Three "MEGA Starter Deck" products released alongside Storm Emeralda in Japan on July 31, 2026, each priced at 1,800 yen: Eevee ex, Zoroark ex and Meowscarada ex. Each deck is a complete 60-card, all-in-one product built around one Pokémon ex, not a booster pack you crack open and hope. Pokémon confirmed the 30 cards unique to these three decks also carry over into Delta Reign, the English set releasing November 6, 2026.
That second part is the one worth remembering if you sell singles. A starter deck is normally the cheapest, most reliable way to pull a specific ex card, since you are buying the card directly instead of gambling on a booster slot. Anyone who wants Eevee ex, Zoroark ex or Meowscarada ex before Delta Reign ships in English has an actual guaranteed path to it, not just a chase.
Eevee ex plays the safest of the three
Eevee ex is a Colorless Basic Pokémon with 200 HP, the lowest total of the three headliners. Its first attack costs a single Colorless Energy and draws three cards, cheap enough to fire on turn one without committing to anything. Its second attack costs three Colorless Energy for 200 damage, with a coin flip attached: tails, and Eevee ex takes 30 damage back for the trouble.
200 HP on a one-Energy-type attacker with a card-draw option built in is a forgiving deck to learn on, which tracks with Eevee usually being the "starter" starter. The risk sits entirely on that second attack's coin flip, not on Eevee ex's Energy requirements.
Each starter deck also ships one non-ex Illustration Rare of its own Pokémon, printed past the deck's stated card count rather than inside it, the way a bonus pull works in other Japanese products. Eevee's version leans into a quiet, everyday scene instead of a battle pose, closer to the tone of the site's own illustration-rare coverage than to a Mega Evolution reveal.
Zoroark ex hits hardest with the most Pokémon on your bench
Zoroark ex is a Darkness-type Stage 1, evolving from Zorua, with 270 HP. Its first attack costs one Darkness Energy and deals 20 damage multiplied by the number of Pokémon on your own side of the field, so it rewards a bench that's already full rather than an empty board. The second attack costs one Darkness Energy plus two Colorless for 210 damage, with a real cost attached: Zoroark ex can't use that same attack again the following turn.
That's a meaningfully different play pattern from Eevee ex's coin-flip risk. Zoroark ex's ceiling depends on deck-building around it, filling the bench before swinging, and pacing the 210-damage attack every other turn instead of chaining it.
Zorua's Illustration Rare carries the deck's own visual theme forward, a nighttime town scene that reads as one continuous piece of art with Zoroark ex's card rather than a separate, unrelated pull.
Meowscarada ex hits the hardest, full stop
Meowscarada ex is a Grass-type Stage 2, the only one of the three that needs two evolutions to reach the field, and it carries 320 HP, the highest of the three by a wide margin. Its single attack costs two Grass Energy for 120 damage, plus 120 more to one of the opponent's Benched Pokémon that already has a damage counter on it, ignoring that target's Weakness and Resistance.
Needing a full two-stage evolution line before that attack is live is the real cost here, not the Energy requirement. Once it's set up, though, 320 HP and a spread attack that punishes Pokémon your other cards already damaged makes Meowscarada ex the deck built for a longer, more deliberate game plan than the other two.
Sprigatito's card fills the same bonus-pull role as Eevee's and Zorua's, a scenic, non-battle illustration of the pre-evolution rather than the ex headliner.
Why the price and the carryover both matter to a seller
1,800 yen for a complete, playable 60-card deck is deliberately cheap next to a booster box, and that's the entire point of a starter product: it's the on-ramp, not the chase. What changes the math for anyone reselling singles is the carryover into Delta Reign. Once the English print exists, buyers who don't import Japanese product get the same three ex cards through ordinary boosters, at ordinary booster odds, which is a very different acquisition cost than "buy the deck for 1,800 yen and the card is guaranteed."
That gap, cheap and guaranteed in Japanese now, versus booster-odds and English-only in three months, is where a lot of the early-import demand for these three decks is coming from, the same pattern already showing up in the pull rates and buyback prices tracked for Storm Emeralda's rarer cards.
What's confirmed and what isn't
Confirmed: all three decks, their release date and price, all three ex cards' HP, attacks, Energy costs and typing, and all three Illustration Rares' subjects and illustrators, directly from the official cards. Not confirmed: an English price or SKU for any standalone starter-deck equivalent, since Delta Reign folds these cards into its main set rather than reselling the decks themselves in English.
Frequently asked questions
- What are the three MEGA Starter Decks?
Eevee ex, Zoroark ex and Meowscarada ex, released alongside Storm Emeralda in Japan on July 31, 2026, each priced at 1,800 yen.
- Do the MEGA Starter Deck cards appear in Delta Reign?
Yes. Pokémon confirmed the 30 cards unique to the three decks carry over into Delta Reign, the English set releasing November 6, 2026.
- What is each starter deck's HP on its headline ex card?
Eevee ex has 200 HP, Zoroark ex has 270 HP, and Meowscarada ex has 320 HP, the highest of the three.
