What's the Paldean Fates Charizard ex pull rate?

Per TCGplayer's published 1,500-pack sample (January 2024, republished by PokeBeach and Kotaku), the Special Illustration Rare pull rate is roughly 1 in 58 booster packs — which is the tier the Charizard ex 234/091 SIR sits in. A 9-pack Elite Trainer Box yields approximately 0.16 SIR on average (most ETBs yield zero SIRs); a 36-pack booster box yields approximately 0.62 SIR. Since the SIR subset contains roughly seven different cards, pulling the Charizard 234/091 specifically runs roughly 400 boosters for a coin-flip shot. The English Paldean Fates booster does NOT guarantee a shiny in every pack — that's a Japan-set fact, not an English-set fact.

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Paldean Fates Charizard: The 'Black Charizard' 234/091 SIR

Q: What is the black Charizard Pokémon card?

The black Charizard is the hobby nickname for Paldean Fates Charizard ex 234/091, the Special Illustration Rare shiny Tera Charizard ex released January 26, 2024. The combination of Shiny Vault treatment plus the Tera-Darkness type designation darkens Charizard's normally bright-orange scales to a near-black navy under the crystalline Terastal-shell overlay. The nickname is literal — the card reads near-black under most lighting. It is NOT a separate or unannounced print; the nickname applies to this exact card. Verify any black Charizard purchase as a Paldean Fates 234/091 SIR on PSA's cert lookup before paying.

Q: What's the difference between Paldean Fates Charizard ex 234/091 and 054/091?

234/091 is the Special Illustration Rare shiny Tera Charizard ex — the black Charizard, a borderless full-art SIR with near-black scales. 054/091 is the regular Double Rare playable ex with bright-orange Charizard art in the standard ex frame. Both are Tera-Darkness type, both 330 HP, both released January 26, 2024 in Paldean Fates — they differ only in rarity, art treatment, and price. Raw 054 trades $15 to $30; raw 234 trades $150 to $250. PSA 10 054 trades $50 to $120; PSA 10 234 trades $200 to $315 with notable volatility.

Q: What's in the Paldean Fates Tin (Shiny Charizard ex)?

$24.99 MSRP; ships 4 Paldean Fates booster packs plus 1 oversized jumbo Shiny Charizard ex card (the 234/091 art rendered at roughly 6 by 8 inches). 2026 secondary sits $55 to $80 as the set goes out of print. The jumbo is a collector display piece — NOT a pull-rate-eligible 234/091 SIR (you still need to rip a sealed booster at the approximately 1-in-58 SIR rate to land the gradable 234 SIR). Don't confuse the tin with the Paldean Fates Charizard ex Premium Collection ($49.99, 7 boosters + jumbo + pin) or the November 2024 Surging Sparks Charizard ex Super Premium Collection — three different products.

Q: When was Paldean Fates released?

January 26, 2024 worldwide English. Japanese source set: Shiny Treasure ex (SV4a), released December 1, 2023 in Japan. Set code SV4.5. 245 English cards total — a 91-card numbered base set plus 154 Secret Rares numbered 092/091 through 245/091, including 132 Shiny Rares forming the Shiny Vault subset. Paldean Fates is the Scarlet & Violet block's first major Shiny Vault-style special expansion and the 2024 node in the four-card shiny Charizard lineage running Neo Destiny 2002, Hidden Fates 2019, Shining Fates 2021, Paldean Fates 2024.

Q: How much is the Paldean Fates Charizard ex 234/091 worth?

Raw NM approximately $150 to $250; PSA 9 approximately $200 to $350; PSA 10 approximately $200 to $315 across 2025 to early 2026 with notable volatility (Bleeding Cool's monthly Paldean Fates Value Watch traced a $200 baseline through Q1 2025, a $160 mid-year dip, and a $314 October 2025 surge). Pre-release Screen Rant estimates (January 2024) were $250 market / $379.99 list — the card opened above MSRP expectations and settled into the $200 to $315 PSA 10 band over the subsequent 24 months. Cite the latest monthly Bleeding Cool Value Watch and verify on PriceCharting before paying real money.

