The rarest card in Brilliant Stars is Arceus VSTAR (#176), a Rare Rainbow.
Why Arceus VSTAR tops the list
Brilliant Stars prints just 8 Rare Rainbows, the thinnest tier in the set, and Arceus VSTAR sits at #176 among them. Rarity and price don't always line up. By market value the priciest card is Charizard V (#154) at about $356.51, so the rarest pull and the most expensive one are different cards here.
How Arceus VSTAR sits in the wider chase
Brilliant Stars runs to 186 cards including 14 secret rares, and Arceus VSTAR is the scarcest of them. Other cards collectors hunt in the set:
- Charizard V (#154) — Rare Ultra (~$356.51)
- Charizard VSTAR (#174) — Rare Rainbow (~$80.57)
- Arceus V (#166) — Rare Ultra (~$62.22)
- Charizard V (#153) — Rare Ultra (~$39.82)
- Pikachu V (#157) — Rare Ultra (~$27.99)
Star Pokémon to chase in Brilliant Stars
Beyond the single rarest card, these are the headline Pokémon and their prints in the set — each appears in multiple slots, so there's more than one Brilliant Stars card to hunt per name:
- Charizard — Charizard V (#153), Charizard V (#154), Charizard VSTAR (#174)
- Arceus — Arceus V (#165), Arceus V (#166), Arceus VSTAR (#176), Arceus VSTAR (#184)
- Pikachu — Pikachu V (#157)
- Galarian Moltres — Galarian Moltres V (#183)
- Galarian Articuno — Galarian Articuno V (#181)
If you're hunting the rarest pull, Arceus VSTAR is the one to prioritise; the rest of Brilliant Stars' chase fills in from there. With 14 secret rares and 0 full-art cards across the 186-card set, there's a deep bench of rare pulls behind it.
Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset (TCGplayer pricing), as of June 2026.