Portal TCG · Set Reveal
The wait for a card here and a card there is over: the entire 76-card Storm Emeralda main set has been revealed in one go. It's the sixth Mega Evolution set, it lands in Japan on 31 July, and it's headlined by the card that started this whole mechanic back in 2015 — Mega Rayquaza ex. We get it in English as Delta Reign on 6 November.
There's a lot in 76 cards, so we're not going to pretend to walk you through every Combee. Instead we're doing the thing that actually matters on reveal day: the three Mega ex that anchor the set. What's interesting is that they're three completely different answers to the same question — what is a three-prize attacker for? One is a sledgehammer, one is a wall, and the famous one is made of glass. Here's all three in full — and if you want the lot, every card in the set is listed with its stats at the foot of this page.
- Japanese setStorm Emeralda (M6)
- Set size76 main-set cards
- JP release31 July 2026
- English setDelta Reign · 6 Nov 2026
Mega Rayquaza ex HP 280
AbilityChampion's Roar
When you play this Pokemon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may use this Ability. Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and attach a Basic Energy you find there to this Pokemon. Shuffle the remaining cards and put them on the bottom of your deck.
Storm Emeralda50x
This attack does 50 damage times the number of [R] and [L] Energy attached to all of your Pokemon in play.
- WeaknessLightning (x2)
- ResistanceFighting (-30)
- RetreatCC
Portal takeThe face of the set, and the gamble of it. It accelerates its own Energy the turn it hits the bench, then scales with every Fire and Lightning Energy across your whole board — so the ceiling is genuinely uncapped in the right deck. The catch is right there in the HP: 280 is the lowest of the three Megas, on a card that still gives up three prizes. It's a scaling glass cannon in a format full of 320+ HP walls. When it's good it's spectacular; when it's bad it gets one-shot before it fires. That's the most interesting card in the set precisely because nobody's sure which one it'll be.
Mega Golurk ex HP 350
AbilityPower Limiter
This Pokemon can't attack unless you have 10 cards or more in your hand.
Goliath Punch300
This Pokemon does 30 damage to itself.
- WeaknessDarkness (x2)
- ResistanceFighting (-30)
- RetreatCCC
Portal takeThe sledgehammer. 300 damage for two Psychic Energy is an absurd rate — that one-shots basically anything in the format — and it sits behind 350 HP, the fattest number in the set. The whole card is balanced by one line: it can't attack unless you're holding ten or more cards. So it's not a fair-fight beater, it's a deckbuilding puzzle — build a hand you can keep stocked and it hits like nothing else; run dry for a turn and it just stands there. A very clever, very swingy design.
Mega Golisopod ex HP 340
Finishing Blow60+
This attack does 160 more damage if your opponent's Active Pokemon has any damage counters on it.
Quatro Hold160
During your opponent's next turn, the Defending Pokemon can't Retreat.
- WeaknessFire (x2)
- ResistanceNone
- RetreatCCC
Portal takeThe wall with a mean streak. 340 HP makes it a nightmare to shift, and its cheap attack is a proper closer: 220 damage for a single Grass Energy the moment the target already has damage on it. Pair that with Quatro Hold — 160 that traps the Defender in the Active spot — and you've got a Pokemon that pins something down, then finishes it on the cheap. Less flashy than the other two, probably the most reliable of the three to actually pilot.
The Legendary Stadiums: the set's split-card first
Storm Emeralda introduces a card type the game has never had — the split Stadium. Three ‘Legendary’ Stadiums each arrive as two halves that only work as a pair: play both and they count as a single Stadium, their artwork joining into one wide panorama. It’s why a 76-card set lists three Stadiums but runs to six Stadium numbers (071–076), and after the Megas it’s the most interesting new idea in the set.
Before the Megas, the one set-wide mechanic worth knowing about: Storm Emeralda introduces split “Legendary” Stadium cards. Each is printed as two halves that share a name, so you can only ever run two complete copies — a deliberate nod to the old LEGEND cards from HeartGold & SoulSilver. They're not just collector bait, either: Kyogre and Groudon both have attacks that go from fine to frightening the moment a Legendary Stadium is on the board (Groudon's jumps by a flat 170). If a deck out of this set breaks through, there's a decent chance one of these Stadiums is the reason.
Now the headline. Mega Rayquaza ex is the face of the set — its attack is literally named Storm Emeralda — and it's the one most people will chase. But read the numbers and there's a genuine tension: at 280 HP it's the lowest of the three Megas by some way, on a card that still hands over three prizes when it falls. It's a scaling glass cannon in a format built around 320+ HP bruisers. Whether that's brave or doomed is exactly the sort of thing the Japanese metagame will settle in the fourteen weeks before an English pack is opened.
Which is the whole reason to watch a JP set land early. Everything on this page is Japanese, and English print runs are bigger and cheaper — but the shape carries over. The cards Japan decides are worth building around in July are the cards worth pulling out of your first Delta Reign box in November.
