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

Heat Wave Arena

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 · $199.99Jump 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.

Yes for the booster portion: a 30-pack box provides 15 packs each for 2 players. Prepare Basic Energy separately as well. This supplies cards for building Sealed decks; it is not a product containing ready-built decks.

Read the research, sources and buying checks

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. Levincia (ハッコウシティ) 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.

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  2. Cynthia's Garchomp ex (シロナのガブリアス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.

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  3. Ethan's Ho-Oh ex (ヒビキのホウオウ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.

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  4. Ethan's Adventure (ヒビキの冒険) 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.

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  5. Arven's Mabosstiff ex (ペパーのマフィティフ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.

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  6. Cynthia's Garchomp ex (シロナのガブリアス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.

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  7. Ethan's Ho-Oh ex (ヒビキのホウオウ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.

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  8. Yanmega ex (メガヤンマ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.

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  9. Ethan's Typhlosion (ヒビキのバクフーン) 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.

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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

Booster box · 30 packs × 5 cards

  • Japanese print
  • Original Japanese Shrink · never resealed
  • Tracked FedEx shipping

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Booster box · 30 packs × 5 cards

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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 edition.

No card matches

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 Liquid error (sections/pullorax-set-file line 817): Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for magazine_artist.
85 Yanmega ex SAR Liquid error (sections/pullorax-set-file line 817): Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for magazine_artist.
86 Ethan's Ho-Oh ex SAR Liquid error (sections/pullorax-set-file line 817): Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for magazine_artist.
87 Cynthia's Garchomp ex SAR Liquid error (sections/pullorax-set-file line 817): Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for magazine_artist.
88 Arven's Mabosstiff ex SAR Liquid error (sections/pullorax-set-file line 817): Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for magazine_artist.
89 Ethan's Adventure SAR Liquid error (sections/pullorax-set-file line 817): Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for magazine_artist.
90 Ethan's Ho-Oh ex UR aky CG Works
91 Cynthia's Garchomp ex UR 5ban Graphics
92 Levincia UR Liquid error (sections/pullorax-set-file line 817): Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for magazine_artist.
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 Liquid error (sections/pullorax-set-file line 840): Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for magazine_artist.
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 Liquid error (sections/pullorax-set-file line 840): Exceeded maximum number of unique handles for magazine_artist.
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

Names as credited on the cards.

Buying research · PulloraX

Heat Wave Arena: can one box supply Sealed packs for two players?

Sources checked: 6 October 2026

What did the official event require?

At the 2025 Heat Wave Arena event, each player used 15 packs, a participation Nemona promo and venue-provided Energy to build a 40-card deck; matches used 4 Prize cards. Pokémon Center specifies 30 packs per box. A box can therefore be divided into two equal booster allotments of that size.

How do you prepare for a match at home?

Prepare Basic Energy, sleeves, a coin and damage counters, and agree beforehand whether to use the event’s participation card too. Split the boosters before opening and use the same deck-building rules for both players. Nemona was an event extra; the event description does not make it part of a booster box’s contents.

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 Sealed rules also use Basic Energy cards prepared separately; the booster box alone is not a ready-to-play deck.
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?
The boxes of this set we sell arrive in the original Japanese factory shrink film, as described on the product page.
Do you ship to Europe?
Yes. We ship to the UK and many European countries with FedEx International Priority, always tracked. 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.
Do you sell this set wholesale to shops?
Yes. Shops and resellers can apply on our wholesale page. After approval you get the wholesale price list and order terms.

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