Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards — how many are there and what are they worth?
There are 201 Darkness Ablaze cards on file, 201 of them with a price, and the typical one costs $0.39.
Set · 201 cards · 201 with a price · $0.07 to $50.37 · read August 14, 2026
How much is a Darkness Ablaze Pokémon card worth?
The typical Darkness Ablaze card costs $0.39. Across the 201 of them that carry a price, the cheapest is $0.07 and the dearest is $50.37 — Charizard VMAX 20, at $50.37. That spread is why the group price is a starting point and not a valuation of any one card.
Card facts are read from openly published card files; prices are read once a day from public marketplace listings into this site's own archive. Figures on this page were read on August 14, 2026.
Darkness Ablaze 201 cardsSet
Darkness Ablaze price summary
201 with a price · $0.07 to $50.37 · No. 118 of 145 sets by typical price · +30.0% in 11 months · 129 HP on average · weak to Fire
27 sets cost less than this one
What stands out about Darkness Ablaze cards
- Scale 201 cards carry this set — 1.0% of the 20,444 English cards on file.
- Price Half of the priced cards cost under $0.39, but the dearest reaches $50.37 — a gap of 129×.
- Place By typical price this is No. 118 of 145 sets; 27 of them cost less.
- Record 201 of the 201 cards have a price on file. The rest are counted but left out of every price figure rather than guessed at.
How 20,444 English cards narrow down to these 201
Full bar = that step's denominator · filled = what carries over- English cards on file 20,44420,033 cardsonly cards that record a set remain · 98.0% of 20,444
- Cards with a set 20,033201 cardsonly Darkness Ablaze remain · 1.0% of 20,033
- The 201 cards on this page201 cards1.0% of every English card on file
The middle step counts every card that records a set, including sets too small to have a page of their own. That is why its figure is larger than the totals on the set list, which only counts the groups it can open.
Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards at a glance
- What this group is. 201 cards share the set swsh3. A set is the expansion a card was printed in, and every card in the card files this site reads names exactly one. Sorting by set puts each release back together the way it was sold, so a card can be read next to the cards it shared a pack with.
- What they cost. The typical card is $0.39. Across the 201 priced cards the range runs $0.07 to $50.37.
- Where it stands. No. 118 of 145 sets by typical price, with 27 of them cheaper.
- What the cards are like. They average 129 HP and 86 maximum damage, and are most often weak to Fire.
- What is listed below. The 50 most expensive of the 201 cards that carry a price, each with its own price page. Cards without a price are counted in the total but are not listed.
- When it was read. Every figure on this page comes from the archive as it stood on August 14, 2026.
Every Darkness Ablaze card with a price on file
Market $50.37Charizard VMAX [20]2
Market $18.66Butterfree VMAX [190]3
Market $15.26Salamence VMAX [194]4
Market $13.68Scizor VMAX [193]5
Market $11.47Eternatus VMAX [192]6
Market $9.02Charizard V [19]7
Market $7.05Rillaboom [197]8
Market $6.82Centiskorch VMAX [191]9
Market $6.20Mew V [69]10
Market $6.08Houndoom V [178]11
Market $5.22Butterfree VMAX [2]12
Market $5.00Butterfree V [177]13
Market $4.93Coalossal [198]14
Market $4.71Scizor VMAX [119]15
Market $4.44Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing [195]16
Market $4.03Salamence V [185]17
Market $4.00Eternatus VMAX [117]18
Market $3.90Scizor V [183]19
Market $3.23Salamence VMAX [144]20
Market $3.21Rose [196]21
Market $3.04Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing [188]22
Market $2.95Capture Energy [201]23
Market $2.91Rhyperior V [181]24
Market $2.61Turbo Patch [200]25
Market $2.58Crobat V [182]26
Market $2.44Grimmsnarl VMAX [115]27
Market $2.31Scizor V [118]28
Market $2.25Piers [187]29
Market $2.17Big Parasol [199]30
Market $2.03Lugia [140]31
Market $1.95Vikavolt V [180]32
Market $1.94Arctozolt [66]33
Market $1.86Centiskorch VMAX [34]34
Market $1.79Houndoom V [21]35
Market $1.60Centiskorch V [179]36
Market $1.58Galarian Stunfisk V [184]37
Market $1.57Butterfree V [1]38
Market $1.30Kabu [186]39
Market $1.27Dracovish [53]40
Market $1.26Galarian Slowbro V [99]41
Market $1.26Eternatus V [116]42
Market $1.21Rose [189]43
Market $1.15Mimikyu [81]44
Market $1.09Salamence V [143]45
Market $1.03Suicune [37]46
Market $0.98Blaziken [24]47
Market $0.89Tyranitar [88]48
Market $0.83Grimmsnarl V [114]49
Market $0.83Hiding Darkness Energy [175]50
Market $0.82Arctovish [54]The 50 most expensive Darkness Ablaze cards on file, dearest first. The badge on each card is its market price.
