Obsidian Flames has 176 cards with a reverse holo version.
Reverse holos in Obsidian Flames
A reverse holo foils the card body instead of the artwork, giving the same card two finishes. Obsidian Flames has 176 reverse holo cards, mostly from its 92 Commons, 74 Uncommons and 10 non-holo Rares — 176 cards in those everyday tiers. Even staples for Charizard, Ninetales, Cleffa and Gloom usually get one.
Star Pokémon to grab reverse copies of in Obsidian Flames
- Charizard — Charizard ex (#125), Charizard ex (#215), Charizard ex (#223), Charizard ex (#228)
- Ninetales — Ninetales (#199)
- Cleffa — Cleffa (#202)
- Gloom — Gloom (#198)
- Pidgeot — Pidgeot ex (#164), Pidgeot ex (#217), Pidgeot ex (#225)
Why Obsidian Flames' reverse holos matter
None of these 176 show on the base checklist of 197, so they're extra cards to track when finishing Obsidian Flames. There are no pattern variants in Obsidian Flames, so reverse holos are the main extra layer. Counted in, a full Obsidian Flames master set is 406 cards — about 46 9-pocket pages versus 22 for the base set.
By contrast the top pulls — Charizard ex, Ninetales and Charizard ex — come as full-art rares, not reverse holos, so they sit outside this 176-card pool. The reverse run is the cheap everyday cards: lots of slots, low cost.
Collecting the Obsidian Flames reverse holos
At 176 cards, the reverse-holo set is roughly 89% the size of Obsidian Flames' 197-card base — a whole second pass through the everyday slots. They sleeve into about 20 extra 9-pocket pages, so factor that in before committing to a full Obsidian Flames master set.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.