Pullorax Set File № 025 SV9a / JA / 2025
Set filePokémon · Enhanced Expansion Pack

Heat WaveArena

A small set built for Sealed play, where Ethan, Misty, Cynthia and Arven each bring their own Pokémon.

  • 30 × 5packs × cards
  • 9263 + 29 secret
  • 14 Mar 2025Japan release
  • 6 minread
Heat Wave Arena SV9a Japanese Pokémon — sealed booster box The box · $180.99Jump to buy ↓ Japanese printSealed · never resealed

01 · What is this set

Thirty packs, five cards, ninety-two cards in the set

Heat Wave Arena (熱風のアリーナ, SV9a) is a Japanese enhanced expansion pack in the Scarlet & Violet series, released on 14 March 2025. Each pack holds 5 cards and a box holds 30 packs.

Of the set’s 92 cards, 63 are numbered and 29 sit beyond the main list: 12 AR, 9 SR, 5 SAR and 3 UR. What you buy here is the Japanese print, on Japanese card stock, in the 30-pack box shown above.

Ethan's Ho-Oh ex SAR 086/063 — Heat Wave Arena (SV9a), Japanese Pokémon card, illus. Atsushi Furusawa
Illus. Atsushi Furusawa

02 · The story

“As many battles as there are bonds”

The official page says two things about this set. The first is its line, 絆の数だけ、バトルがある — as many battles as there are bonds. The second is practical: the set was designed with Sealed play in mind, which is why it is small and why its cards work together straight out of the pack.

The bonds are Trainer-owned Pokémon. Ethan’s Ho-Oh ex attaches Fire Energy to Ethan’s Pokémon with its Ability Golden Flame and heals the whole board with Shining Feather; Misty’s Gyarados discards the top seven cards of the deck and hits for 70 per Misty’s Pokémon among them; Cynthia’s Garchomp ex attacks for a single Energy with Screw Dive; Arven’s Mabosstiff ex hits for 150 with Hustle Tackle while it carries no damage. The three UR cards close the set: Ethan’s Ho-Oh ex, Cynthia’s Garchomp ex and the stadium Levincia.

03 · The chase

THE HITS.

Nine cards from this set, in display order — not a ranking.

  1. Ethan's Ho-Oh ex UR 090/063 – Heat Wave Arena

    Ethan's Ho-Oh ex

    № 090/063 · UR · Ultra Rare

    Illus. aky CG Works

    Ethan’s Ho-Oh ex in gold Ultra Rare by aky CG Works — the first of the set’s three UR cards.

  2. Cynthia's Garchomp ex UR 091/063 – Heat Wave Arena

    Cynthia's Garchomp ex

    № 091/063 · UR · Ultra Rare

    Illus. 5ban Graphics

    Cynthia’s Garchomp ex, the second UR, by 5ban Graphics.

  3. Levincia UR 092/063 – Heat Wave Arena

    Levincia

    № 092/063 · UR · Ultra Rare

    Illus. MARINA Chikazawa

    Levincia, the set’s stadium, as the third and last UR, by MARINA Chikazawa.

  4. Ethan's Ho-Oh ex SAR 086/063 – Heat Wave Arena

    Ethan's Ho-Oh ex

    № 086/063 · SAR · Special Art Rare

    Illus. Atsushi Furusawa

    Ethan’s Ho-Oh ex in Special Art Rare by Atsushi Furusawa — the card on this page’s cover.

  5. Cynthia's Garchomp ex SAR 087/063 – Heat Wave Arena

    Cynthia's Garchomp ex

    № 087/063 · SAR · Special Art Rare

    Illus. HICO KIM

    Cynthia’s Garchomp ex in Special Art Rare by HICO KIM.

  6. Arven's Mabosstiff ex SAR 088/063 – Heat Wave Arena

    Arven's Mabosstiff ex

    № 088/063 · SAR · Special Art Rare

    Illus. Yuriko Akase

    Arven’s Mabosstiff ex in Special Art Rare by Yuriko Akase.

  7. Yanmega ex SAR 085/063 – Heat Wave Arena

    Yanmega ex

    № 085/063 · SAR · Special Art Rare

    Illus. Tonji Matsuno

    Yanmega ex in Special Art Rare by Tonji Matsuno.

  8. Ethan's Adventure SAR 089/063 – Heat Wave Arena

    Ethan's Adventure

    № 089/063 · SAR · Special Art Rare

    Illus. Kariya

    Ethan’s Adventure, the set’s trainer Special Art Rare, by Kariya.

  9. Ethan's Typhlosion AR 070/063 – Heat Wave Arena

    Ethan's Typhlosion

    № 070/063 · AR · Art Rare

    Illus. GIDORA

    Ethan’s Typhlosion, the first Art Rare of the Trainer-owned line, by GIDORA.

SV9a · Japanese print · 30 packs · 5 cards per pack · 92 cards in the set Set File № 025
Heat Wave Arena SV9a Japanese Pokémon — sealed booster box

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Heat Wave Arena SV9a Japanese Pokémon Booster Box

  • Japanese print
  • Original Japanese Shrink · never resealed
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05 · Set facts

How a box breaks down

  • Per box30 × 530 packs × 5 cards · 150 cards per box
  • Main set63numbered cards in the set list
  • Secret29secret rares · 92 cards in the set list
  • LanguageJAJapanese edition
Japan release
14 Mar 2025
Set code
SV9a
Product
Booster Box
Secret rares by rarity
AR ×12SR ×9SAR ×5UR ×3

06 · Card list

Full card list · 92

Every card, as numbered in Japan. Japanese names as printed; English names where the card also exists in the English game.

