Pokémon is celebrating its 30th birthday with legendary gifts: since November 12, 2026, the code CELEBRATE30TH delivers a level 100 Shiny Xerneas in Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and the same code unlocks a furniture set in Pokémon Pokopia. Both gifts can be claimed until Thursday, January 7, 2027.
The event comes in two acts: a second code, revealed on December 10, will offer Shiny Yveltal. The deer of Kalos had not been distributed in Shiny form for ten years, the last campaign goes back to the XY&Z era of 2015 and 2016.
What does the CELEBRATE30TH code give you?
One code, two games: in Pokémon Legends: Z-A, CELEBRATE30TH delivers a battle-ready level 100 Shiny Xerneas; in Pokémon Pokopia, it unlocks a set of stylish furniture. In each game the code works once per save file, until Thursday, January 7, 2027.
The Pokémon Company launched the distribution on November 12, three months before the Pokémon Day of February 27, 2027 that will close the 30th anniversary festivities, as detailed in the announcement on the Pokémon website. The gift calendar now stretches to the end of February:
| Gift | Game | Code | Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level 100 Shiny Xerneas | Pokémon Legends: Z-A | CELEBRATE30TH | November 12, 2026 to January 7, 2027 |
| Stylish furniture set | Pokémon Pokopia | CELEBRATE30TH | November 12, 2026 to January 7, 2027 |
| Shiny Yveltal | Pokémon Legends: Z-A | revealed December 10 | December 10, 2026 to February 4, 2027 |
| Second furniture set | Pokémon Pokopia | revealed December 10 | December 10, 2026 to February 4, 2027 |
| Poké Ball Pattern Vivillon | Pokémon Legends: Z-A | no code, via Internet | until February 26, 2027 |
Dates announced by The Pokémon Company. Each code works a single time per save file and per game.
How do you enter the code in Pokémon Legends: Z-A?
Open the main menu with X, select Link Play, then Mystery Gift and Get with Code/Password, and type CELEBRATE30TH. Xerneas joins your party or boxes with no held item, and saving right after the claim keeps the gift safe. The claim is limited to once per save file.
The video published on the Pokémon YouTube channel, one click on the thumbnail above away, shows the legendary in motion in Lumiose City. The Mystery Gift menu requires no paid subscription, only an Internet connection at the moment you enter the code.
What are this Shiny Xerneas's specs?
It arrives at level 100, with a Modest nature, in a Cherish Ball, knowing Geomancy, Thunderbolt, Moonblast and Focus Blast, with Kalos as its original Trainer and ID number 261112. Its stats are fixed: every player receives exactly the same specimen, built for battle.
The Shiny form transforms the deer: the midnight blue coat turns white, the neck keeps a vivid azure blue and the horns go ivory, tipped with multicolored points. The Pokédex had already set the tone, describing horns that shine in seven colors as the sign that Xerneas is sharing eternal life.
There is no in-game substitute for this gift: Xerneas and Yveltal can be caught in the post-game missions at Hotel Z, but they are shiny-locked there, no amount of resetting makes their Shiny form appear. The code is the only route, and the last Shiny Xerneas distribution, listed by Serebii and the series archives, dates back to the XY&Z campaign of 2015 and 2016. The 2018 Year of Legendary distribution delivered the deer in its usual colors.
When is Shiny Yveltal coming?
On December 10, 2026. The Pokémon Company will reveal a second code that day, different from CELEBRATE30TH, valid until February 4, 2027 in Pokémon Legends: Z-A. The bird of destruction will follow the deer of life one month later, also in Shiny form.
Yveltal's Shiny form plays it subtle: the wings keep their red, while the black of the body gives way to an ash gray. The two legendaries of Pokémon X and Y will end up side by side in the boxes of Z-A, thirty years after the series was born and ten years after their last distributed Shiny appearance.
What does the code unlock in Pokémon Pokopia?
A set of stylish furniture, delivered as one bundle: a canopy bed, a dresser with a heart-shaped mirror, a stool, a lace rug, a tea set and an antique-style storage piece. Claiming goes through the PC in a Pokémon Center: choose Receive Items, then Mystery Gifts, and enter CELEBRATE30TH.
A second set will come with the Yveltal code from December 10 to February 4: antique-style furniture, a humidifier, a stone fireplace and a series of stained glass panels. Plenty to furnish the interiors of the life sim released in October, whose first content additions are covered in our Pokémon Pokopia guide.
Which other 30th anniversary gifts are already live?
The anniversary countdown started in the fall: in Z-A, the Poké Ball Pattern Vivillon can still be claimed via Internet until February 26, 2027, a distribution we follow in our article on the Vivillon challenge, and the full festivities program sits in our feature on Pokémon's 30th anniversary. The gift season is only getting started.
A deer whose horns shine in seven colors happens to be our specialty: the Mewtwo LED crystal Poké Ball and the Mega Rayquaza LED crystal Poké Ball, 3D laser engraved, put the legendaries in the spotlight at the same €29.99 as the rest of the light-up Poké Ball collection. A fine way to wait for the Yveltal code, night light on.
Image credits: The Pokémon Company and Nintendo (30th anniversary distribution visuals, Xerneas and Yveltal renders and artworks, Pokémon Pokopia screenshot), relayed by Pokémon France, Serebii and Bulbagarden.
