The rarest card in Paldea Evolved is Ting-Lu ex (#275), a Hyper Rare.
Why Ting-Lu ex tops the list
Paldea Evolved prints just 9 Hyper Rares, the thinnest tier in the set, and Ting-Lu ex sits at #275 among them. Rarity and price don't always line up. By market value the priciest card is Magikarp (#203) at about $406.13, so the rarest pull and the most expensive one are different cards here.
How Ting-Lu ex sits in the wider chase
Paldea Evolved runs to 279 cards including 86 secret rares, and Ting-Lu ex is the scarcest of them. Other cards collectors hunt in the set:
- Magikarp (#203) — Illustration Rare (~$406.13)
- Raichu (#211) — Illustration Rare (~$118.89)
- Maushold (#226) — Illustration Rare (~$106.19)
- Tyranitar (#222) — Illustration Rare (~$80.47)
- Iono (#269) — Special Illustration Rare (~$68.26)
Star Pokémon to chase in Paldea Evolved
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 Paldea Evolved card to hunt per name:
- Magikarp — Magikarp (#203)
- Raichu — Raichu (#211)
- Maushold — Maushold (#226)
- Tyranitar — Tyranitar (#222)
- Tinkaton — Tinkaton ex (#240), Tinkaton ex (#262)
If you're hunting the rarest pull, Ting-Lu ex is the one to prioritise; the rest of Paldea Evolved's chase fills in from there. With 86 secret rares and 51 full-art cards across the 279-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.