Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Paldean Fates Elite Trainer Box (ETB)

Shiny Pokémon Return to the Spotlight!

Discover a sparkling collection of rare-coloured Pokémon with the Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Paldean Fates Elite Trainer Box (ETB), featuring 9 Paldean Fates booster packs, a guaranteed full-art foil Shiny Mimikyu promo card, matching Shiny Mimikyu card sleeves and a complete selection of Pokémon TCG accessories.

Paldean Fates is a special Scarlet & Violet expansion dedicated heavily to Shiny Pokémon, bringing more than 100 Shiny Pokémon into the spotlight. Familiar favourites return with their alternate colour schemes, including Pikachu, Charmander, Charmeleon, Mew ex, Gardevoir ex, and the spectacular Shiny Tera Charizard ex.

The expansion contains more than 240 cards in total, with Shiny Rare Pokémon, Shiny Pokémon ex, Illustration Rares, Special Illustration Rares, Ultra Rares and Hyper Rares providing an extensive checklist for collectors.

For fans of previous Shiny-focused expansions such as Hidden Fates and Shining Fates, Paldean Fates brings the concept into the Scarlet & Violet generation with new Pokémon, new artwork and modern rarity treatments.

Product Details

• Game: Pokémon Trading Card Game
• Series: Scarlet & Violet
• Expansion: Paldean Fates
• Set Code: SV4.5
• Product Type: Elite Trainer Box (ETB)
• Language: English
• Booster Packs: 9 Paldean Fates booster packs
• Cards Per Booster Pack: 10 Pokémon TCG cards
• Promo Card: Full-Art Foil Shiny Mimikyu
• Featured Pokémon: Shiny Mimikyu
• Condition: Factory Sealed
• Manufacturer: The Pokémon Company International
• Original Release Year: 2024

📅 Original Release Date

26 January 2024

Scarlet & Violet—Paldean Fates launched as a special Pokémon TCG expansion between Paradox Rift and Temporal Forces.

Rather than focusing primarily on a new location or storyline, Paldean Fates celebrates Shiny Pokémon—rare Pokémon featuring alternate colouration from their standard forms.

Elite Trainer Box Contents

Each Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Paldean Fates Elite Trainer Box contains:

• 9 × Scarlet & Violet—Paldean Fates Booster Packs
• 1 × Full-Art Foil Promo Card featuring Shiny Mimikyu
• 65 × Card Sleeves featuring Shiny Mimikyu
• 45 × Pokémon TCG Energy Cards
• 1 × Player's Guide to the Paldean Fates expansion
• 6 × Damage-Counter Dice
• 1 × Competition-Legal Coin-Flip Die
• 2 × Plastic Condition Markers
• 1 × Collector's Box
• 4 × Dividers to organise your collection
• 1 × Pokémon TCG Live Code Card

Everything is packaged inside the matching Paldean Fates collector's box, making the ETB ideal for opening, playing or keeping as part of a sealed Pokémon collection.

9 Paldean Fates Booster Packs

The standard Paldean Fates ETB contains 9 booster packs from the special expansion.

Each pack contains 10 Pokémon TCG cards, providing 90 Pokémon TCG cards across the nine included booster packs, before considering the guaranteed Shiny Mimikyu promo and additional accessories.

Paldean Fates packs provide opportunities to discover cards across the expansion's extensive Shiny-focused checklist, including:

• Shiny Rare Pokémon
• Shiny Pokémon ex
• Shiny Tera Pokémon ex
• Illustration Rares
• Ultra Rares
• Special Illustration Rares
• Hyper Rares

Cards are randomly inserted, and specific Pokémon, cards or rarities are not guaranteed.

Full-Art Shiny Mimikyu Promo Card

Every standard Paldean Fates Elite Trainer Box contains a guaranteed full-art foil promotional card featuring Shiny Mimikyu.

Mimikyu's normally yellow lower body changes to a distinctive monochrome grey appearance in its Shiny form, making the promo immediately recognisable from standard Mimikyu cards.

The ETB continues the Shiny Mimikyu theme throughout its presentation, including 65 matching card sleeves and coordinated collector's box artwork.

Unlike the cards inside the booster packs, the Shiny Mimikyu promotional card is guaranteed with every standard Paldean Fates ETB.

More Than 100 Shiny Pokémon

The defining feature of Paldean Fates is its enormous selection of Shiny Pokémon.

The expansion contains more than 100 Shiny Pokémon, ranging from newly discovered Paldean Pokémon to fan favourites from previous generations.

