How many Pokémon cards are there?

September 3, 2024: We updated this guide to include all cards from the most recent sets, including Shrouded Fable.

How many Pokémon cards are there? The trading card game has been running since 1999, with hundreds of new Pokémon cards added each year, so the number is up in the thousands. In fact, not counting promos or Japanese language cards, there are precisely 16,301 Pokémon cards from main and special set releases right now – with plenty more hurtling our way.

Note that there are far, far more Pokémon cards than there are unique Pokémon – due to several additional Pokémon card types like Trainers, and also because the same Pokémon can have multiple cards. If your real question is how many Pokémon are there – we’ve got a guide for that.

If you’re still curious about the Pokémon TCG, we’re also got a list of all the Pokémon sets ever released for the game – with release dates attached and special sets included.

How many Pokémon cards come out every year?

In 2023, 1,470 new Pokémon cards were released across seven sets – including 207 cards from the ultra-popular, nostalgia-fueled Pokémon 151 set. In 2022, there were 954 new Pokémon cards, and in 2021 we got a total of 1,182 new cards added.

As of September 2, 2024, we’ve already had 788 brand new cards added to the game so far this year – with more sets still to come.

Back in the day, a Pokémon set with more than 150 cards used to be considered quite the chonker – but if you check out our full list of card totals below, you’ll quickly notice it became the norm, from around 2018 onwards, for each new main set to add over 200 unique cards.

How many Pokémon cards are there in each set?

Well, let’s go through set by set. Got your calculator ready? Let’s take a trip back to 1999.

That’s all we have on the total number of Pokémon cards out there – for more monster marvels, check out our guides to the highest HP Pokémon cards, and our picks for the best Pokémon cards in the world.