Korean Magikarp Promo Event Shut Down in Korea 🐟, Ancient Origins Booster Box Sells $6.5k 🗿, PSA 10 Karen’s Umbreon Sells $15k 🐈‍⬛, Meiji Chocolate Promo Complete Set Sells for $5k 🍫

🔵 “Pitch Black” TCG Set and Product Lineup Officially Revealed!

Pitch Black has been officially revealed as the fifth English Mega Evolution set, releasing July 17 with prereleases from July 4-12. The set will include over 115 cards with six Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, and the ETB promo will be a new Zarude Illustration Rare. Like recent English sets, Pitch Black will be a near 1:1 adaptation of Japan's Abyss Eye, making it another small set. Preorders on PokemonCenter.com are not yet available.

🔵 Pokémon GO Mega Festa Shut Down in Korea After Promo Card Causes Crowd Surge

A Pokémon GO Mega Festa 2026 event in Seoul was shut down on March 1 after an estimated 3,000-5,000 people swarmed the venue to get a promotional Magikarp card. Scalpers quickly listed the promo online for $159-$210 within hours of the shutdown. Serebii owner Joe Merrick suggested the incident could signal the end of promo card giveaways at live events, comparing it to the 2023 Van Gogh Museum Pikachu promo chaos.

(Source: VICE)

🔵 Maryland Card Show Bans Buying/Selling of Sealed Products

Feel Good Gaming, a Maryland-based Pokémon card show, announced a ban on all buying and selling of sealed products currently available at retail, allowing only retired sealed products. The show will also ban gambling-style games (spin the wheel, dice rolls) and mystery packs/boxes, while requiring fan art cards to be clearly labeled. The organizers say the goal is to create an environment focused on the hobby rather than one that feeds the scalping market.

🔵 Ancient Origins Booster Box Sells for $6.5k

Sealed Type - Year: Booster Box (36 packs)
Contents: 36 booster packs, 10 cards per pack
Sales History: Individual boxes have consistently sold in the $7.7k-$8.2k range (Aug 2025 to Feb 2026). This $6.5k sale lands well below that floor, roughly 16% under recent comps.

🔵 Lot of 4 DP Stormfront Blister Packs Sells for $4k

Stormfront was the seventh and final expansion of the Diamond & Pearl series, released in November 2008. The set is notable for its "retro" cards featuring updated artwork of Base Set and classics, like Charizard (#103/100).

Sealed Type - Year: Booster Pack - 2008
Contents: 10 cards per pack
Sales History: A complete art set of 4 blisters sold for $1.2k ($300/pack) in May 2024. A single blister just sold for $1.25k in May 2026. At $4k ($1k/pack), this lot represents a ~233% increase over the May 2024 set, though it sits below the latest single-pack comp.

🔵 CGC Pristine 10 Team Rocket Returns Magikarp Sells for $4.65k

Reverse holos from this era feature a unique holofoil with smaller versions of various energy symbols and a set stamp.

Singles Type - Condition: Graded - CGC Pristine 10
Set Name - Year: EX Team Rocket Returns
Sales History: CGC Pristine 10 copies have jumped dramatically, from $900 (Feb 2025) to $1.5k (Oct 2025) to $6.75k at auction (Mar 2026). With only 4 CGC Pristine 10s out of 129 total graded, this $4.65k sale actually lands below the most recent auction comp.

🔵 PSA 10 Karen’s Umbreon Sells for $15k

Karen's Umbreon (091/141) is a holo rare from the Japanese VS set, released in 2001 by Media Factory. The set was exclusive to Japan and sold in themed booster boxes containing 10 packs of 30 cards each, with boxes organized by type pairings and featuring specific Gym Leaders.

Singles Type - Condition: Graded - PSA 10
Set Name - Year: 2001 - Water/Fire Deck
Sales History: PSA 10 copies sold in the $3.3k-$3.8k range through mid-2025. By late March 2026, prices exploded to $15.9k-$19.8k. This $15k sale is in line with the current cluster of $15.9k-$17.8k comps, roughly a ~300% jump from a year ago.

🔵 PSA 8 WB Creator Pack Sells for $20.1k

This sealed pack is from the 2004 Kids' WB! Poké Card Creator Contest, where children aged 5-15 submitted artwork that was turned into real cards. Only 5,250 packs were produced, containing five non-tournament-legal cards (Treecko, Wurmple, Torchic, Mudkip, Pikachu) with the winning kid-drawn illustrations.

Origin Source - Year: Kids' WB! Poké Card Creator Contest - 2004
Sales History: A PSA 9 sealed pack sold for $2.8k in Dec 2024. This PSA 8 at $20.1k represents a massive jump, though the grade disparity makes a direct comparison tricky. For context, a single PSA 10 Pikachu from the set sold for $50k (Oct 2025).

🔵 Meiji Chocolate Promo Complete Set Sells for $5k

These Japanese promo cards were distributed one per box inside Meiji chocolate packaging in 2004, each in a transparent cellophane sleeve with an opaque silver strip. Two series were released that year: a 12-card ADV-P set in February featuring Ken Sugimori stock art, and a 12-card PCG-P set in June with mixed artists.

Origin Source - Year: Meiji Chocolate Promotion (Japan) - 2004
Sales History: Complete set sales are rare but for reference, the squirtle from this set recently sold for $3k in a PSA 10.