Pokémon

Pokémon on Sideboard covers 216+ sets from Base Set through the current Scarlet & Violet era, with pricing and inventory support for every major product type. The two things that make Pokémon distinct compared to other games are finishes (Holofoil, Reverse Holofoil, and Normal are separate price rows) and vintage edition stamps (Base Set-era cards carry 1st Edition, Shadowless, or Unlimited designations that significantly affect value).

Sets & Catalog

Sideboard organizes Pokémon sets by era so you can quickly filter to the products you care about:

Product types include main expansion sets, promo sets, trainer kits, collection boxes, premium collections, league battle decks, and ETBs (Elite Trainer Boxes). Sealed product sits alongside singles in the same catalog.

Cards & Variants

Each Pokémon card in Sideboard includes:

• Card type — Pokémon, Trainer, or Energy
• Subtype — for Pokémon: ex, V, VMAX, VSTAR, GX, EX, BREAK; for Trainers: Item, Supporter, Stadium; for Energy: Basic or Special
• Energy type — Fire, Water, Grass, Lightning, Psychic, Fighting, Darkness, Metal, Dragon, Colorless, Fairy
• HP — for Pokémon
• Stage — Basic, Stage 1, Stage 2, VMAX, etc.
• Attacks — the full attacks text block
• Rarity — from Common through Illustration Rare and Hyper Rare

Finishes

Pokémon has three finishes, each tracked as a separate price row:

These are separate line items in your inventory and buylist. A Near Mint Holofoil Charizard and a Near Mint Normal Charizard are priced independently. When setting buylist rules, you can target any finish combination.

Pricing

Finishes and vintage edition stamps are the two pricing dimensions unique to Pokémon.

Modern cards (Scarlet & Violet, Sword & Shield, etc.)

No edition stamp — there’s only one “edition” per printing. Price rows are separated by finish (Normal / Holofoil / Reverse Holofoil) and condition.

Vintage cards (Base Set era through early sets)

Cards from Base Set, Jungle, Fossil, Team Rocket, Gym Heroes/Challenge, and the Neo series carry edition stamps:

For vintage cards, Sideboard tracks separate price rows for each edition × finish × condition combination. A Base Set Charizard has meaningfully different prices across 1st Edition Holofoil, Shadowless Holofoil, and Unlimited Holofoil. Your buylist can set different prices for each.

Prices update every 6 hours for cards in your active inventory, and daily for cards you don’t stock. See How pricing works.

Common Workflows

Setting up a modern set buylist:

• Filter by era (e.g., “Scarlet & Violet”) to scope your rules
• Rarity drives most pricing logic; set rules by rarity and let the market price anchor do the work
• If you want to buy Reverse Holofoils separately from normal copies, add separate rules for each finish

Setting up a vintage buylist:

• You’ll want edition-explicit pricing for anything from Base Set through early Gold/Silver era sets
• Set rules per edition: your 1st Edition Charizard NM price should be specified separately from Shadowless and Unlimited

Browsing the catalog by era:

• Use the Era filter to narrow down to one era without having to select 15+ individual sets

Gotchas

Reverse Holofoil has its own price, often lower than Holofoil. Don’t assume Reverse Holo pricing moves with Holo pricing — they can diverge significantly, especially for popular Pokémon.

“Shadowless” is Base Set only. No other set has a Shadowless variant. If you’re setting buylist rules for all vintage sets and add an “Unlimited” fallback, you don’t need a Shadowless rule for anything except the original Base Set.

ETBs, collection boxes, and tins are sealed product. They appear in the Pokémon catalog alongside singles, with their own pricing and inventory tracking. They won’t appear in a “singles only” filter.

Set names on TCGPlayer differ from the official Japanese set names. Sideboard uses TCGPlayer’s naming conventions, which are the English retail product names.

• Adding products to inventory
• How pricing works

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