Brilliant Stars: Charizard V, the Pokémon card to chase

Charizard V 154, from the Brilliant Stars set, reads at $276.49. The pull rate of an ultra rare is still missing: it says how many packs open before one turns up, and it comes last. The card page is the Charizard V page and the set breakdown is the Brilliant Stars page.

Charizard V Brilliant Stars: a card that stands apart from the set

In this set, Umbreon VMAX TG23 comes next at $99.84, then Umbreon V TG22 at $71.26. Both belong to the Trainer Gallery, the set's subset. Charizard V 154 is an ultra rare of the main print run: it is the card most collectors look for first, and its price shows it. The gap with the two Trainer Gallery cards reads at a glance on the chart: the Charizard V bar is longer than the two Umbreon bars put together. A set is often judged on a handful of cards, and this one has a card that weighs more than its neighbours.

What the Brilliant Stars pull rate says about this card

This rate applies to a single ultra rare in the set taken in isolation, not to Charizard V alone. The longer a rarity takes to appear, the more the card is paid for outright rather than left to the luck of packs.

Set against the price, it settles the buying question. Chasing this card through packs means hoping for one specific card across hundreds of packs. Buying it on its own costs $276.49, with no luck involved. Opening stays a pleasure, but it is not the surest route to Charizard V.

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To open packs from the set rather than buy the card, the booster box is also at at one seller and another one.