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Challenge from the Darkness

98 cards trackedenglish printsungradedtcgplayer marketas of 2026-10-09

Full set$2,099

Median card$2.75

30 days+11.2%

90 days+12.0%

Top 10 share76%

Priced98

Set Market Report PRO

Where it sits in its own history33 recorded readings

All-time high$2,1022026-09-30

From that high−0.1%set value today

First recorded$1,874when we started tracking, not a release

Dearer than94%31 of 33 recorded days were cheaper

Ask about Challenge from the Darkness

Answers come from this page's recorded prices and verified PSA sold medians, with the sample size behind each one.

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Cost concentration10 cards = 76% of the bill

10 cards · $1,586other 88 · $513

The short, expensive tail of the set.

Chase laddertop 10 by price

Every card98 cards · 98 priced

Card	Rarity	Market
_____'s Chansey	Ultra-Rare Uncommon	$56.66
Blaine	Rare	$3.15
Blaine's Arcanine	Holo Rare	$52.20
Blaine's Charizard	Holo Rare	$200.10
Blaine's Charmander	Common	$3.00
Blaine's Charmeleon	Uncommon	$5.32
Blaine's Doduo	Common	$0.72
Blaine's Gamble	Common	$0.48
Blaine's Growlithe	Common	$1.32
Blaine's Kangaskhan	Uncommon	$1.99
Blaine's Last Resort	Uncommon	$0.95
Blaine's Magmar	Uncommon	$1.60
Blaine's Mankey	Common	$0.52
Blaine's Moltres	Holo Rare	$51.83
Blaine's Ninetales	Rare	$6.53
Blaine's Ponyta	Common	$0.99
Blaine's Quiz 3	Uncommon	$1.15
Blaine's Rapidash	Uncommon	$3.49
Blaine's Rhyhorn	Common	$0.71
Blaine's Tauros	Common	$1.09
Blaine's Vulpix	Common	$1.38
Brock's Dugtrio	Rare	$2.93
Cinnabar City Gym	Uncommon	$1.47
Erika's Ivysaur	Uncommon	$7.63
Erika's Venusaur	Holo Rare	$68.91
Fuchsia City Gym	Uncommon	$1.12
Giovanni	Holo Rare	$9.27
Giovanni's Gyarados	Holo Rare	$54.32
Giovanni's Last Resort	Rare	$4.58
Giovanni's Machamp	Holo Rare	$22.88
Giovanni's Machoke	Uncommon	$2.71
Giovanni's Machop	Common	$0.82
Giovanni's Magikarp	Common	$2.76
Giovanni's Meowth (C)	Common	$1.51
Giovanni's Meowth (U)	Uncommon	$3.06
Giovanni's Nidoking	Holo Rare	$28.37
Giovanni's Nidoqueen	Rare	$6.99
Giovanni's Nidoran F	Common	$0.74
Giovanni's Nidoran M	Common	$0.70
Giovanni's Nidorina	Uncommon	$0.87
Giovanni's Nidorino	Uncommon	$1.90
Giovanni's Persian	Holo Rare	$27.86
Giovanni's Pinsir	Rare	$3.19
Imakuni?'s Doduo	Super Rare	$81.14
Koga	Rare	$2.70
Koga's Arbok	Rare	$3.17
Koga's Beedrill	Holo Rare	$17.49
Koga's Ditto	Holo Rare	$28.63
Koga's Ekans	Common	$0.84
Koga's Golbat	Uncommon	$1.37
Koga's Grimer	Common	$0.96
Koga's Kakuna	Uncommon	$1.52
Koga's Koffing (C)	Common	$1.01
Koga's Koffing (U)	Uncommon	$4.85
Koga's Muk	Rare	$2.38
Koga's Ninja Trick	Uncommon	$121.05
Koga's Pidgeotto	Rare	$2.32
Koga's Pidgey (C)	Common	$0.65
Koga's Pidgey (U)	Uncommon	$1.43
Koga's Tangela	Common	$0.95
Koga's Weedle	Common	$0.78
Koga's Weezing	Uncommon	$2.19
Koga's Zubat	Common	$0.66
Lt. Surge's Raichu	Holo Rare	$28.60
Minion of Team Rocket	Uncommon	$2.25
Misty's Poliwrath	Rare	$4.56
Rocket's Mewtwo	Holo Rare	$113.47
Rocket's Minefield Gym	Uncommon	$1.60
Rocket's Secret Experiment	Uncommon	$4.19
Rocket's Snorlax	Rare	$35.05
Rocket's Zapdos	Holo Rare	$38.40
Sabrina	Rare	$4.51
Sabrina's Abra	Common	$1.24
Sabrina's Alakazam	Holo Rare	$32.91
Sabrina's Drowzee	Common	$1.01
Sabrina's ESP	Uncommon	$2.48
Sabrina's Gastly	Uncommon	$6.22
Sabrina's Gaze	Common	$36.55
Sabrina's Gengar	Holo Rare	$788.00
Sabrina's Golduck	Rare	$4.06
Sabrina's Haunter	Uncommon	$10.63
Sabrina's Hypno	Uncommon	$1.70
Sabrina's Jynx	Uncommon	$17.77
Sabrina's Kadabra	Uncommon	$3.16
Sabrina's Mr. Mime	Common	$1.02
Sabrina's Porygon	Common	$1.17
Sabrina's Psychic Control	Uncommon	$6.24
Sabrina's Psyduck	Common	$7.02
Sabrina's Slowbro	Uncommon	$2.99
Sabrina's Slowpoke	Common	$1.60
Sabrina's Venomoth	Rare	$4.39
Sabrina's Venonat	Common	$0.99
Saffron City Gym	Uncommon	$2.48
Tickling Machine	Uncommon	$2.00
Transparent Walls	Common	$0.59
Trash Exchange	Common	$0.79
Viridian City Gym	Rare	$3.57
Warp Point	Common	$0.78

Every Challenge from the Darkness card in the moonstone catalog, in collector-number order. Market is the same TCGplayer figure each card page quotes; a dot means we hold no price for that card yet.

If you are building it

You can own 88 of the 98 priced cards in Challenge from the Darkness for about $513. The median card is $2.75. The remaining $1,586 sits in just 10 chase cards, and one of them (Sabrina's Gengar, $788) is 38% of the entire set on its own. A full set is not one long climb. It is a cheap, fast 24% and then a very short, very expensive tail.

Advisor read

The quant read33 recorded points · 32 days

30-day return+1.4%

Realized vol30%annualized, ~90d daily returns

Max drawdown-0.4%recorded window

Off recorded high-0.1%

Computed from this set's own recorded value series; windows are stated and nothing is modeled. Medians anchor the return windows so a single outlier day never makes the figure.

Rip or hold

Rip report

No rip report for Challenge from the Darkness

No published pull-rate study exists for this set, so there is nothing honest to simulate. We only rip sets whose per-pack odds come from a published, sourced study, and an inherited or inferred rate would put an invented number under every figure on this panel.

We publish a rip simulation only where per-pack odds come from a published, sourced study. Which sets have published pull rates counts what exists: 31 of the 110 English sets sold in booster packs, resting on eleven studies.

Set valuereal tcgplayer prices · summed daily · +11.2% 30d · +12.0% 90d

2026-09-07$2,0992026-10-09

Breadth: 40 cards up · 23 down · 35 flat over 30 days. Biggest mover: Sabrina's Gengar (+25.1%).