Black Bolt
A 2025 set, 172 cards. What is in Black Bolt, what is actually rare in it, and what the cards worth chasing are going for. Zekrom ex leads them at the moment.
That is the Black Bolt set symbol. Every card in the set prints it at the bottom, beside the collector number. Holding a card and not sure which set it is?
The ones you want
Top chase cards
Prices are pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, read August 31, 2026. A guide value is computed across the sales PriceCharting tracks, which is a wider set of venues than any one marketplace. These are the same eight rows the checklist further down prints, sorted by price, so the two agree by construction. Singles move fast, so treat them as a ballpark rather than a quote.
The PSA 10 figures are graded sales data from pricecharting.com, a different measurement from the guide values above and read separately, so the two are not one reading. The date printed beside a graded figure is the day it was read. A PSA 10 is a card somebody has paid to have graded and sealed at the top grade, so it is not what the same card is worth loose in your hand.
Where the value sits
Where the money is
Buy one copy of every card in Black Bolt at its guide value and you would spend $3,432.29. Half of it sits in 5 cards. The other 167 come to $1,667.40 between them, which is $9.98 a card.
The 5 priciest cards
3% of the 172 cards with a price
What those 5 are worth
half of the $3,432 the whole checklist comes to
In plain terms: a handful of cards carry the set and everything else is bulk. That is normal, it is true of nearly every modern set, and it is worth knowing before you buy a box hoping to "get your money back".
Added up from the 172 prices in the checklist below. Prices are pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, read August 31, 2026. A guide value is computed across the sales PriceCharting tracks, which is a wider set of venues than any one marketplace. This is what buying one of each card would cost. It is not what a booster box is worth, and it is not the chance of pulling anything: nobody outside The Pokemon Company has pull rates, so you will not find any on this site.
On the channel
Every Black Bolt rip
3 rips of Black Bolt on the channel →newest Apr 24, 2026The most recent one, and it plays here
Pulled on camera
What we have hit from this set
5 cards out of our own packs. Every one of them is in a video you can watch.
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Servine
Illustration Rare • #088
$17.23
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Panpour
Illustration Rare • #101
$14.50
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Musharna
Illustration Rare • #117
$11.44
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Excadrill ex
Ultra Rare • #160
$0.99
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Excadrill ex
Double Rare • #046
$0.81
Watch the rip →
Quick facts
Black Bolt 101
- Released July 18, 2025, which was 13 months ago.
- The set is 86 cards on paper, but there are 172 in total. The extra 86 are secret rares numbered past the printed count.
- 86 of the 172 cards sit at a chase rarity, which is every tier highlighted in the rarity breakdown below. That is what the checklist holds, not how often any of it turns up.
- Only 7 Special Illustration Rares exist in the entire set.
- The chase card is Zekrom ex (Black White Rare), sitting around $598 raw, and $1,433 in a PSA 10.
- We have ripped 3 videos worth of this set on the channel.
- Black Bolt has a twin. White Flare came out the same day and is built to the same shape, down to a rarity the two of them share and nothing else on this site has: Black White Rare, two cards apiece.
- 69 of the 172 cards are Illustration Rares. Nothing else on this site is close except White Flare at 70; the next highest anywhere is 36.
- Grading does not lift every card by the same amount. Seismitoad, an Illustration Rare, is worth roughly nine times its raw price in a PSA 10, while Zekrom ex, a far pricier Special Illustration Rare, is worth about twice. Raw from pricecharting.com, read August 16, 2026; PSA 10 from pokemonpricetracker.com, read August 11, 2026.
That PSA 10 figure is graded sales data from pricecharting.com, read August 31, 2026. The raw figure beside it is pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, which is a different measurement.
What is actually rare
Rarity breakdown
How many cards sit at each rarity, and what those cards are worth. Mid is the middle card at that rarity: half of them cost more than that and half cost less, which is a far better guide to what you will actually see than the one famous card at the top.
The stars beside a tier are the ones printed on the card, redrawn from the key in the booklet that ships inside a modern set. The color carries as much of the meaning as the count: two silver stars is Ultra Rare and two black stars is Double Rare. Tiers with no stars are not on that page, so this site does not draw one for them. The whole rarity key.
Prices worked out from the Black Bolt checklist below, read August 28, 2026. A rarity only gets a figure where every card at that rarity has a price and the checklist agrees with the set's own count, so a few tiers show a count and no money rather than a number covering a different set of cards than the one beside it.
Every card
Full checklist
All 172 cards in Black Bolt, with what each one is worth. The most expensive card in the set is Zekrom ex at $598.10.
