Official announcements as they land, the rumor mill labeled as rumor, and the best finds from the collecting community, all covered with a Japan first angle the English sites are slow to catch.
A 27 piece collection for all nine regions goes on sale at Pokémon Center Online in Japan on November 12 at 10 AM Japan time. Nine diorama music boxes at ¥12,100 each lead a lineup that also carries nine framed maps at ¥16,500 and nine papercraft landmarks from ¥2,750, and no overseas release has been announced.
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The Pokémon Company International is partnering with Boys and Girls Clubs of America to bring Pokémon Club into clubs across the United States and its territories. Eligible clubs that opt in get a ready made kit for players ages 5 to 18, inside a network of nearly 5,500 local clubs serving more than 4 million young people a year.
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A follow up to our October 27 count. UltraBall rebuilt its tally on November 10 to 813 Pokémon card sales of $100,000 or more through November 9 for $237,989,604 in total. That is 101 more sales and $21,792,589 more in fourteen days of data, with 24 sales now past $1 million and a Shining Magikarp as the newest member of that group.
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AliExpress sellers are offering custom PSA style labels and empty cases built around real certificate numbers, and genuine grading labels have sold loose in Japan for ¥6,800. A number that checks out can now sit on a card the grader never saw, so buyers need to match the card itself against the record.
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Japan showed Kecleon from Aura Seeker today at 071 of 078 with an Ability that copies every type sitting on your Bench. The reveal lands the same day the official store closed its extra box lottery at ¥6,000 while reachable preorder listings sit near twice that price.
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A follow up to our October 27 and November 3 reports. The McDonald's Pokémon Happy Meal is live in the United States today at participating restaurants, with two cards and one mini box toy in every meal, and no end date has been announced, so supplies are the only clock that counts.
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Target opened a drawing on November 9 for the six pack 30th Celebration Booster Bundle at $31.99 while the same bundle lists at $67 on the secondary market. Entry runs through November 11 and winners buy only if they choose to.
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Japan showed Vulpix and Ninetales from Aura Seeker today and the Stage 1 is the real story. Ninetales at 013 of 078 carries an Ability that can leave your opponent with no Prize card when it falls, while Vulpix at 012 of 078 flips coins until tails ahead of the November 27 launch at ¥200 a pack.
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Police say a Charleston father left his six year old daughter asleep outside a Target after 1 AM on November 6 to hold his place in the Delta Reign line while he went home. He was arrested when he returned and the girl was unharmed and placed in protective custody.
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The PokéXciting Asia tour has turned Changi Airport and Jewel into a Pokémon world from November 3 to January 3, topped by a first in Asia parade of all 27 first partner Pokémon on November 7 and 8. Enlarged TCG displays of every first partner run from Basement 1 to Level 5 at Jewel, and a quiz rally turns them into a hunt for a limited edition 30th Anniversary postcard.
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The 30th Celebration Ditto Premium Collection is out now at $39.99 with eight packs and an acrylic display, built around a promo that shows Ditto as Cherubi for the first time in series history. The sealed box was already at a $192.70 market price in mid October, so the retail hunt matters more than the packs inside.
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Japan showed three new Aura Seeker cards today and one of them ends the strangest drought in the modern game. Kubfu picks up only the second card of its life at 048 of 078, and both Urshifu arrive as regular Stage 1 cards at 140 HP ahead of the November 27 launch at ¥200 a pack.
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Thieves rammed a pickup through the rear doors of Northwest Sportscards in Tacoma shortly after 5 AM on November 2 and took about $50,000 in Pokémon and Magic cards. It was the second ram raid at the shop in four months and the owner has now hired overnight guards seven nights a week.
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The Guardian counted more than 120 people outside Forbidden Planet in central London before the doors opened on Delta Reign launch morning and the first fan had arrived at 11 PM the night before. Inside the queue sat the whole modern hobby at once as collectors and resellers chased the same £49.99 Elite Trainer Box.
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A PSA 10 copy of the 2005 EX Emerald reverse holo Rayquaza closed at $384,000 at Fanatics Collect on November 2 after 26 bids. A PSA 10 of the same card sold for $3,720 in June 2024, just five PSA 10 copies of this reverse holo sit in the PSA census, and the result lands in the same week Mega Rayquaza returned in Delta Reign.
