Chasing Glory Together (CSV10C): the Chinese Team Rocket set

Villain sets are the closest thing the Pokémon TCG has to a sure thing, and Team Rocket is the villain brand — the one even customers who have not bought a pack in years recognise on sight. Chasing Glory Together (CSV10C, 共逐荣光) is the Simplified-Chinese release of the Team Rocket set, and it arrived carrying the biggest checklist in Chinese Pokémon history.

What CSV10C is

Chasing Glory Together is the SC print of the Team Rocket set — its Japanese counterpart is SV10, "Glory of Team Rocket." The Chinese release landed on 16 July 2026, compiling the era into a single large set with Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex, N's Reshiram and Lillie's Clefairy ex leading the chase list. It is the anchor release of the Simplified-Chinese line this year.

And like the rest of the mainline Chinese sets, it comes with the credentials that make the line sellable in the first place: published by Pokémon Shanghai, printed in Japan on Japanese card stock, and shipped in cases whose embossed security stamp and holographic serial let you verify what you are putting on the shelf. The only difference here is scale.

287 cards: the biggest SC set to date

At 287 cards, CSV10C is the largest Simplified-Chinese set ever printed. For a shop, checklist size is not trivia — it is the length of the demand tail. A big set means more chase slots, more binder cards, more reasons for a customer to buy the next box after a near-miss. Large sets stay alive on the wall longer, and this is the largest one the Chinese game has ever had.

Slim versus jumbo: pick the right format

Chinese Pokémon ships in two box formats, and CSV10C uses both. Slim boxes carry 15 packs of 5 cards; jumbo boxes carry 6 packs of 20 cards. Same set, two different products at the counter:

• Slim (15 packs × 5 cards): the lower price per box — the format for volume, impulse purchases and price-sensitive buyers.
• Jumbo (6 packs × 20 cards): the big, dramatic rip — the format for box breaks, rip-and-ship and customers who want a twenty-card pack in their hands.

Shops that carry both find the formats serve different buyers rather than cannibalising each other. The slim box is the everyday seller; the jumbo box is the one that gets filmed. There is also a Team Rocket briefcase gift box in the product line for the customer who wants the themed centrepiece rather than another booster box — worth a facing if your store does gift trade.

Pricing the two formats against each other matters more than pricing either one in isolation. A slim box at an accessible price point brings a customer into the set; the jumbo box is the step up you offer once they are invested. Shops that only carry one format leave one of those two sales on the table.

Why villain sets sell

Nostalgia does the heavy lifting. Team Rocket is the franchise's original villain organisation, and villain-owned cards give collectors a themed subset to hunt as a set-within-a-set. Just as important for retail: villain sets market themselves. The branding is legible from across the shop in a way a standard expansion's key art is not. A lapsed player who wandered in for sleeves knows exactly what a Team Rocket box is, and that recognition converts.

For a Chinese-product wall, CSV10C is the set of the moment: the biggest checklist in the line's history, a brand every customer recognises, and both box formats to merchandise against each other. We stock slim and jumbo cases now, sealed from official distribution.