Pokémon Pitch Black Booster Box — 36 Packs

The Pokémon Pitch Black Booster Box is the full-volume format for the Mega Evolution era's darkest set: 36 factory-sealed booster packs, 10 cards each — 360 cards of the expansion built around Mega Darkrai ex. For set builders and collectors going deep on Pitch Black, nothing else matches a sealed display's pack count or its consistency.

What's Inside

• 36 Pokémon Pitch Black booster packs, factory sealed in the original display box
• 10 cards in every pack, plus a basic Energy and a Pokémon TCG Live code card — 360 set cards in total

That's the entire product — no accessories, no filler, just packs. A booster box is the configuration set builders default to, and the sealed display itself is the unit the collecting world counts in.

The Set: Mega Evolution — Pitch Black

Fifth in the English Mega Evolution era, Pitch Black is the first expansion to pull its Mega roster from Mega Dimension, and it commits completely to the darkness theme — Mega Darkrai ex as set mascot, with Mega Zeraora ex, Mega Chandelure ex and Mega Excadrill ex in support. The English print runs an 84-card main set plus secret rares for more than 115 cards in total: 6 Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, 4 Pokémon ex, 11 Illustration Rares, 18 Ultra Rares and 6 Special Illustration Rares. The Japanese original, Abyss Eye, released first — which is why the set's chase hierarchy is already well mapped before English singles exist.

Why a Booster Box

Volume changes the maths. Across the Mega Evolution era, Special Illustration Rares have landed at roughly 1 in 100 packs, so a 36-pack display is a genuine run at the SIR tier and should reliably clear the Illustration Rare and Ultra Rare slots many times over. The gold Mega Hyper Rare tier is a different animal — it has printed closer to 1 in 1,260 packs across the era, so no single box is a promise of the Mega Darkrai ex MHR. We would rather state that plainly than imply otherwise: a booster box buys you the best odds available per product, not a guaranteed top pull.

There is also the box itself. An unopened display from a set's original print run is the format collectors hold back, and Pitch Black's allocation story — Pokémon Center's own preorder queues formed within the hour, with listings showing sold out the same day — is exactly the kind that gets remembered. These are produced once and allocated once.

Every box is purchased directly from Pokémon Center, with order records retained for every unit, and inspected by Alice before it ships.

Booster Box or Elite Trainer Box?

The honest comparison: they solve different problems. The booster box is pure volume — 36 packs against the ETB's 11 — and if your goal is working through the set list or maximising attempts at the secret-rare slots, packs-per-product is the only number that matters. The Pokémon Center ETB answers a different question: it carries the logo-stamped Zarude promo that exists in no other product, plus the sleeves, dice and storage box, and it is the format the exclusive-sealed market tracks. Plenty of collectors resolve this by taking one of each — the box to open, the ETB to keep — which is also the configuration that covers both the set list and the exclusive print. If you only take one and you intend to open it, take the box.

If the display is staying sealed, treat it like the long-term object it is: out of sunlight, stable room temperature, shrink wrap untouched. Sealed Mega-era boxes travel in their own cardboard sleeve from the distributor, and ours ship in that condition — the display box itself is part of what you're keeping.

Key Cards to Chase in Pitch Black

At the top: the Mega Darkrai ex Mega Hyper Rare, trading around $1,000–1,100 ungraded in its Japanese Abyss Eye print (PriceCharting, June 2026). Its companion Special Illustration Rare — Akira Egawa's take on Darkrai, the consensus pick for the set's finest art — runs $500–550. The supporting cast is deep for a dark set: Gwynn is the premier Trainer SIR at ~$95–110, with Morpeko ex, Mega Zeraora ex and Mega Chandelure ex filling the SIR tier, and full-art Misty's Spirit punching above its Ultra Rare slot on character demand. All figures are Japanese-print values — the English market hasn't formed yet, which is precisely the window sealed buyers tend to act in. Thirty-six packs gives you the strongest position of any single product for the cards above the Ultra Rare line; the visual chase grid below this listing shows each card with current context.

Prefer the collector's format? The Pokémon Center exclusive Elite Trainer Box adds two extra packs over retail and the logo-stamped Zarude promo. Want a smaller opening? The Booster Bundle is six packs of the same set. Or browse everything currently available at Evol Vault.

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