Sealed Product Keeps Setting Highs, Pikachu Doubles, McDonald's Promos Stir

New all-time highs

Eight products, six of them sealed cases and bundles. Lugia (Aquapolis, Holofoil) topped out at $4500.00. TAG TEAM Tin [Set of 3] hit $2199.95. 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box Case reached $1884.20, Lost Origin Elite Trainer Box Case hit $1863.54, Black Bolt Booster Bundle Display hit $1572.65, White Flare Booster Bundle Display hit $1421.19, Pokemon GO Elite Trainer Box Case hit $1418.29, and Shining Fates Elite Trainer Box Case hit $1393.73. Case and box product keeps outpacing singles for headline highs.

Watching the ceiling

Five cards sitting a hair under their peaks, all off by the same -0.5%. Unified Minds Single Pack Blister [Sudowoodo] at $99.49 against a $99.99 high set 2026-02-02. Sabrina's Gengar (1st Edition Holofoil) at $600.87 versus $603.90 from 2025-03-27. Rocket's Scyther at $85.01 versus $85.44. Judge (Full Art) at $66.73 versus $67.08. Furious Fists Booster Box at $4717.50 versus a $4742.51 high from 2026-05-05. None of these have broken through yet.

7-day gainers

Pikachu (Base Set) ran from $7.45 to $16.01, +114.9%, on a book 3275 listings deep, the one gainer here with real depth behind it. Lunala GX - SM103 jumped $10.39 to $19.99 (+92.4%) on 16 listings. Genesect - BW101 moved $26.52 to $51.01 (+92.3%) with no depth reading. Axew - BW16 went $37.49 to $68.75 (+83.4%) on just 5 listings. Dragonite - 119/181 (Cosmos Holo) climbed $5.37 to $9.54 (+77.7%), depth 329. Venusaur (Secret Wonders) rose $5.74 to $10.17 (+77.2%), depth 209. The thin-book names in this list should be treated as noisy until proven otherwise.

7-day losers

Three of the First Partner Collection 2026 promos lagged together this week: Quaxly - 063 fell $10.00 to $5.56 (-44.4%), Fuecoco - 062 fell $17.00 to $9.76 (-42.6%), and Sprigatito - 061 fell $15.00 to $9.90 (-34.0%), all on shallow books under 35 listings. Rayquaza ex (Delta Species) dropped $490.00 to $273.00 (-44.3%) on 12 listings. Pikachu Star slid $3200.00 to $2077.50 (-35.1%) on only 4 listings, the thinnest book of the bunch. Ampharos V (Full Art), Kieran - 206/167, and Super Energy Removal all lagged the market too, on much deeper books (295, 326, and 1120 listings respectively). A weekly drop is a report, not a forecast.

1-day spikes

Zebstrika - 82/214 (League Challenge) [2nd Place] jumped +65.0% intraday with no depth data, same move that lands it in the weekly gainer list too. Two McDonald's Promos 2018 cards moved in tandem: Magnemite - 8/12 up 47.9% and Eevee - 11/12 up 41.4%, both with no depth reading, worth a second look before assuming demand. M Salamence EX - XY171 added 40.8% on 18 listings. Lucario GX - SM100 added 34.6% with no depth data.

Solo-variant watch

Three moves flagged as solo-variant: only the listed printing moved while its siblings sat still, which usually means a repricing artifact rather than real demand. Pikachu (Reverse Holofoil, Legendary Collection) went $799.99 to $1574.99 (+96.9%) on 37 listings. Staryu - 085/113 (Reverse Holofoil) went $16.22 to $31.50 (+94.2%) on 25 listings. Delinquent - 98a/122 went $15.73 to $29.99 (+90.7%) on 40 listings. File all three under caution, not conviction.

Artist premiums

Hot: Asako Ito commands a 12.15x premium across 35 cards, dwarfing the rest of the board. Keiko Fukuyama sits at 3.25x (20 cards), Susumu Maeya at 2.59x (10 cards), Kazuaki Aihara at 2.12x (12 cards), Yuka Morii at 2.11x across a much wider 195-card sample.

Cold: Milky Isobe and "Big Mama" Tagawa both trade at a 0.26x discount (23 and 16 cards respectively). Takumi Akabane sits at 0.49x (50 cards), Kazuo Yazawa at 0.50x (9 cards), Shin-ichi Yoshikawa at 0.55x (51 cards).

Scoreboard

Monthly mint alerts hit 22% at 7 days (25 of 112, avg +1.7%) and 44% at 30 days (12 of 27, avg +12.0%). Weekly gainer signals hit 22% at 7 days (21 of 96, avg +0.5%) and 43% at 30 days (18 of 42, avg +5.0%). Weekly loser signals hit 48% at 7 days (58 of 122, avg -7.7%) and 52% at 30 days (24 of 46, avg -9.0%). The loser calls keep outperforming the gainer calls on hit rate. Make of that what you will.

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