Darkness Ablaze has 189 cards in the main set, or 201 including its 12 secret rares.
Inside the Darkness Ablaze checklist
Darkness Ablaze's numbered 189-card base set splits into 172 Pokémon, 25 Trainers and 4 Energy. It's a Sword & Shield-series release and ranks the #14 largest set Nomekop tracks by printed count. The marquee Pokémon and their cards in Darkness Ablaze:
- Butterfree — Butterfree V (#177), Butterfree VMAX (#190)
- Salamence — Salamence V (#185), Salamence VMAX (#194)
- Scizor — Scizor V (#183), Scizor VMAX (#193)
- Eternatus — Eternatus VMAX (#192)
- Rillaboom — Rillaboom (#197)
Secret rares: #190 to #201 in Darkness Ablaze
Anything numbered past the printed total of 189 is a secret rare. Darkness Ablaze has 12 of them — #190 through #201 — which lift the count from 189 to 201. The headline pulls up there:
- Charizard VMAX (#20) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$54.31)
- Butterfree VMAX (#190) — Rare Rainbow (~$24.05)
- Salamence VMAX (#194) — Rare Rainbow (~$15.88)
- Scizor VMAX (#193) — Rare Rainbow (~$13.33)
- Eternatus VMAX (#192) — Rare Rainbow (~$11.25)
- Charizard V (#19) — Rare Holo V (~$10.28)
By rarity tier the rarer pool is 18 Rare Holos, 14 Rare Holo Vs, 13 Rare Ultras and 7 Rare Holo VMAXs.
Collecting all of Darkness Ablaze
Want a master set? Add every reverse holo (155) and the target reaches 356 cards — about 1.9× the base set, or roughly 40 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Decide up front whether you're after the 189-card base Darkness Ablaze or the full run.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.