The chase cards in Shining Fates include Skyla, Poké Kid, Alcremie V and other Illustration/Hyper Rares.
The cards collectors chase in Shining Fates
Every set has a handful of cards everyone's hunting. In Shining Fates — a Sword & Shield-series set with 1 secret rares and 0 full-art cards — the headliners, in rough order of demand, are:
- Skyla (#72) — Rare Ultra (~$12.00)
- Poké Kid (#70) — Rare Ultra (~$10.52)
- Alcremie V (#64) — Rare Ultra (~$6.77)
- Ditto VMAX (#51) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$5.19)
- Alcremie VMAX (#73) — Rare Rainbow (~$4.90)
- Kyogre (#21) — Amazing Rare (~$4.25)
Which Shining Fates chase card leads?
Skyla is the card most collectors open packs for, trading around $12.00. Prices on these range from about $4.25 to $12.00 on the secondary market.
Star Pokémon behind the Shining Fates chase
Most of these pulls belong to the set's headline Pokémon. Each marquee name and its prints in Shining Fates:
- Alcremie — Alcremie V (#64), Alcremie VMAX (#73)
- Kyogre — Kyogre (#21)
- Reshiram — Reshiram (#17)
- Yveltal — Yveltal (#46)
Chasing them in Shining Fates
Shining Fates runs to 73 cards with 0 Illustration/Special Illustration Rares, but landing Skyla, Poké Kid and Alcremie V covers most of what collectors actually want — a far quicker goal than the full 119-card master set. The rarest single pull, Alcremie VMAX (#73) (Rare Rainbow), rounds out the want-list.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.