August 25th - August 31st, 2025
Black Label Scream Munch Psyduck Sells $52.8k 🦆, Paldea Evolved PC ETB Crosses $500 Mark 📈, Blank W Stamp Filler Card Sells $1.8k 😶🌫️, Sealed Pokemon Rumble Box Sells $3.1k 🃏
Note: sold listing links sometimes redirect to active listings after some time but should still be discoverable by searching for the listings manually.
📋 TLDR
The week was active across sealed special sets, Japanese exclusive graded promos, and niche oddities. Paldea Evolved’s Pokémon Center ETB crossed $500 ($517.95) while the PC-stamped Pikachu #27 promo has climbed to about $1.2k since June. A 100-bundle lot of Prismatic Evolutions sold for $6.34k ($63 per bundle), and a scarce Platinum Arceus booster box traded at $14k. Singles were led by a BGS 10 Black Label Scream Psyduck at a whopping $52.8k, with Team Japan’s Pikachu at $2.16k, the Burned Tower promo at $2.9k, and an 18-card Detective Pikachu Returns promo lot at $2.7k ($150 per card). Vintage and niche saw a sealed Pokémon Rumble box at $3.1k, a blank W stamp Wizards filler card at $1.8k, and a 12-pack Topsun lot at $6.4k (~$533 per pack). Potential sleeper: Scizor #205 (Obsidian Flames) shows a low ~16% gem rate and PSA 10s rebounding toward ~$200.
📦 Sealed Product Market Highlights
🔵 Lot of 100 Prismatic Evolutions booster bundles sells for $6.34k
Prismatic Evolutions like S&V 151 is unique in how it's considered a special set and does not have a dedicated booster box. Instead, this set is primarily sold in the form of booster bundles and ETBs among others. Prismatic is a controversial set and somewhat disliked by enthusiasts mainly for its (seemingly) worse than typical pull rate. The main chases of Prismatic are the Eeveelutions which are also contained (in a full set) in rare “God” packs.
The booster bundle product in particular has seen a very slight correction since March 2025 where it hovered around $80 and its down to about $60 for the past month or so with some sales as low as $50. This sale puts the per booster box price at around $63.40. This is not a crazy price jump or anything but I'm questioning if sales like this are a long term vote of confidence for the set as a whole, or simply buying sealed products because all sealed products inevitably go up in the long term. The top chase card of the set, Umbreon ex 161 is only recently starting to move back up to $3k over the last month so time will tell.
🔵 Platinum Arceus booster box sells for $14k
Listing - best offer accepted from $27.99k listing price
Platinum Arceus is the final set from the Platinum era (2009) and the top chase value wise is the Gengar LV. X #97 (with a pop of 46 in a PSA 10 and a recent June 2025 sale price at $9.1k). Other chase cards (and quite unique for the Pokemon they feature) include the Shinx and Ponyta Reverse Foils and the Cracked Ice Charizard. This set also featured a very exclusive Staff Prerelease Raichu card only given out to organizers at prerelease tournaments for the Arceus expansion. I couldn’t find any recent sales but it has a PSA 10 pop of 7 and two are currently listed online for $26.16k and $14.99k.
As with these older “modern vintage” sets, price data is extremely scarce. In fact, it was scarce enough that I could only find the most recent sales from 2022 when the box was around $5k (what a time). However, this is one of those cases where the few data points that do exist are so significant they act as market anchors for the entire set. A single $9.1k sale for the Gengar LV. X and five figure asking prices for the Staff Raichu (keep in mind that these asking prices are usually super inflated) create a powerful perception of value. This signals to high-end collectors that despite the lack of frequent sales, the set contains true grail cards, and the extreme rarity confirmed by population reports justifies a significant market premium (at least imo).
🔵 Paldea Evolved Pokemon Center ETB sells for $517.95
Paldea Evolved is another underrated set that has also finally started to climb in value. The top chase card of this set by far is the popular Magikarp 203 illustrated by Shinji Kanda who is responsible for many iconic cards. While there are other desirable underrated Illustration Rares, the value of this set has mostly been anchored on Magikarp for quite some time. However several of the other IRs have started to take off which I feel are important to highlight. These include Iono 269, Tyranitar 222, Raichu 211, and Maushold 226 just to name a few (and all ranging around $100-$400 in a PSA 10).
The Pokemon Center ETB promo for this set Pikachu 27 has seen an almost $500 increase from June to a price point of around $1.2k. Overall, this set is still very underrated for the cheap underrated IRs and the Pokemon Center ETB sealed products which contain the PC stamped Pikachu promos. Have you considered picking up anything from this set?