If you want to watch that happen with your own cards rather than someone else's stream, the Japanese box is the cheap way in.
Card text translated from the Japanese Storm Emeralda (M6) reveals, 23 July 2026, with thanks to the translators credited by PokéBeach. Japanese wording is provisional until the set is in hand, and English text is often reworded in localisation — treat the rulings here as the shape of the card, not the final template. Card numbers are read off the scans, not a set list.
Every card in Storm Emeralda
All 76 main-set cards, grouped by type — stats, attacks and costs in full. Effect text is paraphrased for quick reference; provisional until the English print, and the three split “Legendary” Stadiums are two cards each (which is what takes the count to 76).
Grass
Draw 2 cards.
Does 30 to itself.
Wk Fire (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCC
Search your deck for up to 2 Surskit onto your Bench. Shuffle.
Wk Fire (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
The Defending Pokemon can't attack next turn.
Reveal the bottom 7 of your deck; 50 for each Pokemon there with Bug Out. Shuffle those back, discard the rest.
Wk Fire (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Flip a coin; +10 on heads.
Wk Fire (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
Does 30 to 1 of your opponent's Pokemon (no Weakness/Resistance on the Bench).
+50 for each of your opponent's Pokemon in play with an Ability.
Wk Fire (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
Return this Pokemon and everything on it to your hand.
As Masquerain's Bug Out.
Wk Fire (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
+80 if the opponent's Active is an Evolution Pokemon.
Wk Fire (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
AbilityPunk Out If your opponent has any Pokemon ex in play, this Pokemon's Retreat Cost is 0.
Wk Fire (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCC
+160 if the opponent's Active has any damage on it.
The Defending Pokemon can't Retreat next turn.
Wk Fire (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCC
Fire
Your opponent switches their Active with a Benched Pokemon (they choose).
Wk Water (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
+90 if the opponent has 4 or fewer Prizes left.
Does 50 to itself.
Wk Water (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCCC
Search your deck for up to 2 Basic Energy to your hand. Shuffle.
Wk Water (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
AbilityBuddy Boost Once per turn, attach up to 1 Basic [R] and up to 1 Basic [L] Energy from your hand to your Magmortar or Electivire.
Wk Water (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCC
Opponent's Active is now Burned.
Can't use again next turn.
Wk Water (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCC
30 for each Basic [R] Energy in your discard, then shuffle them into your deck.
Discard 2 Energy from this Pokemon.
Wk Water (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Flip a coin; on heads, discard an Energy from the opponent's Active.
Wk Water (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Water
Both players shuffle their hand into their deck and draw 4.
Heal 30 from this Pokemon.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
If a “Legendary” Stadium is in play, also does 50 to each Benched Pokemon of the opponent.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCC
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
AbilityDeep Sea Draw Once per turn, draw a card; if you do, you may put a card from your hand on the bottom of your deck.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
AbilityOcean Gain Once per turn while Active, heal 50 from this Pokemon.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCC
Lightning
Search your deck for up to 2 Basic Pokemon onto your Bench. Shuffle.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
Flip a coin; on heads, opponent's Active is Paralyzed.
Discard any number of Basic Energy from this Pokemon; 60 for each.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCC
Usable turn 1 if you go first. Search your deck for a [L] Energy onto this Pokemon. Shuffle.
Flip a coin; on tails, can't attack next turn.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret Free
AbilityIncarnate Union With all four of Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus and Enamorus in play, ignore all [C] Energy in this Pokemon's attack costs.
Ignore all effects on the opponent's Active for this attack's damage.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
20 for each Energy on all of the opponent's Pokemon.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Flip a coin; on heads, prevent all damage and effects to this Pokemon next turn.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret C
+90 if this evolved from Wattrel this turn.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret C
Psychic
Wk Darkness (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret CC
20 for each card in the opponent's hand.
Opponent's Active is now Asleep.
Wk Darkness (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret CC
Prevent all attack damage to this Pokemon next turn. Can't use if any of your Pokemon used it last turn.
Wk Darkness (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret CCC
Wk Darkness (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret CCC
AbilityPower Limiter Can't attack unless you have 10 or more cards in hand.
Does 30 to itself.
Wk Darkness (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret CCC
AbilityIncarnate Union As Thundurus — with all four in play, ignore all [C] Energy in this Pokemon's attack costs.
+100 if the opponent's Active is a Pokemon ex.
Wk Metal (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Fighting
Search your deck for a card that evolves from this Pokemon and evolve it. Shuffle.
Wk Grass (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
AbilityCounterattack Quills If Active and damaged by an opponent's attack (even if Knocked Out), put 3 damage counters on the attacker.
Discard the top card of the opponent's deck.
