Pitch Black Marked Down as Legacy Boxes Print Fresh Highs

New All-Time Highs

Eight products closed out fresh peaks. Sealed product dominates the list: 151 Ultra-Premium Collection Case hit $3359.82, Paldea Evolved Booster Box Case hit $2795.92, Destined Rivals Elite Trainer Box Case hit $2246.75. On the singles side, Rayquaza VMAX (Alternate Art Secret) printed $1238.36, 30th Celebration Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box hit $819.00, Mewtwo GX (Secret Shining) reached $751.62, Crimson Invasion Booster Box hit $614.00, and Zekrom ex - 172/086 closed at $577.98.

Near-ATH Watch

Five products are sitting within half a percent of their peak. Furious Fists Booster Box is at $4717.51 against an ath of $4742.51 (-0.5%, set 2026-05-05). Sabrina's Gengar sits at $600.87 versus $603.90 (-0.5%, set 2025-03-27). League Battle Decks [Pikachu & Zekrom GX], Rocket's Hitmonchan, and Luxray - SWSH023 (Prerelease) [Staff] round out the group, all -0.5% off their marks.

7-Day Gainers

Rhydon (H27) went from $101.25 to $199.99, +97.5% on 10 listings. Venusaur ex ran from $264.31 to $501.00, +89.6% on 20 listings. Altaria ex moved $165.00 to $299.99, +81.8% on 5 listings. Manectric - 38/107 (Prerelease) climbed to $55.24 from $32.86, +68.1% on 4 listings. Snivy - 1/114 (Cosmos Holo) rose to $45.40 from $27.97, +62.3%. Luxray GL - 2009 (Stephen Silvestro) added +57.8% to $8.11 on 88 listings, the deepest book of the group. Riolu (Cracked Ice Holo), Nidoqueen - 2005 (Jeremy Maron), and Kyogre - 015/106 also posted double-digit gains.

7-Day Losers

All ten of the week's worst performers come from ME05: Pitch Black. Mega Zeraora ex - 098/084 fell $35.00 to $7.56, -78.4% on 459 listings. Lurantis ex - 096/084 dropped to $2.55 from $8.50, -70.0%. Dhelmise - 091/084 went $21.24 to $7.88, -62.9% on 643 listings, the deepest book on this side of the sheet. Mega Zeraora ex - 114/084 lost $171.34 to $65.53, -61.8%. The rest of the set's chase cards, Thievul - 092/084, Mega Chandelure ex - 099/084, Dark Bell - 106/084, Morpeko ex - 117/084, Goldeen - 087/084, and Mega Darkrai ex - 101/084, all posted losses between -49.8% and -56.7%. This reads like a set-wide repricing after an initial pop, not a slow bleed. Depth across the group runs into the hundreds of listings, so the moves are not thin-book artifacts.

1-Day Spikes

Nidoking (150) jumped $675.00 to $980.00, +45.2% on 19 listings. Archeops added +47.9% to $106.49. Wobbuffet - HGSS04 rose to $10.89, +47.0%. Mega Excadrill ex - 103/084, also from Pitch Black, went the other direction from its set mates: up $5.99 to $8.20, +36.9% on 312 listings.

Solo-Variant Watch

Three reverse holo printings moved while their base siblings sat still, flagged as solo-variant moves and worth treating as repricing noise rather than signal. Zubat reverse holo (Hidden Legends) went $8.26 to $17.33, +109.8% on 27 listings. Numel reverse holo (Ruby and Sapphire) rose to $17.85 from $8.87, +101.2% on 25 listings. Treecko reverse holo (Great Encounters) climbed to $16.99 from $8.60, +97.6% on just 5 listings. Only the flagged printing moved in each case; the rest of the set's variants did not follow.

Artist Premiums

Asako Ito art commands a 9.04x premium across 35 cards, well clear of the field. Keiko Fukuyama sits at 3.50x (20 cards), Susumu Maeya at 2.26x (10 cards), Kazuaki Aihara at 2.11x (12 cards), Yuka Morii at 1.99x across the largest sample, 199 cards. On the cold end, Milky Isobe art trades at 0.24x (23 cards), "Big Mama" Tagawa at 0.28x (17 cards), Kazuo Yazawa at 0.49x (9 cards).

Track Record

Monthly mint alerts hit 22% of the time (5 of 23) over a 7-day horizon, averaging +7.1% on hits. 7-day gainer calls hit 24% (10 of 41), averaging +2.7%. 7-day loser calls hit 41% (18 of 44), averaging -2.8%. The loser calls have the best hit rate on the sheet, which says more about how sets mean-revert than about any particular skill in calling tops.

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Numbers from the TickerMint pipeline. Every call is scored publicly on the scoreboard.