💎 Singles & Graded Cards Highlights
🔵 Lot of 18 Detective Pikachu promo cards sells for $2.7k
This promo was released in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan as a promotional item for those who purchased an early copy of the Detective Pikachu Returns game at the end of 2023. This promo card was a sleeper at about $130 (in a PSA 10) until June and beyond when it saw a steep rise to its current price around $270-$280. The raw price saw a similar steep rise in the same timeframe from around $70 to now around $170.
This sales puts the per card price at around $150 per card which is a very slight bargain against the current sealed raw prices. Although this promo is still a really solid pick up raw or PSA 10, I would argue that the limited sealed packaging which contains the game and other promotional items along with this will be an even better long term hold (than the raw card) from its current price at around $200.
🔵 PSA 10 Burned Tower Holo sells for $2.9k
The Burned Tower holo card is a promotional card from the 2010 Japanese Reviving Legends Prize. It features pretty unique artwork in the form of the Burned Tower location from the Johto games as its subject along with the Legendary Dog Trio and it was a prize for tournament participants in the Japanese market. I would generally consider these types of cards to be more niche but I wanted to highlight it anyway because I think these more niche tournament winner cards will continue to get more popular whether they’re modern or vintage. There are only 102 of this card in a PSA 10 but there was one recent sale at $2.27k in July so this is a pretty decent jump but with low pop cards it's hard to call it a trend.
🔵 PSA 10 Team Japan’s Pikachu sells for $2.16k
Team Japan’s Pikachu is the Japanese XY-P promo #050 from summer 2014, created for the Adidas “enjin” collaboration supporting Japan’s national soccer team and distributed with the Pokémon New Mon! Summer 2014 book. It’s a non-holo Lightning-type card with a unique “adidas enjin project” illustrator credit and no English release, which gives it strong crossover appeal (Pikachu × football × Adidas). This card is also very unique in my opinion in that it features Pikachu (obviously a very popular Pokemon) in branded clothing or features prominent brand logos in general within the art itself which I feel is very very rare.
This card is jumping by the hundreds every couple weeks. There was one sale at $1.275k in June and another for $1.975k in early August. At this rate I would consider the $2.16k sale to be a bit of an outlier and look for an opportunity to pick one up in the sub $2k range (assuming we will actually see a correction).
🔵 Black Label BGS 10 Scream Psyduck sells for $52.8k
Note: I’m not exactly sure how sales are verified on Fanatics Collect unless the listing showing Sold is an indication that the card was paid for.
Listing - the $66k sale price includes a 20% buyer’s premium
I really wanted to highlight this sale and not only because of the high price tag. The Scream Munch promos are popular for obvious reasons and again for obvious reasons have recently exploded in price with recent sales of the Mimikyu from this set crossing the $10k in the past month. Black labels carry an exponentially significant premium because the four sub grades are graded much more harshly than PSA or CGC standards (although no grading is ever perfect and highly susceptible to human error).
Psyduck in particular is very interesting because it ranks 3rd in this set in terms of value after Mimikyu and Pikachu and is currently hovering around $4k in a PSA 10 from the past couple weeks of sales. Now there are only 3 of these Psyduck in a black label and the low population is typically the case for black labels. But despite it ranking 3rd in value around $4k it still fetched such a significant premium.
Assuming this listing is verified as sold (that the buyer actually paid for it), was this just an insane outlier sale? Or perhaps justified by the very low population? The Pikachu Munch card (which has a PSA 10 average of $7k) has a population of 26 black labels and has sold $17.5k, $19.5k, and $22.5k over the past 3 months. This is closer to the kind of premium I would expect between a PSA 10 and a black label. The Mimikyu Munch, which is by far the most desirable, has a black label population of 1. What kind of premium could that command?
🕰️ Vintage & Niche Market Highlights
🔵 Sealed Pokemon Rumble box sells for $3.1k
Pokémon TCG: Rumble is a 2009 special boxed set released alongside the WiiWare game “Pokémon Rumble.” A sealed box comes with the full 16-card mini-set (English release Dec 2, 2009) featuring the distinctive Rumble logo, plus a fold-out Battle Royale playmat, four Energy dice, a Target die, damage counters, and player markers; the product description also notes “3 all-foil cards” among the 16 exclusives.
Among the Rumble cards, Mew, Pikachu, and Lucario are the most valuable at around $265, $235, and $190 respectively (raw prices). This is a super unique collectible that contains the complete set of Rumble promo cards in English which makes it highly collectible. The price jump is pretty staggering with one of the sales from the beginning of the year at $893 up until now with multiple confirmed sales at $3k.
