Lot of 57 PSA 10 Chinese Umbreon Sells $39.9k 🐈‍⬛, Burning Shadows 144 Booster Pack Case Sells $4k 🔥, English Exclusive WB Poke Card Creator Pack Sells $3.4k 💎, PSA 10 Celebrations Gold Metal Charizard Sales Jump To $5.5k 📈

📋 TLDR

The Pokémon market held strong again this week across “modern vintage” sealed and in particular graded singles in the Chinese market. A $4k Burning Shadows case and a $5.4k Fusion Strike case highlight continued appetite for sealed (and in some cases previously unpopular) Sun & Moon and Sword & Shield era products, while the $8.9k Phantom Forces sale points to ongoing strength for rare XY sets. Graded card activity was led by a $39.9k lot of Chinese Umbreon 151s, a $9k PSA 10 Neo Revelation Raikou, and growing attention on more Celebrations singles like Gold Metal Charizard. Meanwhile, niche and vintage sales like a $12k Illusion’s Zoroark design contest card and a rare $11k PSA 9 Topps Lugia, show investors still have conviction in high-end oddities.

📦 Sealed Product Market Highlights

🔵 Sun & Moon Burning Shadows 144 sleeved booster pack case sells for $4k

Listing – $4k offer accepted from $4.2k

Burning Shadows was released in 2017 and primarily features several rainbow and trainer cards as the top chases including Charizard GX 150 with a PSA 10 price around $4k, Darkrai GX 158, Acerola 142, and Wicke 147. The price paid for this case wasn’t a significant premium over purchasing the individual packs.

Relative to other Sun & Moon sets, Burning Shadows wasn’t universally beloved as rainbow cards have generally trailed behind alt art cards in collector preference (and were removed starting in Scarlet & Violet). In my view, Burning Shadows’ value is partially propped up by the rainbow Charizard’s conditional scarcity (print quality/lines that plagued this set in particular naturally leading to less PSA 10s) makes it an outlier versus the rest of the checklist, creating a box-price vs. chase-price disconnect that isn’t typical for SM era sets.

🔵 Fusion Strike booster box case sells for $5.4k

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Top chases in this set include the Gengar VMAX 271, Espeon VMAX 270, Mew VMAX 269. Fusion strike has seen a consistent rise over the past couple months. The sale of this case which includes 6 booster boxes puts each box close to $900. But individual booster box sales in the past week are hovering around $875. Two months ago in June booster boxes were selling in the 6-$700 range.

At its current price point Fusion strike is still a solid buy for higher end sealed products that have solid chases especially looking at the aforementioned SM era sets. Suffice to say that when it comes to Pokemon TCG products, everything is going up. But at the same time, Fusion Strike still has all the right attributes to help it rise to the level of Evolving Skies albeit at a slower pace.

🔵 XY Phantom Forces booster box sells for $8.9k

Listing – Best offer accepted from $12.87k

⛔⬆️ I was informed by a very helpful reader that the above sale did not actually go through and was able to confirm it after further investigation so I'm leaving it up but wanted to flag it as an invalid sale! However the other sales linked in this section which are significantly higher, were confirmed sales. I will do due my additional due diligence for future reports 🙂.

XY Phantom Forces (released November 2014) is known well for Mega Evolutions (M Gengar-EX, M Manectric-EX), the return of VS Seeker, and, most famously, the “silver” Full Art Dialga-EX secret rare (#122/119) and the AZ trainer card going for around $1k in a PSA 10. Top chases most collectors track are Dialga-EX 122/119 (often cited as the set’s most coveted pull), Gengar-EX Full Art 114/119, and M Gengar-EX 121/119.

Based on available price data, this box in particular seems very hard to find. There were some sales in the past couple months that went as high as $10.6k in June and a $12.7k sale in July. So this most recent sale might be a very very light indication of stabilization, or a lucky sale that went under the radar due to the scarcity as a whole.

