# How many cards are in Darkness Ablaze?

> Darkness Ablaze has 189 cards in the main set, or 201 including its 12 secret rares.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/how-many-cards-in-darkness-ablaze — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**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)](/card/swsh3-20) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$54.31)
- [Butterfree VMAX (#190)](/card/swsh3-190) — Rare Rainbow (~$24.05)
- [Salamence VMAX (#194)](/card/swsh3-194) — Rare Rainbow (~$15.88)
- [Scizor VMAX (#193)](/card/swsh3-193) — Rare Rainbow (~$13.33)
- [Eternatus VMAX (#192)](/card/swsh3-192) — Rare Rainbow (~$11.25)
- [Charizard V (#19)](/card/swsh3-19) — 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.