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- 001 Snivy $0.40 Common
- 002 Servine $0.22 Common
- 003 Serperior ex $0.85 Double Rare
- 004 Pansage $0.23 Common
- 005 Simisage $0.17 Uncommon
- 006 Petilil $0.20 Common
- 007 Lilligant $0.37 Uncommon
- 008 Maractus $0.25 Common
- 009 Karrablast $0.09 Common
- 010 Foongus $0.14 Common
- 011 Amoonguss $0.25 Uncommon
- 012 Victini $0.52 Rare
- 013 Darumaka $0.20 Common
- 014 Darmanitan $0.19 Uncommon
- 015 Larvesta $0.17 Common
- 016 Volcarona $0.24 Rare
- 017 Panpour $0.15 Common
- 018 Simipour $0.18 Uncommon
- 019 Tympole $0.25 Common
- 020 Palpitoad $0.15 Common
- 021 Seismitoad $0.21 Uncommon
- 022 Tirtouga $0.50 Uncommon
- 023 Carracosta $0.43 Rare
- 024 Alomomola $0.23 Uncommon
- 025 Cubchoo $0.30 Common
- 026 Beartic $0.25 Rare
- 027 Cryogonal $0.24 Uncommon
- 028 Kyurem ex $1.25 Double Rare
- 029 Emolga $0.20 Common
- 030 Tynamo $0.33 Common
- 031 Eelektrik $0.30 Uncommon
- 032 Eelektross $1.35 Uncommon
- 033 Thundurus $0.20 Rare
- 034 Zekrom ex $0.99 Double Rare
- 035 Munna $0.27 Common
- 036 Musharna $0.26 Uncommon
- 037 Solosis $0.20 Common
- 038 Duosion $0.21 Common
- 039 Reuniclus $0.26 Uncommon
- 040 Elgyem $0.40 Common
- 041 Beheeyem $0.18 Uncommon
- 042 Golett $0.13 Common
- 043 Golurk $0.22 Uncommon
- 044 Meloetta ex $0.90 Double Rare
- 045 Drilbur $0.14 Common
- 046 Excadrill ex $0.81 Double Rare
- 047 Timburr $0.12 Common
- 048 Gurdurr $0.24 Common
- 049 Conkeldurr $0.21 Rare
- 050 Throh $0.26 Uncommon
- 051 Dwebble $0.22 Common
- 052 Crustle $0.29 Uncommon
- 053 Landorus $0.20 Rare
- 054 Venipede $0.20 Common
- 055 Whirlipede $0.21 Common
- 056 Scolipede $0.25 Uncommon
- 057 Sandile $0.19 Common
- 058 Krokorok $0.33 Common
- 059 Krookodile $0.33 Uncommon
- 060 Escavalier $0.25 Uncommon
- 061 Klink $0.20 Common
- 062 Klang $0.17 Common
- 063 Klinklang $1.51 Rare
- 064 Pawniard $0.04 Common
- 065 Bisharp $0.18 Uncommon
- 066 Cobalion $1.42 Rare
- 067 Genesect ex $1.09 Double Rare
- 068 Axew $0.25 Common
- 069 Fraxure $0.40 Common
- 070 Haxorus $0.29 Rare
- 071 Pidove $0.39 Common
- 072 Tranquill $0.24 Common
- 073 Unfezant $0.23 Uncommon
- 074 Audino $0.35 Common
- 075 Minccino $0.50 Common
- 076 Cinccino $0.27 Uncommon
- 077 Rufflet $0.15 Common
- 078 Braviary $0.24 Uncommon
- 079 Air Balloon $0.42 Uncommon
- 080 Antique Cover Fossil $1.87 Common
- 081 Energy Coin $0.99 Uncommon
- 082 Fennel $0.20 Uncommon
- 083 N's Plan $0.99 Uncommon
- 084 Pokégear 3.0 $0.84 Uncommon
- 085 Professor's Research $1.85 Uncommon
- 086 Prism Energy $0.38 Uncommon
- 087 Snivy $31.00 Illustration Rare
- 088 Servine $17.23 Illustration Rare
- 089 Pansage $20.06 Illustration Rare
- 090 Simisage $10.72 Illustration Rare
- 091 Petilil $22.85 Illustration Rare
- 092 Lilligant $49.05 Illustration Rare
- 093 Maractus $7.00 Illustration Rare
- 094 Karrablast $17.49 Illustration Rare
- 095 Foongus $17.31 Illustration Rare
- 096 Amoonguss $34.35 Illustration Rare
- 097 Darumaka $16.15 Illustration Rare
- 098 Darmanitan $11.39 Illustration Rare
- 099 Larvesta $15.00 Illustration Rare
- 100 Volcarona $59.51 Illustration Rare
- 101 Panpour $14.50 Illustration Rare
- 102 Simipour $13.42 Illustration Rare
- 103 Tympole $14.96 Illustration Rare
- 104 Palpitoad $12.97 Illustration Rare
- 105 Seismitoad $219.34 Illustration Rare
- 106 Tirtouga $30.23 Illustration Rare
- 107 Carracosta $12.82 Illustration Rare
- 108 Alomomola $24.41 Illustration Rare
- 109 Cubchoo $19.17 Illustration Rare
- 110 Beartic $9.91 Illustration Rare
- 111 Cryogonal $8.89 Illustration Rare
- 112 Emolga $18.70 Illustration Rare
- 113 Tynamo $19.00 Illustration Rare
- 114 Eelektrik $20.00 Illustration Rare
- 115 Eelektross $26.75 Illustration Rare
- 116 Munna $18.50 Illustration Rare
- 117 Musharna $11.44 Illustration Rare
- 118 Solosis $30.65 Illustration Rare
- 119 Duosion $15.34 Illustration Rare
- 120 Elgyem $13.27 Illustration Rare
- 121 Beheeyem $6.76 Illustration Rare
- 122 Golett $8.50 Illustration Rare
- 123 Golurk $13.99 Illustration Rare
- 124 Drilbur $7.63 Illustration Rare
- 125 Timburr $18.50 Illustration Rare
- 126 Gurdurr $11.67 Illustration Rare
- 127 Conkeldurr $36.02 Illustration Rare