The card collectors call the "black Charizard" is Paldean Fates Charizard ex 234/091 — a Special Illustration Rare shiny Tera Charizard ex released on January 26, 2024, where the Dark Tera Type and the Shiny Vault treatment darken Charizard's normally bright-orange scales to a near-black navy under a crystalline Terastal-shell overlay. The combination of the shiny color shift and the Tera-Darkness designation is exactly why the "black Charizard" nickname stuck, and it's why the 2,300-monthly-search black charizard query and the 5,000-monthly-search paldean fates charizard head term both point at the same physical slab. This guide covers Paldean Fates (set code SV4.5, the special expansion released worldwide on January 26, 2024) end-to-end as it pertains to Charizard — the 234/091 SIR (the "black Charizard"), the regular Charizard ex 054/091 Double Rare, the Paldean Fates Tin (Shiny Charizard ex) $24.99 promo product, the TCGplayer 1,500-pack pull rate the SERP doesn't connect to Charizard, and honest current values. For the broader 2002→2024 shiny Charizard lineage, see our shiny Charizard guide. For the cross-set ex chronology from SV 151 to Ascended Heroes, see the Charizard ex guide. For the full 1999-to-today walkthrough, see the Charizard pillar. PullMarket — operated by SKYCOAST CAPITAL LLC — runs the set context first, surfaces the "black Charizard" answer second, and gives you the honest pull-rate math before you ever load a booster bundle in a cart.

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Quick answer

The "black Charizard" is Paldean Fates Charizard ex 234/091 — the Special Illustration Rare shiny Tera Charizard ex released January 26, 2024 inside the SV4.5 Paldean Fates special expansion. The companion non-shiny in the same set is Charizard ex 054/091, the regular Double Rare. Per TCGplayer's published 1,500-pack sample, the Special Illustration Rare pull rate is roughly 1 in 58 booster packs, the "Baby Shiny" Shiny Rare rate is roughly 1 in 4 packs, and — unlike Japan's Shiny Treasure ex — the English Paldean Fates booster does NOT guarantee a shiny in every pack.

One honest note before the values section. Every dollar figure in this guide is a starting point sourced from a linked aggregator (PriceCharting, PSA Auction Prices Realized, PokeData, Card Ladder, Bleeding Cool's monthly Paldean Fates Value Watch) at the draft date of May 31, 2026. The Paldean Fates 234/091 SIR is the single most-volatile slab in the modern Charizard ex run — PSA 10 comps swung from a $200 baseline through Q1 2025 to a $160 mid-year dip to a $314 October 2025 surge. Treat numbers below as range orientation, not a quote. Values move, grade outcomes vary, and "is this worth it" is your call — nothing here is investment advice.

Paldean Fates (SV4.5): The Set Context You Need First

Paldean Fates released worldwide on January 26, 2024 as the Scarlet & Violet block's first major Shiny Vault–style special expansion, English set code SV4.5, sourced from Japan's Shiny Treasure ex (SV4a) subset released on December 1, 2023. The English print runs 245 total cards — a 91-card numbered base set plus 154 Secret Rares numbered 092/091 through 245/091 above the listed total, including 132 Shiny Rares that form the Shiny Vault subset returning the SV-prefix format last seen in 2021's Shining Fates. That Shiny Vault revival is what made Paldean Fates the most-anticipated TCG release of Q1 2024 and what makes Charizard ex 234/091 the chase of the entire set. Paldean Fates is the 2024 node in the four-card shiny Charizard lineage running Neo Destiny 2002 → Hidden Fates 2019 → Shining Fates 2021 → Paldean Fates 2024 — for the lineage end-to-end see the shiny Charizard guide; the 234/091 deep-dive lives below.