0 of the 201 cards on file carry no published price, so they are counted in every total on this page but are not drawn here rather than shown with a guessed figure.
The grid above runs dearest first. This list runs in printing order — by card number inside the set — so a card can be found the way it sits in a binder rather than by what it costs.
Each row opens that card's own price page.
1Butterfree V#1 · Rare Holo V$1.57Grass2Butterfree VMAX#2 · Rare Holo VMAX$5.22Grass3Charizard V#19 · Rare Holo V$9.02Fire4Charizard VMAX#20 · Rare Holo VMAX$50.37Fire5Houndoom V#21 · Rare Holo V$1.79Fire6Blaziken#24 · Rare Holo$0.98Fire7Centiskorch VMAX#34 · Rare Holo VMAX$1.86Fire8Suicune#37 · Rare Holo$1.03Water9Dracovish#53 · Rare Holo$1.27Water10Arctovish#54 · Rare$0.82WaterShow the rest of the list40 more cards in printing order+40
11Arctozolt#66 · Rare Holo$1.94Lightning12Mew V#69 · Rare Holo V$6.20Psychic13Mimikyu#81 · Rare$1.15Psychic14Tyranitar#88 · Rare Holo$0.89Fighting15Galarian Slowbro V#99 · Rare Holo V$1.26Darkness16Grimmsnarl V#114 · Rare Holo V$0.83Darkness17Grimmsnarl VMAX#115 · Rare Holo VMAX$2.44Darkness18Eternatus V#116 · Rare Holo V$1.26Darkness19Eternatus VMAX#117 · Rare Holo VMAX$4.00Darkness20Scizor V#118 · Rare Holo V$2.31Metal21Scizor VMAX#119 · Rare Holo VMAX$4.71Metal22Lugia#140 · Rare$2.03Colorless23Salamence V#143 · Rare Holo V$1.09Colorless24Salamence VMAX#144 · Rare Holo VMAX$3.23Colorless25Hiding Darkness Energy#175 · Uncommon$0.8326Butterfree V#177 · Rare Ultra$5.00Grass27Houndoom V#178 · Rare Ultra$6.08Fire28Centiskorch V#179 · Rare Ultra$1.60Fire29Vikavolt V#180 · Rare Ultra$1.95Lightning30Rhyperior V#181 · Rare Ultra$2.91Fighting31Crobat V#182 · Rare Ultra$2.58Darkness32Scizor V#183 · Rare Ultra$3.90Metal33Galarian Stunfisk V#184 · Rare Ultra$1.58Metal34Salamence V#185 · Rare Ultra$4.03Colorless35Kabu#186 · Rare Ultra$1.3036Piers#187 · Rare Ultra$2.2537Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing#188 · Rare Ultra$3.0438Rose#189 · Rare Ultra$1.2139Butterfree VMAX#190 · Rare Rainbow$18.66Grass40Centiskorch VMAX#191 · Rare Rainbow$6.82Fire41Eternatus VMAX#192 · Rare Rainbow$11.47Darkness42Scizor VMAX#193 · Rare Rainbow$13.68Metal43Salamence VMAX#194 · Rare Rainbow$15.26Colorless44Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing#195 · Rare Rainbow$4.4445Rose#196 · Rare Rainbow$3.2146Rillaboom#197 · Rare Secret$7.05Grass47Coalossal#198 · Rare Secret$4.93Fighting48Big Parasol#199 · Rare Secret$2.1749Turbo Patch#200 · Rare Secret$2.6150Capture Energy#201 · Rare Secret$2.95Which Darkness Ablaze cards share a name across several printings?
