The rarest card in Paldean Fates is Koraidon ex (#245), a Hyper Rare.
Why Koraidon ex tops the list
Paldean Fates prints just 6 Hyper Rares, the thinnest tier in the set, and Koraidon ex sits at #245 among them. Rarity and price don't always line up. By market value the priciest card is Mew ex (#232) at about $968.49, so the rarest pull and the most expensive one are different cards here.
How Koraidon ex sits in the wider chase
Paldean Fates runs to 245 cards including 154 secret rares, and Koraidon ex is the scarcest of them. Other cards collectors hunt in the set:
- Mew ex (#232) — Special Illustration Rare (~$968.49)
- Charizard ex (#234) — Special Illustration Rare (~$336.93)
- Gardevoir ex (#233) — Special Illustration Rare (~$186.13)
- Pikachu (#131) — Shiny Rare (~$89.19)
- Snorlax (#202) — Shiny Rare (~$68.36)
Star Pokémon to chase in Paldean Fates
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 Paldean Fates card to hunt per name:
- Mew — Mew ex (#216), Mew ex (#232)
- Charizard — Charizard ex (#54), Charizard ex (#234)
- Gardevoir — Gardevoir ex (#29), Gardevoir ex (#217), Gardevoir ex (#233)
- Pikachu — Pikachu (#131)
- Snorlax — Snorlax (#202)
If you're hunting the rarest pull, Koraidon ex is the one to prioritise; the rest of Paldean Fates' chase fills in from there. With 154 secret rares and 11 full-art cards across the 245-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.