The single most-confused fact about the set. Unlike Japan's Shiny Treasure ex, the English Paldean Fates booster does NOT guarantee a shiny in every pack. Per the TCGplayer 1,500-pack sample (covered in the pull-rate section below), the "Baby Shiny" Shiny Rare appears in roughly 1 of 4 English boosters — meaning roughly 25% of English packs yield no shiny at all. If you've heard the "every pack a shiny" line, it's a Japan-set fact, not an English-set fact.

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The "Black Charizard" — Yes, That's Paldean Fates 234/091

The 2,300-monthly-search black charizard query, the 1,100-monthly-search black charizard card query, and the 150-monthly-search black charizard ex / black charizard pokemon card / charizard black long-tail all point at one physical card — Paldean Fates Charizard ex 234/091, the Special Illustration Rare shiny Tera Charizard ex released January 26, 2024. The nickname is literal: the combination of the Shiny Vault color treatment darkening Charizard's normally bright-orange scales to a near-black navy plus the Tera-Darkness type designation overlaying a crystalline Terastal-shell pattern over the scales reads near-black under most lighting — on a phone screen, on a YouTube rip video, on a Card Ladder community thumbnail. Retailer pages list the card as "Charizard ex 234/091" (its official name) and aggregator pages list it as "Charizard ex #234," so the nickname doesn't show up in product titles — which is precisely why the SERP buries the answer.

Naming callout. If a seller, social-media post, or YouTube rip video refers to the "black Charizard," they mean Paldean Fates Charizard ex 234/091. Full stop. There is no separate or unannounced "black Charizard" card; the nickname applies to this exact print. The closest near-cousin is the 2021 Shining Fates Charizard VMAX SV107/SV122, which has dark grey-blue scales but is a VMAX (not an ex) from a different set — see our shiny Charizard guide for that one.

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Charizard ex 234/091: The Shiny Tera Charizard ex SIR

Charizard ex 234/091 is the headline card of Paldean Fates and the single highest-demand slab in the SV4.5 set. The card sits in the Special Illustration Rare slot — number 234 well above the 91-card listed total — and combines two Scarlet & Violet–era mechanics in one print: the ex mechanic (Pokémon ex give up two prize cards when knocked out, in exchange for a larger HP pool and stronger attacks) and the Tera Type mechanic (a Pokémon temporarily changes its energy type for a tactical advantage). Charizard's Tera Type on 234/091 is Dark, which is what unlocks the near-black shiny treatment — the Dark Tera reads as a tonal shift away from Charizard's normal Fire/Flying coloring, and the Shiny Vault treatment darkens the already-shifted scales further.

Set: Paldean Fates (English set code SV4.5)
Release: January 26, 2024 worldwide English
Card number: 234/091 (Special Illustration Rare slot above the 91-card base-set total)
Rarity: Special Illustration Rare (SIR), the modern collector grail tier
Pull rate: ~1 in 58 booster packs per TCGplayer's 1,500-pack sample (the full pull-rate breakdown is below)
Mechanic: Pokémon ex (gives up 2 prize cards on KO) + Tera Type (Dark)
HP / attack profile: 330 HP, Stage 2 Darkness-type Tera Pokémon ex — mechanically identical to the 054/091 Double Rare, which is the playable copy
Visual ID: Full-art borderless SIR composition; near-black/dark-navy Charizard scales (the "black" in "black Charizard"); crystalline Terastal-shell overlay across the body; no orange text frame on the art panel
Companion in the same set: Charizard ex 054/091 (regular Double Rare, normal bright-orange Charizard art — covered below)
Don't confuse with: Charizard ex 199/165 SV 151 SIR (the 2023 fire-tornado art on a bright-orange Charizard — different set, different art); Charizard ex 223/197 Obsidian Flames SIR (the 2023 cityscape full-art); Charizard VMAX SV107 Shining Fates (the 2021 Shiny VMAX with dark grey-blue scales — different mechanic, see our shiny Charizard guide)

