The chase cards in Crown Zenith include Pikachu, Elesa's Sparkle, Radiant Charizard and other Illustration/Hyper Rares.
The cards collectors chase in Crown Zenith
Every set has a handful of cards everyone's hunting. In Crown Zenith — a Sword & Shield-series set with 1 secret rares and 0 full-art cards — the headliners, in rough order of demand, are:
- Pikachu (#160) — Rare Secret (~$56.41)
- Elesa's Sparkle (#147) — Rare Ultra (~$17.06)
- Radiant Charizard (#20) — Radiant Rare (~$13.95)
- Charizard VSTAR (#19) — Rare Holo VSTAR (~$13.43)
- Rayquaza VMAX (#102) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$12.87)
- Charizard V (#18) — Rare Holo V (~$11.03)
Which Crown Zenith chase card leads?
Pikachu is the card most collectors open packs for, trading around $56.41. Prices on these range from about $11.03 to $56.41 on the secondary market.
Star Pokémon behind the Crown Zenith chase
Most of these pulls belong to the set's headline Pokémon. Each marquee name and its prints in Crown Zenith:
- Pikachu — Pikachu (#160)
- Radiant Charizard — Radiant Charizard (#20)
- Radiant Eternatus — Radiant Eternatus (#105)
- Radiant Charjabug — Radiant Charjabug (#51)
Chasing them in Crown Zenith
Crown Zenith runs to 160 cards with 0 Illustration/Special Illustration Rares, but landing Pikachu, Elesa's Sparkle and Radiant Charizard covers most of what collectors actually want — a far quicker goal than the full 272-card master set. The rarest single pull, Pikachu (#160) (Rare Secret), rounds out the want-list.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.