Yes — Black Bolt has 80 Poké Ball and 72 Master Ball pattern cards.
Black Bolt's pattern cards
Black Bolt is one of the few sets with Poké Ball and Master Ball mirror cards — reverse-style foils stamped with a repeating pattern instead of the usual holo sheen. Each is a separate variant on top of the normal print, so every one is its own card to chase.
How many pattern cards in Black Bolt?
Across every pattern there are 152 cards to track down: 80 Poké Ball and 72 Master Ball. They sit on top of the base print run, so each one is a distinct card for a master set.
Star Pokémon to find in pattern form
The marquee Pokémon worth hunting Poké Ball and Master Ball copies of in Black Bolt:
- Zekrom — Zekrom ex (#34), Zekrom ex (#158), Zekrom ex (#166)
- Seismitoad — Seismitoad (#105)
- Kyurem — Kyurem ex (#28), Kyurem ex (#157), Kyurem ex (#165)
- Haxorus — Haxorus (#147)
- Volcarona — Volcarona (#100)
They sit alongside Black Bolt's headline chase cards:
- Victini (#171) — Rare (~$576.63)
- Zekrom ex (#172) — Black White Rare (~$541.00)
- Zekrom ex (#166) — Special Illustration Rare (~$273.53)
- Seismitoad (#105) — Illustration Rare (~$235.70)
Why the patterns inflate Black Bolt
Because these patterns count toward a complete set, they're the main reason a Black Bolt master set balloons to 404 cards versus 86 for the base. Plan binder space for the 152 pattern variants too if you're going for everything — that's roughly 17 extra 9-pocket pages on top of the base Black Bolt run.
Figures from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.