💎 Singles & Graded Cards Highlights

🔵 Lot of 57 PSA 10 Umbreon from the Chinese 151 set sells for $39.9k

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It’s no secret that the Chinese Pokemon card market has been on a tear recently. Especially with the most recent release of the Collect 151: Surprise set which featured a new Pikachu “promo” card with Gengar prominently featured as well. This card saw PSA and CGC 10/Pristine 10 sales in the range of $4k - $5k (before settling down a bit in the $2.5k to $3.5k).

Collect 151: Gem Vol. 2 is a Simplified Chinese–exclusive “Gem Pack” release (sub series of Collect 151) that launched May 16, 2025 and is an Eeveelutions showcasing exclusive new art for Eevee, Sylveon, Umbreon, and Leafeon.

This sale highlights the ever increasing demand for Chinese exclusive Pokemon cards especially for those that feature popular Pokemon (for which cards featuring the Eeveelutions have performed very well historically) and some degree of foresight into potential future performance. Recent sold listings in a PSA 10 have this card at around $650-$750 and slowly leading into the $700-$800 range (this sale puts each slab at about $700 which is mostly inline if not a slightly better deal which for the quantity may be warranted). But ultimately what’s the vision for the owner of this new set? Hold for the foreseeable future as the Chinese card market continues to grow? Or sell one by one in the short term to take profit and re-invest in something else.

🔵 PSA 10 1st Edition Neo Revelation Raikou sells for $9k

Listing – best offer accepted from a list price of $11k

Neo Revelation’s 1st Edition Raikou Holo (#13) sits in that sweet spot of WotC nostalgia and real scarcity: PSA shows just 36 copies in Gem Mint 10 (with no higher grade), which helps explain why clean 10s don’t surface often. Neo-era holos are also notoriously condition-sensitive because of print lines and centering (which plagues modern cards as well) make true PSA 10s tough. Sales like these are just a continual sign that the market for high-end vintage cards is still going very strong especially for English cards. For comparison the Japanese equivalent frequently goes for under $300.

Japanese vintage is a great entrypoint for any collectors wanting to add classic cards to their collection which in some cases can end up being solid investments if the conditions are right.

🔵 PSA 10 Gold Metal Charizard from Celebrations sells for $5.5k

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The 2021 Celebrations Ultra-Premium Collection (UPC) is the product that introduced the two commemorative gold metal cards, Base Set Charizard and Pikachu. This card has jumped significantly in price in the past couple months where sales were clustered around $3.5k to $4k.

This tracks with the general trend of Celebrations sealed and singles products absolutely exploding over the past couple months added on with reprints of the base set Charizard being incredibly popular across many sets.The Pikachu Gold Metal card is currently sitting around $2.5k - $3.2k.

🕰️ Vintage & Niche Market Highlights

🔵 WB Poke Card Creator Pack sells for $3.4k

Listing – $3.4k offer accepted from $4k list price

For anyone who may not be familiar: In early 2004, Kids’ WB ran the Poké Card Creator Contest for kids (ages 5–15). Pokémon USA turned the five winning drawings into real cards and put them together in a special 5-card foil pack distributed in July 2004. Only 5,250 packs were awarded (50 to each of 5 grand-prize winners; 5,000 to first-prize winners). The cards were English-only and not tournament-legal.

The five cards are: Treecko (1/5), Wurmple (2/5), Torchic (3/5), Mudkip (4/5), Pikachu (5/5). In particular the Pikachu, Treeko, and Mudkip cards in a PSA 10 are completely limited in pop and therefore the price data is extremely limited. On average the pikachu sells for around $1k. Even if purchasing raw, given the scarcity and language exclusivity, this might be a solid entry for anyone interested in adding limited edition collector pieces as these could still have room to move up especially for the Pikachu.

🔵 PSA 10 CoroCoro Design Contest Winner Illusion’s Zoroark sells for $12k

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In 2010, Shogakukan (one of the largest media publishers in Japan) ran a Pokemon Card Design Contest tied to the movie Ruler of Illusions: Zoroark. Ten winning illustrations (across magazines like CoroCoro Comic and CoroCoro Ichiban!) were printed as unnumbered L-P promos with a gold “Pokémon Card Game Design Contest Award” stamp with each winner receiving 200 copies.

