Pitch Black

Pokémon Pitch Black card list (ME05, PBL): 120 cards, the four Mega Darkrai ex, rarest cards and Cardmarket prices, release date 17 July 2026.

In Pitch Black the most valuable card is not the gold one. On the Cardmarket trend of 17 October 2026 the Special Illustration Rare Mega Darkrai ex 116 stood at about €184, ahead of the gold Mega Hyper Rare of the same Pokémon, number 120, at about €132 — and TCGplayer ranks them the same way. Pitch Black is the fifth main set of the Mega Evolution series (ME05, set code PBL), released in the UK on 17 July 2026. With 120 cards it is the smallest set of the era so far: 84 in the main list and 36 secret rares, built on the Japanese set Abyss Eye. Mega Darkrai ex leads six Mega Evolution Pokémon ex in the main list — Mega Delphox ex 008, Mega Zeraora ex 027, Mega Slowbro ex 031, Mega Chandelure ex 038, Mega Darkrai ex 048 and Mega Excadrill ex 065. How the Zarude Illustration Rare was taken out of the set and turned into the Elite Trainer Box promo, and which stamped promos stores and prerelease events handed out, is in our Pitch Black set guide. Rarest cards by number: 085–095 — 11 Illustration Rare; Slowbro 090 and Goldeen 087 top them at about €7 096–113 — 18 Ultra Rare: eight ex and ten Trainer cards 114–119 — 6 Special Illustration Rare: Mega Zeraora ex, Mega Chandelure ex, Mega Darkrai ex, Morpeko ex, Gladion's Final Battle, Gwynn 120 — Mega Darkrai ex, the only Mega Hyper Rare Behind the two Darkrai cards come Morpeko ex 117 (€54), Mega Zeraora ex 114 (€41) and Mega Chandelure ex 115 (€27). The whole set adds up to about €593 on Cardmarket; the seven cards from 114 to 120 make up €480 of that, while the 84 main-list cards together cost about €8.