White Flare: the most expensive Pokémon cards

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White Flare came out on 18 July 2025 alongside its twin Black Bolt, and the two of them changed the rules of the Scarlet and Violet block: here nearly every card is a full-page illustration, and the tail of eleven-cent commons that fills every other set simply is not there.

The result shows in the numbers. The median card in White Flare is 0.17 € against 0.11 € in every other set in the block, and only 92 cards out of 173 sit below one euro: elsewhere that figure runs between 75 and 87%.

We ran every card in the set through the DarkDex pricing engine and sorted by value. These are real single-card prices, Near Mint, the lowest available across sellers, updated on 21 August 2026. Graded copies are excluded: a slabbed card follows a separate market.

In short. White Flare costs 1,613 € to complete, the third highest figure in the block despite holding just 173 cards. Leading, Victini (#172) at 300.64 €, then Reshiram ex (#173) at 270.00 € and the second version of Reshiram ex (#166) at 169.45 €. Prices as of 21 August 2026.

The ranking: the 20 most expensive cards

This is the full ranking down to 14 euros: every card in the set worth more than that.

1VictiniBlack White Rare · #172€300.64

2Reshiram exBlack White Rare · #173€270.00

3Reshiram exSpecial Illustration Rare · #166€169.45

4ZoroarkIllustration Rare · #143€89.99

5Hydreigon exSpecial Illustration Rare · #169€45.63

6ChandelureIllustration Rare · #103€35.52

7SamurottIllustration Rare · #107€32.52

8Keldeo exSpecial Illustration Rare · #167€32.52

9VanilluxeIllustration Rare · #113€30.39

10GigalithIllustration Rare · #129€30.30

11TepigIllustration Rare · #096€29.72

12EmboarIllustration Rare · #098€25.40

13LiepardIllustration Rare · #137€25.39

14OshawottIllustration Rare · #105€21.09

15VirizionIllustration Rare · #095€20.27

16ZoruaIllustration Rare · #142€20.27

17HildaSpecial Illustration Rare · #171€20.27

18Jellicent exSpecial Illustration Rare · #168€17.52

19StoutlandIllustration Rare · #156€15.21

20ZebstrikaIllustration Rare · #115€14.98

Twenty rows, and the twentieth is still at 14.98 €. That is the figure that separates White Flare from the rest of the block: in Journey Together the twentieth card costs 1.13 €, here it costs fifteen.

These are the cards people buy boxes for. Add them to your collection on DarkDex and track their value day by day, without redoing the maths every time the market moves.

Which is the rarest card in White Flare?

The rarest card in White Flare is Reshiram ex (#173), the last numbered card in the set. It is a Black White Rare, the new rarity that debuts in these two sets, and it is worth 270.00 €.

Here, unlike every other set in the block, the rarest card is also the second most expensive. The outright most expensive is Victini (#172) at 300.64 €, the set's other Black White Rare. The two categories coincide because White Flare is built differently: there are no gold trainer cards at the end of the numbering, there are two special cards and that is it.

Pull rates are not published, so there is no official answer, and price remains the only measurable indicator.

The chase cards of White Flare

There are four chase cards:

1. Victini (#172), Black White Rare: 300.64 €
2. Reshiram ex (#173), Black White Rare: 270.00 €
3. Reshiram ex (#166), Special Illustration Rare: 169.45 €
4. Zoroark (#143), Illustration Rare: 89.99 €

The top three together are worth 740 €, 46% of the set. But it is the fourth that captures what makes White Flare unusual: Zoroark is not an ex, not a special rare, just a regular Illustration Rare. And it is worth ninety euros.

Add them to your collection on DarkDex and follow the value day by day.

The set where a Tepig is worth thirty euros

This is the thing to understand about White Flare, and it holds for no other set in the block. Look at these pairs, same creature, different prints inside the same set:

• Zoroark: #143 at 89.99 €, #062 at 0.11 € (818 times)
• Chandelure: #103 at 35.52 €, #018 at 0.11 € (323 times)
• Samurott: #107 at 32.52 €, #023 at 0.11 €
• Tepig: #096 at 29.72 €, #011 at 0.11 €
• Oshawott: #105 at 21.09 €, #021 at 0.11 €

These are not ex cards, not tournament staples, not even evolved Pokémon: Tepig and Oshawott are basic starters. They cost thirty and twenty-one euros because their illustrated version, up in the high numbering of the set, is a card people want to hang on a wall.

White Flare is built that way: the big-illustration cards occupy numbers from 087 upwards, and they are the part of the set that carries value. Below that threshold sits the ordinary version of the same card at eleven cents.

The twin: White Flare or Black Bolt?

The two sets came out on the same day, hold the same number of cards and share the same structure. The prices are nearly identical too: 1,613 € to complete White Flare, 1,678 € for Black Bolt.

Two differences matter. First: at the top of both sits a Victini, the same illustration split into two variants, one per set. Second: White Flare is the Reshiram set and Black Bolt the Zekrom one, and their signature Pokémon are worth similar money (270 € against 259.64 €).

In practice, choosing between the two is an aesthetic choice. On the numbers, they are the same set.

How much it costs to complete White Flare

Buying every card in the set at the lowest Near Mint listing, one by one, takes around 1,613 €:

• the top three cards cost 740 €, which is 46% of the total
• the top ten reach 1,037 €, or 64%
• the median card is 0.17 €, the highest in the block
• 92 cards out of 173, 53% of the set, sit below one euro

Translated: without the top ten cards the set still costs 576 €. In Journey Together the same figure is 55 €. White Flare has no cheap half, which is why a 173-card set costs nearly as much as one with 244.

Worth saying that this is a theoretical floor: minimums from different sellers, shipping excluded, counting only the 173 cards that have at least one listing.

Where White Flare sits in the Scarlet and Violet block

We ran eight sets of the Scarlet and Violet block through the pricing engine, so the comparison can be made on numbers rather than impressions:

The "cards" column counts the cards in the set with at least one Near Mint listing, not the number printed on the back of the pack.

White Flare has the fewest cards in the group and the third highest cost to complete. Together with Black Bolt it is the only set in the block whose average price per card clears nine euros: in all the others it stays under eight.

Singles or packs?

White Flare has no traditional Booster Box: it sells as a Booster Bundle at 37.92 € and an Elite Trainer Box at 64.63 €. Those are low prices relative to the value of the singles, and that is normal, because the odds of pulling one of the two Black White Rares are tiny.

1,613 € buys the whole set in singles. The same money buys twenty-five Elite Trainer Boxes, out of which nothing is guaranteed. On a set built like this, packs are something you open for fun, never a strategy for completing.

Heads up. Card prices move constantly, and chase cards are the most volatile of all: the numbers in this article are a snapshot of the market on 21 August 2026.

How to keep an eye on the value

On DarkDex you add your White Flare cards to your collection and the market value updates itself, with price history and your portfolio total always in view. It works with any language and any condition, not just English cards.

The same ranking exists for the other sets in the block: Black Bolt (the twin), Destined Rivals, Surging Sparks, Twilight Masquerade, Journey Together, Paradox Rift and Paldea Evolved.