A Black Bolt master set is 404 cards — every card plus its 80 reverse holos and Poké Ball / Master Ball patterns.
What a Black Bolt master set includes
One of everything: all 172 numbered cards — the 86 base plus 86 secret rares — then every reverse holo, 80 of them. That sweeps in the 76 Illustration and Special Illustration Rares, the full-art cards that carry most of the value. The ones you have to land:
- 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)
The extras unique to Black Bolt
Black Bolt also carries 80 Poké Ball and 72 Master Ball pattern cards. They count toward a true master set, which is why Black Bolt's total runs so far past its 86-card base.
Star Pokémon in the Black Bolt master set
A master set means chasing every print of the set's headline Pokémon, not just one each:
- 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)
The Black Bolt master-set total
All in, a complete Black Bolt master set is 404 cards versus 86 for the base — about 4.7× the work, or roughly 45 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Sleeve and storage budget should target the larger number if you're going all the way on Black Bolt.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.