A Pitch Black master set is 194 cards — every card plus its 74 reverse holos.
What a Pitch Black master set includes
One of everything: all 120 numbered cards — the 84 base plus 36 secret rares — then every reverse holo, 74 of them. That sweeps in the 17 Illustration and Special Illustration Rares, the full-art cards that carry most of the value. The ones you have to land:
- Mega Darkrai ex (#120) — Mega Hyper Rare
- Mega Zeraora ex (#114) — Special Illustration Rare
- Mega Chandelure ex (#115) — Special Illustration Rare
- Mega Darkrai ex (#116) — Special Illustration Rare
- Morpeko ex (#117) — Special Illustration Rare
- Gladion's Final Battle (#118) — Special Illustration Rare
The extras unique to Pitch Black
Pitch Black has no special pattern variants, so the master set is the 120-card checklist plus 74 reverse holos — no extra pattern foils to chase beyond the 36 secret rares.
Star Pokémon in the Pitch Black master set
A master set means chasing every print of the set's headline Pokémon, not just one each:
- Mega Darkrai — Mega Darkrai ex (#48), Mega Darkrai ex (#101), Mega Darkrai ex (#116), Mega Darkrai ex (#120)
- Morpeko — Morpeko ex (#55), Morpeko ex (#102), Morpeko ex (#117)
- Mega Zeraora — Mega Zeraora ex (#27), Mega Zeraora ex (#98), Mega Zeraora ex (#114)
- Mega Chandelure — Mega Chandelure ex (#38), Mega Chandelure ex (#99), Mega Chandelure ex (#115)
- Fomantis — Fomantis (#85)
The Pitch Black master-set total
All in, a complete Pitch Black master set is 194 cards versus 84 for the base — about 2.3× the work, or roughly 22 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Sleeve and storage budget should target the larger number if you're going all the way on Pitch Black.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.