Dragons Exalted Set Guide

Overview

Dragons Exalted is the sixth Black & White set: 124 cards up to the printed total and four secret rares above it, Serperior, Reuniclus, Krookodile and Rayquaza (125 to 128).

It introduced Dragon-type Pokémon. There is no Dragon Energy, so a Dragon's attacks usually call for Energy of two other types: Rayquaza-EX's Dragon Burst takes Fire and Lightning, Giratina-EX's attacks Grass and Psychic. The set also has six Pokémon-EX, each printed again as a full art.

Cards and rarities

Dragons Exalted has 128 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "1/124", next to the set code DRX.

The printed total is 124, so the 4 cards from 125 to 128 are secret rares. Set completion in TurnZero HQ counts a set against its printed total and keeps the secret rares apart, so finishing the main set and chasing the cards above it read as two separate goals. How set completion works →

Headline Pokémon

Six Pokémon-EX, each a Basic Pokémon that gives up two Prize cards when Knocked Out, and each printed again as a full art:

Mew-EX

Dragons Exalted #46

120 HP. Versatile lets it use the attacks of any Pokémon in play, yours or your opponent's, if it has the Energy for them.

Rayquaza-EX

Dragons Exalted #85

170 HP. Dragon Burst discards all basic Fire or all basic Lightning Energy from it and does 60 for each one.

Giratina-EX

Dragons Exalted #92

180 HP. Shred does 90, unaffected by any effects on the Defending Pokémon; Dragon Pulse does 130 and discards the top 3 cards of your deck.

Trainers worth knowing

The set's four Trainers are all Items and Pokémon Tools. Two of them:

Giant Cape

Dragons Exalted #114

Pokémon Tool. The Pokémon holding it gets +20 HP.

Tool Scrapper

Dragons Exalted #116

Item. Discard up to 2 Pokémon Tool cards attached to Pokémon in play, yours or your opponent's.

The chase card: Rayquaza

Rayquaza

Dragons Exalted #128

Rarity Rare Secret

Card number 128/124

Market price, October 21, 2026 $1,250.00

Illustrator 5ban Graphics

Dragons Exalted's chase card is Rayquaza, numbered 128/124, a Rare Secret, illustrated by 5ban Graphics, at $1,250.00 on October 21, 2026, the last day the catalog has a price for it.

The Rare Ultra Giratina-EX (124/124) was second at $618.98 and the Rare Ultra Mew-EX (120/124) third at $423.51.

Rayquaza is printed only once in Dragons Exalted, here.

Only the exact version is worth its price. The number at the bottom of the card and the rarity symbol beside it tell you which one you pulled. Reading the number and rarity symbol →

Chase cards and prices

The secret Rayquaza leads by a wide margin. Its $1,250.00 is the catalog's price from October 21, 2026, a day older than the rest; the full-art Pokémon-EX and the other secret rares follow.

These are each card's headline TCGplayer market price on October 22, 2026, except where a row gives an earlier day because the catalog had no newer price. Prices can move a long way, most of all in a set's first months, so treat them as a snapshot. Each card's page shows today's price for every variant and its 90-day chart. How Pokémon card prices work →

What a complete set costs

One copy of every card in Dragons Exalted, bought as singles, cost $3,795.24 on October 22, 2026. That is the fourth most expensive of the twelve sets in the Black & White series.

The three most valuable cards, Rayquaza, Giratina-EX and Mew-EX, come to $2,292.49, or 60% of the total. Without them the set costs $1,502.75. Of the 126 cards, 91 were under $2.00, together $47.61; the other 35 add up to $3,747.63.

Two cards had no TCGplayer price on file and aren't counted: Blend Energy GrassFirePsychicDarkness and Blend Energy WaterLightningFightingMetal.

One card's price is older than October 22, 2026, because the catalog had no newer one: Rayquaza (128), $1,250.00 on October 21. It is counted at that price.

Each card is counted at its cheapest priced variant, a Normal copy rather than a Reverse Holofoil where both exist, at its TCGplayer market price. This is what it costs to buy the set as singles. It is not what opening packs returns, and not what a complete set would sell for, which after fees and the many cards worth cents would be noticeably less.

Playing it

No Dragons Exalted card carries a regulation mark, so none is Standard-legal as printed. Standard has allowed only the H, I and J marks since April 10, 2026. Every card in Dragons Exalted is legal in Expanded, which takes every set from Black & White on.

A reprint with a legal mark makes older printings of the same card legal again, so check a card's name before you rule it out.

Standard, Expanded and deck building rules →

Frequently Asked Questions