Phantasmal Flames Set Guide: Full Card List, Chase Cards, Pull Rates, and Sealed Prices
Phantasmal Flames' full card list and secret-rare numbering, estimated pull rates, the Mega Charizard X ex chase that towers over the set, and the sealed board.
By Chase Society Desk
Phantasmal Flames is a set with one enormous card and a supporting cast. The Mega Evolution era brought Mega Charizard X back to the front of the game, gave it the black-flamed art the set is named for, and let it swallow the entire value table in the process. Almost everything worth chasing here traces back to that one Pokemon.
The complete list, every card priced, is on the full Phantasmal Flames card list: 130 cards with live prices. Keep that open, because it settles any single-card question faster than reading does.
After that we get into how the set is numbered, the cards that hold value, the pull odds, and where the sealed product stands.
Phantasmal Flames at a Glance
- Release date: November 14, 2025, in the Mega Evolution (ME) era
- 94 cards in the main numbering, 130 total
- 36 secret rares above the set number, 095/094 through 130/094
- Mega Charizard X ex appears four times, climbing from a playable Double Rare to the gold that caps the set
- The Mega Evolution mechanic anchors the roster, with Mega Sharpedo, Mega Lopunny, and Rotom filling out the ex slots
- The headline chase: Mega Charizard X ex, 125/094, the Special Illustration Rare
Charizard has been the Pokemon that decides a set's ceiling for as long as the card game has existed, and the Mega Evolution block leaned all the way into it. Mega Charizard X wears blue-black fire instead of the usual orange, and the set built its name and its art direction around that look. For the card list, it means the value does not spread. It piles onto one silhouette.
The Phantasmal Flames Card List: How It's Structured
Two blocks, and the whole story sits at the top of the second one.
The main set, 001 to 094. Commons and uncommons up through the Double Rare Mega exes and their full arts. A playable Mega Charizard X ex sits down in this stretch as the deck version, and the Mega Gengar ex rounds out the ghost side that gives the set its name.
The secret rares, 095 to 130. The Illustration Rares open the run, the Special Illustration Rares of the Mega exes and the Dawn trainer sit in the 125 to 129 band, and the gold Mega Hyper Rare of Charizard closes the set at 130.
Every card, playable to gold, is on the full interactive list with its current price.
Phantasmal Flames Chase Cards: What's Worth Money
The Mega Charizard X ex, 125/094 is the card, full stop. The Special Illustration Rare lands the Pokemon mid-transformation in its black fire, and it outprices the entire rest of the set by an order that no other card comes close to threatening. When people talk about Phantasmal Flames, this is the picture in their head.
The gold Mega Hyper Rare Charizard at 130/094 is the set's second act, the etched version that caps the numbering, and it holds a clear second all on its own.
Everything after the two Charizards is a step down to the rest of the Mega exes. The Mega Sharpedo ex, 127/094 and Mega Lopunny ex, 128/094 alt arts lead that group, with the Dawn trainer card the pick of the non-Mega chases.
The rest of the chase board:
Mega Charizard X Owns Phantasmal Flames
Most sets have a chase card. This one has a chase card and then a long drop to everything else.
Charizard appears four times across the numbering, and the market treats each as a different product: a playable Double Rare for deck builders, a full-art Ultra Rare, the Special Illustration Rare that carries the set, and the gold that closes it. That is the ladder collectors climb, and where they stop depends on budget rather than taste, because most of them want the same card. The other Mega exes are real pulls with real art, but they exist in the Charizard's shadow, and the price sheet says so plainly.
Read Phantasmal Flames as a buyer and there's really one question, and it's which Charizard fits the budget.
Phantasmal Flames Pull Rates (Estimated)
No official odds exist. Pokemon does not publish per-card rates for the Mega Evolution sets, so these figures come from community box breaks and should be read as approximate.
- A booster box holds 36 packs
- Double Rare (two-star ex): about 1 in 8 packs
- Illustration Rare: about 1 in 12 packs
- Ultra Rare (full art): about 1 in 13 packs
- Special Illustration Rare: about 1 in 25 to 30 packs
- Mega Hyper Rare (gold): about 1 in 50 packs, and often scarcer in practice
The math on the headline card is unforgiving. The Special Illustration Rare Charizard is one card inside the thinnest slot in the set, competing with every other alt art for that pull, and it sits behind a rate that clears most boxes without appearing. Put the single most chased Pokemon in the hobby at the bottom of those odds and you get a card that outruns its own set by the distance this one does.
Phantasmal Flames Sealed: ETB and Booster Box Prices
The sealed board:
Sealed Phantasmal Flames is priced on one thing, and it is not the set's 130 cards evenly. A box is a stack of chances at the Charizard, so its value tracks the Charizard more than any other pull inside it. The Pokemon Center ETB carries the exclusive art and rides above the standard Elite Trainer Box for it, the same way it does across the era.
The lifecycle rule still holds underneath the Charizard premium. A booster box runs 36 packs, and once a set's printing winds down, a pack kept inside a sealed box trades above the same pack listed loose, because buyers are paying for the intact object. The wider Mega Evolution sealed picture is something we follow in Black Bolt and White Flare Heat Up as Sealed Holds Its Gains.
Why Phantasmal Flames Endures
Phantasmal Flames endures for the reason a lot of Charizard sets do: it gave the most popular Pokemon alive a look nobody had put on cardboard quite like this.
Mega Charizard X trades the familiar orange for blue-black fire, and this set made that image its whole identity, down to the name. A collector does not need to know a thing about the Mega Evolution mechanic to want the card. It reads as Charizard at its most menacing, and that is a language the hobby has spoken since 1999.
The set sits early in the Mega Evolution run, alongside Mega Evolution and the Black Bolt and White Flare pair. Those sets had their own draws. Phantasmal Flames had the one card the whole hobby recognizes on sight, and a set anchored to the best Charizard art in its era does not get forgotten while Charizard still sells.
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