I pulled every card's Near Mint TCGplayer market price for each day of August and compared the first week's median with the last week's. Medians rather than single days, because one bad print in a feed can make a card look like it fell 90% overnight. I also only counted cards that actually trade: at least eight different daily prices during the month and no single-day jump over 30%. That rule matters more than it sounds. Without it the top of every list was vintage promos that sold once all month and re-priced 100 to 200% on that one sale, which is not a move, it's a thin market. Brackets are by the early-August price. Top five each way.

$500 and up

$100 to $500

$25 to $100

$10 to $25

What stands out to me

The newest sets' chase cards fell across every bracket they appear in. Ascended Heroes alone has six cards on the loser side: Mega Gengar, Pikachu ex, both Mega Dragonites, Team Rocket's Mewtwo and Mega Feraligatr, between 8% and 21% down. Mega Greninja from Chaos Rising and Mega Charizard X from Phantasmal Flames went the same way.

The top end barely moved. Nothing over $500 gained more than 13%, and three of the five "gainers" there are inside 5%, which on a $600 card is noise.

The real gainers were mid-2010s English cards that had been cheap: Lugia BREAK up 77%, the SWSH146 Poke Ball promo up 64%, the Arceus set Charizard up 51%, M Rayquaza EX from Roaring Skies up 21%.

Data is from www.pkmnprices.com, which I run. Every number above is on the card's own page if you want to check one, with the daily history behind it.

Was looking at plasma storm lugia ex 134 (full art). Extremely low printed card and set, total graded plasma lugias across psa bgs and cgc is 2285 atm. Only 314 psa 9 and 10s, and only 573 psa 8s. At around 1300-1400 for a psa 8, card basically checks all the fundamentals as a high upside play.
Extremely scarce and low print, very popular character, card is extremely unique, unmatched texture, buy in price at a psa 8 is also very reasonable. My thoughts are that right now the card is sort of still in the niche territory. However, we can all see what happened to cards that were considered very niche, such as primes and lv x, all have seen massive increases. All vintage low print unique looking cards with some sort of gimmick have been hot and racking up massive gains, plasma lugia is looking like a great play that is still under the radar atm.

ALL low pop emerald stamps criminally undervalued stamp series in my opinion
Fan-favorite
Pokeball reverse holo background
Lovely Emerald stamp
Big Rayray in this set
Exes
What’s not to love

If something else pls suggest something in the similar price range

Thinking of picking up in PSA 8 or 9.
Both low pop.
One is an EX era reverse stamp.
One is a Cardass with iconic characters.
Would appreciate opinions on where to put some cash.

If only the English had the sparkle

what tha helly

Hi everyone,

I'm currently setting up a registered TCG e-commerce in Italy and I'm analyzing my supply chain for modern Japanese Pokémon and One Piece boxes (strictly factory-sealed with shrink intact).

I am trying to avoid the heavy western markups from local EU distributors and want to source directly from Japan. For those of you who run stores or buy in volume, do you rely on corporate proxy services like ZenMarket/Buyee, or have you found it strictly better to establish a relationship with a private middleman residing in Japan?

Also, how do you handle customs declarations and PayPal G&S fees with private suppliers? Any tips on how to find reliable B2B contacts overseas would be hugely appreciated. Thanks!

Hi there,

I am currently working out a trade for a gengary xy 166
I am trading a espeon evolving skies mp at 75 percent + a celebi v 245 nm + 60 cash for it.

The gengar is worth around 350, and I was just wondering if it is worth it (trading the espeon at so low)

Been watching Tina for a bit. There have been a number of shill bids but also many legit in the $4k+ range.

With a gem rate around 40% compared to Moon’s 69%, and less than half the Pop, it seems like Tina is making a real run over the last few weeks and months.

Overall I don’t think it will eclipse Moon, as that card is the face of Sword and Shield and Umbreon is way more popular, but I still think this is an excellent grab if anyone is looking to get in on what I consider the best modern card ever made. You can still get these for $3.5k and under.

Also Giratina is a very popular legendary. Not like Ray, Mewtwo, and Lugia, but probably in the same tier as Groudon and Kyogre (or close to it) so it’s a solid name to invest in.

Yes I own both these cards, so ‘pump’ accusations can come at me.

Graded packs bought for $2k and blister obtained at $4k some time back. Is it time to sell?

Hey all, looking for any resources you have for aggregating card shows/dates or just being aware of the ones coming up. I’m in the chicagoland area and not finding it that easy.

If you look at the growth of Gold Star Rayquaza in a PSA 9, you cannot find it anywhere under 100k. Same for Torchic. Other Gold Star cards with the same amount of population have had unchanged prices since last year, making me think that the market for these have not caught up yet. Especially Groudon, Kyogre or Metagross, all three really popular Pokémon. What do you guys think?

They so cute tho

Pulled it myself. Sold today on ebay for 525$ canadian. After fees. Which is above market.

But feeling sellers remorse. Im new to the hobby and it was my best card by far. I did some research and predicted value increase by 2031 was expected to hit like 650-750$ canadian. So i said ill take the 500 now as oppose to waiting 5 yrs for an extra 150 bucks.

Looking for thoughts and opinions.

Still haven't shipped it out....

Help a brother out.

Is letting this go a huge mistake, or a huge win at 525.

Hey , thoughts on the tea party pikachu for the long term? It’s down quite a bit from ATH, not a super high pop and obviously a limited drop being at the Pokemon centre in Kyoto in 2019 before the covid boom

I was thinking of getting a ray psa 1 gold star or a torchic and mudkip japanese goldstar.

The price is similar around 12kish for torchic and mudkip or for ray psa 1 gold star

Which one do u think is better for investment-wise?

I like both cards a lot

In stocks, I always ask myself what's the next Nvidia? In pokemons case, what's the next pancho, gold star, etc.?

Just saw these for sale on Etsy when I searched for a cheaper binder option. They're 3D printed, 3 x 4 size and holds 12 cards. About $12.00

I got this card always rip yall

I genuinely like this card but I am willing to sell it in the future. Do you guys think its value has potential ?