The chase cards in Darkness Ablaze include Charizard VMAX, Butterfree VMAX, Salamence VMAX and other Illustration/Hyper Rares.
The cards collectors chase in Darkness Ablaze
Every set has a handful of cards everyone's hunting. In Darkness Ablaze — a Sword & Shield-series set with 12 secret rares and 0 full-art cards — the headliners, in rough order of demand, are:
- Charizard VMAX (#20) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$54.31)
- Butterfree VMAX (#190) — Rare Rainbow (~$24.05)
- Salamence VMAX (#194) — Rare Rainbow (~$15.88)
- Scizor VMAX (#193) — Rare Rainbow (~$13.33)
- Eternatus VMAX (#192) — Rare Rainbow (~$11.25)
- Charizard V (#19) — Rare Holo V (~$10.28)
Which Darkness Ablaze chase card leads?
Charizard VMAX is the card most collectors open packs for, trading around $54.31. Prices on these range from about $10.28 to $54.31 on the secondary market.
Star Pokémon behind the Darkness Ablaze chase
Most of these pulls belong to the set's headline Pokémon. Each marquee name and its prints in Darkness Ablaze:
- Butterfree — Butterfree V (#177), Butterfree VMAX (#190)
- Salamence — Salamence V (#185), Salamence VMAX (#194)
- Scizor — Scizor V (#183), Scizor VMAX (#193)
- Eternatus — Eternatus VMAX (#192)
- Rillaboom — Rillaboom (#197)
Chasing them in Darkness Ablaze
Darkness Ablaze runs to 201 cards with 0 Illustration/Special Illustration Rares, but landing Charizard VMAX, Butterfree VMAX and Salamence VMAX covers most of what collectors actually want — a far quicker goal than the full 356-card master set. The rarest single pull, Salamence VMAX (#194) (Rare Rainbow), rounds out the want-list.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.