The Pokemon TCG Holiday Calendar has become a reliable fixture of the collecting season since 2023, and the version sitting on store shelves for the 2026 holidays is the exact same print run that shipped back in August 2025. No fresh 2026 edition has been announced, so understanding exactly what this specific calendar contains matters more than ever.
Unlike the Jazwares figure-based advent calendar covered elsewhere on this site, this is the card-focused product built directly by The Pokemon Company for TCG players and collectors. Twenty-five doors hide a genuine mix of cards, packs, and extras rather than toys.
This breakdown goes door-by-door through the confirmed contents, the headline Glaceon ex promo everyone is chasing, and the two coins and sticker sheets that round things out. It also covers why a second 2026 run never materialized.
If you already own the 2025 calendar or are weighing a late purchase this season, this is the full contents list with nothing glossed over.
The Pokemon TCG Holiday Calendar spreads 25 surprises across 25 numbered doors rather than the 24-door format most advent calendars use. That extra door is easy to miss if you are comparing it at a glance to a standard countdown.
Across those 25 doors, the confirmed lineup breaks down into 8 festive-stamped foil cards, 6 booster packs, 7 three-card fun packs, 2 Pokemon coins, 2 sticker sheets, and one code card for Pokemon TCG Live. That adds up to exactly 25 items, one per door.
Eight individual foil cards carry a small festive stamp exclusive to this calendar, something you will not find on the same cards sold through a normal booster pack. That stamp is the entire reason secondary-market listings separate calendar pulls from standard pulls.
The stamped lineup includes reprints pulled from Prismatic Evolutions, including Illustration Rares of Crabominable and Vanillish alongside the calendar's headline card. All eight are guaranteed, not a chase chance the way a booster pull would be.
The calendar's most talked-about pull is a festive-stamped Glaceon ex, numbered 026/131 and based on the Double Rare printing from Prismatic Evolutions rather than that set's ultra-rare Special Illustration Rare version. It carries 270 HP as a Water-type Stage 1 Pokemon.
Its signature attack, Frost Bullet, deals 110 damage and adds 30 more to a benched Pokemon, a genuinely playable number for decks built around Eeveelutions. Because the stamp is calendar-exclusive, this specific printing does not exist anywhere else.
Six standard Pokemon TCG booster packs are seeded across the 25 doors, each holding the usual ten-card mix you would get buying a pack off a shelf. These are not calendar-exclusive; they are the same product sold individually at any retailer.
The seven fun packs are smaller, three-card bundles rather than full booster packs, adding roughly 21 additional cards beyond the booster packs and stamped foils. Combined, the calendar delivers somewhere around 89 individual cards across its full run.
Two metal Pokemon coins and two sticker sheets round out the non-card doors, both themed to match the calendar's holiday branding rather than tying to any specific set. These extras matter more to younger openers than to serious set collectors.
The included Pokemon TCG Live code card unlocks digital versions of items from the calendar, giving players a way to use the pulls online even if they never touch a physical deck with them.
The Pokemon Company has released a Holiday Calendar every year since 2023, each one landing within days of the same late-August window: September 1, 2023, August 23, 2024, and August 22, 2025. As of early October 2026, no 2026 edition has been announced.
That makes the product currently sitting on Canadian shelves for this holiday season the 2025 print run, not a new release. Whether a late 2026 announcement still happens cannot be confirmed either way right now, but every passing week makes it less likely to show up before December.
With 8 individually stamped foils and dozens of additional cards coming out of the same box, a sleeve plan matters before you even open door one. A pack of EVORETRO penny sleeves keeps every festive-stamped pull protected the moment it comes out of the door.
Once the full 25-door run is open, a single storage box keeps the booster pulls, fun pack cards, and stamped foils organized in one place instead of scattered across sleeves and loose packaging. The EVORETRO Magnetic Card Deck Storage Box has enough capacity for the entire calendar's haul with room to spare.
No, the calendar currently on shelves is the same 2025 print run, with no 2026 edition announced.
Roughly 89 cards across 8 stamped foils, 6 booster packs, and 7 three-card fun packs.
It carries an exclusive festive stamp not present on the standard Double Rare or Special Illustration Rare printings.
Yes, a Pokemon TCG Live code card is included among the 25 doors.
The 2025 print run is a genuinely different product once you break it into its real contents rather than a vague holiday-calendar label. Eight guaranteed stamped foils, six booster packs, and seven fun packs is a specific, confirmed lineup, not a mystery box.
Whichever door you open first, sleeve it before it goes anywhere near a pocket or bag; the EVORETRO penny sleeves linked above are an easy way to start.
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