PSA 10 comps on the 234/091 SIR are the single most volatile in the modern Charizard ex run — Bleeding Cool's monthly Paldean Fates Value Watch series tracked a $200 baseline through Q1 2025, a $160 mid-year dip, and a $314 October 2025 surge across 2025 alone. Honest values live below; verify the latest monthly Value Watch before paying. For the broader cross-set ex chronology that puts the 234/091 in context next to SV 151 and Obsidian Flames, see the Charizard ex guide. For the 2002→2024 shiny Charizard lineage that frames 234/091 as the 2024 node, see the shiny Charizard guide.

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Charizard ex 054/091: The Regular Double Rare You'll Actually Pull

Charizard ex 054/091 is the playable, mass-pull Charizard ex from Paldean Fates — the card you're statistically far more likely to land than the 234/091 SIR, and the card competitive players actually slot into a Tera Charizard ex deck. It sits at number 054 inside the 91-card numbered base set in the Double Rare slot, with Charizard rendered in normal bright-orange (NOT shiny, NOT black) and the same crystalline Terastal-shell overlay that marks it as a Tera Pokémon ex. Mechanically the 054/091 and the 234/091 SIR are the same card — same 330 HP, same Stage 2 Darkness-type Tera Pokémon ex, same attack profile, same energy cost — they differ only in rarity, art treatment, and secondary-market price.

Set: Paldean Fates (English set code SV4.5)
Release: January 26, 2024 worldwide English
Card number: 054/091 (in the 91-card numbered base set)
Rarity: Double Rare (the playable, mass-pull ex tier)
Mechanic: Pokémon ex (gives up 2 prize cards on KO) + Tera Type (Dark)
HP / attack profile: 330 HP, Stage 2 Darkness-type Tera Pokémon ex
Visual ID: Standard ex frame with the orange text panel; bright-orange Charizard art (not shiny, not black); Terastal-shell crystal overlay
Mechanical role: the playable copy — the card a Paldean Fates Tera Charizard deck actually runs
Values: Raw NM $15–$30; PSA 10 $50–$120 in early 2026 (PriceCharting + PokeData) — meaningful step down from the 234 SIR but the most-pulled Charizard ex from the set

Quick disambiguation callout. If your Paldean Fates booster yielded a Charizard ex with normal orange scales and an orange text frame on the art panel — that's the 054/091 Double Rare. If it yielded a borderless full-art Charizard with near-black scales and no text frame — that's the 234/091 SIR (the "black Charizard") at the ~1-in-58 booster rate covered below.

Paldean Fates Tin (Shiny Charizard ex): The $25 Tin You've Seen at Target

The Paldean Fates Tin (Shiny Charizard ex) is the $24.99 MSRP sealed product that shipped on January 26, 2024 through Pokémon Center, Target, Walmart, Amazon, local card shops, and the TCGplayer marketplace — and it's the product the 600-monthly-search paldean fates charizard tin cluster, the 350-monthly-search charizard paldean fates tin cluster, and the 100-monthly-search paldean fates tin charizard long-tail are all looking for. The tin contains a single oversized "jumbo" Shiny Charizard ex card (the 234/091 art rendered at roughly 6"x8" — a collector display piece) plus 4 Paldean Fates booster packs. As Paldean Fates moves out of print across 2026, the tin sits roughly $30–$50 above MSRP at most retailers — $55–$80 on the secondary market.

