The chase cards in Obsidian Flames include Charizard ex, Ninetales, Charizard ex and other Illustration/Hyper Rares.
The cards collectors chase in Obsidian Flames
Every set has a handful of cards everyone's hunting. In Obsidian Flames — a Scarlet & Violet-series set with 33 secret rares and 18 full-art cards — the headliners, in rough order of demand, are:
- Charizard ex (#223) — Special Illustration Rare (~$138.94)
- Ninetales (#199) — Illustration Rare (~$48.07)
- Charizard ex (#228) — Hyper Rare (~$46.27)
- Cleffa (#202) — Illustration Rare (~$45.26)
- Gloom (#198) — Illustration Rare (~$28.36)
- Pidgeot ex (#225) — Special Illustration Rare (~$24.18)
Which Obsidian Flames chase card leads?
Charizard ex is the card most collectors open packs for, trading around $138.94. Prices on these range from about $24.18 to $138.94 on the secondary market.
Star Pokémon behind the Obsidian Flames chase
Most of these pulls belong to the set's headline Pokémon. Each marquee name and its prints in Obsidian Flames:
- Charizard — Charizard ex (#125), Charizard ex (#215), Charizard ex (#223), Charizard ex (#228)
- Ninetales — Ninetales (#199)
- Cleffa — Cleffa (#202)
- Gloom — Gloom (#198)
- Pidgeot — Pidgeot ex (#164), Pidgeot ex (#217), Pidgeot ex (#225)
Chasing them in Obsidian Flames
Obsidian Flames runs to 230 cards with 18 Illustration/Special Illustration Rares, but landing Charizard ex, Ninetales and Charizard ex covers most of what collectors actually want — a far quicker goal than the full 406-card master set. The rarest single pull, Charizard ex (#228) (Hyper Rare), rounds out the want-list.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.