What is a Pokémon master set?

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A Pokémon master set tracks every card of one Pokémon, across every set and era — every Charizard, every Pikachu — from the earliest sets to today. It's named after the Pokémon and lays its cards out oldest first, each labelled with the set it comes from. You choose which cards count: English only, Japanese only, or both. The choice is on the screen where you start the set, already set to match the cards you collect, and you can switch it any time at the top of the set's page. Switching changes the total, the checklist and what's missing straight away. It counts cards the same way a master set does. Reverse holos, Cosmos holos and other parallel prints each get their own slot, and so does each print run of a vintage card (1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited are three cards). Error cards, staff and event stamps on a card that already has a numbered print, and player-deck replicas are not slots. A card counts as owned wherever it is in your collection. Starting one is free, and Free shows your progress (how many of that Pokémon's cards you hold out of the total), what finishing costs at today's prices, and the next three cards you're missing, cheapest first, as ghost pockets. Cardfolio Pro tracks it to the last card — every card you're missing, in order, as ghost pockets to fill, with the Finish plan: the missing cards cheapest first, a running total and a budget. You can also track a whole evolution line as one set — the Eeveelutions, the Charmander line, the Pikachu line with Pichu and Raichu. A line is every Pokémon in that evolution family, branches and baby Pokémon included, and a card showing two of them counts once. You can have one Pokémon master set per Pokémon, and one per evolution line. Cards showing two different Pokémon, like a tag-team card, count in each of their single-Pokémon sets. They earn medals in your Journey: one for starting your first, one for reaching halfway, and one for completing it. Halfway and complete count a set of 25 cards or more, so finishing a Pokémon with only a handful of prints doesn't count as finishing a set. In a week you add cards to one, your Monday email shows how far it has come. 1. Open your collection and tap "Track Pokémon" on the shelf (or Manage → Pokémon Master Set). 2. Choose "One Pokémon" or "Evolution line", and English, Japanese or Both. For a line, type any Pokémon in it — Umbreon finds the Eeveelutions. 3. Type the Pokémon's name and tap Start. 4. Open it to see your progress, the cost to finish and your next three cards. On Free, "See all … with Pro" shows what Pro adds.

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