Pokémon Delta Reign

Delta Reign releases on November 6, 2026, and prerelease events run from October 24 to November 1. No preorder date has been announced. PokéBeach expects preorders to open on PokemonCenter.com in September, roughly a month before release, but that is an estimate drawn from the timing of the previous two sets rather than anything The Pokémon Company has said.

The main set holds 103 cards, which is the number printed on every card, and the announced total runs past 135 once secret rares are counted. Inside that: four new Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, six Pokémon ex, more than a dozen Trainer cards including three new Legendary Stadiums, 14 illustration rare Pokémon, 17 ultra rare Pokémon and Trainers, and six special illustration rare Pokémon and Supporters. One caveat on the total: the 135 figure comes from the reveal, while the solicitation sheet sent to American distributors says over 140 cards and more than 35 with special illustrations. Both trace back to official marketing copy, they disagree, and nothing published so far settles which one the printed set will match. The only number we can vouch for is the 103 on the cards themselves.

Nine booster packs, one full-art foil Kyogre promo, 65 card sleeves, 40 Energy cards, a player's guide, six damage-counter dice, a competition-legal coin-flip die, a plastic coin, a collector's box with six dividers and a Pokémon TCG Live code card. The Pokémon Center version is a different product rather than the same box in another wrapper: it holds eleven packs instead of nine, and two Kyogre promos instead of one, because it adds a copy stamped with the Pokémon Center logo next to the unstamped one. Both figures are printed on the back of each box. The Build & Battle Box is a separate item again: a 40-card ready-to-play deck carrying 1 of 4 foil promos, four booster packs and a code card.

A Stadium printed across two cards. Three of them carry Legendary in their name, and the artwork continues from the left half to the right half, so the pair reads as one wide picture. Neither half does anything alone: you must combine two different halves from your hand to put one Stadium into play. Both halves share the same card name, so the usual limit of four copies per deck applies to the pair, which caps you at two complete Stadiums. Four copies of the same half is legal deckbuilding and unplayable on the table. The mechanic echoes the LEGEND cards of HeartGold & SoulSilver, where a card also came in two halves. Three of these Stadiums exist, and in the Japanese set they take the last six slots: 071 and 072 by danciao, 073 and 074 by nagimiso, 075 and 076 by akagi. Only the nagimiso pair has surfaced in English so far, as Legendary Summit at 096 and 097. Names circulating for the other two, Legendary Ocean Trench among them, come from fan translations published weeks before the English reveal, not from The Pokémon Company, so we do not carry them.

DLR. It is printed at the bottom left of every card, next to the J regulation mark and a language tag, just before the collector number. You will also see ME06 used online, including in the file names of the official card images: that is the internal sequence code, sixth set of the Mega Evolution era, and it is not what appears on the card or in a grading label.

Storm Emeralda is the Japanese set that came out on July 31, 2026. Delta Reign is not a straight translation of it. It merges Storm Emeralda with 30 cards from the three MEGA Starter Decks that launched alongside it, which makes it the first English set since Phantasmal Flames to combine several Japanese sources. Two things move in the process. The decks bring seven Pokémon ex for six slots, so one of them is dropped, and Kyogre leaves the numbered set to become the Elite Trainer Box promo under the number MEP 117.