Pitch Black Card List, Chase Cards & Pull Rates

The table above gives the chance of each rarity per pack and in whichever product you pick. Ultra Rares land about once every 12 packs and Illustration Rares about once in 9 to 11, so a Booster Box turns up a few of each. A Special Illustration Rare is the slower hit, around one in every 80 to 125 packs, and because six cards share that rate, the Mega Darkrai ex Special Illustration Rare on its own is roughly a 1 in 480 to 750 pull.

The gold Mega Hyper Rare is the one figure still shown as an estimate: English openings have turned up too few of them to measure the rate tightly, so the table carries a conservative number rather than a precise one. Every other rarity is measured from publicly opened English packs, most of them in TCGplayer's sample of more than 4,000.

Darkrai's Pokédex category is the Pitch-Black Pokémon, which is where the set takes its name, and Mega Darkrai ex is its mascot. It has two premium prints: the Special Illustration Rare (#116), illustrated by Akira Egawa, and the gold Mega Hyper Rare (#120). Unusually, the Special Illustration Rare has traded above the rarer gold card since release; the ranking above shows the current order.

Only three of the six Mega Evolution Pokémon ex got a Special Illustration Rare: Mega Darkrai ex, Mega Zeraora ex and Mega Chandelure ex. Mega Excadrill ex stops at Ultra Rare, and Mega Slowbro ex and Mega Delphox ex appear only as Double Rares. The other three SIRs go to Morpeko ex and two Supporters, Gwynn and Gladion's Final Battle.

• Booster Box: 36 packs of 10 cards and nothing else, the most packs in one product.
• Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box: 11 packs, two full-art Zarude promos (one carries the Pokémon Center stamp and comes only in this box), 65 Mega Darkrai sleeves, 40 Energy, six damage-counter dice and a coin-flip die, a plastic Mega Darkrai coin, the player's guide and a collector's box with six dividers.
• Elite Trainer Box: 9 packs and one full-art Zarude promo, with 65 sleeves, 40 Energy, dice, a coin, the player's guide and a storage box.
• Booster Bundle: 6 packs.
• Build & Battle Box: 4 packs and a 40-card deck, sold early at prerelease events from 4 July.
• Checklane Blisters: 1 pack with a promo and a coin.

The choice is pack count against extras; our bundle or box guide weighs that up. Browse the Pitch Black range, see where UK collectors are buying in our Pitch Black UK guide, or join the drop alerts for Pokémon Center restocks.

Both Elite Trainer Boxes, the retail one and the Pokémon Center one, include the player's guide, a printed booklet for the expansion. It does not come in the Booster Box, the Booster Bundle or the blisters; among the Pitch Black products, only the Elite Trainer Boxes include it.

Pitch Black (ME05, set code PBL) is built on Japan's Abyss Eye, released on 22 May 2026, plus three cards first given out in Japanese gym promo packs: Mega Slowbro ex, Mega Delphox ex and Jett. Mega Darkrai itself arrived in Mega Dimension, the add-on for Pokémon Legends: Z-A. Prerelease events ran from 4 to 12 July, and it reached shops on 17 July, two months after Chaos Rising. Our Mega Evolution sets ranked guide shows where it sits in the era, and the next main expansion, Delta Reign, follows on 6 November.

28 Sep 2026: this page replaced our Pitch Black set guide, keeping its Elite Trainer Box and booklet answers and adding daily values and per-card odds for all 120 cards.