Product name: Pokémon TCG Scarlet & Violet—Paldean Fates Tin (Shiny Charizard ex)
MSRP: $24.99
Release: January 26, 2024 (alongside the set launch)
Contents: 1 oversized "jumbo" Shiny Charizard ex card (234/091 art at ~6"x8") + 4 Paldean Fates booster packs
Retail channels: Pokémon Center, Target, Walmart, Amazon, local card shops, TCGplayer marketplace
2026 secondary market: $55–$80 sealed (above $24.99 MSRP as the set goes OOP)
Don't confuse with: the Paldean Fates Charizard ex Premium Collection ($49.99 MSRP, 7 boosters + jumbo + pin — a larger sealed product, also shipped Q1 2024), or the Surging Sparks Charizard ex Super Premium Collection (SPC) ($79.99 MSRP, November 2024 — different set, different promo card; see the Charizard ex guide for the SPC tier)

Jumbo callout. The jumbo card in the Paldean Fates Tin is a collector display piece, not a pull-rate-eligible 234/091 SIR. The actual 234/091 SIR comes from a sealed Paldean Fates booster at the ~1-in-58 pull rate. The jumbo is the same art at jumbo size — gorgeous on a shelf, not gradable at PSA / CGC / SGC standard service. If you bought the tin specifically to chase the slabbed 234, the four enclosed boosters are your only path to the gradable SIR — and four boosters at 1-in-58 is roughly a 6.7% shot at any SIR, not the Charizard 234 specifically.

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Paldean Fates Pull Rates: What an ETB or Booster Bundle Actually Yields

TCGplayer published a 1,500-pack sample of Paldean Fates in January 2024 — re-published by PokéBeach and covered by Kotaku under the headline "New Shiny Pokémon TCG Set May Have The Best Pull Rates Of All Time" — and it remains the authoritative pull-rate source for the set. Below is the full breakdown by rarity tier with the practical math for what each Paldean Fates sealed product realistically yields. All figures are approximations from the 1,500-pack sample, not guaranteed odds, and they reflect the English booster, which does NOT guarantee a shiny in every pack.

Rarity tier	Pull rate (TCGplayer 1,500-pack sample)	What this means in practice
Shiny Rare ("Baby Shiny," Vault cards ~092–~150)	~1 in 4 packs	English boosters do NOT guarantee a shiny — only ~75% of packs yield one; a 9-pack ETB yields ~2 Baby Shinies on average
Illustration Rare (IR)	~1 in 14 packs	Average ETB yields ~0.6 IR (most ETBs yield zero or one)
Ultra Rare Full Art (non-shiny)	~1 in 15 packs	Average ETB yields ~0.6 UR
Shiny Ultra Rare Full Art	~1 in 13 packs	Average ETB yields ~0.7 Shiny UR
Special Illustration Rare (SIR — includes Charizard 234/091)	~1 in 58 packs	Average ETB (9 packs) yields ~0.16 SIR — most ETBs yield zero SIRs; a full 36-pack booster box yields ~0.62 SIR (less than one)
Gold Hyper Rare	~1 in 62 packs	Same booster-box math as SIR

The practical Charizard-234 math the SERP currently doesn't write: the SIR subset in Paldean Fates contains roughly seven different cards (Charizard ex 234/091, Mew ex 232, Gardevoir ex 233, Greninja ex, Tyranitar ex, Pikachu, plus the Iono and Clive trainer SIRs), so pulling Charizard ex 234/091 specifically requires roughly 7× the SIR base rate, or ~400 sealed boosters for a coin-flip shot at the Charizard SIR. A single Elite Trainer Box (9 packs) is roughly a 1.5% shot at the Charizard 234 specifically; a full 36-pack booster box is roughly a 6% shot. This is exactly why the 234/091 secondary market matters — most collectors who want the card will end up buying it graded rather than ripping for it.

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Sealed Paldean Fates Products: Booster, Bundle, ETB, Tin, Premium Collection

Paldean Fates shipped one of the broadest sealed-product slates of any modern Scarlet & Violet special expansion — the Pokémon Center and TCGplayer product galleries list nine distinct SKUs across the booster, sealed-box, tin, premium-collection, and treasure-chest tiers. Below is the full product slate with MSRP, pack count, jumbo / promo content, 2026 secondary-market position, and the target buyer for each. The 13,000-monthly-search paldean fates etb query, the 12,000-monthly-search paldean fates booster bundle query, and the 2,400-monthly-search paldean fates booster pack query are all looking for this table.