Butterfree VMAX2 printings · 1 set
Salamence VMAX2 printings · 1 set
Scizor VMAX2 printings · 1 set
Eternatus VMAX2 printings · 1 set
Centiskorch VMAX2 printings · 1 set
Houndoom V2 printings · 1 set
Butterfree V2 printings · 1 set
Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing2 printings · 1 set
Are Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards going up in value?
What one Darkness Ablaze card cost over the readings on file
Middle price of one card · 13 readings · latest $0.39How Darkness Ablaze Pokémon card prices are spread
An average hides the shape of a set. These points say where the money actually sits among Darkness Ablaze cards.
The two ends of that spread are both Darkness Ablaze cards. Put side by side, they show what you are actually paying for.
A quarter of the set costs under $0.28.
201 of the 201 cards carry a price at all.
What Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards are made of, and which of them hold the value
The rarities printed in Darkness Ablaze, counted across all 201 cards on file.
Each bar is measured against the biggest rarity, Common with 53 cards, so the bars compare the rarities with one another. The percentage on each row is that rarity's share of all 201 cards.
The price on each row is the middle price inside that rarity, not the price of any single card.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 26.4% | 53 cards |
| Uncommon | 24.9% | 50 cards |
| Rare | 16.9% | 34 cards |
| Rare Holo | 9.0% | 18 cards |
| Rare Holo V | 7.0% | 14 cards |
| Rare Ultra | 6.5% | 13 cards |
| Rare Holo VMAX | 3.5% | 7 cards |
| Rare Rainbow | 3.5% | 7 cards |
| Rare Secret | 2.5% | 5 cards |
The energy types printed in Darkness Ablaze. 172 of the 201 cards carry a type; the rest are cards with no energy type printed on them.
Bars are measured against the most printed type. Adding the rows gives 172 cards; the other 29 carry no energy type, which is why the rows do not add up to 201.
A wide spread of types means a set can supply the start of almost any deck. A set that leans on two or three types only helps those decks.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Colorless | 12.9% | 26 cards |
| Darkness | 10.4% | 21 cards |
| Grass | 10.4% | 21 cards |
| Water | 10.0% | 20 cards |
| Fire | 9.5% | 19 cards |
| Metal | 9.0% | 18 cards |
| Fighting | 8.5% | 17 cards |
| Psychic | 8.5% | 17 cards |
| Lightning | 6.5% | 13 cards |
A rule box card carries a printed rule that hands the opponent an extra prize card when it is knocked out. 64 of the 201 cards in Darkness Ablaze carry one.
The count is read from the printed rule on the card face, so it covers ex, V, GX and every other rule box wording without needing a list of names.
Card kinds read from the card face. A card can carry more than one of these, so the rows are read one at a time against the 201 cards on file rather than as slices of one whole.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| V | 11.4% | 23 cards |
| VMAX | 6.0% | 12 cards |
| Supporter | 5.5% | 11 cards |
| Item | 3.0% | 6 cards |
| Pokémon Tool | 2.5% | 5 cards |
| Special | 2.0% | 4 cards |
| Stadium | 1.5% | 3 cards |
The printing finish of each card, with the middle price inside each finish beside it.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 68.2% | 137 cards |
| Holofoil | 31.8% | 64 cards |
Basic cards can be played straight from hand; Stage 1 and Stage 2 need the card below them on the board first.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | 44.8% | 90 cards |
| Stage 1 | 26.9% | 54 cards |
| Stage 2 | 8.0% | 16 cards |
- Every card in this line was printed in Darkness Ablaze itself, so the whole line can be put together out of the same set.
- The card at the end of the line costs $50.37, against $9.02 for the one it starts from — a gap of 5.6×.
