The 10 Most Valuable Cards in Pitch Black
The ten most valuable cards in Pitch Black, counted down from tenth to first, with what the set's price distribution says about opening it.
2026-09-15
Pitch Black has 120 cards, and every one of them has a reliable price attached — no gaps, no guesswork. That makes it an unusually clean set to look at, because you can see the whole distribution rather than an estimate of it.
The ten cards below are the most valuable in the set. Their combined value is $611.38, against $731.48 for all 120 priced cards put together. In other words, the overwhelming bulk of the set's value sits in these ten, and most of the remaining 110 cards are worth very little each.
Within those ten, the concentration goes further still. The top card alone is 32% of the combined value; the top two are 57%. The cheapest card shown here is $9.23 and the median is $40.56. Counting down from the bottom of the list.
10. Mega Darkrai ex (Ultra Rare)
Mega Darkrai ex
Pitch Black · #101/084 · Ultra Rare
Illustrated by 5ban Graphics
$9.23
The set's headline Pokémon in its plainest chase form. It is the same creature that sits at the top of this list, printed as a standard Ultra Rare with 5ban Graphics artwork rather than a full-art illustration, and the gap between the two versions is the single clearest lesson the set has to teach: the name gets you a long way, the treatment gets you the rest.
It is also the floor of this ranking, which is worth noting in itself. The cheapest card in the top ten is the cheapest card shown here, and nothing below it makes the cut.
9. Slowbro
Slowbro
Pitch Black · #090/084 · Illustration Rare
Illustrated by Mékayu
$9.25
The only Illustration Rare in the top ten, and the only card here that is not a Mega, an ex, a Trainer or a Hyper Rare. Mékayu's Slowbro gets in on artwork alone.
One Illustration Rare in ten slots tells you where the value in Pitch Black sits. The ultra-modern rarity tiers have taken the ranking almost entirely, and an IR has to be genuinely well liked to stand alongside them.
8. Misty's Vitality
Misty's Vitality
Pitch Black · #111/084 · Ultra Rare
Illustrated by En Morikura
$13.41
An Ultra Rare Trainer illustrated by En Morikura, and one of two Ultra Rares to make the list. Misty's name attached to a supporter card does reliable work in a set where the rest of the top ten is dominated by Mega Pokémon.
It is the last card before the list starts climbing steeply. From here upward, everything is a Special Illustration Rare or better.
7. Gladion's Final Battle
Gladion's Final Battle
Pitch Black · #118/084 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by DOM
$28.10
A Special Illustration Rare Trainer by DOM, and the first of two character-driven SIRs sitting close together near the middle of this ranking. Character supporters in full-art treatment compete directly with the Pokémon chases, and this one lands just below the halfway mark by value.
Nothing about the price here is dramatic. It is a solid, well-illustrated SIR in a set whose value is concentrated much further up.
6. Gwynn
Gwynn
Pitch Black · #119/084 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by Naoki Saito
$31.48
Naoki Saito on a Special Illustration Rare of Gwynn. The name on the illustrator credit carries weight with a lot of collectors, and this is the second Trainer SIR in the ranking.
It sits a little above Gladion's Final Battle and a fair way below the Mega Pokémon SIRs, which is roughly where the character cards land across this set.
5. Mega Chandelure ex
Mega Chandelure ex
Pitch Black · #115/084 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by REND
$40.56
REND's Special Illustration Rare Mega Chandelure ex is, by the numbers, the exact middle of this list — it is the median of the ten cards shown. Useful as a reference point: half the top ten is worth more than this, half less.
It is also where the Mega SIRs begin. From here to the top, every card is either a Mega Pokémon or Morpeko, and the prices rise quickly.
4. Mega Zeraora ex
Mega Zeraora ex
Pitch Black · #114/084 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by GIDORA
$52.29
GIDORA on a Special Illustration Rare Mega Zeraora ex. This is the third-most valuable Mega SIR in the set and the first card in the countdown to clear fifty dollars.
The jump from here to the next card up is noticeable, and the jumps after that are larger still. That shape — a long flat tail and a very steep nose — is the defining feature of Pitch Black's price distribution.
3. Morpeko ex
Morpeko ex
Pitch Black · #117/084 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by NC Empire
$81.43
NC Empire's Morpeko ex is the odd one out at the top: not a Mega, but comfortably third in the set. A Special Illustration Rare that has found an audience on its own terms.
It also marks the boundary of the concentration at the top. The two cards above it account for 57% of the combined value of these ten. Morpeko and everything below it share the remainder.
2. Mega Darkrai ex (Mega Hyper Rare)
Mega Darkrai ex
Pitch Black · #120/084 · Mega Hyper Rare
Illustrated by 5ban Graphics
$152.13
The 5ban Graphics Mega Hyper Rare, the highest-numbered card in the set and the second most valuable. Pitch Black puts Darkrai at the top twice over, and the two versions between them take more than half the value of this list.
If you are opening packs hoping for a return, this and the card above it are effectively what you are chasing. Everything else in the set is a consolation prize, and a fairly modest one at that.
1. Mega Darkrai ex (Special Illustration Rare)
Mega Darkrai ex
Pitch Black · #116/084 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by AKIRA EGAWA
$193.50
AKIRA EGAWA's Special Illustration Rare Mega Darkrai ex is the most valuable card in Pitch Black, and it is not close. On its own it accounts for 32% of the combined value of the ten cards here — roughly a third of a top ten, held by one card.
That concentration is the practical takeaway. When a single card holds that much of a set's top-end value, the arithmetic of opening packs gets unforgiving: you are buying a small chance at this specific piece of cardboard and a large chance at something from the flatter part of the curve. Buying the single is the boring answer, and usually the correct one.
Two Darkrai cards, most of the money. That is Pitch Black in a sentence. If you want a specific card from this set, work out what it costs and compare that to what you would spend chasing it — the numbers here make that comparison easy, and they rarely favour the packs.
Prices shown are the market values recorded when this article was written on 2026-09-15. Each card page carries the current figure.