A Darkness Ablaze master set is 356 cards — every card plus its 155 reverse holos.
What a Darkness Ablaze master set includes
One of everything: all 201 numbered cards — the 189 base plus 12 secret rares — then every reverse holo, 155 of them. The headline cards you have to land:
- 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)
The extras unique to Darkness Ablaze
Darkness Ablaze has no special pattern variants, so the master set is the 201-card checklist plus 155 reverse holos — no extra pattern foils to chase beyond the 12 secret rares.
Star Pokémon in the Darkness Ablaze master set
A master set means chasing every print of the set's headline Pokémon, not just one each:
- 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)
The Darkness Ablaze master-set total
All in, a complete Darkness Ablaze master set is 356 cards versus 189 for the base — about 1.9× the work, or roughly 40 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Sleeve and storage budget should target the larger number if you're going all the way on Darkness Ablaze.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.