TCGPulse

Issue 25 · 4 min

Anniversary spikes up top. Spoilers and dumps underneath.

Sep 17, 2026

Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box Official product shot (pre-launch product frame)

Prefer pre-launch / ask frame this Monday

The Pokémon Company International / Gamespress · Source

Pokémon led the week on 30th Celebration. Standard ETBs (MSRP $49.99) cleared roughly $150–$170 in completed sales — thin outliers ran higher, so don’t read the ceiling as the market — while RGB Mew chase copies still printed in the multi-thousands and kept settling as rip volume hit. Underneath: One Piece OP-17 split chase cooling from role players heating, and Dragon Ball FB11 kept SCR chatter loud in JP.

Live market rows appear only when a real price feed is on. Other games appear in the newsletter until then.

Liquidity is the whole point of the ranker. Percent change without volume is a screenshot. We show both, and we sort on the product of the two so thin spikes fall down the page.

Umbreon VMAX alternate art, Evolving Skies #215 (Moonbreon)

Two markets under anniversary noise

©Pokémon / Creatures Inc. / GAME FREAK — Official TCG card art · Source

Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution—Ascended Heroes Official set logo

Summer hold still in rearview — ASC soft sealed

The Pokémon Company International / Gamespress · Source

Week movers

Sealed heat

Pokémon 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box

Standard ETBs (MSRP $49.99) cleared roughly $150–$170 in completed sales after the Sep 16 launch. Thin outliers ran higher — don’t read the ceiling as the market. Treat the band as an editorial comp from launch week, not a quote to trade against. Live Pokémon rows on the homepage come from Pokémon Price Tracker.

~$150–$170 completed$49.99 MSRP$120.93 −0.4%

Liquidity-weighted Pokémon movers

Same snapshot as the dashboard. Percent change is shown; rank uses volume so thin spikes fall.

  1. $324.82−3.0%

    Fair book · 16

  2. $242.53−5.5%

    Thin book · 6

  3. $242.82−4.4%

    Fair book · 8

  4. $1,184.37−1.2%

    Thin book · 2

  5. $265.37−1.1%

    Thin book · 1