Product	MSRP	Packs	Jumbo / promo?	2026 secondary	Who it's for
Single booster pack	$4.49	1	—	$7–$12	Single-pack rip
Booster Bundle	$26.94	6	—	$40–$60	Casual chase
Elite Trainer Box (ETB)	$49.99	9	ETB accessories	$80–$120	Standard sealed-collector buy
Tin (Shiny Charizard ex)	$24.99	4	Shiny Charizard ex jumbo (234 art)	$55–$80	Charizard-specific casual chase
Tin (Iono's Bellibolt ex)	$24.99	4	Iono's Bellibolt ex jumbo	$40–$60	Iono / Bellibolt-specific
Premium Collection — Iono	$29.99	6	Iono trainer art	$50–$80	Iono collector
Charizard ex Premium Collection	$49.99	7	Shiny Charizard ex jumbo + pin	$100–$150	Charizard collector who wants the larger sealed box
Treasure Chest	$99.99	varies	Larger Q1 2024 chase product	$150–$220	Whale chase
Build & Battle / Stadium	$24.99–$49.99	varies	Prerelease promo	varies	Limited-edition release-window product

Two products in the table look similar and trip up casual buyers constantly. The Paldean Fates Tin (Shiny Charizard ex) at $24.99 is a four-booster tin with a jumbo card. The Charizard ex Premium Collection at $49.99 is a seven-booster sealed box with a jumbo card and a metal pin — about double the boosters, double the price, and a different box format. Both ship the 234/091 art rendered as a jumbo; neither yields a gradable 234/091 SIR outside the enclosed boosters at the ~1-in-58 rate. And neither is the same as the Surging Sparks Charizard ex Super Premium Collection (SPC) from November 2024 — different set, different promo, different price tier. The full UPC vs SPC vs Premium Collection tier walk lives in our Charizard ex guide.

What Paldean Fates Charizard Is Worth (Honest Values, Early 2026)

PSA-9-to-PSA-10 spread is what drives the Paldean Fates Charizard grading economy, and every figure below traces to a linked aggregator at the draft date of May 31, 2026 — values move week-to-week; this is range orientation, not a quote. Honest comp data lives at PriceCharting (raw / PSA-graded comps), Card Ladder (trailing-90 PSA-10 sale-by-sale), PSA Auction Prices Realized (individual PSA-graded sale anchors), PokeData (aggregate raw and graded comps), and Sports Card Investor for the trailing-14-day moving averages on modern shiny SIRs.

Charizard ex 234/091 SIR (the "black Charizard"): Raw NM ~$150–$250 (PriceCharting + PokeData aggregate, early 2026); PSA 9 ~$200–$350 (PriceCharting + PSA APR); PSA 10 ~$200–$315 across 2025–early 2026 with notable volatility — Bleeding Cool's monthly Paldean Fates Value Watch traced a $200 baseline through Q1 2025, a $160 mid-year dip, and a $314 October 2025 surge. Pre-release context (Screen Rant, Jan 2024): $250 market / $379.99 list — the card opened above MSRP expectations and settled into the $200–$315 PSA 10 band over the subsequent 24 months. The 234/091 is the most-volatile single slab in the modern Charizard ex run; cite the latest monthly Bleeding Cool Value Watch before paying.

Charizard ex 054/091 Double Rare (regular non-shiny): Raw NM $15–$30 (PriceCharting + PokeData); PSA 10 $50–$120. Meaningful step down from the 234 SIR but the most-pulled Charizard ex from the set.