The Japanese version of this set known as Scramble, included three additional secret promo cards (Pachirisu, Croagunk, and Eevee), which were not part of the English set or the original board game box. To further highlight just how exclusive these cards were, these cards (in the form of a 3 card pack) were only awarded as a lottery for Pokemon Daisuki Club members during a limited promotional period. After completing the game players would receive a message with 20 lines of numbers that could be entered for a lottery drawing limited to 100 winners. For reference, one copy of the Eevee card in a PSA 10 is currently listed for $150k.
🔵 Blank W Stamp Filler card sells for $1.8k
Listing - Best offer accepted from $2.5k listing price
This is a Wizards-era filler card which is essentially a blank front with the classic yellow Pokémon border that, unusually, carries the gold foil “W” logo Wizards of the Coast used on its late-1999–2001 magazine/retailer promos (such as the Jungle Pikachu featured in the Duelist Magazine from Sept 1999). Filler cards were never meant for release; they occupy sheet positions and are typically discarded, though a small number have escaped into the hobby over the years. The W-stamped variant is considered an employee-sourced oddity.
There is currently one other listing for this card graded as a CGC 7.5 for $5k but otherwise very limited price data. Blank filler cards similar to this and sell all the time for several hundreds of dollars but this one seems to be particularly rare.
🔵 Lot of 12 Topsun packs sells for $6.4k
Topsun Pokémon packs are the small paper gum packs released in Japan in 1997 by Top-Seika: each pack contains two cards from a 150-card checklist and a piece of apple-flavored gum. Despite the “1995” line printed on many cards, multiple references place the actual release in 1997; early prints are the blue-back cards (including the famous no-number variants), followed by green-backs, with extremely scarce prism/“cracked ice” foils inserted at very low rates (variously reported around one per box or even rarer depending on print run).
A $6.4k result for a lot of 12 sealed Topsun packs implies roughly $533 per pack, quite a bit cheaper compared to current single-pack asks (commonly a few hundred dollars up to ~$700, depending on pack art and seller).
😴 Potential Sleepers
Obsidian Flames - Scizor #205
I think the community generally agrees that Obsidian Flames as a set was overlooked for the longest time. Not necessarily underwhelming but not super sought after either because it didn’t have any particularly desirable chase cards other than Charizard ex #223. In the past couple of months, Obsidian Flames has been making a significant comeback and I wanted to highlight Scizor 205 as a very underrated Illustration Rare that I think will start to make a comeback. Let’s get into the numbers.
This card boasts a particularly low PSA 10 gem rate with a 10 population of 1161 and a total population of 7166 resulting in a ~16.2% rate. This seems to be a common theme with other Illustration Rares in this set that were generally harder to grade in a 10. In terms of the market as of late, we’ve actually seen a correction in price (which may hold true for other IRs as well) where PSA 10 prices where around $220 in March and have come down to their lowest in July at $145 before slowly climbing back up where they currently sit at around a $200 average.
Scizor has always been a decently popular Pokemon and this card features very cool artwork making it highly collectable for the art as well. There’s no magic here per se that would cause this card to rocket in value but I think it has some upside to move still thanks to these factors.
📚 Educational Commentary – Collector’s Corner
*What do “first edition,” “unlimited,” and “print run” mean?*
“First edition” refers to the earliest wave of cards a publisher releases for a set. In Pokémon’s WotC era, these cards carry a small “1st Edition” stamp on the front and usually came in stamped packs and boxes. Because that first wave is typically smaller and clearly identified, first edition cards often command a premium. “Unlimited” is the standard follow-on release of the same set without the stamp. The cards are functionally the same for gameplay, but collectors differentiate them by the stamp and by relative scarcity. Many newer Pokémon sets no longer use first edition stamps, so the concept is most relevant to older products. It can also be the case with certain types of cards that the “Unlimited” version of a card is actually more scarce due to how it was distributed or simply that the print run was smaller.
“Print run” is simply how many units were produced. Publishers rarely share exact numbers, and printing often happens in waves that respond to demand. A small first wave plus limited reprints can create genuine scarcity, while multiple reprint waves expand supply and usually soften prices over time. For collectors, the takeaway is practical: verify whether a card is stamped first edition or unlimited, remember that condition and desirability still drive most of the value, and keep in mind that unknown or changing print runs are why the same set can feel common in one era and scarce in another.
🫐 Berries For Thought
💭 Now that its been several months since release, how do you feel about Prismatic Evolutions in general?
💭 What do you think of cards that feature brand collabs? Any cards that you think are underrated?
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