Ascended Heroes Master Set Guide: How Many Cards, Chase Cards and Binder Size

What Ascended Heroes is

The set in a paragraph.

Ascended Heroes is a Pokemon TCG: Mega Evolution series set that released in English on 30 January 2026, with the set code ASC. It is the biggest English set of the era by a distance, and it adds a rarity none of the other English Mega sets have: the Mega Attack Rare.

Its Japanese counterpart is Mega Dream EX (M2A). The headline cards are shared, but the numbering and some rarities differ, so use a checklist for the language you collect.

How many cards are in Ascended Heroes?

Every rarity, from Common to Mega Hyper Rare.

Ascended Heroes has 217 cards in the main set, numbered 001 to 217, and 78 secret rares numbered above it, from 218 to 295. That is 295 numbered cards in all.

The main set is 84 Commons, 69 Uncommons, 25 Rares and 39 Double Rares. The secret rares are 33 Illustration Rares, 14 Ultra Rares, 7 Mega Attack Rares, 22 Special Illustration Rares and 2 Mega Hyper Rares. The Mega Attack Rares are all Mega ex cards, numbered between the Ultra Rares and the Special Illustration Rares.

One card from every rarity

English set. Counts from our Ascended Heroes card list.

The Mega ex cards in Ascended Heroes

The headline cards, and where each version sits.

Ascended Heroes has 13 Mega Evolution ex cards in the main set, all Double Rares. 11 of them come back higher up as secret rares, and the table shows where each version sits. The 2 Mega Hyper Rares are Mega Charizard Y ex (294) and Mega Dragonite ex (295).

The main set also holds 26 more ex cards: Erika's Vileplume ex, Ethan's Ho-Oh ex, Cinderace ex, Regice ex, Pikachu ex, Voltorb ex, Hop's Pincurchin ex, Iono's Bellibolt ex, Miraidon ex, Lillie's Clefairy ex, Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex, Azumarill ex, Regirock ex, Cynthia's Garchomp ex, Stunfisk ex, Koraidon ex, N's Zoroark ex, Mandibuzz ex, Fezandipiti ex, Registeel ex, Togedemaru ex, Dragapult ex, Team Rocket's Kangaskhan ex, Larry's Dudunsparce ex, Zangoose ex and Terapagos ex.

One Mega ex appears only as a secret rare here, with no Double Rare in this set: Mega Diancie ex.

Card numbers from our Ascended Heroes card list.

The Ascended Heroes chase cards

In order, by market value. No prices, because they move.

The chase order here comes from our Ascended Heroes Top 10, priced with PriceCharting data on 16 July 2026. From the top: Mega Gengar ex Special Illustration Rare (284), Pikachu ex Special Illustration Rare (276), Mega Dragonite ex Special Illustration Rare (290), Mega Charizard Y ex Mega Hyper Rare (294), Pikachu ex Special Illustration Rare (277).

Behind them: Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex (281), Mega Dragonite ex (295), Lillie's Clefairy ex (280), N's Zoroark ex (286), Mega Feraligatr ex (274).

Values move every week, so for the current order use the link below rather than this page.

The chase, in order

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How many cards are in the Ascended Heroes master set?

Where the reverse holos come in.

A master set is one of every numbered card plus every reverse holo version. In Ascended Heroes, every Common, Uncommon and Rare in the main set has a reverse holo: that is 178 cards. The 39 Double Rare ex cards and all 78 secret rares do not.

So the Ascended Heroes master set is the 295 numbered cards plus 178 reverse holos, 473 cards in all.

The reverse holos are the part people lose track of, because they share a number with the regular card. A checklist with a separate box for each version is the simplest fix.

English set. Counts from our Ascended Heroes card list.

What size binder for the Ascended Heroes master set?

The quick check before you buy a binder.

The 473 card master set is bigger than a 9 pocket binder (360 slots), so it needs a 12 pocket binder (480 slots), which leaves 7 spare, or two binders.

If you only want the 295 numbered cards, without the reverse holos, a 9 pocket binder (360 slots) is enough.

Many collectors put each reverse holo straight after its regular card, so every pair sits side by side. Plan the pages before you start: it is much easier to leave space than to move a whole set later.

How to collect the Ascended Heroes master set

A plan that works whether you open packs or buy singles.

Start with the list. The free Ascended Heroes checklist has every card and every reverse holo, so you can tick off what you own today at no cost.

Then hold every gap open with placeholders. Each one marks a slot, so the binder looks complete in shape from the first day and you swap in the real card when you find it.

Finally, give it a home. The Ascended Heroes Master Set Bundle puts the three together: your choice of Ascended Heroes printed binder, the master set checklist and the full set of digital placeholders.