Japanese “Black Bolt” and “White Flare” Secret Rares Revealed!

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onJun 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM · 167 Comments

The secret rares from Japan's Black Bolt and White Flare are now being posted to social media by Japanese fans! The set releases in Japan on Friday.

Each Pokemon in the set will get either an Illustration Rare or Special Illustration Rare.

Keep checking back here as more cards are revealed and follow our Twitter!

(The cards above will be reorganized on Thursday once we have better images.)

As expected, there will be "god packs" in this set that come with a bunch of secret rares.

As posted before, Poke Ball reverse holos and Master Ball reverse holos will also return in these sets.

All 172 of the main set cards were revealed and translated last week.

In English the sets will release on July 18th under the same names. They will be split in two, a first for the English TCG.

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I'm pleasantly surprised that the full art and BWR renderings of Zekrom are different; I wonder if the similarity between the full art and the original Black and White full art was intentional (I'll have to wait for Reshiram)

Edit: I totally missed the Reshiram full art on the page and it's different from the BW full art lol
 
Expect that in the English set of it, the closest we got to a God Pack is the full evo line of Serperior and Hydreigon, or any evo line, in particular. I used 151 as a reference here. But then again, knowing the state of the TCG community rn, this is becoming a myth.
 
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