The rarest card in Sword & Shield is Snorlax VMAX (#206), a Rare Rainbow.
Why Snorlax VMAX tops the list
Sword & Shield prints just 8 Rare Rainbows, the thinnest tier in the set, and Snorlax VMAX sits at #206 among them. It's also the set's most valuable card, trading around $96.57.
How Snorlax VMAX sits in the wider chase
Sword & Shield runs to 216 cards including 14 secret rares, and Snorlax VMAX is the scarcest of them. Other cards collectors hunt in the set:
- Snorlax VMAX (#142) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$63.86)
- Marnie (#200) — Rare Ultra (~$38.23)
- Snorlax V (#197) — Rare Ultra (~$31.13)
- Morpeko VMAX (#204) — Rare Rainbow (~$24.78)
- Marnie (#208) — Rare Rainbow (~$22.75)
Star Pokémon to chase in Sword & Shield
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 Sword & Shield card to hunt per name:
- Snorlax — Snorlax V (#197), Snorlax VMAX (#206)
- Morpeko — Morpeko V (#190), Morpeko VMAX (#204)
- Zacian — Zacian V (#195), Zacian V (#211)
- Lapras — Lapras V (#189), Lapras VMAX (#203)
- Sableye — Sableye V (#194)
If you're hunting the rarest pull, Snorlax VMAX is the one to prioritise; the rest of Sword & Shield's chase fills in from there. With 14 secret rares and 0 full-art cards across the 216-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.