The rarest card in Shining Fates is Alcremie VMAX (#73), a Rare Rainbow.
Why Alcremie VMAX tops the list
Shining Fates prints just 1 Rare Rainbow, the thinnest tier in the set, and Alcremie VMAX sits at #73 among them. Rarity and price don't always line up. By market value the priciest card is Skyla (#72) at about $12.00, so the rarest pull and the most expensive one are different cards here.
How Alcremie VMAX sits in the wider chase
Shining Fates runs to 73 cards including 1 secret rares, and Alcremie VMAX is the scarcest of them. Other cards collectors hunt in the set:
- Skyla (#72) — Rare Ultra (~$12.00)
- Poké Kid (#70) — Rare Ultra (~$10.52)
- Alcremie V (#64) — Rare Ultra (~$6.77)
- Ditto VMAX (#51) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$5.19)
- Kyogre (#21) — Amazing Rare (~$4.25)
Star Pokémon to chase in Shining 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 Shining Fates card to hunt per name:
- Alcremie — Alcremie V (#64), Alcremie VMAX (#73)
- Kyogre — Kyogre (#21)
- Reshiram — Reshiram (#17)
- Yveltal — Yveltal (#46)
If you're hunting the rarest pull, Alcremie VMAX is the one to prioritise; the rest of Shining Fates' chase fills in from there. With 1 secret rares and 0 full-art cards across the 73-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.