Secret rares · 64–92
№CardRarityIllustrator
64 Yanma AR Ayako Ozaki
65 Cynthia's Roserade AR rika
66 Shaymin AR Heisuke Kitazawa
67 Crustle AR Takumi Wada
68 Hydrapple AR Jerky
69 Rapidash AR Rond
70 Ethan's Typhlosion AR GIDORA
71 Misty's Psyduck AR OKACHEKE
72 Misty's Lapras AR Orca
73 Electrike AR Nakamura Ippan
74 Rotom AR Taiga Kayama
75 Arven's Greedent AR Natsumi Yoshida
76 Yanmega ex SR takuyoa
77 Ethan's Ho-Oh ex SR aky CG Works
78 Dondozo ex SR N-DESIGN Inc.
79 Electivire ex SR PLANETA Mochizuki
80 Cynthia's Garchomp ex SR 5ban Graphics
81 Arven's Mabosstiff ex SR PLANETA Igarashi
82 Emcee's Hype SR Cona Nitanda
83 Judge SR kantaro
84 Ethan's Adventure SR Iori Suzuki
85 Yanmega ex SAR Tonji Matsuno
86 Ethan's Ho-Oh ex SAR Atsushi Furusawa
87 Cynthia's Garchomp ex SAR HICO KIM
88 Arven's Mabosstiff ex SAR Yuriko Akase
89 Ethan's Adventure SAR Kariya
90 Ethan's Ho-Oh ex UR aky CG Works
91 Cynthia's Garchomp ex UR 5ban Graphics
92 Levincia UR MARINA Chikazawa
Main set · 1–63
№CardRarityIllustrator
1 Ethan's Pinsir regular GIDORA
2 Yanma regular
3 Yanmega ex regular
4 Cynthia's Roselia regular
5 Cynthia's Roserade regular
6 Shaymin regular
7 Dwebble regular
8 Crustle regular
9 Applin regular
10 Dipplin regular
11 Hydrapple regular
12 Teal Mask Ogerpon regular Tomomi Ozaki
13 Ponyta regular
14 Rapidash regular
15 Ethan's Cyndaquil regular
16 Ethan's Quilava regular
17 Ethan's Typhlosion regular
18 Ethan's Slugma regular
19 Ethan's Magcargo regular
20 Ethan's Ho-Oh ex regular
21 Hearthflame Mask Ogerpon regular
22 Misty's Psyduck regular
23 Misty's Staryu regular
24 Misty's Starmie regular
25 Misty's Magikarp regular
26 Misty's Gyarados regular
27 Misty's Lapras regular
28 Cynthia's Feebas regular
29 Cynthia's Milotic regular
30 Buizel regular
31 Floatzel regular
32 Dondozo ex regular
33 Wellspring Mask Ogerpon regular rika
34 Electabuzz regular
35 Electivire ex regular
36 Ethan's Pichu regular
37 Electrike regular
38 Manectric regular
39 Rotom regular
40 Zeraora regular
41 Ethan's Sudowoodo regular
42 Cynthia's Gible regular
43 Cynthia's Gabite regular
44 Cynthia's Garchomp ex regular
45 Mudbray regular
46 Mudsdale regular
47 Arven's Toedscool regular
48 Arven's Toedscruel regular
49 Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon regular
50 Cynthia's Spiritomb regular
51 Arven's Maschiff regular
52 Arven's Mabosstiff ex regular
53 Tauros regular
54 Arven's Skwovet regular
55 Arven's Greedent regular
56 Sacred Ash regular
57 Arven's Sandwich regular
58 Switch regular
59 Pokémon Catcher regular Studio Bora Inc.
60 Cynthia's Power Weight regular
61 Emcee's Hype regular Cona Nitanda
62 Judge regular
63 Ethan's Adventure regular

07 · The illustrators

Who painted this set

Ethan's Ho-Oh ex UR 090/063 – illustrated by aky CG Works

Featured artist

aky CG Works

2 cards in this set · the gold Ho-Oh

Cynthia's Garchomp ex SAR 087/063 – illustrated by HICO KIM

HICO KIM

1 card in this set

Arven's Mabosstiff ex SAR 088/063 – illustrated by Yuriko Akase

Yuriko Akase

1 card in this set

Levincia UR 092/063 – illustrated by MARINA Chikazawa

MARINA Chikazawa

1 card in this set

Names as credited on the cards.

09 · Questions

Before you open one

Is this the Japanese or the English set?
Japanese. Heat Wave Arena (SV9a) is the Japanese enhanced expansion pack released on 14 March 2025. In English these cards appeared in Destined Rivals on 30 May 2025, a much larger set that also draws on other Japanese sets.
What does “designed for Sealed play” mean?
Sealed is a format where players build a deck from freshly opened packs. The official page says this set was designed with that in mind: it is small, and the cards inside a box are meant to make a playable deck on their own.
What are UR cards?
UR stands for Ultra Rare, the gold-framed cards at the very end of the numbering. This set has three: № 090, 091 and 092.
How many cards are in a box?
30 packs × 5 cards = 150 cards. The set list itself has 92 cards (63 numbered + 29 beyond the list); a box does not contain the full set.
What does “sealed, never resealed” mean?
The box arrives in the original Japanese factory shrink film, as it left the manufacturer. We do not open or re-wrap boxes.
Is there a version without shrink film?
When a no-shrink option exists for a set, it appears as a separate choice on the product page, photographed as it ships.
Do you ship to Germany and France?
Yes. Every parcel ships tracked with FedEx. Shipping is calculated at checkout from the destination and the weight of your cart.
Who pays import duties?
The buyer. Prices do not include import duties or taxes; your carrier may bill them before or after delivery. Check your country’s rules before ordering.

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