Pitch Black released on 2026-07-17. Long enough for the launch premium to burn off and for collectors to decide what they actually want. Every figure below comes from Cardrake’s own price history and collections, snapshotted 2026-09-06.
The 6 priciest cards in the set
Summary
A master set costs about half what it did at launch, and the people building one mostly get there. Most of the bill sits in ten cards; the rest of the set is pocket change.
Cost
Waiting is worth roughly $864 on this set so far. The binder planner prices every slot live, so you can watch the same number move.
Buying every card and every reverse-holo slot cost $1,699 during release week. Six weeks later the same 194 slots cost $836. The single steepest week was the first one after release, not the launch itself.
$1,699 in launch week to $836 by week 6 (-51%) · the dimmed pre-release week priced only part of the set, so it is not comparable
| Week since release | Master set cost | Priciest single card | Cards priced |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | $1,197 | $198 | 94 (partial) |
| wk 0 | $1,699 | $396 | 120 |
| wk 1 | $1,046 | $297 | 120 |
| wk 2 | $1,023 | $281 | 120 |
| wk 3 | $951 | $259 | 120 |
| wk 4 | $891 | $231 | 120 |
| wk 5 | $860 | $217 | 120 |
| wk 6 | $836 | $215 | 120 |
Completion
The average collector holds 84.9 of the 120 cards, and 2.76 of the ten most expensive.
82% of Pitch Black collectors are more than halfway through the set. 24% hold at least 90% of it, with finished copies among them. The median collector is at 78.3%, and the cherry-picking most people assume is the norm, grabbing the chase card and ignoring the rest, is 4.5% of them.
82% of collectors are more than half done, and 24% hold at least 90% of the set
| Share of the set held | Share of collectors |
|---|---|
| 0-10% | 5% |
| 10-25% | 6% |
| 25-50% | 7% |
| 50-90% | 58% |
| 90-100% | 24% |
Concentration
The ten priciest cards hold 84% of everything the set is worth, and it concentrates further than that: the six special illustration rares and the gold are 7 cards carrying 79% between them. The grid below puts rarity against what a single card costs, and the money falls along a diagonal. Each rarity sits in its own price band with almost no overlap. The cheapest half of the set totals $12.51, all sixty of those cards together.
Columns are what one card costs · each cell is the combined value of the cards in it, and its shade is that value against the heaviest cell · the two cards in the last column are 46% of everything the set is worth
| Rarity | Up to $0.50 | Up to $1 | Up to $5 | Up to $15 | Up to $50 | Up to $150 | Over $150 | Row total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | $7.62 across 37 cards | None | None | None | None | None | None | $7.62 |
| Uncommon | $5.61 across 25 cards | $0.58 across 1 cards | None | None | None | None | None | $6.19 |
| Rare | $3.21 across 10 cards | $0.61 across 1 cards | None | None | None | None | None | $3.82 |
| Double Rare | None | $7.51 across 10 cards | None | None | None | None | None | $7.51 |
| Ultra Rare | None | None | $24.79 across 9 cards | $55.75 across 8 cards | $15.41 across 1 cards | None | None | $95.95 |
| Illustration Rare | None | None | $24.32 across 9 cards | $16.99 across 2 cards | None | None | None | $41.31 |
| Special Illustration Rare | None | None | None | None | $107.40 across 3 cards | $145.80 across 2 cards | $197.62 across 1 cards | $450.82 |
| Mega Hyper Rare | None | None | None | None | None | None | $158.25 across 1 cards | $158.25 |
Demand
Below the line the picture reverses. 6 cards here are owned by more collectors than want them. They come out of packs often enough that wanting one is temporary. Morpeko ex is the exception at 0.89. Most of the people who wanted it have already landed it.
Mega Darkrai ex 116 is on 67% of Pitch Black wishlists and in 15% of collections. That is 1.88 people wanting it for every one who has landed it. Run the same ratio down the list and it crosses 1.0 in exactly one place: the boundary between the illustration rares and everything below them.
6 of 12 sit above 1.0, and every one of those is an illustration rare or the gold · 1.0 means as many collectors want the card as have landed it
| Card | Rarity | Wanted per owner | On this share of wishlists | Owned by this share | Market price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Darkrai ex 116 | Special Illustration Rare | 1.88 | 67% | 15% | $197.62 |
| Mega Darkrai ex 120 | Mega Hyper Rare | 1.61 | 60% | 16% | $158.25 |
| Mega Chandelure ex 115 | Special Illustration Rare | 1.29 | 56% | 19% | $44.24 |
| Gwynn 119 | Special Illustration Rare | 1.22 | 58% | 21% | $34.97 |
| Mega Zeraora ex 114 | Special Illustration Rare | 1.12 | 60% | 24% | $58.87 |
| Gladions Final Battle 118 | Special Illustration Rare | 1.08 | 56% | 23% | $28.19 |
| Morpeko ex 117 | Special Illustration Rare | 0.89 | 50% | 25% | $86.93 |
| Gwynn 109 | Ultra Rare | 0.64 | 44% | 30% | $8.61 |
| Lurantis ex 96 | Ultra Rare | 0.50 | 42% | 36% | $3.10 |
| Mega Zeraora ex 98 | Ultra Rare | 0.44 | 40% | 39% | $5.71 |
| Morpeko ex 102 | Ultra Rare | 0.44 | 38% | 37% | $5.88 |
| Energy Switch 107 | Ultra Rare | 0.41 | 38% | 40% | $2.14 |
Patience
Wants that are still open have been open longer at the top of the set. A Special Illustration Rare gap has stood 28.3 days on average and 44% of them have lasted four weeks or more. An Uncommon gap averages 20 days. Cheap cards get filled; the expensive ones are what people are still waiting on.
