The question our October 22 report told readers to watch first now has its answer. When we covered the Dual Fusion announcement in our October 22 story, Pokémon had shown just nine cards and had published no full list and no total count. The full reveal landed today, October 28, and the set is much bigger than the preview suggested. PokeBeach and Serebii both put the complete Dual Fusion list at 217 cards, and the names past the preview are where the real chase sits.
A main list of 131 and a long tail above it
Serebii has catalogued the expansion card by card. Its list runs through a main numbering that ends at 131 with the Stadium card Abandoned Station, and then it keeps going through higher rarity versions of cards from the main list until the count reaches 217. That structure matters for collectors. Finishing the numbered set is only the first layer of the chase, and the versions above the main list are the ones that will take the longest to pull or to trade for.
The Megas the preview never showed
The nine card preview leaned on Mega Mewtwo X ex and Mega Greninja ex and Mega Dragonite ex at the top. The full list adds a bench of ex cards that no trailer showed. Serebii lists Mega Sceptile ex at 210 HP and Mega Gallade ex at 220 HP and Mega Audino ex at 180 HP in the upper range of the set, alongside Typhlosion ex at 180 HP and Hisuian Zoroark ex at 150 HP. Alolan Exeggutor ex and Mega Tyranitar ex and Mega Skarmory ex and Giratina ex also appear in that higher rarity range. The dual type pair still headline the set for players, while collectors get a much wider field of rare pulls than the announcement implied.
New Supporters join the Trainer lineup
The Trainer cards bring fresh faces too. The main list closes with six Supporters named Lorelei and Blue's Provocation and Serena's Choice and Rika and Poké Mart Guy and Rising Star, plus the tools Eviolite and Light Ball and the item Sweet Honey. Readers on the PokeBeach reveal thread singled out the new Serena card and the arrival of Lorelei in Pocket, and a Supporter bench this wide gives deck builders plenty to test in the first weeks of the C series.
Launch day brings the version 1.8.0 update with it
The reveal lands on launch day itself. Pokémon lists Dual Fusion as launching on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 6 p.m. PDT, and Pokémon Blog reports that version 1.8.0 of the app is available today, October 28, adding Community Decks and more themed collections and reworking rental decks and deck missions and Step Up Battles. The official page adds that six Dual Fusion rental decks stay available until December 15, 2026, and that a new elite deck built around Mega Rayquaza ex and Dragonair and Gouging Fire is sent to Gifts.
What to watch next
Our take is that the chase in Pocket runs through trading and wonder picks rather than through prices, and a 217 card reveal on the slower six week pack cycle gives collectors time to hunt deliberately instead of sprinting. Watch which of the newly revealed ex cards surface first in the rental decks and in early Community Decks, because that is where the playable core of the set will show itself. And watch October 31, when the Special Pack First Partners window opens and the Mega Greninja covers and backdrops arrive, both dates carried on official material.