# How many cards are in Black Bolt?

> Black Bolt has 86 cards in the main set, or 172 including its 86 secret rares.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/how-many-cards-in-black-bolt — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**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)](/card/zsv10pt5-171) — Rare (~$576.63)
- [Zekrom ex (#172)](/card/zsv10pt5-172) — Black White Rare (~$541.00)
- [Zekrom ex (#166)](/card/zsv10pt5-166) — Special Illustration Rare (~$273.53)
- [Seismitoad (#105)](/card/zsv10pt5-105) — Illustration Rare (~$235.70)
- [Kyurem ex (#165)](/card/zsv10pt5-165) — Special Illustration Rare (~$82.12)
- [Haxorus (#147)](/card/zsv10pt5-147) — 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.