Counts only wants still open today, so it measures how long a gap has stayed a gap rather than how often one gets filled
| Rarity | Average days wanted | Standing 4 weeks or more |
|---|---|---|
| Special Illustration Rare | 28.3 | 44% |
| Illustration Rare | 26.6 | 40% |
| Mega Hyper Rare | 26.6 | 41% |
| Ultra Rare | 25.1 | 35% |
| Double Rare | 23.2 | 38% |
| Common | 22 | 35% |
| Rare | 20.5 | 29% |
| Uncommon | 20 | 29% |
Attention
Page views and wishlists rank the set differently, and the honest reading of that is narrow. Views follow search rankings, which we have not adjusted for. A card other sites write about collects visits whether or not anyone wants it. Among the chase cards the two rankings barely move against each other, so treat the small gaps as noise.
| Card | Rarity | Looked up | Wishlisted | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mega Darkrai ex 120 | Mega Hyper Rare | #1 | #3 | +2 |
| Mega Darkrai ex 116 | Special Illustration Rare | #2 | #1 | -1 |
| Morpeko ex 117 | Special Illustration Rare | #3 | #7 | +4 |
| Mega Zeraora ex 114 | Special Illustration Rare | #4 | #2 | -2 |
| Gladions Final Battle 118 | Special Illustration Rare | #5 | #5 | 0 |
| Gwynn 119 | Special Illustration Rare | #6 | #4 | -2 |
| Tropius 1 | Common | #7 | #77 | +70 |
| Mega Darkrai ex 101 | Ultra Rare | #8 | #13 | +5 |
Look at the common near the top of this table. Seventh in the set for page views, seventy-seventh on wishlists. Nobody is hunting that card. They are landing on it from a search.
Timing
Cards were going into binders the week before release, 10% of what the launch week itself would see. Logging peaks in release week, then settles into a long tail rather than stopping. Seven weeks on, people are still filling gaps.
Collecting starts before the set does: the week before release reached 10% of the launch-week peak
| Week since release | Share of busiest week |
|---|---|
| -1 | 10% |
| wk 0 | 100% |
| wk 1 | 74% |
| wk 2 | 46% |
| wk 3 | 49% |
| wk 4 | 62% |
| wk 5 | 85% |
| wk 6 | 50% |
| wk 7 | 17% |
Method
Prices come from TCGplayer. Everything about collectors comes from Cardrake collections. The two are kept apart because they answer different questions.
The prices are TCGplayer market values, recorded daily and rolled into weekly medians. A master set is priced by the slot: every card, plus a second slot for each card that also exists as a reverse holo. 194 slots in total.
The collector figures are what Cardrake collectors own and what they have on their wishlists for this set, as of 2026-09-06. One caveat worth stating, because it is easy to misread. The wishlist ages measure how long an unfilled want has stayed unfilled. They do not measure how often wants get filled.
Use the numbers. Every chart has a CSV under it and an embed you can drop into your own page. Attribution back to this report is appreciated, not required.
Questions
The questions that come up most when someone is deciding whether to build this one.
About $836 at market prices as of 2026-09-06, covering all 120 cards plus the 74 reverse-holo slots. It cost $1,699 during release week, so the bill has fallen 50.8% in 6 weeks.
Mega Darkrai ex 116 (Special Illustration Rare). It sits on 67% of Pitch Black wishlists while 15% of collectors own it That is 1.88 wanters for every owner, the widest gap in the set.
Most of them get close. 82% of Pitch Black collectors are more than halfway through the set and 24% hold at least 90% of it, with complete copies among them. The median collector is at 78.3%. Only 4.5% took a chase card and stopped there.
Cheaper than it has been. The set cost $1,699 to complete during release week and $836 at the 2026-09-06 snapshot. That is $864 off the bill, and the weekly falls have shrunk from a third to a few percent, so the steep part is behind it.
Yes, but the slide has flattened. The set lost most of its value in the first week after release, and the last few weeks have each taken off a few percent rather than a third.
194 slots: 120 distinct cards, of which 74 also exist as a reverse holo. The printed set number is 84, so 36 cards sit past the printed total as secret rares.
TCGplayer market prices, recorded daily since the set released, and the collections of Cardrake collectors as of 2026-09-06. Every chart has a CSV and an embed.
Building this set yourself? Lay out the Pitch Black master set page by page, with live prices on every slot and the reverse holos where they actually belong.
