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September 7th - September 13th, 2026

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📰 TCG News

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

🔵 Unrevealed Mew RGB Secret Rares Pulled From "30th Celebration"

Three secret rare Mew cards have been pulled from 30th Celebration packs at retailers that started selling the set early, ahead of any official reveal. There is a red, a green and a blue version, all illustrated by YOSHIROTTEN and numbered R/RGB, G/RGB and B/RGB.

They represent the original Red, Green and Blue games for Pokemon's 30th anniversary, and red, green and blue are also the primary colours of light, a theme that runs through YOSHIROTTEN's wider work. PokeBeach notes the cards may stay officially unrevealed for months.

(Source: PokeBeach)

🔵 Free Mewtwo Promo With $15 of Pokemon TCG at Participating Retailers

From October 2nd, spending $15 or more on Pokemon TCG products at participating retailers earns a Mewtwo promo card as a gift with purchase, in store and online while supplies last. The card is 063/128, illustrated by nagimiso, and carries both the Pokemon 30 and "What's Your Favorite?" stamps.

Participating US retailers include GameStop, Best Buy, Hot Topic, Five Below, Barnes & Noble, Macy's and BoxLunch, with EB Games in Canada and EB Games, JB Hi-Fi, BIG W, Toymate and Mr Toys across Oceania. It comes with a separate QR card pointing to the Pokemon Night Out experience, and lands a couple of weeks after 30th Celebration hits shelves worldwide on September 16th.

(Source: Pokemon.com)

🔵 Pokemon Cards Have Returned 3,821% Since 2004, Eight Times the S&P 500

Card Ladder's index puts cumulative Pokemon card returns at 3,821% since 2004, against 483% for the S&P 500 over the same stretch. Annualised that works out at roughly 19% a year versus about 9%, which is a strong result but a good deal less dramatic than the headline multiple suggests.

Supply is not standing still either: The Pokemon Company printed around 10 billion cards in the year to March 2026, taking the lifetime total past 85 billion across 16 languages, having taken 25 years to print the first 43 billion. It has also moved against arbitrage, introducing My Number Card identity verification on Japanese lotteries in August and releasing 30th Celebration simultaneously worldwide on September 16th.

(Source: BiggO Finance)

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📈 Card Trends

Source: Price data provided by TCGPlayer.com and chart visual provided by TCGMarketNews.com (which sources data from TCGPlayer).

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📦 Sealed Sales

🔵 Sealed Charizard, Rayquaza and Giratina Lv.X Tins Sell for $20k

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Fall Collector's Tins · 2009 · 3 sealed tins

The 2009 Fall Collector's Tins each carried a Lv.X promo, and two of these three have run hard this year. The Charizard G tin has gone from $2,800 in February to $8,000 in August, and the Rayquaza C from $2,650 in March to $7,206 in September. The Giratina has been the quiet one, last selling at $2,800 in June.

Bought separately at their most recent prices the three tins come to $18,006: $8,000 for the Charizard on August 11th, $7,206 for the Rayquaza on September 9th and $2,800 for the Giratina on June 8th. The lot took about 11% more than that, so the premium is for having all three sealed in one go rather than for any single tin.

🔵 Three Sealed Black & White Starter Tins Sell for $15k

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Spring Collector's Tins · 2011 · 3 sealed tins

Each tin held a figurine of its starter, a holo promo of that starter, a pack of Black & White preview cards and two boosters drawn from Call of Legends, HeartGold & SoulSilver Triumphant and Platinum Supreme Victors. Snivy, Tepig and Oshawott were sold separately, so a complete sealed set of all three is the harder thing to assemble.

The closest comparable is another complete three-tin set, which sold for $5,400 in August 2025, putting this about 178% higher. A single Tepig tin took $1,100 in March 2025. One recent result sits far outside all of this: two of these tins sold for $150 on July 8th. It came from an established seller and appears to be a genuine sale, but it is so far below every other result that it reads as an outlier rather than a comparable.

