The vendor's catalog photograph of Ruler of the Black Flame Booster Pack. It identifies the product; it is not evidence of condition, of what is inside, or of any price on this page.Product type, set and release date, contents, chase cards, price history and how it compares with the Scarlet & Violet era.
The Ruler of the Black Flame Booster Pack is the single-pack format of SV3: Ruler of the Black Flame, a set for the Japanese Pokémon TCG that came out on July 28, 2023 during the Scarlet & Violet era. It exists for opening, one pack at a time, to chase the set's rarer cards or to fill out a collection. The set has two sealed products in all, this pack and the booster box that holds more of them.
Each sealed Japanese Ruler of the Black Flame Booster Pack holds 5 random cards from the SV3 set, sealed together in a single foil-wrapped pack ready to open.
The Ruler of the Black Flame booster pack is opened for Charizard ex above all. The set's most valuable card is the Special Art Rare Charizard ex, followed by the Ultra Rare Charizard ex, the Special Art Rare Pidgeot ex, the Super Rare Charizard ex and the Art Rare Ninetales. Value is heavily concentrated: those top five cards make up 68 percent of the set's total card value, and 41 more cards sit in the chase tier. Because these packs come from the set, they can yield any of those cards.
As of October 23, 2026, the Ruler of the Black Flame Booster Pack sits 3 percent below its tracked high from October 2026, so the price is near its peak. Tracking began in September 2026, which is too short a window to say much about longer trends. Over the past 30 days it is down 2 percent, a small pullback. The figures rest on a modelled market guide rather than a confirmed recent sale.
Written from market data as of October 24, 2026; the tables update live.
Among the 27 booster packs in the Scarlet & Violet era, the Ruler of the Black Flame Booster Pack ranks 12th by price and sits at about 1.1 times the era median. The previous set's equivalent, the Pokemon Card 151 Booster Pack from SV2a: Pokemon Card 151, is priced higher, and so is the next set's Raging Surf Booster Pack from SV3a: Raging Surf. Within its own set's line it ranks 2nd of 2 priced products, behind the Ruler of the Black Flame Booster Box.
| Measure | This productRuler of the Black Flame Booster Pack | Median of 27 booster packsScarlet & Violet median | Previous setPokemon Card 151 Booster Pack | Next setRaging Surf Booster Pack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Set | SV3: Ruler of the Black Flame | — | SV2a: Pokemon Card 151 |
$4.65, the venue's modelled guide price, not a confirmed sale, as of November 5, 2026.
Ruler of the Black Flame Booster Pack is from SV3: Ruler of the Black Flame.
We don't currently track retail stock for Ruler of the Black Flame Booster Pack, which is not the same as it being sold out.
| SV3a: Raging Surf |
| Release date | Jul 28, 2023 | — | Jun 16, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 |
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| Price | $4.65 | $4.24 | $18.83 | $5.36 |
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guide · modelled
units · vs prior 30d
as of Nov 6, 2026 · UTC
Ruler of the Black Flame Booster Pack · 1DMkt$4.650.0%guide priceitem price
Vol — sold·0 prints·1 obssingle obs — no range
floor thesis · 30-120d horizon · 60% confidence on 27/100 data quality
Scenarios
ILLIQUID_UNKNOWN persists near current levels (non-probabilistic range -- data quality too thin to assign probabilities).rangeBASE · rangeILLIQUID_UNKNOWN persists near current levels (non-probabilistic range -- data quality too thin to assign probabilities).Evidence corroborates faster than expected, accelerating the thesis (non-probabilistic range).rangeBULL · rangeEvidence corroborates faster than expected, accelerating the thesis (non-probabilistic range).Evidence reverses sooner than expected, invalidating the thesis (non-probabilistic range).rangeBEAR · rangeEvidence reverses sooner than expected, invalidating the thesis (non-probabilistic range).Catalysts
Risks
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The strongest case against this thesis: Price trend scored 8/100 (composite weight 47%).
Model pq-quant-2026.10.0, as of 2026-11-05.
Research classification generated from observable market data with stated confidence and assumptions. Not personalized financial advice.
No published pack count for this product, so its price cannot be put on a per-pack footing.
The cheapest of the 2 priced sealed products in SV3: Ruler of the Black Flame.
Withheld — 6 of the 9 inputs have no sealed evidence, so there is nothing honest to blend.
On file: 22 asks · 23 sales · 60 daily guide points · 87 stock readings.
| EvidenceEvidenceWhat kind of fact this row is. A completed sale, a live ask and a calculated guide price are three different weights of evidence about the same number, and this column is the difference between them. | ObservedObservedThe day the fact was read — not the day the underlying event happened, and not today. An old date is an old reading. | AgeAgeHow long ago this row was read, as of the moment the page was computed. | ConfidenceConfidenceHow much weight this row carries where it feeds a model, from the resolver that matched it. Lower means a looser match or a thinner source, and a low-confidence row is reweighted rather than dropped. | ModelledModelledYes = a CALCULATED value (a guide price, an estimate); No = something actually observed (a sale, a listing, a census count). A modelled row is evidence about a model, not about the market. |
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| Live askA copy offered for sale right now. An ask is what a seller wants, not what anyone paid — it bounds the price from above until it clears. | Nov 5, 2026 | 21h | 90% | No |
| Price statisticAn observed figure computed over several rows rather than one print — a delivered floor, a published median over a window. | Nov 5, 2026 | 21h | 90% | No |
| Guide priceA calculated market guide — a model of where the product is trading. Never a confirmed sale, and always marked Modelled. | Nov 6, 2026 | 6h | 90% | Yes |
| Confirmed saleA completed transaction at a known price — the strongest evidence on this page. Prices are delivered (item + required shipping). | Oct 26, 2026 | 11d | 85% | No |
Every price is that product’s newest stored daily bar, picked by the same precedence the chart above uses — a real observed sale beats a modelled guide, and the guide stands in only on days with no sale. Per-pack divides by the PUBLISHED pack count and is withheld wherever that count is not on file, because a guessed denominator makes a fabricated price. Products the set has but we cannot price keep their row, with a dash.
6 inputs have no sealed evidence and were reweighted away: supply tightness, absorption, auction demand, grading reflexivity, relative strength, reprint / supply risk.
Scored over a 30-day window on a sample of 39, formula pq-quant-2026.10.0. The packet reweighted 6 missing inputs away and applied a 33% confidence penalty for them: supplyTightness, absorption, auctionDemand, gradingReflexivity, relativeStrength, reprintSupplyRisk.
| Nov 5, 2026 |
| 21h |
| 70% |
| No |
No wholesale listings seen for this product as of the last catalogue read on 2026-11-05.
No wholesale listings seen for this product as of the last catalogue read on 2026-11-05.
A wholesale ask is a distributor’s price for a whole lot — freight, minimums and any trade terms sit behind it — and is not a price a single box trades at. Links go to the distributor’s own page; nothing here is an affiliate link. Per-pack figures divide the lot price by the pack count the distributor published, never by a guessed one.
No wholesale listing has ever been matched to this set.
No distributor we read lists SV3: Ruler of the Black Flame in bulk. That says nothing about the print run — only about these shelves.
A distributor’s public catalogue is a proxy for supply, not the print run.
No retailer is tracked for this product yet, which is not the same as it being sold out.
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