Wk Grass (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Takes 30 less damage next turn (after Weakness/Resistance).
Wk Grass (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCCC
AbilityHigh Density Armor At max HP, damage from the opponent's attacks is reduced by 60.
Damage isn't affected by Resistance.
Wk Grass (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCCC
Does 170 more damage if a “Legendary” Stadium is in play. (Base damage not listed in the reveal.)
Wk Grass (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCCC
AbilityIncarnate Union As Thundurus — with all four in play, ignore all [C] Energy in this Pokemon's attack costs.
Discard a Stadium in play.
Wk Grass (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
Darkness
Search your deck for a Pokemon to your hand. Shuffle.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
AbilityMotherly Summon Once per turn, flip a coin; on heads, switch one of the opponent's Benched Pokemon with their Active.
Can't attack next turn.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret CCC
Opponent's Active is now Poisoned.
As Masquerain's Bug Out.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Opponent's Active is Poisoned; place 4 damage counters at Checkup instead of 1.
Prevent all damage from Basic Pokemon attacks to this Pokemon next turn.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Reveal the top 5 of the opponent's deck; put any Basic Pokemon found onto their Bench. Shuffle the rest back.
Put 5 damage counters on 1 of the opponent's Pokemon.
Wk Grass (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
Discard a random card from the opponent's hand.
Wk Grass (x2) · Rs — · Ret C
70 for each of the opponent's Benched Pokemon.
Opponent's Active is now Confused.
Wk Grass (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
Dragon
Switch in one of the opponent's Benched Pokemon to the Active Spot; this attack does 40 to it. (Attack name not listed in the reveal.)
Wk — · Rs — · Ret CC
Takes 30 less damage next turn (after Weakness/Resistance).
Wk — · Rs — · Ret C
Flip 2 coins; 70 for each heads.
Wk — · Rs — · Ret CC
AbilityScale Beat Once per turn, look at the top 6 of your deck and attach any number of Basic Energy found to your Dragon Pokemon. Shuffle the rest back.
Wk — · Rs — · Ret CC
Also does 30 to 1 of the opponent's Benched Pokemon (no Weakness/Resistance on the Bench).
Wk — · Rs — · Ret C
Colorless
Search your deck for an Energy and attach it to 1 of your Benched Pokemon. Shuffle.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret Free
Switch this Pokemon with 1 of your Benched.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret C
AbilityCotton Carrier Your Basic Pokemon in play have no Retreat Cost.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret C
Reveal any number of Pokemon from your hand; 30 for each different type revealed.
Wk Fighting (x2) · Rs — · Ret CC
AbilityChampion's Roar When played from hand to your Bench, look at the top 4 of your deck and attach a Basic Energy found to this Pokemon. Shuffle the rest to the bottom.
50 for each [R] and [L] Energy attached to all of your Pokemon in play.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret CC
AbilityIncarnate Union As Thundurus — with all four in play, ignore all [C] Energy in this Pokemon's attack costs.
You may draw until you have 6 cards in hand.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret C
Flip a coin; on tails, this does nothing.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret C
The Defending Pokemon can't retreat next turn.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret Free
AbilityExcitedive If in your hand and you have a [C] Mega Evolution Pokemon in play, put this onto your Bench.
Search your deck for up to 2 cards to your hand. Shuffle.
Wk Lightning (x2) · Rs Fighting (-30) · Ret Free
Trainers
Heal 30 from your Active, plus 30 more for each Delicious Rice Balls already in your discard pile.
Search your deck for a Basic [R] and a Basic [L] Energy to your hand. Shuffle.
The attached Pokemon (unless it's a Mega Pokemon ex) takes 60 less damage from your opponent's Mega Pokemon ex.
The attached Pokemon can use this card's attack — [C] Delta Gift: for each of your Pokemon wearing a Mega Rayquaza Cap, search your deck for a Basic Energy and attach it to that Pokemon. Shuffle.
Draw 2 cards; draw 2 more if your opponent has 3 or fewer Prizes left.
Search your deck for up to 3 Supporter and/or Stadium cards to your hand. Shuffle.
Switch your Active with a Benched Pokemon; if you do, move 1 Energy from the old Active to the new one.
Draw 2 cards. If a “Legendary” Stadium is in play, return this card to your hand instead of discarding it.
Only playable together with its other half, counting as one Stadium. While in play, all healing (both players) is doubled.
Only playable together with its other half, counting as one Stadium. When a [C] Pokemon is Knocked Out by an attack, both players' [C] Pokemon give up 1 less Prize.
Only playable together with its other half, counting as one Stadium. Evolution Pokemon in play (both players) have no Abilities.
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Storm Emeralda — Japanese Booster Box (M6)
£149.99
Factory-sealed Japanese import, out 31 July. Fourteen weeks ahead of the English Delta Reign print — and the only way to open these three Megas before November.
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