Collectors can discover Shiny versions of Pokémon such as:

• Pikachu
• Charmander
• Charmeleon
• Mimikyu
• Snorlax
• Ditto
• Tinkaton
• Ceruledge
• Dondozo
• Gardevoir
• Pidgeot
• Palafin
• And many more

Their alternate colour palettes give familiar Pokémon an entirely different appearance and form the foundation of the Paldean Fates collecting experience.

Shiny Charizard ex

One of the headline cards of Paldean Fates is the spectacular Shiny Tera Charizard ex.

Charizard's Shiny form replaces its familiar orange colouration with a dramatic dark body, making Shiny Charizard one of the most instantly recognisable alternate-colour Pokémon.

Paldean Fates features Shiny Tera Charizard ex as one of its major Pokémon ex, including a highly detailed Special Illustration Rare treatment.

The card combines several major modern Pokémon TCG concepts in a single collectible:

Charizard + Shiny Pokémon + Tera Pokémon ex + Special Illustration Rare.

For Charizard collectors, it is one of the defining cards of Paldean Fates.

Shiny Mew ex

Another major collector favourite is Mew ex.

Mew's Shiny form exchanges its familiar pink colouring for a pale blue appearance, giving the Mythical Pokémon one of the most recognisable Shiny forms in the franchise.

Paldean Fates gives Mew ex a particularly memorable Special Illustration Rare, presenting Shiny Mew within a colourful and playful illustrated environment.

For Mew collectors, it is one of the standout modern cards from the Scarlet & Violet era.

Shiny Gardevoir ex

Gardevoir ex also receives the Shiny treatment in Paldean Fates.

Its Special Illustration Rare is particularly notable for its detailed scene-based artwork, giving Gardevoir collectors another premium card to discover alongside the expansion's Charizard and Mew.

The combination of Shiny Pokémon and full-card storytelling helps give Paldean Fates a distinct identity compared with a standard Scarlet & Violet expansion.

Shiny Pikachu

No Shiny-focused Pokémon set would feel complete without Pikachu.

Paldean Fates includes Shiny Pikachu, giving collectors an alternate-colour version of Pokémon's iconic mascot.

Pikachu's Shiny colouration is more subtle than Pokémon such as Charizard or Mew, featuring a deeper golden-orange appearance rather than its traditional bright yellow.

For Pikachu collectors, its inclusion provides another major reason to explore the Paldean Fates Shiny checklist.

Shiny Charmander & Charmeleon

Charizard collectors can go beyond the final Evolution.

Paldean Fates also includes Shiny versions of:

• Charmander
• Charmeleon

This allows collectors to pursue the Shiny versions of the complete original Fire-type partner Evolution line.

Together with Shiny Charizard ex, these cards form a natural group for collectors focusing on Charizard and its Evolution family.

Shiny Tera Pokémon ex

Paldean Fates combines the Shiny Pokémon concept with the Scarlet & Violet era's Terastal phenomenon.

Three major Pokémon appear as Shiny Tera Pokémon ex:

• Charizard ex
• Forretress ex
• Espathra ex

These cards combine alternate Shiny colouration with the crystalline appearance of Terastallized Pokémon, producing some of the expansion's most visually distinctive Pokémon ex.

Great Tusk ex & Iron Treads ex

Paldean Fates also continues the Ancient and Future Pokémon theme introduced during the Scarlet & Violet Series.

Great Tusk ex represents the Ancient side, while Iron Treads ex represents the Future.

Their inclusion connects Paldean Fates with the wider Scarlet & Violet TCG storyline while providing additional Pokémon ex to discover beyond the Shiny-focused cards.

Special Illustration Rares

Paldean Fates includes 8 Special Illustration Rare cards featuring Shiny Pokémon ex or Supporter cards.

These premium cards combine full-card artwork with some of the expansion's biggest Pokémon and characters.

Major examples include cards featuring:

• Charizard ex
• Mew ex
• Gardevoir ex
• Arven
• Iono
• Clive

For collectors who enjoy artwork-focused Pokémon cards, these sit among the expansion's biggest targets.

Shiny Rare Pokémon

Paldean Fates uses a dedicated Shiny Rare category for many of its alternate-colour Pokémon.

These cards place Shiny Pokémon against bright, distinctive holographic backgrounds, making them immediately recognisable when opening booster packs.

With more than 100 Shiny Pokémon throughout the expansion, collectors can build substantial Shiny-focused binder collections from a single set.

The variety ranges from classic Kanto favourites through to Pokémon introduced during the Scarlet & Violet generation.

More Than 240 Cards

Paldean Fates contains more than 240 cards across its complete collector checklist.

