Published August 10, 2026 · 10 min read
If you searched for "Misty's Vitality price" or "Misty's Vitality Pitch Black," you already know the card: a Supporter card built around Misty, the Cerulean City gym leader, printed as an Ultra Rare secret at #111 in Mega Evolution — Pitch Black (ME05). It's a Trainer card, not a Pokémon, which makes its price tag unusual — most of the money in a set this size sits on ex Pokémon, not on the people who support them.
As of today, the live market price for Misty's Vitality #111 sits at $32.69. That single number is what this page exists to explain: why a Supporter card costs that much, what its rarity actually means, where it fits in Pitch Black's pull structure, and — since Swaptio is a peer-to-peer exchange, not a shop — how to get a copy by trading rather than buying at whatever a listing happens to ask.
There is also a regular, non-Ultra-Rare printing of Misty's Vitality elsewhere in the set (#080, an Uncommon). This page is specifically about the Ultra Rare secret at #111, which is the copy driving the search traffic and the copy worth the most. For the full 120-card list, chase hierarchy and product lineup, see our Pitch Black set guide.
Misty's Vitality is a Supporter card — the category of Trainer card that represents a person rather than an item, a stadium, or an energy. Supporters are typically played once per turn and tend to have some of the strongest effects in the game, because that once-per-turn limit is the game's way of balancing their power. The card is themed around Misty, the water-type Kanto gym leader, and its name — "Vitality" — signals the kind of role Supporter cards in this family usually play: keeping a Pokémon healthy or in fighting shape rather than dealing damage directly.
We're deliberately not quoting exact game text here, because getting a Supporter's wording wrong is worse than not repeating it — always check the card in hand or an official card database before you build around it. What we can say with confidence, because it shows up directly in how the market has priced this card, is that competitive players are treating Misty's Vitality as a genuinely useful piece of support, not a nostalgia print that only collectors want. A purely cosmetic Supporter with no play relevance does not hold $32 in a set this size once launch hype fades — a card that stays in that range after the first few weeks usually does something decks actually want.
That combination — a beloved Kanto gym leader plus a card that pulls weight on the table — is exactly why Misty's Vitality #111 has held value better than most of Pitch Black's other Ultra Rares.
Ultra Rare is one of the higher secret-rarity tiers in modern Pokémon TCG sets, sitting above the main set's holo rares and below the illustration-heavy chase tiers (Special Illustration Rare and the gold Hyper Rare). In Pitch Black specifically, the Ultra Rare block runs from #096 to #113 — eighteen cards split between ex Pokémon and Trainers, several of which have no regular, lower-rarity printing anywhere else in the set. Misty's Vitality does have a regular Uncommon printing elsewhere (#080), which makes the Ultra Rare purely a premium, more heavily-embellished version of the same card rather than the only way to own it — you can read the full breakdown of what each rarity tier looks like and how to spot it on the card itself in our rarity symbols guide.
Ultra Rares as a category are a known trap for new collectors: the alternate art and foiling make them feel special, but because eighteen different cards share the tier in a single set, most individual Ultra Rares end up trading for single-digit or low-double-digit dollars once the launch window passes. Misty's Vitality #111 is the exception inside its own tier — the most expensive Trainer Ultra Rare in the set by a wide margin, and one of only a handful of Pitch Black Ultra Rares still comfortably above $30 once the dust from launch week settled.
In other words: the Ultra Rare tag alone doesn't explain a $32.69 price. Being an Ultra Rare gets you into the conversation; being Misty, being a Supporter with real utility, and being the standout of an otherwise middling rarity tier is what keeps this specific card there.
We don't publish exact pull-rate percentages for Pitch Black boosters — official rate cards aren't published by set the way MSRP is, and any specific number you see quoted online for a modern set is almost always an estimate from opened-box tracking, not a guaranteed figure. What we can say in general terms: Ultra Rares as a tier are meaningfully harder to pull than the main set's holo rares, and within an eighteen-card tier, the odds of any one specific card — including #111 — are a fraction of the odds of pulling "an Ultra Rare" in general. That's standard math for any set built this way, not something unique to Pitch Black.
The practical consequence is the one that matters for your search: opening boxes until you hit #111 specifically is an expensive and unreliable way to get this card, because you're paying box prices for a chance at one of eighteen possible outcomes, not for the card itself. Buying a single listing at whatever price a seller sets is the other extreme — no odds involved, but no control over what you pay either. A trade sits between those two: you're not paying box-opening odds, and you're not accepting a stranger's asking price sight unseen.
The current market price for Misty's Vitality #111 is $32.69, based on live pricing data as of today. That makes it the most expensive Trainer card in Pitch Black outside the set's Special Illustration Rare block, and it puts it ahead of most of the set's ex Pokémon Ultra Rares as well — a rare case where a Supporter outprices the monsters around it.
