EPOCH, the Japanese trading card manufacturer behind licensed sets for Kaiju No. 8 and Dan Da Dan, has turned Solo Leveling into one of its steadiest convention-exclusive lines.
EPOCH's own product site confirms the first Solo Leveling set, called the 2025 Premiere, sold out its allocated boxes at San Diego Comic-Con Málaga, New York Comic-Con, MCM London, Lucca Comics, and Comic Con Stuttgart.
A second wave followed through 2026, distributed via legitimate hobby outlets like DACardWorld rather than only showing up on secondary-market listings.
Here is what is actually confirmed about both waves, and where some secondary-market listings get ahead of what EPOCH itself has officially named.
EPOCH's official product page for the Premiere set lists four featured characters: Sung Jinwoo, Cha Hae-In, Knight Commander Igris The Bloodred, and Iron.
Each box contains 2 mini boxes with 2 cards each, for 4 total cards per box, a genuinely low pull count that explains why allocated inventory sold out at every convention stop so quickly.
Regular cards are serial-numbered to 99, with Purple, Sapphire, and Red parallel tiers numbered down to 50, 25, and 10 respectively.
EPOCH's own exclusive HoloSpectra parallel cards are 1-of-1, and autograph cards from English voice actors Christopher Sabat, Aleks Le, and Jason Liebrecht round out the chase list.
A 1-of-1 pull deserves rigid, long-term storage rather than a standard sleeve alone, and an EVORETRO Magnetic Card Holder keeps a card like that secure on display without the risk of a loose toploader sliding out.
DACardWorld, an established entertainment-card distributor, lists a 2026 Epoch Con-X Solo Leveling Trading Card Set at $34.95 per box, with each box containing a complete 16-card base set plus 1 random special insert.
That same distributor also lists a 2026 Epoch Solo Leveling World Edition Blaster Box as a separate presell product, confirming EPOCH is actively expanding this line rather than running a single one-off release.
Several secondary-market listings, mostly on eBay, brand this 2026 wave as Solo Leveling Ascended, but that name does not appear on EPOCH's own product pages or its official X account.
Treat Ascended as a seller-coined nickname rather than EPOCH's official set title until the brand itself uses it; the confirmed, dated details above all come from EPOCH's own channels and legitimate distributors, not from that naming alone.
Solo Leveling has multiple competing card products on the market right now, including Bandai's Union Arena TCG version, which plays as an actual trading card game rather than a non-sport collectible set like EPOCH's.
Don't confuse the two when shopping: EPOCH's cards are collectible-only with no gameplay rules, while Union Arena cards are built for play.
Tying inventory directly to a con circuit, rather than shipping broad retail distribution, lets EPOCH keep its Solo Leveling allocation deliberately scarce at each individual show.
That scarcity is part of why boxes sold out at every stop on the 2025 Premiere tour, and why distributor allocations for the 2026 wave are worth watching closely if a specific show matters to you.
EPOCH has already run this exact format for Kaiju No. 8 at Anime Expo and San Diego Comic-Con, so the Solo Leveling rollout is following an established, repeatable playbook rather than an improvised one-off.
Following EPOCH's own X account ahead of a show you're attending is the most reliable way to know whether Solo Leveling product will actually be available at that specific booth.
Convention-exclusive products with genuinely low print runs, like the Premiere set's sold-out allocations, tend to hold or climb in resale value faster than wide-release retail cards.
That is worth factoring in if you missed a specific show stop: paying a modest secondary-market premium for a sold-out allocation is sometimes the more realistic path than waiting for a restock that may never come, especially for a 1-of-1 HoloSpectra pull that will never see a second print run and will only become harder to find as more of the original allocation changes hands.
No, that name mainly appears on secondary-market listings, not EPOCH's own channels.
A complete 16-card base set plus 1 random special insert card.
No, they are collectible-only; Bandai's separate Union Arena version is the playable option.
Through legitimate distributors like DACardWorld, which list sealed boxes and cases.
Serial-numbered parallels and voice-actor autographs deserve real protection the moment they leave the pack. Pick up EVORETRO Card Sleeves before your next convention floor pickup.
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