Heat Wave Arena Booster Pack

Heat Wave Arena will be the ninth Japanese subset from the Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet era. It is the Japanese counterpart of the upcoming English set, Destined Rivals (releasing May 2025).

Heat Wave Arena will contain 63 main set cards (the number of Secret Rares TBA) and continue to feature the “Trainer’s Pokémon” cards re-introduced in Battle Partners. The trainers that will be spotlighted in Heat Wave Arena are Ethan, Cynthia, Arven, and a trainer from the original release of Trainer’s Pokémon cards, Misty!

The pack art of Heat Wave Arena features Ethan’s Ho-Oh, and a Special Art Rare has also already been revealed that has some comparing it to the Lugia V Secret Rare from Silver Tempest / Paradigm Trigger. It’s possible we may also see SARs for the remaining two Pokémon featured – Cynthia’s Garchomp and Arven’s Mabosstiff.