That $32.69 is also a meaningful comedown from where the card started. In Pitch Black's presale window, before the set's July 17 release, Misty's Vitality #111 was trading well over double today's price — the most expensive non-illustration Trainer in the entire set at the time, and a price that outpaced several of the set's flashier ex Ultra Rares. That drop is the same pattern that plays out with almost every hyped card at launch: presale demand is driven by scarcity and hype before supply catches up, and prices settle once more boxes and singles reach the market. What makes Misty's Vitality notable is that it settled at a genuinely strong number rather than collapsing toward bulk — the kind of staying power that comes from actual demand, not just launch-week noise.
Two things explain that staying power. First, rarity: an Ultra Rare secret with a regular lower-rarity twin usually loses most of its premium once the set matures, but this one hasn't, which points back to real demand rather than pure scarcity. Second, timing: Pitch Black is a recent release, and prices on recent sets are typically more volatile than prices on cards that have been out for a year or more, since the supply of opened product is still growing. A card sitting at $32.69 a few weeks after launch, holding well above its regular-print sibling, is worth tracking rather than assuming it's already found its floor.
At $32.69, Misty's Vitality #111 is well within the range where counterfeits show up — high enough to be worth faking, common enough in circulation that a fake can slip past a casual glance. Before you trade for one, or before you value a copy you already have, it's worth running the basic checks: card stock and weight, the texture and consistency of the holo pattern under light, print alignment, and the color accuracy of the card back. Our guide to spotting fake Pokémon cards walks through ten checks anyone can do without special equipment, and they apply just as well to a Supporter card as they do to an ex Pokémon.
This matters more for a trade than for most purchases, because a trade is a two-way exchange of value — if one side turns out to be counterfeit, both people lose something real. A minute of checking before you agree to a trade is worth far more than a minute of regret after.
The $32.69 market price reflects a typical circulated-to-near-mint range, not a single fixed grade — condition moves the number meaningfully in both directions. A pack-fresh, sharp-cornered copy with no whitening or surface wear commands a real premium over that baseline, especially on a card people are inclined to hold rather than play with immediately. A copy with soft corners, edge whitening, or a visible crease can trade well under it, sometimes by a third or more, even though it's still recognizably the same card.
If you're not confident grading your own copy, our condition guide covering NM, LP, MP, HP and DMG breaks down exactly what separates each grade and what to look for under normal light — corners, edges, surface, and centering, in that order of importance for most graders. Knowing where your copy actually sits saves you from over- or under-valuing it before you trade.
Swaptio is a peer-to-peer exchange, not a storefront, so there's no listing here telling you to buy Misty's Vitality #111 for a fixed price. What you can do is search for it in what people are looking to trade and see who already has a copy and what they're after in return, or list what you're offering if you're holding duplicates from Pitch Black and want to work toward this card specifically. Trading sidesteps two of the problems with buying outright: you're not paying a middleman's margin, and you're not stuck accepting whatever number a single seller has decided the card is worth today.
This is also where the $32.69 figure earns its keep beyond curiosity. Knowing the real market number — not a guess, not an asking price plucked from one listing — is what lets you evaluate a trade offer fairly on both sides. If someone offers you Misty's Vitality #111 for a bundle of cards you're holding, you can check whether that bundle actually adds up to something close to $32.69 in today's market before you agree.
The Ultra Rare secret print of Misty's Vitality, #111 from Pitch Black — the card this guide is about.
Ultra Rare · Market price: $32.69
Ultra Rare #111, currently $32.69 — the most expensive Trainer card in Pitch Black outside the Special Illustration Rare block, and one of the few Ultra Rares in the set that has held its value well past launch week.
If Misty's Vitality #111 is on your want list, browse what other traders are looking to move before you decide what a fair trade looks like, or list your own duplicates if you'd rather work toward it than buy it outright. Either way, you now have the real number to negotiate from — $32.69, not a guess.
Three things stack together: it's an Ultra Rare secret, it's built around one of the most nostalgic Kanto gym leaders in the franchise, and unlike most Ultra Rares in Pitch Black, it appears to have real competitive utility rather than being a purely cosmetic pull. Most Ultra Rares in an eighteen-card tier settle for single or low double digits once launch hype fades — Misty's Vitality staying above $30 is the exception, not the rule.
It's the Ultra Rare secret at #111. Misty's Vitality also has a separate, far more common Uncommon printing at #080 elsewhere in Pitch Black, which trades for a small fraction of the Ultra Rare's price — always double-check the card number before comparing prices or trading.
It already dropped substantially from a presale price well over double where it sits today, and it's held that level rather than continuing to slide — a different pattern from cards that just haven't finished cooling off. There's no guarantee prices don't move further in either direction, but waiting for it to collapse toward bulk the way most Ultra Rares do isn't something the data here supports.
The market is pricing it like a card decks want, not like a pure nostalgia print — a Supporter that's purely cosmetic tends to lose most of its premium once launch hype fades, and this one hasn't. That said, always check the exact card text yourself before building a deck around it; effects and rulings are worth confirming directly rather than taking secondhand.
Compare it against the live market figure on this page — $32.69 as of today — rather than a single listing or a number someone quotes from memory. Prices on recent sets like Pitch Black move faster than on older cards, so check back before finalizing a trade instead of relying on a number from a few weeks ago.
