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Oct 5th - 11th, 2026

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💰 Top Sales This Week

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

$1,037,000 — PSA 10 Art Academy Fujishima Pikachu · Goldin · Oct 11th

$960,000 — PSA 10 Legendary Collection 19-Card Lot · Fanatics · Oct 11th

$660,000 — PSA 10 Southern Islands Mew #1 · Fanatics · Oct 11th

$660,000 — PSA 10 Legendary Collection Charizard #3 · Fanatics · Oct 11th

$660,000 — PSA 10 Art Academy Meli Pikachu · Fanatics · Oct 11th

$660,000 — PSA 10 Plasma Storm Full Art Lugia EX · Fanatics · Oct 11th

$600,000 — PSA 10 Legendary Collection Charizard #3, second copy · Fanatics · Oct 11th

$576,000 — CGC 10 Legendary Collection Gengar #11 · Fanatics · Oct 11th

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.

🔵 Pokemon Cards Reach the International Space Station

Astronaut Sophie Adenot took a Pikachu ex and a Minior aboard the ISS, and TPCi has released photos of the two cards floating in zero gravity with Earth behind them. The trip is part of Pokemon's collaboration with the European Space Agency for World Space Week.

Earlier stunts by other companies sent cards only as far as the stratosphere and called it the edge of space. An Astronaut Pikachu plush went up with Adenot and is on sale at the Pokemon Center.

(Source: PokeBeach)

🔵 Santa Cruz Puts 30 Pokemon Card Designs on Skateboards

Santa Cruz releases a Pokemon TCG skateboard line on October 17th, carrying 30 card designs for the 30th anniversary. Each deck ships in an opaque blind bag, so the design stays unknown until it is opened, and previous collaborations put the price near $110.

Three chase decks carry collages of all 30 cards in different languages, printed in glittery gold foil and limited to 500 each worldwide. The 2023 collaboration ran 20 designs with five gold boards reportedly capped at 50 copies.

(Source: PokeBeach)

🔵 More Delta Reign Cards Revealed Ahead of November 6th

Several more English Delta Reign cards are out, including the Stadium that Japan called Legendary Lava Lake. TPCi named it Legendary Pyroduct, after the geological term for the tube a lava flow leaves behind once the surface cools and the inside drains.

Delta Reign combines Japan's Storm Emeralda, out July 31st, with the 30 cards unique to its MEGA Starter Decks for Eevee ex, Zoroark ex and Meowscarada ex. Japan's leftover Gym promos come along too.

(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

🔵 Sealed Dark Explorers Booster Box Sells for $29,950

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Sealed booster box · Black & White Dark Explorers · 2012

Dark Explorers came out in May 2012. Its best known card is Darkrai EX, whose Dark Cloak ability gave every Pokemon carrying Darkness Energy a free retreat, and with Dark Patch alongside it the card defined the format. The chases out of a box are the secret rare Gardevoir at around $950 on TCGplayer and the full art Darkrai EX at around $815, with four more full art EXs between $255 and $430.

Only two sealed English boxes have sold in the past year. The other took $20,101 at auction on March 8th on 33 bids, which puts this one 49% higher.

🔵 All Twelve Sword and Shield Booster Boxes Sell for $25,000

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Twelve sealed booster boxes, one per set · Sword and Shield, SWSH1 to SWSH12 · 2020 to 2022

The twelve main Sword and Shield sets ran from the 2020 base set through Silver Tempest in 2022. Evolving Skies is one of the twelve, and sealed cases of it have been working out to between $2,583 and $3,195 a box over the past year.

That works out to $2,083 a box. No complete twelve box run has sold on eBay in the past year, so there is no like for like comp. Measured against Evolving Skies, the only one of the twelve with a deep sealed market, the lot came in under the per box rate.

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🃏 Card Sales

🔵 Pop 1 French Kanto Tin Pikachu Sells for $20,000

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Graded PSA 10 · Sun & Moon Pikachu #28 cosmos holo, French · 2021 Kanto 5-Tin

Raw English copies of this Pikachu trade around $18. Of the 235 English copies PSA has graded, 39 came back a 10. This French copy is the only one in a 10.

The most recent English PSA 10 took $4,000 on September 28th, which puts this 400% higher. The English copies below that ran $1,400 in March against a population of 39, and $866 at auction in January on 55 bids.

🔵 Three Complete Master Sets Sell Together for $15,250

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Raw · Dark Explorers, Plasma Freeze and Lost Thunder master sets · 2012 to 2018

A master set is every card in an expansion including the reverse holo of each one, which is why the counts run so far past the printed set size. These three come to 207, 222 and 409 cards.

Heritage sold the same three master sets as separate lots on May 7th, $3,875 for Dark Explorers, $4,000 for Plasma Freeze and $2,000 for Lost Thunder, $9,875 for the group. That puts this lot 54% higher. Each Heritage set carried a handful of PSA graded cards, so it is close rather than exact.

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📼 Vintage & Niche Sales

🔵 Sealed Southern Islands Binder Sells for $31,699

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Sealed collection binder · Southern Islands, WOTC · 2001

The 2001 box holds 18 cards, two randomized booster packs, six postcards and the binder they slot into. Most were opened on the spot, which is why sealed ones surface so rarely.

Two sold through the same listing, $21,299 and then $31,699 on October 11th. That puts the higher one 164% above the $12,000 sealed binder from September 26th, with another at $15,000 on October 2nd in between. Before this run the ceiling was $7,225 at auction on May 23rd on 64 bids.

🔵 PSA 10 Topsun Charizard vs Cloyster Prism Sells for $14,995

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Graded PSA 10 · Topsun VS #006 Charizard vs Cloyster prism · 1997

Topsun cards were a gum bonus from Top-Seika, carrying a 1995 copyright but sold from March 1997, with the prism holofoils seeded at roughly one per two boxes of twenty packs. This is the VS subset card, which pairs Charizard with Cloyster on one face, not the standalone Charizard holofoil from the base set. Graders date the VS prisms inconsistently, PSA at 1998-99 and Beckett at 1997.

PSA has graded 313 of these and 18 came back a 10. The same card in a PSA 10 took $6,750 on February 13th, which puts this 122% higher, and below gem it drops away fast: a BGS 9.5 took $3,800 on September 30th and a BGS 9 took $850 in March. The February copy was slabbed as Topsun VS Charizard Prism, while this one carries the 1997 Topsun Charizard Holofoil line that PSA otherwise uses for the standalone card.