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Delta Reign launched worldwide on November 6 and Mega Rayquaza ex is back in the English game for the first time since Ancient Origins. The special illustration rare already trades near $400 on day one and three anniversary promos split across stores reward a $15 spend while the Pokémon Center edition still trails the shelf wave.
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A follow up to our October 23 Aura Seeker reveal. Japan showed the special art rare for Crasher Wake's Fervor on November 6 and it is drawn by Tetsuo Hara, the Fist of the North Star artist behind the Palafin ex special illustration rare. He also talked about a third card he has not drawn yet.
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The official Japanese Pokémon Card Game site announced on November 6 that five card expansion packs rise from ¥200 to ¥230 for products released from May 2027 onward, citing rising raw material costs. It is the second rise in a row and it lifts the floor under every future Japanese box.
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Gopuff will drop Pokemon Trading Card Game products every Friday at 3 PM Eastern for six weeks starting November 6 and deliver orders in as fast as 15 minutes. Each week also holds one high value card priced well below market and the lineup for each drop stays hidden until Thursday afternoon.
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Pokemon Center UK says Delta Reign orders should ship by mid November and tells buyers to ignore a November 4 payment deadline it set earlier. The delay lands one day before the November 6 launch and leaves the Center edition of the Elite Trainer Box as the one version collectors cannot open on release day.
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Tracking data published on November 4 shows a dozen cards in the 2005 Delta Species set more than doubled in three months and a second dozen did the same in Holon Phantoms. The stamped reverses and Gold Stars that collectors once chipped away at now run into four figures.
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Walmart opens a one hour collectibles drawing today at 2 PM Pacific with six Pokémon products in the draw. The 30th Celebration Ultra Premium Collection leads at $224.97 while five of the six are preorders for the November 6 launch and winners are charged automatically with no notice at all for everyone else.
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A photographer in Akihabara photographed piles of trash bags filled with brand new Pokémon cards on October 29 and the post has now drawn a newspaper interview and a wave of reaction in Japan. The bags held cards from the 30th Celebration Card Sets that launched in Japan earlier in October, mixed with large numbers of cards that are not rare at all.
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Best Buy has opened invites for the Delta Reign Booster Box at $160.99 ahead of the November 6 launch. Chosen buyers get 24 hours to buy the 36 pack box while resale listings average $227, so the invite is now the cheapest clear route into the set in launch week.
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Mainland China gets Black Bolt and White Flare in Simplified Chinese on November 6, with packs from ¥10 and all 156 Unova Pokémon across 348 cards. The chase sits in two Special Illustration Rares for N's Plan and Hilda that have never been printed anywhere else in the world.
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A follow up to our October 27 report. The promotion is now official and Canada opens today, with the full 15 card list public, the seven foil cards named, and a weekly toy rotation that spreads the 15 mini box toys across five weeks. The United States run still starts November 10.
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Target quietly turned on a drawing system for Pokemon cards on November 2 and the first test is a Destined Rivals three pack blister at $14.99. Entry closes November 4 at 10 AM Central, winners are picked at random, and nobody is charged unless they choose to buy.
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The first official Pokémon Center pop up store in Hong Kong opens at Festival Walk on November 11, 2026 and runs through January 3, 2027. Entry in the first two weeks is booking only through the GULU app with the first window opening November 4 at 3pm, and Pokémon TCG products go on sale inside from November 18.
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The FBI Newark office says seven New Jersey shops were hit between September 2025 and March 2026 by buyers paying with stolen card numbers and some losses ran into five figures. The sale often looked clean for weeks before the real cardholder disputed the charge and the shop lost both the money and the cards.
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My Pokemon Party opens online on November 5 and in Pokemon Center stores on November 7 with parts for all 1,025 Pokemon at ¥88 each. The collector catch is that every store stocks only two regions on launch day while the online shop carries the full roster.
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A follow up to our Delta Reign set list coverage. Pokemon TCG Live updates on November 3 and adds the expansion on November 5 at 9 AM PST, one day before the paper launch. Every player can claim a free Mega Rayquaza ex deck through the new Battle Pass and reaching Tier 50 earns a Mega Malamar ex deck, while code cards from paper products become redeemable the same morning.
