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September 21st - September 27th, 2026

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💰 Top Sales This Week

The biggest confirmed sales across popular auction platforms, ranked by total paid.

$8,400,000 — PSA 10 Art Academy Fujishima Pikachu · Fanatics · Sep 27th

$3,720,000 — PSA 10 Art Academy Ochiai Mudkip · Fanatics · Sep 25th

$780,000 — PSA 10 Reverse Holo Pikachu #86 · Fanatics · Sep 27th

$480,000 — PSA 10 Pikachu Gold Star #104 · Fanatics · Sep 27th

$456,000 — CGC 10 Latias Gold Star #105 · Fanatics · Sep 25th

$408,000 — PSA 10 Misdreavus #11 · Fanatics · Sep 27th

$384,000 — PSA 10 Team Aqua's Kyogre EX #6 · Fanatics · Sep 27th

$252,000 — PSA 10 Tyranitar #88 · Fanatics · Sep 25th

Prices are totals paid. Some platforms charge a 20-25% buyer's premium.

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📰 TCG News

Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG.

🔵 20+ Delta Reign Card Images Revealed

TPCi's European branch has sent more than 20 Delta Reign card images to foreign press outlets. The English set arrives in November and combines Japan's Storm Emeralda, released July 31st, with the 30 unique cards from its accompanying MEGA Starter Decks, which feature Eevee ex, Zoroark ex and Meowscarada ex, plus Japan's leftover Gym promos.

The reveal leans heavily on secret rares, numbered above the 103-card main set: Masquerain at 104, Caninos at 106, Pincurchin at 109 and Raikou ex at 136.

(Source: PokeBeach)

🔵 30th Celebration Has the Friendliest Pull Rates of the Modern Era

TCGplayer opened 3,000 English booster packs to measure the set. Special Illustration Rares come 1 in 21 packs, against 1 in 80 in Pitch Black, which PokeBeach calls the friendliest rate any set has had for them. Illustration Rares are 1 in 5, roughly twice as easy as Pitch Black's 1 in 9.

A Classic Collection card turns up 1 in 10 packs, and the Mewtwo ex and Mew ex Futuristic Rares are 1 in 120. The three RGB Mews could not be placed at all: 3,000 packs was too small a sample, so they sit in gold-card territory at minimum. For reference, Pitch Black's Mega Darkrai ex gold came out at 1 in 1,081 across 4,000 packs.

(Source: PokeBeach)

🔵 New Premium Binders Give Every Pokemon a Numbered Slot

Japan's Pokemon Centers release nine Collection File Premium binders on October 16th, one for each generation, at 2,420 yen apiece. Every card page has Pokedex numbers printed on both sides, so the Kanto binder runs #001 to #151 across nine numbered pages plus a tenth blank one.

Each binder has a glittery finish, starter silhouettes on the front, their evolutions on the back, the generation's Legendary on the spine, and an index sheet showing every Pokemon in it. Claiming all 1,025 slots means buying the whole set, about 21,780 yen, and refill packs of ten blank pages run 700 yen.

(Source: PokeBeach)

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📈 Card Trends

Source: TCGplayer price data, collected daily via TCGCSV and charted here. Sales counts come from TCGplayer's own listing data.

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📦 Sealed Sales

🔵 French 2011 Call of Legends Booster Box Sells for $19.5k

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Booster Box · 2011 · French printing · 30 packs · factory sealed

Call of Legends is the 2011 set whose draw is its shiny legendary subset, which is why auction houses list these boxes by the Rayquaza, Lugia and Kyogre that might be inside. The French printing holds 30 packs, where the English box holds 36.

Public sales are thin. A French box took $8,845 at Goldin in March 2025 on 14 bids, so at $19,500 this one more than doubled that mark, and a German box sold for $5,000 on eBay in July. English boxes stay their own tier: Goldin sold one for $62,906 in May on 19 bids, carrying an X-Ray Authority letter of authenticity. Goldin figures include its 22% buyer’s premium.

🔵 Sealed Best of XY Booster Box Reaches $5,000

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Booster Box · 2017 · Japanese high class pack · factory sealed

The Best of XY is a 2017 Japanese high class set that reprints the era's best cards: 15 cards a pack, two guaranteed holos, and an EX, Mega or BREAK in every pack. The top chase is the Hex Maniac full art at 181/171.

The last one sold for $4,700 on July 19th, making this 6% higher. This box barely moves: $4,050 on January 25th on 43 bids, $4,500 the following day, $4,716 on May 11th on 50 bids, then $4,700 in July. Eight months inside a $1,000 band, and this sits at the top of it.

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🃏 Card Sales

🔵 Stamp Box Pikachu and Cramorant Pair in BGS 10 Black Label Sells for $27.1k

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Graded BGS 10 Black Label, both cards · Sword & Shield Promos 227/S-P and 226/S-P · 2021

The 2021 Pokemon Stamp Box was a Japan Post release: a sheet of real postage stamps packaged with two promos, Pikachu 227/S-P and Cramorant 226/S-P. The Pikachu restages Mikaeri Bijin, the 1948 Japan Post stamp pictured beside the slabs in the lot photo. Both cards came back BGS 10 Black Label, with all four subgrades at 10.

The Pikachu last sold alone for $18,600 on June 21st after 58 bids and the Cramorant for $10,000 on August 9th, so $28,600 for the two separately. At $27,100 this lot came in about 5% under that, stamps included. The same two cards went for $5,795 and $4,150 in August and September 2025, $9,945 together, putting the pair up 173% year over year. Pikachu Black Labels traded between $2,400 and $7,500 through 2025 before the June jump.

🔵 2008 Worlds Mew Gold Star in PSA 10 Sells for $15,000

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Graded PSA 10 · 2008 World Championships EmpoTech Deck Promo #101 · 2008

The 2008 World Championships deck promos are reprints, handed out with the event decks, stamped on the back and never legal for tournament play. For years that kept them well below the originals. That discount has been closing all year. PSA has graded 832 copies of this Mew Gold Star and only 76 came back a 10.

The last one sold for $12,600 on August 16th after 51 bids, making this 19% higher. The climb has been steady rather than sudden: $2,025 in March 2025, $3,000 that August, $5,100 in December, $5,990 in February, $6,100 in April, then $10,800 in June and $12,600 in August. That is a seven-fold move in eighteen months, and this copy came out of PSA's own eBay store.

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📼 Vintage & Niche Sales

🔵 Sealed EX Legend Maker Arcanine Blister Sells for $4,000

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Single-pack blister, factory sealed · EX Legend Maker · 2006

EX Legend Maker blisters from 2006 carried exclusive cover art, and this Arcanine version is one of the harder ones to find still sealed. The top chase is the Gengar at 5/92, and the set's three gold stars, Regice 90/92, Regirock 91/92 and Registeel 92/92, are heavily sought after too.

The most recent sealed Legend Maker blister to sell was the Aerodactyl cover at $2,607 on May 23rd after 28 bids, which makes this one 53% higher. It is a different cover rather than a like for like match, but the same product. The closest Arcanine comp is older and much cheaper: $729 in July 2024 on six bids.

🔵 Factory Sealed Southern Islands Collection Sells for $12,000

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Binder collection, 18 cards, factory sealed · Southern Islands, WOTC · 2001

Southern Islands was a 2001 WOTC release, an 18-card set packed in its own tropical binder. Most surviving copies were opened long ago, which is what separates this one: it is still factory sealed.

At least two have sold in the past fourteen months: $2,000 on July 29th 2025 on a single bid, and $2,750 on May 26th at a fixed price. Against that May figure this one is up 336%.