The rarest card in White Flare is Bouffalant ex (#170), a Special Illustration Rare.
Why Bouffalant ex tops the list
White Flare prints just 7 Special Illustration Rares, the thinnest tier in the set, and Bouffalant ex sits at #170 among them. Rarity and price don't always line up. By market value the priciest card is Reshiram ex (#173) at about $478.12, so the rarest pull and the most expensive one are different cards here.
How Bouffalant ex sits in the wider chase
White Flare runs to 173 cards including 87 secret rares, and Bouffalant ex is the scarcest of them. Other cards collectors hunt in the set:
- Reshiram ex (#173) — Black White Rare (~$478.12)
- Victini (#172) — Rare (~$468.16)
- Reshiram ex (#166) — Special Illustration Rare (~$211.81)
- Oshawott (#105) — Illustration Rare (~$93.39)
- Hydreigon ex (#169) — Special Illustration Rare (~$85.57)
Star Pokémon to chase in White Flare
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 White Flare card to hunt per name:
- Reshiram — Reshiram ex (#20), Reshiram ex (#158), Reshiram ex (#166)
- Oshawott — Oshawott (#105)
- Hydreigon — Hydreigon ex (#67), Hydreigon ex (#161), Hydreigon ex (#169)
- Zoroark — Zoroark (#143)
- Keldeo — Keldeo ex (#30), Keldeo ex (#159), Keldeo ex (#167)
If you're hunting the rarest pull, Bouffalant ex is the one to prioritise; the rest of White Flare's chase fills in from there. With 87 secret rares and 76 full-art cards across the 173-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.