- 128 Throh $9.15 Illustration Rare
- 129 Dwebble $50.68 Illustration Rare
- 130 Crustle $7.68 Illustration Rare
- 131 Landorus $29.99 Illustration Rare
- 132 Venipede $8.61 Illustration Rare
- 133 Whirlipede $7.47 Illustration Rare
- 134 Scolipede $28.33 Illustration Rare
- 135 Sandile $15.24 Illustration Rare
- 136 Krokorok $12.88 Illustration Rare
- 137 Krookodile $50.64 Illustration Rare
- 138 Escavalier $17.50 Illustration Rare
- 139 Klink $8.09 Illustration Rare
- 140 Klang $6.66 Illustration Rare
- 141 Klinklang $33.06 Illustration Rare
- 142 Pawniard $8.67 Illustration Rare
- 143 Bisharp $11.25 Illustration Rare
- 144 Cobalion $31.00 Illustration Rare
- 145 Axew $19.44 Illustration Rare
- 146 Fraxure $30.82 Illustration Rare
- 147 Haxorus $67.99 Illustration Rare
- 148 Pidove $35.90 Illustration Rare
- 149 Tranquill $6.08 Illustration Rare
- 150 Unfezant $32.30 Illustration Rare
- 151 Audino $42.05 Illustration Rare
- 152 Minccino $21.80 Illustration Rare
- 153 Cinccino $28.74 Illustration Rare
- 154 Rufflet $8.29 Illustration Rare
- 155 Braviary $10.49 Illustration Rare
- 156 Serperior ex $1.74 Ultra Rare
- 157 Kyurem ex $1.90 Ultra Rare
- 158 Zekrom ex $5.28 Ultra Rare
- 159 Meloetta ex $1.72 Ultra Rare
- 160 Excadrill ex $0.99 Ultra Rare
- 161 Genesect ex $2.36 Ultra Rare
- 162 Fennel $1.45 Ultra Rare
- 163 N's Plan $4.85 Ultra Rare
- 164 Serperior ex $42.33 Special Illustration Rare
- 165 Kyurem ex $75.00 Special Illustration Rare
- 166 Zekrom ex $275.00 Special Illustration Rare
- 167 Meloetta ex $32.45 Special Illustration Rare
- 168 Excadrill ex $20.77 Special Illustration Rare
- 169 Genesect ex $45.94 Special Illustration Rare
- 170 N's Plan $62.97 Special Illustration Rare
- 171 Victini $597.45 Black White Rare
- 172 Zekrom ex $598.10 Black White Rare
The gold rows are the chase tiers, the same ones the rarity breakdown above highlights. The stars beside a rarity are the ones printed on that card. Prices are pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, read August 31, 2026. A guide value is computed across the sales PriceCharting tracks, which is a wider set of venues than any one marketplace. Where a card exists as a normal, holo and reverse holo at different prices, the figure shown is the priciest of them, because that is the one people mean. 172 of 172 cards have a price. Looking for one card in particular? Search every card on the site.
What you can buy
Ways to open Black Bolt
Every sealed Black Bolt product still being sold, cheapest first. The cheapest way in is also the cheapest pack: one pack at $14.63. The booster bundle works out at $16.04 a pack, so on this set the bigger boxes cost more per pack, not less.
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Elite Trainer Box
9 packs plus sleeves and dice
$167.02 market
$18.56 a pack
Cheapest listing $83.96 • 87 sellers
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Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box
11 packs plus 2 promo cards
$276.21 market
$25.11 a pack
Cheapest listing $262.99 • 51 sellers
Prices are TCGplayer market and lowest-listing prices, read on September 1, 2026. They move every day, so treat them as a rough idea and not a quote. Product photos are TCGplayer's. We are not a shop and we do not sell any of this.
Cost per pack is the market price divided by the pack count printed on each card above, so you can check it. Sleeves, dice, decks and promo cards are counted as worth nothing, which flatters every box that includes them. Anything whose pack count is not in our data gets no per-pack figure rather than a guessed one, which is why blisters, tins and collection boxes have none, and why sets from before 2023 have none either: our counts are sourced for the current era and were not the same in earlier ones. What each product has held, and when it changed, is on how many packs are in it.
See it opened
We ripped 3 of these
Want to see what actually comes out of Black Bolt instead of reading about it? Every Black Bolt rip on the channel is one tap away.
There is one more card in each of those packs and it is not a Pokemon card: what the code card actually gets you.
