Darkness Ablaze has 12 secret rares — cards numbered above 189.
Where Darkness Ablaze's secret rares begin
Secret rares sit past the printed total of 189, so in Darkness Ablaze they run #190 to #201 — 12 cards, the hardest pulls and most of the set's value. By tier that's 18 Rare Holos, 14 Rare Holo Vs, 13 Rare Ultras and 7 Rare Holo VMAXs.
The Darkness Ablaze secret rares everyone wants
The rarest is Salamence VMAX (#194), a Rare Rainbow. The priciest by market value is Charizard VMAX (#20) at about $54.31 — so the scarcest pull and the most expensive one are different cards here.
- Charizard VMAX (#20) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$54.31)
- Butterfree VMAX (#190) — Rare Rainbow (~$24.05)
- Salamence VMAX (#194) — Rare Rainbow (~$15.88)
- Scizor VMAX (#193) — Rare Rainbow (~$13.33)
- Eternatus VMAX (#192) — Rare Rainbow (~$11.25)
- Charizard V (#19) — Rare Holo V (~$10.28)
Star Pokémon among Darkness Ablaze's secret rares
The headline Pokémon whose top prints land in the secret-rare range:
- Butterfree — Butterfree V (#177), Butterfree VMAX (#190)
- Salamence — Salamence V (#185), Salamence VMAX (#194)
- Scizor — Scizor V (#183), Scizor VMAX (#193)
- Eternatus — Eternatus VMAX (#192)
- Rillaboom — Rillaboom (#197)
Finishing the Darkness Ablaze secret-rare run
Landing all 12 is the hard part of completing Darkness Ablaze; they push the full checklist to 201 cards and a master set to 356. Most of the set's resale value sits in this 12-card band, so even a near-complete Darkness Ablaze binder can be missing the bulk of its value if the secret rares aren't in yet.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.