Portal TCG · Set Reveal
All four Forces of Nature have been revealed for Storm Emeralda, the Japanese set landing on 31 July. Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus and Enamorus arrive as four plain Basics — no ex, no Mega, nothing with a rarity symbol worth screenshotting — and they are comfortably the most interesting thing shown from the set so far.
The reason is an Ability all four of them share, called Incarnate Union: get all four onto the board at once and every one of them ignores all [C] Energy in its attack costs. Read that again with the actual costs in front of you and it stops being a cute callback to the quartet and starts being a genuine engine. These cards will be English in Delta Reign on 6 November.
- Japanese setStorm Emeralda (M6)
- JP release31 July 2026
- English setDelta Reign
- English release6 November 2026
Tornadus HP 110
AbilityIncarnate Union
If you have Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus, and Enamorus in play, ignore all [C] Energy in the cost of attacks used by this Pokemon.
Corkscrew Dive70
You may draw cards until you have 6 cards in hand.
- WeaknessLightning (x2)
- ResistanceFighting (-30)
- RetreatC
Portal takeThe whole quartet's reason for existing. Its cost is [C][C][C] and its Ability deletes Colorless — so with the full board down, Tornadus attacks for literally nothing, hits for 70, and draws you back up to six cards. A free attacker that refills your hand every turn is not a common sight, and it's the card the other three are really there to switch on. It also has the only Resistance in the group.
Thundurus HP 120
AbilityIncarnate Union
If you have Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus, and Enamorus in play, ignore all [C] Energy in the cost of attacks used by this Pokemon.
Thunder Edge90
Ignore all effects on your opponent's Active Pokemon for this attack's damage.
- WeaknessFighting (x2)
- ResistanceNone
- RetreatC
Portal take90 for one [L] once the union is online, and it goes through everything — damage reduction, protective Tools, any of it. That clause is worth more than the 90 is. Every format has a card that sits behind an effect and dares you to do something about it, and this is the answer for one Energy. Quietly the most useful of the four in a real game.
Landorus HP 130
AbilityIncarnate Union
If you have Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus, and Enamorus in play, ignore all [C] Energy in the cost of attacks used by this Pokemon.
Gaia Crush110
Discard a Stadium in play.
- WeaknessGrass (x2)
- ResistanceNone
- RetreatCC
Portal takeThe biggest number and the fattest HP of the four, and 110 for a single [F] is a genuinely absurd rate. The free Stadium removal is the part that'll actually decide games, though — it costs you no card and no turn, and it means the opponent's Stadium simply doesn't get to exist while Landorus is attacking. The retreat of 2 is the only real blemish in the group.
Enamorus HP 120
AbilityIncarnate Union
If you have Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus, and Enamorus in play, ignore all [C] Energy in the cost of attacks used by this Pokemon.
Rising Heart100+
If your opponent's Active Pokemon is a Pokemon ex, this attack does 100 more damage.
- WeaknessMetal (x2)
- ResistanceNone
- RetreatC
Portal takeThe heaviest cost of the four — Incarnate Union only strips two of its four Energy, so this is the one card still asking for a real investment. What you get is 200 damage onto any Pokemon ex for two [P]. In a format named after Mega Evolutions, that's not a conditional bonus, that's the default. The four-Energy printed cost also tells you what these were balanced against without the Ability: not much.
Here's what Incarnate Union is actually worth, because “ignore Colorless” undersells it badly. With all four down, Tornadus attacks for nothing at all — zero Energy, 70 damage, and you refill to six cards in hand. Landorus throws 110 and discards a Stadium for a single [F]. Thundurus does 90 through any effect on the Active for a single [L]. Enamorus hits a Pokemon ex for 200 off two [P]. That is a full board of attackers running on one Energy each, and one of them running on none.
The catch is the same sentence that grants it. All four in play means four of your five slots committed before the engine even switches on, and 110–130 HP is not what you'd call durable in a format built around Mega ex. Take out any one of them and the other three go back to paying full price mid-turn. It's the sort of deck that either sets up and reads unfairly, or gets its Tornadus knocked out on turn two and does nothing at all. We suspect a lot of people are about to find out which, live on stream, in November.
Worth flagging for collectors rather than players: these are Basics. Nothing here is the set's chase. But the four of them being mechanically joined at the hip is exactly the setup that produces an art rare people want as a matching set of four — and Storm Emeralda's art rare lineup hasn't been shown yet. Ask us again in a fortnight.
Japanese Storm Emeralda opens on 31 July, which means the JP market gets fourteen weeks to work out whether Incarnate Union is real before a single English pack is opened. That's the useful bit. If you want to watch it happen with your own cards rather than someone else's YouTube video, the Japanese box is the cheap way in.
Card text translated from the Japanese Storm Emeralda (M6) reveals, 13 July 2026. 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.
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