Black Bolt has 80 cards with a reverse holo version.
Reverse holos in Black Bolt
A reverse holo foils the card body instead of the artwork, giving the same card two finishes. Black Bolt has 80 reverse holo cards, mostly from its 39 Commons, 31 Uncommons and 11 non-holo Rares — 81 cards in those everyday tiers. Even staples for Zekrom, Seismitoad, Kyurem and Haxorus usually get one.
Star Pokémon to grab reverse copies of in Black Bolt
- Zekrom — Zekrom ex (#34), Zekrom ex (#158), Zekrom ex (#166)
- Seismitoad — Seismitoad (#105)
- Kyurem — Kyurem ex (#28), Kyurem ex (#157), Kyurem ex (#165)
- Haxorus — Haxorus (#147)
- Volcarona — Volcarona (#100)
Why Black Bolt's reverse holos matter
None of these 80 show on the base checklist of 86, so they're extra cards to track when finishing Black Bolt. Black Bolt also adds 80 Poké Ball and 72 Master Ball pattern cards, which behave like extra reverse variants on the same hunt. Counted in, a full Black Bolt master set is 404 cards — about 45 9-pocket pages versus 10 for the base set.
By contrast the top pulls — Victini, Zekrom ex and Zekrom ex — come as full-art rares, not reverse holos, so they sit outside this 80-card pool. The reverse run is the cheap everyday cards: lots of slots, low cost.
Collecting the Black Bolt reverse holos
At 80 cards, the reverse-holo set is roughly 93% the size of Black Bolt's 86-card base — a whole second pass through the everyday slots. They sleeve into about 9 extra 9-pocket pages, so factor that in before committing to a full Black Bolt master set.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.