# How many cards are in a Pitch Black master set?

> A Pitch Black master set is 194 cards — every card plus its 74 reverse holos.
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> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/how-many-cards-in-pitch-black-master-set — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**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)](/card/me5-120) — Mega Hyper Rare
- [Mega Zeraora ex (#114)](/card/me5-114) — Special Illustration Rare
- [Mega Chandelure ex (#115)](/card/me5-115) — Special Illustration Rare
- [Mega Darkrai ex (#116)](/card/me5-116) — Special Illustration Rare
- [Morpeko ex (#117)](/card/me5-117) — Special Illustration Rare
- [Gladion's Final Battle (#118)](/card/me5-118) — 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.