Paldean Fates Tin (Shiny Charizard ex), sealed: 2026 secondary ~$55–$80 (above $24.99 MSRP as the set goes OOP). Paldean Fates Charizard ex Premium Collection, sealed: 2026 secondary ~$100–$150 (above $49.99 MSRP).

Grading economics. PSA Standard service runs $15–$25 per card plus shipping at current public tiers; CGC and SGC sit in the same band. The PSA 9 → PSA 10 spread on the 234/091 SIR runs roughly 1.3x–1.6x — a notably smaller spread than the 3x–5x typical on the SV 151 199/165 SIR, which reflects Paldean Fates' newer print run and the larger surviving NM-condition pop. Rule of thumb for any 234/091 grading submission: pull quality matters more than the print. A centered, sharp-cornered raw copy is worth submitting; a beat-up raw copy isn't, no matter how chased the card is. Treat the figures above as starting points and verify the latest comps before paying.

Paldean Fates Charizard vs the Cluster: Where to Chase What

Plenty of Charizard ex SIRs have shipped across modern Scarlet & Violet sets, and a reader landing on paldean fates charizard deserves a one-shot map of which set's SIR fits which collector goal. Each row below points at the right sibling for the deep-dive — the 234/091 is the 2024 entry in a wider Charizard ex SIR run that now spans 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.

If you want…	Chase this card	Deep-dive
The 2024 "black Charizard" (this article's headline)	Paldean Fates 234/091 SIR	This article
The 2023 fire-tornado modern poster child	SV 151 199/165 SIR	SV 151 Charizard guide
The 2023 cityscape full-art	Obsidian Flames 223/197 SIR	Charizard ex guide
The 2025 Mega Charizard X return	Phantasmal Flames Mega X ex 125/094 SIR	Charizard ex guide
The 2021 shiny VMAX (the closest "black Charizard" before 234)	Shining Fates SV107/SV122 Shiny VMAX	Charizard VMAX guide + shiny Charizard guide
The full 2002 → 2024 shiny lineage	Cross-set chronology	Shiny Charizard guide
Every modern ex variant 2023–2026	Cross-set chronology	Charizard ex guide

The honest framing: the Paldean Fates 234/091 SIR is the only shiny ex in the modern Charizard ex run — the SV 151 199, the Obsidian Flames 223, the Phantasmal Flames Mega X 125, and the Ascended Heroes Mega Y 294 (which is a brand-new gold-etched Mega Hyper Rare tier — see the Charizard ex guide) are all non-shiny SIRs or above. If the shiny-ex aesthetic is what you want, 234/091 is the answer; if you want the modern poster-child SIR at higher PSA-10 prices, that's SV 151 199/165; if you want the storytelling cityscape full-art at a value entry, that's Obsidian Flames 223/197.

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Buy a Slab, Hunt Sealed Paldean Fates, or Rip a PullMarket Pokémon Pack?

Three legitimate paths exist for any collector who wants a Paldean Fates Charizard in-hand, and the right one depends entirely on what experience you're actually buying — the graded 234/091, the sealed-product rip, or the curated PullMarket pack.

Path	What you get	What it costs	Who it's for
Buy a graded 234/091 single	Exactly the Paldean Fates Charizard 234/091 SIR (or the 054/091 Double Rare), in a PSA / CGC / SGC slab, today	PSA 10 234 $200–$315; PSA 9 234 $200–$350; raw 234 $150–$250; PSA 10 054 $50–$120	Collectors with a specific 234/091 or 054/091 target
Hunt sealed Paldean Fates (ETB / Booster Bundle / Tin / Premium Collection)	A sealed object plus raw packs with a chance at the 234 SIR at the ~1-in-58 booster rate	$26.94 Booster Bundle to $150 secondary Charizard ex Premium Collection	Sealed collectors, break buyers, tin chasers
Rip a Pokémon pack on PullMarket	Real third-party-graded Pokémon singles allocated to your account from a curated pack with published odds before purchase. Each pull lives in PullMarket's own insured custody or is sourced from verified supplier and partner-vault inventory per Terms §5.5	Per-pack price; published odds disclose exactly which graded slabs sit in the possible-outcome pool	Collectors who want the rip experience plus a real graded single without buying-and-resealing a $50 ETB

