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August 31st - September 6th, 2026

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📰 TCG News

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

🔵 Maushold, Morpeko and More Illustration Rares Revealed from "30th Celebration"

Illustration Rares of Maushold and Morpeko have been revealed from 30th Celebration. A follow-up reveal added Illustration Rares of Alolan Exeggutor, Moltres and Toxtricity, plus Special Illustration Rares of Fuecoco ex, Sylveon ex and Salamence ex. Gholdengo is a new card in the set, with a Celebration attack that takes two Prize cards if you hold exactly 30 cards in hand. The set's products begin releasing worldwide on September 16th.

(Source: PokeBeach)

🔵 Hong Kong's Pokemon Card Market Goes Institutional

Hong Kong has become a centre for Pokemon card investing, with collectors, speculators and institutions treating rare cards as a tradeable asset class. The draw is the financial plumbing rather than the cards: the city offers the regulatory framework and liquidity to treat a graded card as a tradeable asset rather than a toy. In March the Hong Kong-listed MemeStrategy launched what it called the world's first tokenised Pokemon card fund, fractionalising ownership of cards including a Van Gogh Pikachu.

The trading card market could reach $23.5 billion by 2030, according to a Hong Kong Trade Development Council report. HK University Business School's Lu Fangzhou argues the category is durable, calling Pokemon cards "a proven model" that has held value far longer than alternatives such as NFTs, though he notes Hong Kong's prospects as a hub still depend on trading volume following demand. The market is far from uniform: high-end cards rose 29% last year while lower-grade modern cards fell more than 40%, and 26.6 million cards were graded in 2025 alone.

(Source: South China Morning Post)

🔵 Walmart Launches a Lottery System for Pokemon TCG Restocks

Walmart has introduced a lottery-style purchasing system on its website called the Collectibles Drawing, aimed at giving shoppers a fair shot at high-demand items rather than racing bots at checkout. Entry is free but requires a Walmart account with a shipping address, payment method and quantity locked in before the window closes, and selected entries are ordered automatically with no separate confirmation step.

The first Pokemon item was a Scarlet & Violet Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Box on August 31st, with more rotating through since. Lottery purchasing has been common in Japan for years through Amazon and Pokemon Center stores, but Walmart is among the first large US retailers to try it, close to two years into the supply shortage that began with Surging Sparks. Nothing in the rules blocks a reseller from entering like any other shopper, though every entry ties back to one registered account.

(Source: God is a Geek)

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📈 Card Trends

Source: Price data provided by TCGPlayer.com. Charts and rankings produced by Lucky Egg Report, with recent sales verified against TCGPlayer.

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📦 Sealed Sales

🔵 Sealed 2009 Pokemon Trainer's Collection Box Sells for $16.5k

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Collection Box · 2009 · 6 packs + 3 promos

The box carries one pack each of Delta Species, EX Dragon Frontiers, EX Power Keepers, EX Holon Phantoms, Diamond & Pearl Secret Wonders and Diamond & Pearl base, a run of 2006 to 2007 sets that have each climbed steeply on their own. The original $19.99 retail sticker is still printed on the front.

The most recent comparable sold at auction for $9,100 on February 28th, putting this roughly 81% higher. Comps are thin for this box, so the two sales read better as a pair than as a trend.

🔵 Sealed Eevee & Snorlax GX Tag Team Tin Sells for $1k

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Tag Team Tin · 2019 · 4 packs

The tin's draw is its promo, a full-art Eevee & Snorlax GX (SM169). Five PSA 10 copies of that card sold in mid-August between $2,600 and $3,050, so the graded promo runs well above a sealed tin.

The most recent comparable tin sold for $899 on August 31st, putting this about 11% higher. Others have gone for $700 to $900 since last September.

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🃏 Card Sales

🔵 PSA 10 POP Series 6 Chimchar Sells for $13k

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Graded PSA 10 · POP Series 6 #14 · 2007

POP Series 6 was distributed through the Pokemon Organized Play program in 2007 rather than sold at retail, so the print run was small and clean survivors are scarce. Only 4 of the 94 Chimchars submitted to PSA have come back as 10s.

The most recent comparable sold at Fanatics for $9,600 including buyer's premium on August 9th, putting this about 35% higher. The longer run is steeper still: $492 in February 2024, $1,620 in November 2025 and $4,560 in March 2026, roughly 26 times over in under three years. Those four results come from only two of the four PSA 10s, each of which has now traded twice, and this sale is a third copy reaching the market for the first time.

🔵 PSA 10 Chinese 151 Pikachu Slides to $2.65k

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Graded PSA 10 · 151 C-Collection AR #172 · 2025

The Simplified Chinese 151 C-Collection was a 2025 China-only release, and its Pikachu Art Rare quickly became the set's chase card. At least 34 PSA 10 copies changed hands on eBay in June alone.

June's peak comparable sold for $5,101 on the 14th, putting this roughly 48% lower. At least 34 PSA 10 copies changed hands on eBay that month, averaging $4,680, and the most recent comparable sold for $3,650 on August 13th.

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📼 Vintage & Niche Sales

🔵 All-PSA 10 2013 Pokemon Hanafuda Master Set Sells for $13.75k

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Graded PSA 10 · Pokemon Hanafuda 48-card master set · 2013

Hanafuda are traditional Japanese playing cards: 48 to a deck, split into twelve suits of four, one suit per month, illustrated with that month's flowers, animals and landscapes. Nintendo has made them since 1889 and was founded on them, decades before it made a video game. This is the 2013 set, featuring Kanto Pokemon.

Listed at $32,000 before the seller accepted an offer. The closest comparable set sold for $10,000 with two of its 48 cards graded PSA 9 (the Squirtle and the Taillow), putting this all-10 set roughly 38% higher. A second set with seven cards in PSA 9 sold for $9,000 (both comparables are 2016 Mario Pikachu Hanafuda sets rather than this 2013 Kanto one).

🔵 1997 Japanese Red Cloth Playmat with Slowpoke Promo Sells for $388

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Cloth Playmat + Promo Card · 1997 · Excellent

These cloth playmats were sold through Pokemon Centers from May 2nd 1997 in red, green and black. This red example came with its original insert and the unnumbered Slowpoke promo card the mats shipped with, illustrated by Ken Sugimori, in Excellent condition.

A sealed example sold for $105 last year, putting this one roughly 269% higher. Both figures include Heritage's 25% buyer's premium. Separately, the promo card is worth more than the lot it came in: PSA has graded 189 of them with 25 at a 10, and a PSA 10 sold for $1,810 at Fanatics in June, up from $636 in November 2020.

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💰 Top Sales This Week

The biggest confirmed sales across eBay, Goldin, Heritage and Fanatics, ranked by total paid.

$128,000 — CGC 10 Pristine Lugia · eBay · August 31st

$125,000 — CGC 10 Pristine Charizard · eBay · August 31st

$67,725 — PSA 8 Rayquaza Gold Star · eBay · September 6th

$55,000 — PSA 10 Kyogre ex · eBay · September 3rd

$55,000 — EX Trainer's Challenge Mew · eBay · September 4th

$50,000 — PSA 10 1st Ed Dark Espeon · eBay · September 2nd

$43,200 — CoroCoro Holofoil Mew · eBay · September 5th

$39,600 — PSA 10 Gold Star Pikachu · eBay · September 4th

Prices are totals paid. eBay charges no buyer's premium; Fanatics, Heritage and Goldin add one, typically 20-25%.