Team Rocket Set Guide

Overview

Team Rocket came out on April 24, 2000. Its 83 cards are 68 Pokémon, 11 Trainers and 4 Energy, and 45 of them are Dark Pokémon: Dark Charizard, Dark Blastoise, Dark Dragonite and the rest, never with more HP than the originals and usually with less: Dark Charizard has 80 to Charizard's 120.

Its printed total is 82, and the 83rd card, Dark Raichu, is numbered 83/82. It is the earliest card in the catalog numbered above its set's printed total. Team Rocket also printed the first special Energy beyond Double Colorless: Rainbow, Full Heal and Potion Energy.

Cards and rarities

Team Rocket has 83 cards. Every card shows its number over the printed total along the bottom, as in "4/82". The cards print a set symbol, not a set code; the code here is the short one the catalog and TurnZero HQ file the set under.

The printed total is 82, so Dark Raichu, 83/82, is the one secret rare. The 17 Rare Holos include two Trainers and Rainbow Energy. 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

Dark Pokémon from the holo list:

Dark Dragonite

Team Rocket #5

Summon Minions puts up to 2 Basic Pokémon from your deck onto your Bench when you play it; Giant Tail does 70 or nothing.

Dark Blastoise

Team Rocket #3

Hydrocannon does 30 plus 20 for each extra Water Energy, up to 40 more; Rocket Tackle does 40 and may prevent damage next turn.

Dark Raichu

Team Rocket #83

The secret rare. Surprise Thunder does 30 and, on two flips, 10 or 20 to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.

Dark Charizard

Team Rocket #4

Continuous Fireball flips a coin for each Fire Energy, does 50 per heads and discards that many Fire Energy.

Trainers worth knowing

Two of its holofoil Trainers, and the search card for Dark Pokémon:

Here Comes Team Rocket!

Team Rocket #15

Each player plays with their Prize cards face up for the rest of the game.

Rocket's Sneak Attack

Team Rocket #16

Look at your opponent's hand and have them shuffle a Trainer card from it into their deck.

The Boss's Way

Team Rocket #73

Search your deck for an Evolution card with Dark in its name.

The chase card: Dark Dragonite

Dark Dragonite

Team Rocket #5

Rarity Rare Holo, Unlimited

Card number 5/82

Market price, October 22, 2026 $226.19

Illustrator Mitsuhiro Arita

Team Rocket's chase card in this guide is Dark Dragonite, 5/82, illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita: $226.19 Unlimited on October 22, 2026 and $531.53 in 1st Edition.

Dark Blastoise ($214.16) is close behind, and Dark Raichu, the secret rare, was $144.21 Unlimited and $361.69 in 1st Edition.

Dark Charizard would top the list on its Unlimited holo price, but its catalog prices are inverted (see the note under the table), so this guide doesn't lead with it.

Every Dark Dragonite in Team Rocket

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

Holos and the secret Dark Raichu, priced as Unlimited copies. Left off the list: Dark Charizard (Rare Holo, $380.85 Unlimited against $64.58 1st Edition). The catalog prices its Unlimited copy above the 1st Edition, the reverse of the rest of the set, which looks like a data error.

These are each card's headline TCGplayer market price on October 22, 2026. 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 Team Rocket, bought as singles, cost $1,672.37 on October 22, 2026. That is the third most expensive of the six sets in the Base series.

The three most valuable cards, Dark Dragonite, Dark Blastoise and Dark Raichu, come to $584.56, or 35% of the total. Without them the set costs $1,087.81. Of the 83 cards, 29 were under $2.00, together $30.70; the other 54 add up to $1,641.67.

Each card is counted at its cheapest priced variant, usually an Unlimited copy rather than a 1st Edition one, or a stamped or error copy where the catalog prices one lower, 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

The catalog marks every card in Team Rocket as legal in neither Standard nor Expanded, the two formats Play! Pokémon sanctions. Expanded starts with the Black & White series in 2011.

Standard, Expanded and deck building rules →

Frequently Asked Questions