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Oct 26th - Nov 1st, 2026

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💰 Top Sales This Week

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

$528,000 — PSA 10 Expedition Mew · Fanatics · Nov 1st

$488,000 — CGC Pristine 10 No. 2 Trainer Trophy Pikachu · Goldin · Nov 1st

$451,385 — PSA 10 1st Edition Neo Genesis Lugia · Alt · Oct 29th

$450,000 — CGC Pristine Creatures Deck Chansey · Alt · Oct 29th

$408,000 — PSA 10 Gold Star Charizard · Fanatics · Nov 1st

$384,000 — PSA 10 EX Emerald Reverse Holo Rayquaza · Fanatics · Nov 1st

$384,000 — BGS 10 Pristine POP Series 5 Gold Star Espeon · Fanatics · Nov 1st

$308,669 — PSA 10 Dragons Exalted Rayquaza EX · Alt · Oct 29th

The prices paid are totals including buyer's premium. Please note that not all sales are confirmed at the time of the sale or auction end.

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📰 TCG News

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

🔵 TPCi Accidentally Reveals McDonald's 2027 Set A Year Early

The Pokemon Company International announced this year's McDonald's Happy Meal promotion on October 29th, which starts in the United States on November 10th with 15 cards and plastic Happy Meal box toys. The post went up with the wrong images attached: instead of the 2026 cards, it showed a full set carrying an M27 set symbol and a 2027 copyright line.

One of them is a Squirtle that has not released in Japan yet. McDonald's sets have only ever used reprints of older cards, so a card from an unreleased set points to Mega Blastoise ex arriving in the TCG. TPCi deleted the post that afternoon and quietly published the correct 2026 list the next day.

(Source: PokeBeach)

🔵 Pokemon TCG Valentine's Box Revealed For January

The Pokemon TCG Valentine's Box was revealed on October 29th and releases on January 15th at $14.99. It holds 20 Valentine's Day mini booster packs of three cards each, five sticker sheets, and a box that folds out into a mailbox.

The set list has not been revealed and probably will not be until January. The Halloween Trick or Trade boxes are the closest guide: reprinted cards on a theme, carrying their own stamp.

(Source: PokeBeach)

🔵 Three New Trademarks Point To A Legendary Beasts Series

Pokemon filed three trademarks on October 28th: Magma Heartbeat, Lightning Impact and Aurora Ripples, all registered under the categories the company uses for TCG set names. The three names line up with Entei, Raikou and Suicune.

They are expected to headline the Pokemon ex★ series teased at Worlds in August, and nothing has been confirmed about what the mechanic does. Japan's High Class Pack, MEGA x MEGA Parade, lands February 29th and may close out the Mega Evolution era before the new series starts.

(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

🔵 Dragons Exalted Booster Box Sells for $25,200

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Booster Box · 2012 · 36 packs

Dragons Exalted arrived in August 2012 as the sixth Black and White set and is remembered for its Rayquaza-EX. Thirteen sealed boxes have sold on eBay in the past two years.

Sealed boxes have run from $4,750 at auction in January 2025 to $13,899 in July 2025 and $23,035 in July 2026. This one is about 9% above that July sale and 81% above where the box sat a year ago, on 26 bids. A PSA 10 of the set's full art Rayquaza EX took $308,669 at Alt on October 29th.

🔵 1st Edition Team Rocket Booster Box Sells for $21,400

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Booster Box · 2000 · 36 packs, 1st Edition

Team Rocket landed in April 2000 as the first English set built around Dark Pokemon, with Dark Charizard as its chase card. Twenty-five 1st Edition boxes have sold on eBay in the past two years.

Three of them changed hands inside this one week: $13,600 at auction on October 28th, $15,000 on October 29th and this one at $21,400 on October 31st. The box peaked at $29,000 in November 2025 and $27,500 in January 2026, so even the strongest of the three came in about 26% under that high.

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🃏 Card Sales

🔵 Black Label Ascended Heroes Pikachu #276 Sells for $25,100

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Graded BGS 10 Black Label · Ascended Heroes SIR #276 · 2026

Ascended Heroes has two Pikachu ex Special Illustration Rares, #276 and #277, and this is the forest-art #276. A Black Label means all four Beckett subgrades came back 10, and the pop stood at six in June 2026.

The last two Black Labels of #276 on eBay took $15,555 on March 30th, 2026 and $16,101 on March 2nd, 2026, so this result runs roughly 61% higher on 63 bids. The record is still the $50,000 Goldin sale in June 2026, and PSA 10 copies of the same card traded between $1,275 and $1,400 over the same weekend.

🔵 PSA 10 Aquapolis Espeon Sells for $29,322

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Graded PSA 10 · Aquapolis #H9 · 2003

Aquapolis was the second e-Card set, released in January 2003, and its 32 H-numbered holos sit outside the main numbering as the set chase. Espeon is H9.

Gem copies traded between $3,150 and $3,800 through mid-2025, then took $5,600 in October 2025, $14,000 in March 2026 and $12,100 at auction in May. This one is about 142% above that May sale and drew 45 bids.

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📼 Vintage & Niche Sales

🔵 PSA 10 Carddass Vending Snorlax Sells for $20,200

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Graded PSA 10 · Bandai Carddass Vending Part 2 #143, Red · 1996

Carddass cards came out of Bandai vending machines in Japan in 1996, a year before the Pokemon TCG reached the West, and are not Pokemon Company products. Part 2 printed each card in a red and a green version.

The same red #143 in PSA 10 sold for $11,500 on September 2nd, 2026, making this roughly 76% higher on 36 bids. A green #143 took $17,000 at auction the same day, up from $11,601 in August, and a PSA 10 Carddass vending Wigglytuff #40 closed at $17,400 on 159 bids, also on November 1st.

🔵 PSA 9 1st Edition Shining Charizard Sells for $20,151

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Graded PSA 9 · Neo Destiny 1st Edition #107 · 2002

Neo Destiny closed out the Neo era in February 2002. Its Shining Pokemon, the alternate-colour holos first used in Neo Revelation, sit past the end of the set list, and Shining Charizard is the last of them at #107 of 105.

PSA 9 copies have moved from $14,655 at auction in June 2026 to $17,699 in September and $21,750 on October 12th. This one lands about 37% above the June sale on 28 bids.