2019’s Standard Format: Sun & Moon-on!

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onMay 15, 2018 at 10:13 AM · 0 Comments

Pokemon.com has announced that next season’s Standard format will be Sun & Moon and on! Previously, it was BREAKthrough and on.

The following sets will be legal for Standard format play:

  • Sun & Moon and any sets released afterward
  • Black Star Promo cards numbered SM01 and up
  • Shining Legends
  • Sun & Moon Trainer Kit—Lycanroc & Alolan Raichu
  • McDonald’s Collection 2017

The Expanded format will remain unchanged:

  • Black & White and any sets released afterward
  • Black Star Promo cards numbered BW01 and up, XY01 and up, and SM01 and up
  • Generations
  • Double Crisis
  • Dragon Vault
  • Black & White Trainer Kit
  • XY Trainer Kit
  • XY Trainer Kit—Bisharp & Wigglytuff
  • XY Trainer Kit—Latias & Latios
  • XY Trainer Kit—Pikachu Libre & Suicune
  • Sun & Moon Trainer Kit—Lycanroc & Alolan Raichu
  • McDonald’s Collection 2011 and later
  • Archeops, Forest of Giant Plants, and Lysandre’s Trump Card will continue to remain banned from Expanded.

As always, new sets become legal for tournament play on the third Friday of the month they are released.