Pokémon Sleeves - Piplup, Prinplup & Empoleon (64 pcs, Japanese)

64 official Japanese Pokémon sleeves featuring Piplup, Prinplup and Empoleon, released by the Pokémon Center alongside the Japanese set Inferno X (September 26, 2025).

Specifications

• Quantity: 64 sleeves
• Artwork: Piplup, Prinplup and Empoleon
• Origin: Pokémon Center Japan, Inferno X (September 2025)
• Officially licensed Japanese product

Why 64 and not 65

Western sleeve packs contain 65, Japanese ones 64 — a difference that simply comes down to habit in the two markets. A deck holds 60 cards either way, so you'll have a few spares left over regardless. Keep in mind that Japanese sleeves are sized for Japanese cards, which are a fraction smaller than Western ones.

The whole line on one sleeve

Piplup is Sinnoh's water starter: a penguin chick with too much pride to accept help. It evolves into Prinplup, which lives alone because it considers itself the most important thing around, and then into Empoleon — with three horns on its head whose size determines rank, and wings sharp enough to cut ice floes in half. All three stages stand side by side here.

What sleeves are for

Sleeves protect your cards from fingerprints, moisture and damaged edges, and they make a deck shuffle more smoothly. At tournaments they're effectively mandatory: every card back in your deck must look identical, so no one can tell which card you're holding from the back.

From the same set comes the pack with Dawn. Another design featuring a whole evolution line is Eevee Dash! Ver. 2.