Obsidian Flames will always be 'the Charizard set' — the Darkness-type Tera Charizard ex led a set that also quietly printed Pidgeot...
Obsidian Flames will always be 'the Charizard set' — the Darkness-type Tera Charizard ex led a set that also quietly printed Pidgeot ex, the most important consistency card of the era. Type-shifted Tera ex were the experiment here, and the experiment worked.
Obsidian Flames — Scarlet & Violet series, released August 11, 2023. Official totals: 230 cards, of which 197 are the main set and 33 are secret rares above the printed line.
The Set by Rarity (from the official card data)
- Double Rare: 21
- Ultra Rare: 12
- Special Illustration Rare: 6
- Illustration Rare: 12
- Hyper Rare: 3
- Rare: 10
- Uncommon: 74
- Common: 92
Related reading: Scarlet & Violet Base Set Breakdown: Where the Era Began — keep it open for when you finish this one.
Read as a collector, that table is the set's personality: 21 Double Rare ex anchor the playable chase, 12 Ultra Rares carry the full-art treatments, and 21 Illustration-class and Hyper-class cards form the art-first tier that most collectors actually hunt. Read as a player, the same table is a shopping map — the Double Rare line is where the format's tools live.
Composition, for deck builders: the set's Pokémon lean Colorless (29), Grass (26), Psychic (25) by card count, backed by 19 Trainer cards in the data. Type density is destiny for a set's decks — it predicts which archetypes the set can feed on its own and which must import help from neighboring sets.
Notable Pokémon ex by Name
Absol ex, Charizard ex, Clefable ex, Decidueye ex, Dragonite ex, Eiscue ex, Glimmora ex, Greedent ex, Houndoom ex, Houndstone ex, Klawf ex, Koraidon ex, Melmetal ex, Miraidon ex, Pawmot ex, Pidgeot ex, Revavroom ex, Toedscruel ex, Tyranitar ex, Vespiquen ex, Victini ex.
Illustration highlights in the data include: Bellibolt, Charizard ex, Cleffa, Eiscue ex, Geeta, Gloom, Houndour, Larvitar, Lechonk, Ninetales.
However you approach Obsidian Flames Set Breakdown — player, collector, or both — start with the numbers: size, secret count, and the ex list. Those three facts predict how a set opens, how it plays, and how it ages in a binder.
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