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Sept 28th - Oct 4th, 2026

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💰 Top Sales This Week

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

$292,800 — CGC 9 No. 1 Trainer Pikachu Trophy Card · Goldin · Oct 4th

$150,000 — PSA 10 1st Edition Umbreon #13 · eBay · Oct 2nd

$120,000 — PSA 10 Fan Club 500 Point Eevee #133 · Fanatics · Sep 29th

$113,500 — PSA 10 1st Edition Ho-Oh #7 · eBay · Oct 1st

$107,500 — PSA 10 1st Edition Ho-Oh #7 · eBay · Sep 30th

$105,000 — PSA 10 1st Edition Dark Espeon #4 · eBay · Oct 2nd

$100,000 — PSA 10 1st Edition Flareon #3 · eBay · Oct 4th

$100,000 — PSA 10 Topsun Pikachu Blue Back · eBay · Oct 3rd

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.

🔵 Coinbase Teases a Pokemon Pack Opening Service

Coinbase posted on September 28th that users will be able to rip packs on their phone, with every pull backed by a real physical card they can vault or have shipped. The post never says Pokemon, but the mockups attached to it show five packs labelled Pokemon, and Coinbase replied "You get it" to a comment about Pokemon packs.

No launch date, grading partner or proof of ownership has been named. GameStop already runs the same idea without the crypto: its Power Packs program opens mystery packs online and then vaults the card with PSA, ships it, or buys it back on the spot.

(Source: IGN)

🔵 McDonald's Happy Meal Pokemon Promotion Returns November 5th

PokeBeach reports a McDonald's Happy Meal promotion running in the United States from November 5th to December 9th, with other countries on their own dates. Fifteen cards are expected in the usual four card packs, one holo and three non holo, on the confetti holofoil stock the promotion has used for years.

The cards have not been named. Customers pick between a Pokemon toy and a Pokemon Essential Handbook this time, and the toy may be a card display.

(Source: PokeBeach)

🔵 Delta Reign Prerelease Promos Revealed and Preorders Open

The four Delta Reign prerelease promos are Masquerain, Magmortar, Enamorus and Kommo-o, each an alternate art version of a card already in the set.

Prerelease events run October 24th to November 1st and the set releases on November 6th. Pokemon Center preorders for select Delta Reign products opened on September 30th, 37 days out, the same window Pitch Black got.

(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

🔵 1st Edition Japanese Phantom Gate Booster Box Sells for $15,000

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Sealed booster box · XY4 Phantom Gate, Japanese 1st Edition · 2014

Lysandre's Trump Card came out of this set, and Pokemon banned it in June 2015 for shuffling every discarded card back into the deck. The chase pull is Gengar EX 090/088, the set's secret rare.

Three Japanese Phantom Gate boxes sold in the past year and all three were 1st Edition. The other two took $7,889.89 on July 18th and $6,611.99 on February 24th after 51 bids, which puts this one 90% above the nearer of the pair. Korean boxes sit in their own tier at $600 to $2,350.

🔵 280 Sealed 30th Celebration Packs Sell for $4,755

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Booster pack lot · 2026 · 280 sealed packs

30th Celebration packs come in special sealed products such as ETBs or bundles. The $49.99 Elite Trainer Box holds nine. The set came out on September 16th.

That works out to $16.98 a pack, the highest rate of the eight pack lots that sold across the same stretch. The others ran from a 61 pack lot at $831 up to a second 280 pack lot at $4,500 on September 29th, and they averaged $15.58 a pack, putting this one 9% above them.

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🃏 Card Sales

🔵 Raw Lightly Played Crystal Charizard Takes $34,100

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Raw, Lightly Played · Skyridge Crystal Charizard 146/144 · 2003

Almost every 146/144 that sold in the past year was graded. This one was raw, Lightly Played, and took 47 bids.

A PSA 6 sold for $12,000 on August 1st, which puts this raw copy 184% higher. It also landed inside the graded band: PSA 9s took $35,800 on September 5th, $38,500 on September 21st and $40,000 on September 25th, and a CGC 10 went for $33,600 in May. Low grades stay far below, with a PSA 4 at $8,300 on August 7th. The whole card has repriced over the year: PSA 9s were trading at $13,300 last December.

🔵 PSA 10 Lugia LEGEND Sells for $25,000

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Graded PSA 10 · HeartGold & SoulSilver, Lugia LEGEND 113/123 · 2010

A Pokemon LEGEND is split across two cards, and 113/123 is the top half of Lugia. Every one of them was illustrated by Shinji Higuchi, the special effects director behind the Gamera trilogy, who said he wanted the Pokemon to look realistic and monstrous, inspired by kaiju films. The art runs across three quarters of the complete card and breaks the text into fragments around it, and the whole thing is holographic. They are also the only Pokemon cards to print the illustrator's name in both English and Japanese. PSA has graded 1,440 of them and 38 came back a 10.

One other PSA 10 sold on eBay in the past year, for $3,000 on March 1st, which puts this one 733% higher. The Japanese 1st Edition Lugia LEGEND is a different card. Its PSA 10s went for $765 to $2,994 over the same stretch.

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📼 Vintage & Niche Sales

🔵 21.15g 1st Edition Base Set Pack Sells for $23,000

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Sealed booster pack, Blastoise art, 21.15g · Base Set 1st Edition · 1999

At $23,000 this is the highest a single Base Set pack has sold in the past year, ahead of two PSA 10 shadowless Charizard-art packs at $21,000 on July 23rd and $20,300 on June 1st. Among weighed packs the gradient is clear: the last one listed HEAVY took $15,000 on February 7th, a 20.7g Charizard pack $9,000 in March, and three packs at 20.6g to 20.7g went for $7,500 each in December.

🔵 Sealed Chinese Mew ex 151 Promo Sells for $23,600

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Sealed, never graded · Chinese Mew ex 151 promo 003/SV-P · 2025

The 003/SV-P Mew ex went out through a Chinese membership campaign for the 151 set, and this one is still in its sealed presentation sleeve, never graded.

Sealed, this one landed inside the graded band. The last graded copy to sell was a CGC 10 at $22,500 on September 6th, which puts this 5% higher.