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Frequently asked questions

The "black Charizard" is the hobby nickname for Paldean Fates Charizard ex 234/091, the Special Illustration Rare shiny Tera Charizard ex released January 26, 2024. The combination of Shiny Vault treatment plus the Tera-Darkness type designation darkens Charizard's normally bright-orange scales to a near-black navy under the crystalline Terastal-shell overlay. The nickname is literal — the card reads near-black under most lighting. It is NOT a separate or unannounced print; the nickname applies to this exact card. Verify any "black Charizard" purchase as a Paldean Fates 234/091 SIR on PSA's cert lookup before paying.

Per TCGplayer's published 1,500-pack sample (January 2024, republished by PokéBeach and Kotaku), the Special Illustration Rare pull rate is roughly 1 in 58 booster packs — which is the tier the Charizard ex 234/091 SIR sits in. A 9-pack Elite Trainer Box yields ~0.16 SIR on average (most ETBs yield zero SIRs); a 36-pack booster box yields ~0.62 SIR. Since the SIR subset contains roughly seven different cards, pulling the Charizard 234/091 specifically runs ~400 boosters for a coin-flip shot. The English Paldean Fates booster does NOT guarantee a shiny in every pack — that's a Japan-set fact, not an English-set fact.

234/091 is the Special Illustration Rare shiny Tera Charizard ex — the "black Charizard," a borderless full-art SIR with near-black scales. 054/091 is the regular Double Rare playable ex with bright-orange Charizard art in the standard ex frame. Both are Tera-Darkness type, both 330 HP, both released January 26, 2024 in Paldean Fates — they differ only in rarity, art treatment, and price. Raw 054 trades $15–$30; raw 234 trades $150–$250. PSA 10 054 trades $50–$120; PSA 10 234 trades $200–$315 with notable volatility.

$24.99 MSRP; ships 4 Paldean Fates booster packs plus 1 oversized "jumbo" Shiny Charizard ex card (the 234/091 art rendered at roughly 6"x8"). 2026 secondary sits $55–$80 as the set goes OOP. The jumbo is a collector display piece — NOT a pull-rate-eligible 234/091 SIR (you still need to rip a sealed booster at the ~1-in-58 SIR rate to land the gradable 234 SIR). Don't confuse the tin with the Paldean Fates Charizard ex Premium Collection ($49.99, 7 boosters + jumbo + pin) or the November 2024 Surging Sparks Charizard ex Super Premium Collection — three different products.

January 26, 2024 worldwide English. Japanese source set: Shiny Treasure ex (SV4a), released December 1, 2023 in Japan. Set code SV4.5. 245 English cards total — a 91-card numbered base set plus 154 Secret Rares numbered 092/091 through 245/091, including 132 Shiny Rares forming the Shiny Vault subset. Paldean Fates is the Scarlet & Violet block's first major Shiny Vault–style special expansion and the 2024 node in the four-card shiny Charizard lineage running Neo Destiny 2002 → Hidden Fates 2019 → Shining Fates 2021 → Paldean Fates 2024.

Raw NM ~$150–$250; PSA 9 ~$200–$350; PSA 10 ~$200–$315 across 2025–early 2026 with notable volatility (Bleeding Cool's monthly Paldean Fates Value Watch traced a $200 baseline through Q1 2025, a $160 mid-year dip, and a $314 October 2025 surge). Pre-release Screen Rant estimates (January 2024) were $250 market / $379.99 list — the card opened above MSRP expectations and settled into the $200–$315 PSA 10 band over the subsequent 24 months. Cite the latest monthly Bleeding Cool Value Watch and verify on PriceCharting before paying real money.

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