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30th Celebration, a month on: the set gave back 42%, the RGB Mew found a price, and PSA has graded 125 copies

The same 158 cards that cost $1,267.51 for one of each on 25 September cost $731.96 on the latest reads, with the middle tiers down most. The three RGB Mew, unpriced then, now read $3,739 to $6,000 on 8 to 16 listings each. A pack's contents are worth 49% of its $13.37 price, down from 60%.

CardGameInsight Desk · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read

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30th Celebration, nine days in: the friendliest pull rates of the era, and what a pack holds

TCGplayer's 3,000-pack study puts a Special Illustration Rare at 1 in 21 packs and an Illustration Rare at 1 in 5, against 1 in 80 and 1 in 9 for the rest of the era. On the catalog's first read the expected value of a pack is $10.87 against an $18 pack, 60%, where the three other studied sets sit at 7% to 36%.

Market notesMega EvolutionBox EVSep 25, 2026