Official expansion highlights include:

• More than 240 cards
• More than 100 Shiny Pokémon
• Brand-new Pokémon ex
• 11 Shiny Pokémon ex
• 7 additional Pokémon ex
• 3 Shiny Tera Pokémon ex
• 3 Illustration Rare cards featuring Shiny Pokémon
• 8 Special Illustration Rare cards
• 6 Hyper Rare Pokémon ex
• Full-Art Supporter cards

This extensive checklist makes Paldean Fates particularly suited to collectors who enjoy building large master sets.

Shiny Pokémon Through the Generations

Paldean Fates continues a long tradition of Pokémon TCG expansions celebrating Shiny Pokémon.

Previous Shiny-focused releases have included products and expansions such as Hidden Fates and Shining Fates, both of which became particularly memorable for their large Shiny Pokémon selections.

Paldean Fates brings that collecting concept into the Scarlet & Violet generation.

Rather than simply repeating previous Shiny cards, the expansion incorporates Pokémon introduced in newer generations while also revisiting classic favourites such as Charizard, Pikachu, Mew and Gardevoir.

A Special Expansion Without a Traditional Booster Box

Like many special Pokémon TCG expansions, Paldean Fates was not released as a traditional English 36-pack Booster Box.

Instead, booster packs were distributed through products including:

• Elite Trainer Boxes
• Booster Bundles
• Pokémon ex Premium Collections
• Tins
• Mini Tins
• Tech Sticker Collections
• Other Paldean Fates collection products

That makes the Paldean Fates Elite Trainer Box, with its 9 included booster packs, one of the expansion's primary sealed products.

Shiny Mimikyu Accessories

Beyond the booster packs and promotional card, the ETB includes a complete collection of accessories centred around Shiny Mimikyu.

The 65 included card sleeves provide enough sleeves for a complete 60-card Pokémon TCG deck with several spares.

Players also receive Energy cards, dice and condition markers, while collectors can use the sturdy ETB box and four included dividers to organise cards from the expansion.

Highlights

• Official Pokémon TCG product
• Scarlet & Violet—Paldean Fates
• Special SV4.5 expansion
• Shiny Pokémon-focused release
• 9 Paldean Fates booster packs
• 10 Pokémon TCG cards per booster pack
• 1 full-art foil Shiny Mimikyu promo card
• 65 Shiny Mimikyu card sleeves
• 45 Energy cards
• Player's guide
• 6 damage-counter dice
• Competition-legal coin-flip die
• 2 plastic condition markers
• Collector's storage box
• 4 dividers
• Pokémon TCG Live code card
• More than 240 cards
• More than 100 Shiny Pokémon
• Features Shiny Charizard ex
• Features Shiny Mew ex
• Features Shiny Gardevoir ex
• Features Shiny Pikachu
• Features Shiny Charmander & Charmeleon
• Features Shiny Tera Pokémon ex
• Features Special Illustration Rares
• Features Hyper Rare Pokémon ex
• English-language release
• Factory sealed
• Originally released 26 January 2024

Why Collect Paldean Fates?

Scarlet & Violet—Paldean Fates is built around one of the most popular concepts in Pokémon collecting: Shiny Pokémon.

Rather than limiting alternate-colour Pokémon to a handful of cards, the expansion contains more than 100 Shiny Pokémon, creating an enormous secondary collection within the set.

Major favourites such as Charizard, Pikachu, Mew, Gardevoir, Charmander and Mimikyu appear alongside newer Pokémon from the Paldea region, giving the set appeal across multiple generations of Pokémon fans.

The premium artwork provides another major attraction. Shiny Charizard ex, Mew ex and Gardevoir ex receive spectacular Special Illustration Rare treatments, while the dedicated Shiny Rare cards give collectors dozens of additional alternate-colour Pokémon to discover.

The standard Elite Trainer Box is also one of the main sealed products associated with the expansion. Inside are 9 Paldean Fates booster packs, a guaranteed full-art Shiny Mimikyu promo, matching card sleeves and a complete collection of gameplay accessories.

Whether you're chasing Shiny Charizard ex, Mew ex, Gardevoir ex, Shiny Pikachu, building a Paldean Fates master set, collecting Shiny Pokémon, or adding another special-set ETB to your sealed collection, the Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Paldean Fates Elite Trainer Box is a standout Shiny-focused release from the Scarlet & Violet era.

Perfect For

• Pokémon TCG collectors
• Paldean Fates collectors
• Shiny Pokémon collectors
• Charizard collectors
• Mew collectors
• Mimikyu collectors
• Pikachu collectors
• Gardevoir collectors
• Shiny Rare collectors
• Special Illustration Rare collectors
• Scarlet & Violet collectors
• Master set collectors
• Elite Trainer Box collectors
• Sealed Pokémon collectors
• Pokémon TCG players