The rarest card in Pitch Black is Mega Darkrai ex (#120), a Mega Hyper Rare.
Why Mega Darkrai ex tops the list
Pitch Black prints just 1 Mega Hyper Rare, the thinnest tier in the set, and Mega Darkrai ex sits at #120 among them. It's also one of the set's most sought-after pulls.
How Mega Darkrai ex sits in the wider chase
Pitch Black runs to 120 cards including 36 secret rares, and Mega Darkrai ex is the scarcest of them. Other cards collectors hunt in the set:
- Mega Zeraora ex (#114) — Special Illustration Rare
- Mega Chandelure ex (#115) — Special Illustration Rare
- Mega Darkrai ex (#116) — Special Illustration Rare
- Morpeko ex (#117) — Special Illustration Rare
- Gladion's Final Battle (#118) — Special Illustration Rare
Star Pokémon to chase in Pitch Black
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 Pitch Black card to hunt per name:
- 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)
If you're hunting the rarest pull, Mega Darkrai ex is the one to prioritise; the rest of Pitch Black's chase fills in from there. With 36 secret rares and 17 full-art cards across the 120-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.