Portal TCG · Chase Cards
Pitch Black is here. The darkest and best-looking Mega Evolution set in years landed on 17 July, and the chase cards are already commanding real money — led, fittingly, by not one but two different Mega Darkrai ex.
We've pulled live market data from Pulse TCG for every big hit in the set and ranked the ten most valuable English cards right now, from a £14 Goldeen all the way up to the £240 Darkrai Special Illustration Rare. This is the English print — actual selling prices, not Japanese estimates.
One thing to hold onto: the set is days old. These are early numbers, the kind that move fast while supply is thin and the hype's still loud. Everything here is correct as of 18 July, and we'll revisit in a month to see where it settles. Lights off.
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10. Goldeen
Pitch Black · #087/084 · Illustration Rare · Illus. Gemi
Market
£14.12Near MintLast Sold
£14.9918 JulThe floor of the list, and the one truly flat price on it — barely a flicker all week while everything above it cooled. A clean, pretty illustration rare that's the easiest way onto this list without spending Darkrai money. Every top ten needs its sleeper; at £14, this is Pitch Black's.
9. Slowbro
Pitch Black · #090/084 · Illustration Rare · Illus. Mékayu
Market
£17.71Near MintLast Sold
£17.2218 JulThe one everybody actually likes. Mékayu has it grinning vacantly in a lamp-lit back alley, Shellder still clamped on, doing absolutely nothing while the rest of the set has a nightmare about it. PokeBeach's favourite illustration rare of Pitch Black — the cheapest chase card on this list bar one, and quietly one of the best.
8. Misty's Vitality
Pitch Black · #111/084 · Ultra Rare · Illus. En Morikura
Market
£20.45Near MintLast Sold
£17.2217 JulThirty years of Misty goodwill in a single Ultra Rare, and gym-leader supporters always find buyers. Worth knowing before you go hunting: this is the card the Japanese set called "Misty's Spirit" — renamed for the English print, so it's Misty's Vitality you're searching for once packs are open.
7. Gladion's Final Battle
Pitch Black · #118/084 · Special Illustration Rare · Illus. DOM
Market
£26.49Near MintLast Sold
£28.7818 JulGladion carries a devoted Sun & Moon following, and this is the card that ends up in those collections. It's also the only card on the whole list that's actually up over its first week while everything else cools off its launch high — a small sign it's the collectors, not the flippers, doing the holding.
6. Gwynn
Pitch Black · #119/084 · Special Illustration Rare · Illus. Naoki Saito
Market
£28.80Near MintLast Sold
£16.1518 JulThe set's breakout human, and a trainer SIR that punches above its rarity — Naoki Saito on art duty. Trainer SIRs have a habit of being underestimated early, then turning into the hardest cards in a set to find clean. The catch: its last recorded sale came in at £16, well under market, so there's real week-one volatility to time here.
5. Mega Chandelure ex
Pitch Black · #115/084 · Special Illustration Rare · Illus. REND
Market
£39.14Near MintLast Sold
£40.0018 JulThe niche pick of the Mega SIRs, and priced like it — under £40 while the other Mega ex cards sit higher. Chandelure's a collector's Pokemon rather than a crowd-pleaser, which is exactly the kind of card that moves once a set's dust settles and the completists come looking. Not a lot to be wrong by at this price.
4. Mega Zeraora ex
Pitch Black · #114/084 · Special Illustration Rare · Illus. GIDORA
Market
£54.67Near MintLast Sold
£56.7618 JulA genuine fan favourite and one of the best-looking cards in the set — GIDORA's electric linework doing most of the heavy lifting. It's settled around £55 in week one, and Zeraora's fanbase means there's a floor under it that most set filler never gets. One to watch if it dips.
3. Morpeko ex
Pitch Black · #117/084 · Special Illustration Rare · Illus. NC Empire
Market
£69.59Near MintLast Sold
£65.0018 JulThe set's cute-tax card and the first big step down — under a third of the Darkrai SIR's price. Hangry-mode Morpeko has a devoted following, and Special Illustration Rares of fan-favourite Pokemon rarely stay cheap for long. The sort of card people buy three of, sleeve one, and lose the rest — so clean copies quietly thin out.
2. Mega Darkrai ex
Pitch Black · #120/084 · Mega Hyper Rare · Illus. 5ban Graphics
Market
£163.65Near MintLast Sold
£182.0218 JulThe gold-etched Hyper Rare — the Mega era's new top rarity and the single hardest pull in the set. In Japan this was the £500 chase card; English print runs are bigger, so it's opened here at a more human £164. Two Darkrais in the top two spots tells you exactly who this set belongs to.
1. Mega Darkrai ex
Pitch Black · #116/084 · Special Illustration Rare · Illus. Akira Egawa
Market
£239.69Near MintLast Sold
£230.0018 JulThe face of Pitch Black and comfortably its most valuable card. Akira Egawa's nightmare-lore artwork is the set's signature image — the one on every booster box and every thumbnail. At £240 it's out on its own, worth more than the entire bottom half of this list combined. Last sold £230, so the market's holding firm a week in.
The shape here is familiar. Two Darkrais out front, then a steep drop to a long tail of £14–£70 cards — almost exactly what the Japanese market predicted back in May, which we ranked in our Abyss Eye breakdown. The difference is these are English prices now, and English print runs are bigger, so the whole board sits lower and more within reach.
Treat this as a snapshot, not a valuation. A set this young can move on a single tournament result or one loud pull — Gwynn's last recorded sale came in £12 under its market price, which tells you how thin week-one trading still is. The cards worth backing are the ones with a real fanbase behind them, not just a rarity symbol: the Darkrais, Zeraora, Slowbro.
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