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Pokemon TCG Pocket turned two on October 30 and the anniversary campaign hands every player two separate chances at a pack with a guaranteed two star card. One ticket waits in Gifts and a second waits at 24 completed missions, while eight more events stack up behind it and the first deadline lands on November 12.
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A follow up to our lot by lot reports from the October 25 sale. ICv2 reports the full Goldin Pokémon 30th Anniversary Auction totaled more than $28,000,000 with 18 record setting sales, and it names one big lot our earlier coverage missed, a sealed EX Team Rocket Returns box at $384,300.
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The Pokemon TCG Valentine's Box releases on January 15, 2027 at $14.99 with 20 Collect and Share booster packs, label stickers for every gift, and a box that becomes a mailbox. The card list is still secret, and that secret is the whole collector question.
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A follow up to our October 25 report on the Delta Reign set list. Pokémon gave the special illustration rare Mega Rayquaza ex its official English preview on October 30, with the card text and the artist credit in the open. It is the one alternate art English packs hold while the Mega Hyper Rare stays unseen, and Delta Reign launches on November 6.
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Two Made in Japan guitars built on the Stratocaster and the Telecaster carry pixel art from the 1996 games and a system that layers 8 bit sound over normal playing. Each costs ¥396,000 in Japan and entry runs through a Pokémon Center Online lottery in November while the United States listing is only teased as a preorder for now.
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A follow up to our October 27 report. The official post announcing the November McDonald's promotion showed cards stamped M27 instead of M26, and one of them is a Squirtle that has not been released anywhere. The post is now deleted and a corrected version is still awaited.
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A follow up to our October 25 report on the Delta Reign set list. The full art Mega Rayquaza ex that English packs lost is now a guaranteed foil promo in the Mega Rayquaza ex Premium Tournament Collection on February 12, 2027, in a box that also brings the first Dragon Shield accessories Pokémon has ever put in one of its products. Pokémon has not listed an official price yet, and one early report puts it at $49.99.
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A PSA 10 Umbreon Gold Star from POP Series 5 sold for $738,100 at Goldin on October 25, and a PSA 10 Charizard Gold Star from Dragon Frontiers made $430,660 in the same auction. ComicBook reports two more big Darkness results at Fanatics Collect that night, and one of them was still unpaid days later, so the confirmed list and the reported list are not the same thing.
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The Day and Night Ultra Premium Collections do not reach shelves until November 6, but early shipments are already being opened and Polygon reports Classic Collection Charizard at $155 and Lugia at $192. Inside each $179.99 box sits the one pack that changes the chase.
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Four Pokémon TCG trademarks by Nintendo and Creatures Inc. and Game Freak came to light in Japan on October 29 and three of them read like set names built for the legendary beasts from the Worlds teaser. Magma Heartbeat and Lightning Impact and Aurora Ripples match Entei and Raikou and Suicune one for one and a fourth filing names a Battle Start Deck. Nothing ties the filings to ex★ on paper yet and that gap is the story.
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The secret trio from 30th Celebration shows up in the First Partners Special Pack on October 31 as entries past the advertised 27 starters. The Pocket versions carry 70 HP while the paper versions trade in the thousands of dollars.
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A PSA 10 copy of the 1996 Japanese Base Set Mewtwo printed with no rarity symbol sold for 603,900 dollars at Goldin on October 26. A PSA 10 of the same card sold for 32,700 dollars in October 2025, and the Goldin lot text counted just nine PSA 10 copies when the lot was listed.
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A follow up to our October 22 report. The full Dual Fusion list landed on October 28 at 217 cards and it reaches well past the nine card preview. Mega Sceptile ex and Typhlosion ex and Mega Gallade ex were waiting in the upper range and a new Serena Supporter joins Lorelei and Rika in the Trainer lineup.
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A follow up to our October 22 report. Store checks reported on October 27 put the United States run at November 10 to December 14 and reveal the format for the first time. Each meal pairs a mini Happy Meal box toy that doubles as a card frame with two random cards from a set of 15, and three of those cards are now named.
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A follow up to our October 20 count. UltraBall rebuilt its tally on October 27 to 712 Pokémon card sales of $100,000 or more through October 26 for $216,197,015 in total. That is 187 more sales and $53,877,713 more in ten days of data, with 23 sales now past $1 million.
