Pokemon's 30th Celebration is here. Rip the all-foil anniversary set: 5 foil cards a pack, with a guaranteed artist Pikachu.
See 30th Celebration
Zekrom ex, Black Bolt #172 (Black White Rare)

Zekrom ex

Black Bolt · #172 · Black White Rare · Latest · 2025

Live market value
59,579 Sparks / $595.79

Pulling Zekrom ex in a Black Bolt pack is about 0.1% (Foil rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.

Every card is real: keep it in your vault, ship it home, or sell it back instantly at 85% of market value. See how the odds are provable →

Curious what drives a card's price? Read what makes a card valuable.

Zekrom ex market value

Zekrom ex (Black Bolt #172) has a live market value of 59,579 Sparks, about $595.79 at the latest market price. That market price for Zekrom ex was last updated on October 26, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 59,579 Sparks is the figure shown for Zekrom ex in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Zekrom ex, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 50,642 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Black Bolt pack is 950 Sparks; this card's market value is 59,579 Sparks. Among the 172 priced cards in Black Bolt, Zekrom ex is the 2nd most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 94 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Victini at 62,240 Sparks.

How to pull Zekrom ex

In a Black Bolt pack, the Foil rare slot shows a Black White Rare card about 0.1% of the time. In other words, about one Black Bolt pack in 1000 lands a Black White Rare card in that slot. Zekrom ex is one of 2 priced Black White Rare cards in Black Bolt that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Black Bolt: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Black Bolt page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Black Bolt box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.

Black Bolt pull rates → · How the odds work →

Rarity and era

Zekrom ex is a Black White Rare card, number 172 in Black Bolt. Black Bolt lists 2 Black White Rare cards out of 180 cards in total, about 1% of the set list. Among the 2 priced Black White Rare cards, market values run from 59,579 Sparks to 62,240 Sparks, and Zekrom ex ranks 2nd of them. Black Bolt is part of the Scarlet & Violet series and sits in the Latest era of the PackLab catalog. Latest-era sets are the newest releases, so their card prices are still settling as collectors open them.

About Black Bolt

Black Bolt was released on July 18, 2025 and lists 180 cards on PackLab, 172 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Black Bolt carry a combined market value of 315,152 Sparks. By market value, Zekrom ex sits just below Victini (62,240 Sparks) and just above Zekrom ex (24,534 Sparks).

More from Black Bolt

Browse every card in Black Bolt →