Supercharged New Pokémon Trading Card Game Expansion, Scarlet & Violet—Surging Sparks, Featuring Powerful Stellar Tera Pikachu ex, Launches Today

Nov. 8, 2024 — Today, The Pokémon Company International released the latest expansion in the best-selling Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG), Scarlet & Violet—Surging Sparks. The expansion is available beginning today at participating retailers worldwide, including Pokémon Center, the premier online destination for official Pokémon merchandise.

In Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Surging Sparks, players can continue to discover beautifully radiant Stellar Tera Pokémon ex, including Pikachu ex with its strikingly powerful Topaz Bolt attack. Fans of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk will notice that in this expansion, they can collect and battle with cards themed around the Terarium — the artificial paradise first introduced in the DLC for the Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet video games — and discover the towering Alolan Exeggutor as a Stellar Tera Pokémon ex alongside other powerful Dragon-type Pokémon.

Scarlet & Violet—Surging Sparks is now available in booster packs, Elite Trainer Boxes and special collections at participating retailers worldwide. In addition, select products from the expansion are now available at Pokémon Center in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.

In celebration of the launch of Scarlet & Violet—Surging Sparks, a gift will be available with any eligible Pokémon TCG purchase. Trainers will receive Sprigatito and Terapagos promo cards from EB Games as well as Fuecoco and Terapagos promo cards from JB Hi-Fi. Each promo card will feature the “Pokémon Horizons: The Series” logo and will be available starting today, while stocks last. [1]

In addition, Scarlet & Violet—Surging Sparks is now digitally playable via the Pokémon TCG Live app for iOS, Android, macOS and Windows devices. Trainers can collect and battle with new Stellar Tera Pokémon ex and receive in-game bonuses when logging in to the app.

Furthermore, fans can look forward to the all-new Pokémon TCG: Grand Adventure Collection, launching Nov. 15, 2024, at participating retailers, including Pokémon Center in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Created in collaboration with “Pokémon Horizons: The Series,” the Pokémon TCG: Grand Adventure Collection features the series’ dual protagonists Liko and Roy and their respective partner Pokémon, Sprigatito and Fuecoco, and includes four Scarlet & Violet Series booster packs, as well as two promo cards and one oversize card, each featuring the “Pokémon Horizons: The Series” logo.

Trainers in New Zealand can watch the latest “Pokémon Horizons: The Series” episodes exclusively on Netflix, with Part 4 premiering on Nov. 22, 2024. The latest sneak peek can be found on the official Pokémon YouTube channel. For more information, please visit Pokemon.com/Horizons.

To learn more about the Pokémon TCG, please visit Pokemon.com/TCG.