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A PSA 10 copy of the 2015 Japanese Art Academy Mudkip by Daisuke Ochiai sold for 4,880,000 dollars at Goldin as the top lot of the Pokémon 30th Anniversary Auction. Goldin calls it the highest public sale ever for any Mudkip card, and it clears the 3.72 million dollar mark set for the same card in September by 1.16 million dollars.
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The follow up to our October 25 report is in. The 1998 Pokémon Red development cartridge closed at 101,000 dollars at Goldin and the total reached 123,220 dollars with fees. That is more than four times the single 25,000 dollar bid it held when we first reported it, paid for a board PSA could only partly read.
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A PSA 10 copy of the 2015 Japanese Art Academy Sableye by iwaiya sold for 976,000 dollars at Goldin after 41 bids. Goldin calls it the highest public sale ever for any Sableye card, and only five graded copies of the card sit in the PSA census.
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The follow up to our October 17 pre bidding report is in. The 1997 Gold First Place Trophy Pikachu graded PSA 8 sold for 3,080,500 dollars at Goldin and Goldin calls it the highest public sale ever for any Trophy Pikachu, well past the 1,769,000 dollar record a Bronze copy set in May.
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A development cartridge for Pokémon Red is up for auction at Goldin with one bid of 25,000 dollars. PSA could read only the first 32KB of its data and that readable game data matches the final US release, while the board itself is longer than a retail cartridge and was never meant for store shelves.
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Six men have been charged with conspiracy to commit burglary after 26 boxes of collectable Pokémon cards were stolen from a warehouse in Retford in December 2025. Police say the group drilled through a wall to get in, and all six are due in court on November 17.
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The full English list landed on October 23 at 141 cards ahead of prerelease weekend and the November 6 launch. The full art Mega Rayquaza ex and the regular Eevee ex were cut from the set and the Kyogre illustration rare moved into the Elite Trainer Box as its promo. What stayed, what moved, and what it means for collectors.
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Three PSA 10 reverse holos from the 2002 Legendary Collection sold for a combined 1,344,000 dollars at Fanatics Collect. Charizard led at 576,000 dollars while Mewtwo and Dark Dragonite each made 384,000 dollars and rewrote their own price history.
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Two 30th Celebration boxes arrive November 6 at 29.99 dollars each with five packs and a foil promo and an oversize card in every box. The sculpted Mew and Mewtwo figures are exclusive to these boxes and early listings are already asking far above retail.
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PSA has published the full list of 6,451 graded items stolen from a FedEx truck in Santa Ana and the FBI is now investigating alongside local police. Pokémon accounts for 2,978 items on the list and grading fee refunds plus a compensation process are now open for affected owners.
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PokeBeach reports that the Delta Reign store promos split three legendaries across nine retailers for a 15 dollar spend, with Kyogre at four chains including Macy's, Groudon at GameStop and Giratina at Best Buy. The set launches November 6 and prerelease play starts October 24.
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PrizePicks Packs has launched with a CGC Mint 9 Pikachu Illustrator that the company values at 2,806,271 dollars as a possible pull in every Pokémon pack tier from 1 dollar to 2,500 dollars. Here is how the digital rips work and what collectors should check before they chase it.
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Japan officially revealed Aura Seeker today for November 27 at 200 yen a pack. Twenty cards are now public, led by Mega Lucario Z ex, Mega Absol Z ex and Mega Garchomp Z ex in a set built around Z Mega Evolution.
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PokéBeach reports that Pokémon TCG packs return to US McDonald's Happy Meals from November 5 to December 9, 2026: 15 cards to collect, six of them in confetti holofoil, and a choice of a Pokémon toy or a Pokémon Essential Handbook in every meal. It is not officially announced yet, the card list is still secret, and the Charizard artwork going viral this week is fan made.
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A PSA 10 Crystal Lugia from the 2003 Aquapolis set sold for 360,000 dollars at Fanatics Collect and tied the record for the card set earlier this month. It is the third copy above 300,000 dollars in three weeks while the 30th Celebration reprint of the same artwork trades near 170 dollars raw.