This card doesn’t come up often (only 43 in a PSA 10), and prices can vary when it does. Recent PSA-10 results include a $14.9k fixed-price sale on June 23, 2025 and a $9.6k auction (with buyer’s premium) on July 27, 2025, about a 36% difference month to month. Because of the scarcity, comparable sales are sparse. Current PSA 10 asking prices range from mid-four to low-five figures. Although these particular Japanese exclusives are somewhat niche, the market for high end and limited niche cards is also holding very strong with significant upside and a growing fanbase for these types of cards.

🔵 Rare PSA 9 Topps Pokemon the Movie 2000 “First Appearance” Lugia sells for $11k

Listing – The $13.75k sold amount includes a 25% buyer’s premium collected by the auction house

This is the Topps Pokémon the Movie 2000 “First Appearance” foil insert. Specifically Lugia #1 from a six-card chase subset produced by Toppt. This piece is particularly unique and sought after by collectors because it’s Lugia’s first on-card appearance (often treated as a “rookie” style piece) and because high grades are notoriously hard: the holo stock shows every tiny scratch and cards were known to stick together in packs. This may or may not be one reason why this card does not exist in a PSA 10 and there are only 3 known copies in a PSA 9. In fact none of the cards in this sub set exist in PSA 10 and have a total population of 17 in a PSA 9.

Raw copies of this card regularly sell for around $2k although the price data isn’t exactly stable. The other known PSA 9 copy of this card is currently listed at $18k.

😴 Potential Sleepers

Lance’s Pokémon (VS, 2001) sits in a sweet vintage pocket: it’s part of the Japan-only Pokémon VS expansion (first released July 19, 2001), the first Japanese set to use a formal numbering system and 1st-edition prints, and it showcases the Johto Elite Four with Owner’s Pokémon like Lance’s Charizard (97/141), Gyarados (98), Aerodactyl (99), and Dragonite (100). The set is known for its updated, VS-era card frame and for introducing Technical Machines and the Burned condition, and it never had an English equivalent which is of course an important context for long-term scarcity and popularity.

Why it’s still compelling: Even if headline cards (Charizard/Dragonite) have already moved significantly in the past few months (I’ve been watching the Charizard sincet around $600 in a PSA 10), they are still at a solid albeit high price point to get in. VS is Japanese exclusive and effectively 1st edition only (or maybe rather equivalent to modern Japanese exclusive promos), with low supply and strong cross-collectability (Lance fans, Charizard/Gyarados/Dragonite/etc collectors).

Recent Charizard sales are closer to $1k (with some outliers). Lance’s Dragonite and Gyarados are closer to $600. Picking these up as a raw set is also a great and worthwhile way to add these to the collection. In my opinion Lance’s Ampharos is a very unique card that will be a great long term hold.

📚 Educational Commentary – Collector’s Corner

Do newer PSA cert numbers actually matter for value, or is a 10 still a 10?

There’s a real (but mostly marginal) buyer bias toward newer PSA certs, especially post-2017 “Lighthouse” labels with added anti-counterfeit features, based on the perception that grading has tightened and the holders are more secure; forum polls and market chat often quote only a small premium for new certs when everything else is equal. That said, PSA’s own grade definitions don’t change by cert number. You can also reholder an older slab into the current case without regrading if the goal is just the newer label (still at the risk of potentially lowering the grade per PSA’s discretion). In practice, eye appeal and card specifics dominate, so while some buyers will pay a little more for a fresh cert, a 10 is still a 10, and there’s always a willing market for a clean PSA 10 regardless of when it was slabbed.

🫐 Berries For Thought

💭 After a big multi-slab purchase (like the 57-card Umbreon lot), would you sell singles quicker in the short term or hold for a slower, higher target?

💭 Do you prefer buying graded copies or purchasing a raw and grading yourself for the fun (and risk) of it?

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