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🃏 Card Sales

🔵 PSA 10 Munch "The Scream" Mimikyu Sells for $24k

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Graded PSA 10 · SM-P Promo #289 · 2018

The 2018 Munch: A Retrospective exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum ran from October 27th 2018 to January 20th 2019 and brought The Scream to Japan for the first time. The Pokemon Company made five promos for it, and Mimikyu was the hardest to get: rather than being handed out, it came inside a Pikachu and Eevee mini card file sold only at the exhibition shop and Pokemon Center Online. All five were Japan-only and none were ever printed in English. Scarcity is not what drives this card, though: PSA has graded 3,044 of them, with 1,469 coming back as 10s.

The most recent comparable sold for $13,000 on February 7th, putting this about 85% higher. The price had been settled before that: five sales between $11,080 and $13,000 from November 2025 through February 2026, so this reads as a step up rather than a single outlier bid.

🔵 BGS 10 Black Label Mega Dragonite ex Slides to $20.1k

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Graded BGS 10 Black Label · Ascended Heroes SIR #290 · 2026

Mega Dragonite ex is the Special Illustration Rare from Ascended Heroes, and Black Label 10s have been genuinely thin: Goldin listed one as Pop 3 on April 19th and another as Pop 4 on May 3rd. This copy went to auction on eBay and drew 63 bids.

The most recent comparable sold on eBay for $25,100 on July 30th, putting this about 20% lower. The longer run is steeper. Three Goldin auctions between April and May closed at $41,343, $51,240 and $29,890, which after their 22% buyer's premium works out at roughly $33,900, $42,000 and $24,500 hammered. Against the early-May high this sale is close to half.

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📼 Vintage & Niche Sales

🔵 PSA 10 Masaki Gengar Sells for $207k

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Graded PSA 10 · Masaki Promo #94 · 1999

The Masaki promos came out of the Communication Evolution campaign, which ran from November 1998 to April 1999 and takes its name from Bill's Japanese name. Collectors mailed a Bill's PC Pass Card to Media Factory along with any Haunter, Graveler, Kadabra, Machoke or Omanyte, and received a holo of its evolved form in return. Roughly 36,000 Gengars were claimed. Media Factory posted them back in a thin cardboard holder that gripped the card by its corners, which is why so few survived clean: PSA has graded 2,845 of them and only 84 are 10s.

The most recent comparable sold for $14,500 on May 5th 2025, putting this roughly 14 times higher at about 1,328%. Before that a PSA 10 took $10,700 at auction in August 2024.

🔵 Sealed Japanese Split Earth Booster Pack Sells for $3.35k

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Booster Pack · 2002 · Unlimited

Split Earth was the fourth Japanese e-Card expansion, released in August 2002. It and Mysterious Mountains were combined into Skyridge for the English release, the last set Wizards of the Coast produced before losing the licence.

Another Unlimited pack sold at auction for $2,550 on September 9th, putting this about 31% higher. Worth noting which way round these are trading: 1st Edition packs have been going for less than Unlimited ones lately, at $2,300 on September 3rd and $2,031 in May.

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💰 Top Sales This Week

The biggest confirmed sales across popular auction platforms, ranked by total paid. The Torchic at the top is the highest price ever paid for a Pokémon card at auction.

$2,700,000 — PSA 10 Torchic Gold Star · Alt · September 9th

$393,000 — PSA 10 Charizard Gold Star · Alt · September 10th

$348,000 — PSA 10 Team Aqua's Kyogre EX · Alt · September 10th

$288,000 — PSA 10 Arceus Lv.X · Fanatics · September 13th

$253,680 — PSA 10 Snorlax Lv.X · Alt · September 10th

$241,084 — CGC 6.5 Prototype Test Blastoise · Alt · September 10th

$238,597 — PSA 10 1st Edition Chansey · Alt · September 10th

$207,000 — PSA 10 Masaki Gengar · eBay · September 12th

Top sales across popular auction platforms. Some platforms charge a 20-25% premium.