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The first C series expansion in Pokémon TCG Pocket arrives October 29 in two packs led by Mega Mewtwo X ex and Mega Greninja ex. It also brings a weekly Special Pack for the first partner Pokémon and a year of Pikachu missions that is already live.
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Forty one mint master sets that sat untouched in a Surrey attic for 15 years sold for £1.56 million at Ewbank’s on October 21, close to six times the top estimate. The leading lot was a Legendary Collection master set that made £100,000 against an estimate of £15,000 to £20,000.
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Best Buy is selling the Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Box at its 49.99 dollar retail price through an invite only event. Invited buyers get a window opening October 22 with 24 hours to buy and a limit of one per customer while the same box trades far higher elsewhere.
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The Pokémon Company says a permanent store will open in London by 2029 as the first of several planned outside Asia. It promises exclusive merchandise and experiences for fans of all ages and no exact location has been shared yet.
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PokeBeach reports that Flowing Fists will be the seventh main English Mega Evolution set and will launch on February 5, 2027 with Mega Lucario Z ex in the lead. Prereleases are reported for late January and the set is based on Aura Seeker in Japan.
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A new UltraBall count found 525 Pokémon card sales of $100,000 or more between January 1 and October 16 for $162,319,302 in total. Nineteen sales passed $1 million and the top of the list belongs to Japanese prize cards that never came from packs.
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Police say two pallets of graded cards worth an estimated $963,000 were stolen from a FedEx truck on October 13 and a third pallet was disrupted. PSA has deactivated the certificates for the stolen items and told marketplace partners to watch for them.
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Since October 13, Yahoo! Auctions and Yahoo! Flea Market in Japan have banned Pokémon card listings sold by the carton, listings for empty boxes and packs, and bulk listings of the same new product. The first product under the bulk rule is the 30th Celebration booster box, with a window running through October 31.
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Two foil packed 60 card decks led by Espeon ex and Umbreon ex arrive October 30 at $19.99 at retail, while early listings for the Umbreon ex deck have already run past three times that price. What is inside, how each deck plays, and how to buy at retail instead.
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Three days after launch in Japan, SNKRDUNK stopped trading all nine 30th Celebration Card Sets and the full nine set bundle after a surge of sets arrived with signs of opening and suspected swapped contents. The packs and promo packs inside can still trade on their own.
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Pokémon took all five spots on the weekly TCG sales board for a combined $3,977,000. A Raincoat Pikachu led at $1,037,000, a complete Legendary Collection lot took second, and three sales tied at $660,000.
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Forty tournament staple cards led by a foil Meowth ex land on October 23 and Best Buy lists the box at 9.99 dollars. It is built for players who want a real deck without hunting singles one by one.
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Japan Gym Promo Card Pack 6 starts November 1 with a brand new Mega Heatran ex and a new Lebanne Supporter. The pack is never sold in stores. Players earn one random card at a time at Gym events and that built in scarcity is the real story.
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Prerelease boxes go on sale October 24 at select stores ahead of the November 6 launch. Mega Rayquaza ex returns for the first time since 2015 and a brand new paired Stadium mechanic changes how the set plays.
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Gem Pack Vol 7 lands in China on November 6 with a brand new Misty's Psyduck illustration card that is exclusive to the Simplified Chinese set. Here is how the set works and why this Psyduck is the chase.
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Italian veteran Alessandro Cremascoli, known as iCaterpie, says a permanent ban ended his 25 year run days before the Nice Regionals. Pokémon has not commented, and the reason rests on his account for now.
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Thirty blind bag decks carry original card art from Base Set Charizard to the Moonbreon. Three gold chase decks are limited to 500 each, and every bag hides which board you pulled until it opens.
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The new series starts at the end of October with packs about every six weeks, dual type cards, immersive cards earned through missions, and rental decks with no play limit.
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Nine Japan only sets launched October 16 with 27 starter promos that cannot be pulled from any pack. What is inside, and why collectors outside Japan should move early.
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The 1997 Gold First Place Trophy Pikachu sits at $2.425 million in pre bidding at Goldin after 31 bids. It is one of just eight copies in the PSA census and it has already passed the Trophy Pikachu record.
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The new Special Deck Set packs ready to play decks for Mega Dragonite ex, Mega Gengar ex, and Mega Feraligatr ex into one box with a playmat, coins, and guides.
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