, focus on the eight that come out ahead before shipping and duty, and place a single order once the combined savings clearly exceed shipping and any duty for your address.

Pokémon TCG on Neokyo