- 19 of the 50 cards listed on this page name an earlier Pokémon they evolve from.
The 8 illustrators with the most cards in this set, out of 10 credited in total.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 5ban Graphics | 10.0% | 20 cards |
| Shin Nagasawa | 3.5% | 7 cards |
| kirisAki | 3.0% | 6 cards |
| Kouki Saitou | 2.5% | 5 cards |
| Masakazu Fukuda | 2.5% | 5 cards |
| Misa Tsutsui | 2.5% | 5 cards |
| aky CG Works | 2.5% | 5 cards |
| Akira Komayama | 2.0% | 4 cards |
| Rarity | Cards | Share of the set | Typical price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 53 | $0.28 | |
| Uncommon | 50 | $0.28 | |
| Rare | 34 | $0.44 | |
| Rare Holo | 18 | $0.55 | |
| Rare Holo V | 14 | $1.18 | |
| Rare Ultra | 13 | $2.58 | |
| Rare Holo VMAX | 7 | $4.00 | |
| Rare Rainbow | 7 | $11.47 | |
| Rare Secret | 5 | $2.95 |
Counted across all 201 Darkness Ablaze cards on file. "Typical price" is the middle price inside that row.
The most common rarity alone covers 26.4% of the set. The thicker that layer is, the less it costs to put a first deck together — the frame gets built out of cards that fall out of packs, and the scarce ones are kept for the slots that decide a game.
Darkness Ablaze prints 9 rarities, and the top three fill 68.2% of the set between them. The other 6 split the remaining 64 cards, which is the usual shape: the scarcer the tier, the more tiers there are and the fewer cards sit in each.
By energy type the set leans on Colorless with 26 cards, and the thinnest type on file is Lightning with 13. A gap of 13 cards between the widest and the narrowest type is what decides whether this set can start a deck of any colour or only feeds two of them.
How much HP and damage Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards print
| Measure | Lowest | Lower quarter | Typical | Upper quarter | Highest | Cards counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 30 | 70 | 110 | 160 | 340 | 173 |
| Biggest attack | 10 | 30 | 70 | 130 | 300 | 164 |
Trainer and energy cards carry no HP or attack, so they are left out of these counts rather than entered as zero. "Biggest attack" is the largest printed damage number on the card, before any condition the attack text adds.
HP printed on the 173 Darkness Ablaze cards that carry one. The typical card is 110 HP. Bar length is that HP against the highest in the group.
Half of these cards sit between 70 and 160 HP. The distance between the two ends is what a single average would have hidden.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest | 8.8% of the highest | 30 HP |
| Lower quarter | 20.6% of the highest | 70 HP |
| Typical | 32.4% of the highest | 110 HP |
| Upper quarter | 47.1% of the highest | 160 HP |
| Highest | 100.0% of the highest | 340 HP |
The largest printed damage number on each of the 164 Darkness Ablaze cards that print one. The typical card hits for 70. Bar length is that number against the hardest hitter in the group.
Half of these cards hit between 30 and 130. Attack text that adds a condition is not counted here — only the printed number.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest | 3.3% of the highest | 10 damage |
| Lower quarter | 10.0% of the highest | 30 damage |
| Typical | 23.3% of the highest | 70 damage |
| Upper quarter | 43.3% of the highest | 130 damage |
| Highest | 100.0% of the highest | 300 damage |
What are Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards weak to?
What Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards are weak to — 172 cards counted. Each track is the whole of that count, so a short bar means most of the group sits elsewhere.
An attack of this type does double damage to the card. Counted across the 172 Darkness Ablaze cards that print a weakness.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Fire | 22.1% | 38 cards |
| Fighting | 20.3% | 35 cards |
| Lightning | 16.3% | 28 cards |
| Grass | 15.1% | 26 cards |
| Water | 9.9% | 17 cards |
| Metal | 9.3% | 16 cards |
| Darkness | 5.8% | 10 cards |
| Psychic | 1.2% | 2 cards |
Which Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards print a resistance?
What Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards resist
- Fighting61%
- Grass39%
| Item | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fighting | 27 | 61% |
| Grass | 17 | 39% |
Resistance cuts incoming damage from that type. Only some Darkness Ablaze cards print one, which is why this count is smaller than the card total.
How do Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards evolve?
How Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards evolve
- Basic56%
- Stage 134%
- Stage 210%
| Item | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | 90 | 56% |
| Stage 1 | 54 | 34% |
| Stage 2 | 16 | 10% |
Basic cards are played straight from the hand; the later stages have to evolve from the card before them.
Can you still play Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards, and what do they cost to retreat?
Retreat cost is the number of energy cards discarded to move a Pokémon back to the bench. Counted across the 172 Darkness Ablaze cards that print one.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost 0 | 3.5% | 7 cards |
| Retreat cost 1 | 36.3% | 73 cards |
| Retreat cost 2 | 23.4% | 47 cards |
| Retreat cost 3 | 15.4% | 31 cards |
| Retreat cost 4 | 7.0% | 14 cards |
45 of the 201 cards on file cost three energy or more to retreat, which is where a Pokémon starts to be stuck in the active spot.
Cards that print no retreat cost at all are not Pokémon, so they never retreat and are counted in "the rest".
| Question | Cards | Share of the group |
|---|---|---|
| Legal in Standard today | 0 | 0.0% |
| Legal in Expanded today | 201 | 100.0% |
| Cards with an Ability | 32 | 15.9% |
| Cards with a special rule | 64 | 31.8% |
Standard and Expanded are the two tournament formats. A card leaves Standard when its set rotates out, so this share moves each year while the card itself does not change.
Each track is the whole of the 201 Darkness Ablaze cards on file, so the empty part of a bar is the share the answer does not cover.
These rows are not slices of one whole — a card can be legal in Standard and carry an Ability at the same time, so each bar is read on its own.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Legal in Standard today | 0.0% | 0 cards |
| Legal in Expanded today | 100.0% | 201 cards |
| Cards with an Ability | 15.9% | 32 cards |
| Cards with a special rule | 31.8% | 64 cards |
A card that costs three energy or more to retreat is stuck in practice: paying it empties the board of the energy that was meant to attack. 45 of the 201 cards here sit at that level, which is the argument for packing switch cards alongside them.
At the other end, 7 cards retreat for free. Those are the ones that open a game, because moving them out costs nothing that was going to be spent on an attack.
The rows above add up to 172 cards. The remaining 29 print no retreat cost at all — they never stand in the active spot, so they never retreat.
Which Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards moved most this year
Biggest risers over 12 months
Biggest fallers over 12 months
Counted on the 32 cards that carried a price on both the first and the last reading, so a card that only appeared recently is not in here.
Back to summaryThe cheapest Darkness Ablaze Pokémon cards you can buy
Read on the same day as every other figure on this page. A cheap card is not a broken card — most of a set sits down here, which is what makes a set collectable at all.
Back to summaryHow Darkness Ablaze compares with the other sets
"Which set is the most expensive" has more than one answer depending on what you measure, so this ladder keeps to one: what an ordinary card in each set costs.
Ranked by what an ordinary card costs, Darkness Ablaze is number 118 of 145 sets, with 27 of them cheaper.
These are the sets that sit next to Darkness Ablaze on that ladder.
Legendary Collection — 110 cards110 with a pricetypical $80.30
Nintendo Black Star Promos — 40 cards26 with a pricetypical $57.33
Team Rocket Returns — 111 cards92 with a pricetypical $54.85
Chilling Reign — 233 cards233 with a pricetypical $0.38
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How these Darkness Ablaze figures are collected, and where you can check them
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Note: Prices on this page are asking and market prices for ungraded English Darkness Ablaze cards, taken from a daily snapshot of public marketplace listings read on August 14, 2026. They are not offers, they exclude shipping, duty and marketplace fees, and they move. Counts cover only the English cards this site holds on file. Graded prices, population counts, sealed product values and pack odds are not published on this site because no free commercial source provides them.
Last updated: 2026-08-14