{"id":378544,"date":"2026-09-21T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=378544"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:35:54","slug":"pokemons-30th-celebration-is-already-lowering-resale-prices-chase-cards-fall-days-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/pokemons-30th-celebration-is-already-lowering-resale-prices-chase-cards-fall-days-after-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s 30th Celebration is already lowering resale prices: chase cards fall days after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game\u2019s 30th Celebration set came out in September 2026<\/strong>, and the first wave of openings gave people a pretty clear read right away: the chase cards got cheap, fast. A few days after launch, prices were already sliding, mostly because the pull rates looked a lot better than what collectors had gotten used to in recent sets.<\/p>\n\n

From those early openings, Special Illustration Rare (SIR) cards appeared to be landing at something close to 1 in 20 packs<\/strong>. Recent sets were more like 1 in 80. That gap hit singles hard. Future Rare Mew and Future Rare Mewtwo had been floated as potential $3,000 cards. Before release, Mew listings were showing up in the $850 to $1,400 range. Then, within days, sellers were asking closer to $120, and even at $100 to $150, completed sales looked sluggish. The top end wasn\u2019t much higher. Special Illustration Rare Mew ex was only around $177, Gengar ex SIR sat near $130, and by that point the 10th most expensive card in the set had already fallen below $40.<\/p>\n\n

If you\u2019re a collector and not trying to flip everything, 30th Celebration looks like a good set to buy into. Cheaper singles<\/strong> make binder completion a lot easier than people expected. Scalpers, though, and the more speculative buyers, got hit from the other direction as the value of their inventory dropped in a hurry.<\/p>\n\n

Sealed product is where things still get messy. The Pok\u00e9mon Center Elite Trainer Box had a retail price of $59.99<\/strong>, got flipped for as much as $490 before cooling off to around $290, and some Target locations reportedly tried to keep release-day sales from turning into a circus with organized lines and possible virtual ticket systems.<\/p>\n\n

And this set doesn\u2019t exist in a vacuum. 30th Celebration lines up with the broader Pok\u00e9mon TCG correction<\/a> that\u2019s been going on since 2025, with modern singles and sealed product<\/a><\/strong> down roughly 20% to 50% as print runs got bigger and speculation lost steam. Vintage has held up better. Singles are also easier to find right now than sealed retail stock.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pok\u00e9mon Trading Card Game\u2019s 30th Celebration set came out in September 2026, and the first wave of openings gave people a pretty clear read right away: the chase cards got cheap, fast. A few days after launch, prices were already sliding, mostly because the pull rates looked a lot better than what collectors had … Continue reading “Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s 30th Celebration is already lowering resale prices: chase cards fall days after launch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9351,"featured_media":378543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-378544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378545,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378544\/revisions\/378545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378544"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378544"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378544"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}