Black Bolt has 86 cards in the main set, or 172 including its 86 secret rares.
Inside the Black Bolt checklist
Black Bolt's numbered 86-card base set splits into 161 Pokémon, 10 Trainers and 1 Energy. It's a Scarlet & Violet-series release and ranks the #33 largest set Nomekop tracks by printed count. The marquee Pokémon and their cards 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)
Secret rares: #87 to #172 in Black Bolt
Anything numbered past the printed total of 86 is a secret rare. Black Bolt has 86 of them — #87 through #172 — which lift the count from 86 to 172. The headline pulls up there:
- 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)
- Kyurem ex (#165) — Special Illustration Rare (~$82.12)
- Haxorus (#147) — Illustration Rare (~$75.74)
By rarity tier the rarer pool is 69 Illustration Rares, 8 Ultra Rares, 7 Special Illustration Rares and 6 Double Rares.
Collecting all of Black Bolt
Want a master set? Add every reverse holo (80) plus the Poké Ball and Master Ball patterns and the target reaches 404 cards — about 4.7× the base set, or roughly 45 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Decide up front whether you're after the 86-card base Black Bolt or the full run.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.