Chaos Rising is a 122-card set that released worldwide on May 22, 2026, the fourth expansion in the English Mega Evolution era. Its headline card is Mega Greninja ex, and the set carries four other Mega Pokémon ex alongside it: Mega Floette ex, Mega Pyroar ex, Mega Dragalge ex and Mega Gallade ex.
Most of that lineup is not new. Pokémon confirmed the set is built from two sets that released only in Japan earlier in 2026, Nihil Zero in January and Ninja Spinner in March. English collectors are seeing these Pokémon for the first time even though Japanese players opened them months earlier, which is the usual gap for a Mega Evolution era set. Mega Gallade ex breaks that pattern: it was added specifically for the English release and has no printing in either Japanese source set.
Mega Greninja ex 22/86: the attacker that punishes its own knockout
Mega Greninja ex is a Stage 2 Water Pokémon with 350 HP. Its Mortal Shuriken Ability lets the Active Pokémon discard a Basic Water Energy from hand once per turn to place six damage counters on an opposing Pokémon, no attack required. Its attack, Ninja Spinner, costs two Water Energy for 120 damage, with the option to return an attached Water Energy to hand for 80 more.
Like every Mega Pokémon ex in this era, knocking out Mega Greninja ex hands the opponent three Prize cards instead of the usual two. That single rule is why these cards carry real competitive weight beyond their raw numbers: a deck built around Mega Greninja ex is also a deck that can lose the game in one bad trade, which is exactly the kind of risk that keeps a chase card's price from collapsing even months after release.
Mega Floette ex 35/86: healing and Energy in the same card
Mega Floette ex is a Psychic Basic Pokémon with 250 HP. Gentle Light costs one Psychic Energy and heals 30 damage from every Pokémon in play, both players' included. Eternity Bloom costs three Psychic Energy, deals 200 damage, and searches the deck for up to four Basic Energy cards to attach to the Bench in any way.
Where Mega Greninja ex is built to close a game, Mega Floette ex is built to stabilize one: healing that resets an opponent's damage math and an attack that reloads a whole bench of Energy at once. It is a support-and-finisher card in a single body, which is part of why it exists at three separate rarities in Chaos Rising, from the 35/86 Double Rare shown here up to a Special Illustration Rare at 117/86. Same card, three price tiers, and sellers should never assume a buyer asking for "Mega Floette ex" means the cheapest one.
Froakie's illustration rare and a three-card scene
Froakie 88/86, Frogadier 89/86 and Mega Greninja ex 116/86 share a single illustrator, Susumu Maeya, and their Illustration Rare and Special Illustration Rare artwork lines up into one continuous scene when the three cards sit side by side: Froakie underwater, Frogadier mid-jump, Mega Greninja ex airborne over a shuriken. Pokémon has used this same trick before, most recently pairing Lugia and Ho Oh across our 30th Celebration coverage, and it turns three separate pulls into a display collectors actively hunt as a set rather than as individual cards.
That matters for how these three should be priced and sold. A single copy of Mega Greninja ex 116/86 is worth what the card alone commands. A matched trio, with print lines and centering checked across all three, carries a premium beyond that sum simply because completing the scene is harder than pulling any one panel.
What the English exclusivity means for sellers
Mega Gallade ex is the card to watch in Chaos Rising precisely because it breaks the usual import pattern. Nearly every Mega Pokémon ex in the English Mega Evolution era eventually gets a Japanese printing, either before or after its English release, which gives buyers a second supply source and keeps prices in check. Mega Gallade ex has none. Every legal copy in circulation came out of an English Chaos Rising pack, and that supply is now fixed unless Pokémon reprints it later.
Chaos Rising also sits inside the current Standard rotation, alongside the other English Mega Evolution sets covered in our Pitch Black chase card guide. None of that changes what a graded copy is worth today, but it does mean these cards stay tournament-legal long enough for competitive demand, not just nostalgia, to keep pulling on the price.
Frequently asked questions
- When did Chaos Rising release?
May 22, 2026, as the fourth English Mega Evolution set.
- How many cards are in Chaos Rising?
122 cards total, numbered against an 86-card main set once secret and hyper rares are included.
- Which Mega Pokémon ex are in Chaos Rising?
Mega Greninja ex, Mega Floette ex, Mega Pyroar ex, Mega Dragalge ex, and Mega Gallade ex, which was added exclusively for the English set and has no Japanese printing.
