Is the Darkness Ablaze booster box worth it?
Cheaper to buy singles
The booster box costs €376.40 today (Cardmarket trend). 16 cards are worth €5 or more — €190.24 together, 0.51× the box price. The top five cards make up 38% of the whole set’s value.
How cards are priced
Most cards in any set are commons worth cents. Whether a box pays off depends on hitting one of the few top cards.
Most valuable cards in the set
Full set →| # | Card | Set | Price today | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Charizard VMAX 20/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €48.94 | -3% |
| 2 |  Butterfree VMAX 190/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €21.69 | +10% |
| 3 |  Scizor VMAX 193/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €19.71 | +29% |
| 4 |  Eternatus VMAX 192/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €12.85 | +5% |
| 5 |  Salamence VMAX 194/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €12.64 | -25% |
| 6 |  Rillaboom 197/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €10.40 | +14% |
| 7 |  Mew V 69/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €8.86 | +61% |
| 8 |  Coalossal 198/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €7.89 | +8% |
| 9 |  Arctozolt 66/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €7.75 | -18% |
| 10 |  Charizard V 19/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €6.88 | -9% |
| 11 |  Butterfree VMAX 2/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €5.99 | +3% |
| 12 |  Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing 195/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €5.73 | +12% |
| 13 |  Centiskorch VMAX 191/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €5.50 | +8% |
| 14 |  Butterfree V 177/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €5.31 | -2% |
| 15 |  Scizor V 183/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €5.10 | +23% |
| 16 |  Galarian Darmanitan 44/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €5.00 | -5% |
| 17 |  Salamence V 185/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €4.88 | +8% |
| 18 |  Galarian Sirfetch'd 98/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €4.68 | -21% |
| 19 |  Houndoom V 178/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €4.23 | -34% |
| 20 |  Capture Energy 201/189 | Darkness Ablaze | €4.22 | +0% |
Prices: Cardmarket trend, updated daily — as of Oct 29, 2026.
How to read these numbers
The full-set value is what all cards would cost as singles. One box won’t complete the set and the rarest cards are rare, so we focus on cards from €5. If they are worth many times the box price, the set is rich in valuable cards; if value is concentrated in a few cards (high top-5 share), opening is a lottery.
If you want a specific card, buying it as a single is almost always cheaper. A box makes sense if you enjoy opening, play limited/draft or collect sealed product.