The rarest card in Surging Sparks is Alolan Exeggutor ex (#248), a Hyper Rare.
Why Alolan Exeggutor ex tops the list
Surging Sparks prints just 6 Hyper Rares, the thinnest tier in the set, and Alolan Exeggutor ex sits at #248 among them. Rarity and price don't always line up. By market value the priciest card is Pikachu ex (#238) at about $358.36, so the rarest pull and the most expensive one are different cards here.
How Alolan Exeggutor ex sits in the wider chase
Surging Sparks runs to 252 cards including 61 secret rares, and Alolan Exeggutor ex is the scarcest of them. Other cards collectors hunt in the set:
- Pikachu ex (#238) — Special Illustration Rare (~$358.36)
- Latias ex (#239) — Special Illustration Rare (~$194.45)
- Milotic ex (#237) — Special Illustration Rare (~$142.91)
- Pikachu ex (#247) — Hyper Rare (~$95.41)
- Hydreigon ex (#240) — Special Illustration Rare (~$43.41)
Star Pokémon to chase in Surging Sparks
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 Surging Sparks card to hunt per name:
- Pikachu — Pikachu ex (#57), Pikachu ex (#219), Pikachu ex (#238), Pikachu ex (#247)
- Latias — Latias ex (#76), Latias ex (#220), Latias ex (#239)
- Milotic — Milotic ex (#42), Milotic ex (#217), Milotic ex (#237)
- Hydreigon — Hydreigon ex (#119), Hydreigon ex (#223), Hydreigon ex (#240)
- Latios — Latios (#203)
If you're hunting the rarest pull, Alolan Exeggutor ex is the one to prioritise; the rest of Surging Sparks' chase fills in from there. With 61 secret rares and 34 full-art cards across the 252-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.