“Journey Together” English Pokemon TCG Set Releasing in March, Features Return of Owner’s Pokemon!

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onDec 9, 2024 at 11:00 AM · 66 Comments

We can reveal March’s SV9 set will be named Scarlet & Violet: Journey Together.

The set will release on March 28th. Prereleases will take place from March 15th to March 23rd.

As the name implies, Journey Together will be based on Japan’s Battle Partners set. It will feature the return of Owner’s Pokemon. The set will release in Japan on January 24th.

Battle Partners will feature Iono on its card sleeves and deck box. Releasing alongside the set will also be a “Collection File N” and “Collection File Lillie,” presumably featuring N’s Zoroark ex and Lillie’s Clefairy ex.

Our English set should also use the cards from the Marnie and Steven preconstructed decks that will be releasing in Japan on February 21st. They are named “Starter Set ex Steven’s Beldum & Metagross ex” and “Starter Set ex Marnie’s Morpeko & Grimmsnarl ex.”

Pokemon previewed Lillie’s Clefairy ex, Marnie’s Grimmsnarl ex, N’s Zoroark ex, and two prints of N’s Reshiram during the closing ceremonies of Worlds. Presumably they will all release in Journey Together.

Pokemon also teased Arven’s Mabosstiff, Misty’s Psyduck, and Ethan’s Pichu. It’s unclear if they will be in Journey Together or a future set.

Here’s the upcoming Japanese TCG schedule. Click the links for more information.

  • December 6th: Terastal Festival featuring Eevee and its Evolutions as Tera Pokemon ex. This will be Japan’s annual “High Class Pack” set.
  • January 24th: Battle Partners featuring the return of the Owner’s Pokemon mechanic. Releasing alongside the set will also be a “Collection File N” and “Collection File Lillie.”
  • February 21st: Two decks named “Starter Set ex Steven’s Beldum & Metagross ex” and “Starter Set ex Marnie’s Morpeko & Grimmsnarl ex.”
  • March 14th: Heat Wave Arena featuring Cynthia’s Garchomp ex.
  • April 18th: The Glory of Team Rocket featuring Rocket’s Mewtwo ex.
  • May: There were no May sets in 2023, 2024, and now 2025.
  • June 6th: Black Bolt and White Flare featuring all 156 Unova Pokemon.

Based on the set schedule, it seems May’s English set should combine Heat Wave Arena featuring Cynthia’s Garchomp ex and The Glory of Team Rocket featuring Rocket’s Mewtwo ex.

Then, we may get Black Bolt and White Flare as a special English set in the summer or fall.

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Between owners Pokémon coming back (presumably with incredible art rares in IR and SIR form) and this eeveelution set - I’m literally going to have to get a third job 🥲

But it does very much look like we are done with actual Scarlet & violet themed sets which makes me wonder if the Tera or Stellar will continue but WITH owners or just seeded into them ?

Because there are *still* several typings that have not received a card / the Tera Hat was not represented
 
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Super excited about this Im all ready for all those character rares. Naturally it sucks its such a late date and yeah this 2025 season's ICs not aligning with new sets release (nor rotation) also not great
 
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My guess was that N's Reshiram would appear in the BW set.

Will Heat Wave Arena & Team Rocket be combined into one set or will they make Team Rocket the special small set in August?
 
Devinmon said:
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Why shouldnt it? What is suggesting that it only will be Battle parnters? Surging Sparks also included Subercharged Breaker which released 2-3 weeks prior to Surging Sparks release. Heat wave Arena will also be released two weeks ahead of Journey Together.
 
Firemaker said:
My guess was that N's Reshiram would appear in the BW set.

Will Heat Wave Arena & Team Rocket be combined into one set or will they make Team Rocket the special small set in August?
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I also think it will appear in the BW set. I too believe that Heat Wave Arena will be part of Journey Together, as it releases two weeks prior to Journey Together.
 
colean said:
Why shouldnt it? What is suggesting that it only will be Battle parnters? Surging Sparks also included Subercharged Breaker which released 2-3 weeks prior to Surging Sparks release. Heat wave Arena will also be released two weeks ahead of Journey Together.
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Breaker is sv8, sv8 internationally is surging sparks. Heat wave arena is sv10 in Japan and will not be in our sv9
 
colean said:
Why shouldnt it? What is suggesting that it only will be Battle parnters? Surging Sparks also included Subercharged Breaker which released 2-3 weeks prior to Surging Sparks release. Heat wave Arena will also be released two weeks ahead of Journey Together.
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That’s not really how it works. Look at our sets of SV and Temporal Forces. Sets 01 and 05 respectively, they do not include sets 01a nor 05a (subset that release in march) even if they are released after them. Sets for us is usually main set plus previous subset: 02 with 01a for example. Journey together will be just the Japanese equivalent since the previous subset , the Eevee one, is a special set of its own for us
 
Alex Hesketh said:
That’s not really how it works. Look at our sets of SV and Temporal Forces. Sets 01 and 05 respectively, they do not include sets 01a nor 05a (subset that release in march) even if they are released after them. Sets for us is usually main set plus previous subset: 02 with 01a for example. Journey together will be just the Japanese equivalent since the previous subset , the Eevee one, is a special set of its own for us
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Ahh i see, thanks for the information! Lets hope then that battle partners will be good! :)
 
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