2026-07-30← ALL PULSE

TickerMint Daily Brief: Umbreon VMAX Sets New Ceiling While Pitch Black Promos Slide

Eight new all-time highs headline a week where a handful of League & Championship promos and a batch of ME05 Pitch Black cards did the heavy lifting in opposite directions.

KEY POINTS

›Top 7d gainer: Slowbro - 083 (Pitch Black Stamped) +115.0% to $38.27
›Top 7d loser: Suicune (H25) -50.0% to $225.00
›New all-time high: Umbreon VMAX (Alternate Art Secret) at $2416.28
›5 cards near all-time highs
›Hottest artist: Asako Ito at 9.60x premium

New All-Time Highs

Umbreon VMAX (Alternate Art Secret) (SWSH07: Evolving Skies) printed a fresh ATH of $2416.28. Temporal Forces Booster Box Case hit $2216.81. Rayquaza VMAX (Alternate Art Secret) reached $1249.92. Evolving Skies Elite Trainer Box [Set of 2] hit $1030.04. 151 Binder Collection Case touched $895.01. XY BREAKpoint Elite Trainer Box reached $829.89. Charizard (Delta Species) hit $752.60. Mythical Pokemon Collection Box [Mew] closed at $635.17.

Sitting on the Ledge

Five names are sitting just under their own record without breaking through yet: Sabrina's Gengar at $600.87 against an ATH of $603.90. Furious Fists Booster Box at $4717.50 against an ATH of $4742.51. Serena - 164/195 (Regional Championships) [Staff] at $74.99 against an ATH of $75.40. Team Aqua's Sharpedo - 5/95 at $61.99 against an ATH of $62.33. Leafeon VMAX - 008/203 at $112.65 against an ATH of $113.27.

Gainers, 7 Day

Top of the board: Slowbro - 083 (Pitch Black Stamped) up +115.0% ($17.80 to $38.27) on a book of 9 listings. Mew (EX Holon Phantoms) up +96.1% ($171.09 to $335.54) on 32 listings, the deepest book in the top ten. Combusken - 13/111 (Arena Cup Championships) up +76.1% on just 8 listings. Pikachu (Baby) up +68.6% ($56.34 to $95.00) backed by 484 listings, real depth behind that move. Jirachi EX (98 Full Art) up +68.4% on 19 listings. Giratina EX (124 Full Art) up +67.6% on 8 listings. Alakazam Star up +66.7% ($900.00 to $1500.00) on 9 listings. Eevee - 84/108 (City Championships) [Staff] up +61.5% on a thin 4 listings. Boss's Orders - 132/172 (Regional Championships) [Staff] up +57.5% with no depth figure reported. Ampharos V (Full Art) up +52.1% on 208 listings.

Losers, 7 Day

Suicune (H25) (Aquapolis) lagged the market, down -50.0% ($449.99 to $225.00) on 39 listings. Snover - 101/123 down -49.1% on 12 listings. The rest of the bottom of the sheet is dominated by ME05: Pitch Black promos with deep books, not thin ones: Fomantis - 085/084 down -34.5% on 849 listings, Dhelmise - 091/084 down -31.5% on 807 listings, Rampardos ex - 100/084 down -27.8% on 441 listings, Goldeen - 087/084 down -27.0% on 767 listings. Mega Evolution Promo siblings Scorbunny - 053 (-33.8%, 373 listings) and Tepig - 050 (-27.6%, 347 listings) round out the cluster. Genesect - BW101 fell -32.6% with no depth reported. These are reports of what happened this week, not forecasts of where the print run goes next.

1 Day Spikes

Electivire - 20/102 (Prerelease) [Staff] jumped +36.8% on 11 listings. Articuno - 27/99 (Next Destinies) jumped +28.0% with no depth figure attached. Gym Heroes Booster Pack [1st Edition] jumped +26.9%, also without a depth number. Jirachi EX and Boss's Orders [Staff] repeat from the weekly gainers list above, same moves, same caveats.

Solo Watch: Repricing, Not Rally

Three cards are flagged as solo-variant moves, meaning only that specific printing moved while its sibling variants held still. Treat these as repricing artifacts, not market conviction: Parasect (Reverse Holofoil, EX FireRed & LeafGreen) up +137.0% on 5 listings, Phanpy (Reverse Holofoil, HeartGold SoulSilver) up +131.2% on 31 listings, Pidgeotto (Reverse Holofoil, Triumphant) up +95.5% on 12 listings.

Artist Premiums

Hot: Asako Ito commands a 9.60x premium across 35 cards. Keiko Fukuyama sits at 3.35x across 20 cards. Susumu Maeya at 2.88x across 10 cards. Kazuaki Aihara at 2.20x across 12 cards. Yuka Morii at 2.07x, the broadest sample at 195 cards.

Cold: "Big Mama" Tagawa trades at 0.26x across 17 cards. Milky Isobe at 0.28x across 23 cards. Kazuo Yazawa at 0.51x across 9 cards. Takumi Akabane at 0.54x across 50 cards. ConceptLab at 0.57x across 20 cards.

Track Record

Monthly mint alerts hit 25% of the time over 7 days (14 of 56), averaging +1.8%. Weekly gainer signals hit 24% (17 of 70), averaging +1.1%. Weekly loser signals hit 49% (38 of 78), averaging -10.6%, the sharpest edge on the sheet this cycle.

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

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