Pitch Black has 74 cards with a reverse holo version.
Reverse holos in Pitch Black
A reverse holo foils the card body instead of the artwork, giving the same card two finishes. Pitch Black has 74 reverse holo cards, mostly from its 37 Commons, 26 Uncommons and 11 non-holo Rares — 74 cards in those everyday tiers. Even staples for Mega Darkrai, Morpeko, Mega Zeraora and Mega Chandelure usually get one.
Star Pokémon to grab reverse copies of in Pitch Black
- 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)
Why Pitch Black's reverse holos matter
None of these 74 show on the base checklist of 84, so they're extra cards to track when finishing Pitch Black. There are no pattern variants in Pitch Black, so reverse holos are the main extra layer. Counted in, a full Pitch Black master set is 194 cards — about 22 9-pocket pages versus 10 for the base set.
By contrast the top pulls — Mega Darkrai ex, Mega Zeraora ex and Mega Chandelure ex — come as full-art rares, not reverse holos, so they sit outside this 74-card pool. The reverse run is the cheap everyday cards: lots of slots, low cost.
Collecting the Pitch Black reverse holos
At 74 cards, the reverse-holo set is roughly 88% the size of Pitch Black's 84-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 Pitch Black master set.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.