About the data.

Raw prices

Every ungraded price is the TCGplayer market price, which is calculated from completed sales rather than active listings. We pull the full catalogue once a day, shortly after it publishes, and the site shows the number from that pull. 28,348 of the 28,640 cards we track carry a price; the rest have never traded often enough to have one.

Prices are for near mint, ungraded copies. Condition is the biggest single factor we do not model: a played copy of the same card trades well below the number shown.

Price history

We hold a daily snapshot back to Feb 8, 2024, which is 966 days of market history. Card charts run a three day median rather than the raw daily figure. On a card that trades a few times a month, the market price snaps to whatever printed that day and snaps straight back, so the raw line reads as a fault rather than as the single odd sale it was.

Prices in your own currency

The headline figure on every card is in dollars, because that is the currency the market price is quoted in. Two more sit beside it where we have them. A pound price covers 49,111 printings across 32,506 cards and is drawn from what copies sold for on eBay UK, not from what shops are asking. A euro price covers 643,193 cards.

Nothing on this site is converted between currencies. A converted price is a guess about an exchange rate wearing the clothes of a measurement, and it goes stale silently. Where we cannot price something in your currency we leave it out rather than work it out.

Sealed product

2,138 sealed products across 246 sets carry the same kind of market price the cards do: booster boxes, Elite Trainer Boxes, tins, blisters, premium collections and cases, each with its own page and price history.

Shop prices and stock

Sealed product is the one thing here you can still walk in and buy, so we track what 540 shops in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and Europe are asking for it and whether they have it. Every one of those shops publishes its own catalogue as a public product feed, which is what we read: the title, the price and the stock flag the shop itself puts out. Nothing is taken from a page that does not offer one.

That comes to 51,133 live listings, 29,742 of them matched to a product we price, from 499 shops that are currently returning stock. 5,244 are in stock right now. The list refreshes hourly, a slice of the shops at a time, so every shop is re-read daily without any of them being hit hard.

A price is only useful if the thing can actually be bought, so an offer the shop will not sell to you does not count as stock anywhere on the site. Some shops sell only to their own membership tiers, some hand out allocation by lottery rather than selling it, and some list a product whose cart is disabled. Those are marked and left out of every stock count, the deals pages and the restock feed, and shown on the product page with the reason rather than hidden.

What opening a sealed product returns

Worth opening simulates 213 products 2,000,000 times each, pack by pack, and compares what comes out against what the sealed product costs. Three inputs go in. The cards in each set, their rarities and what each finish sells for are our own price data. How many packs a product holds is taken from the descriptions the shops themselves publish, which is why an Elite Trainer Box is 9 packs here, a Pokemon Center one is 11 and Crown Zenith's was 10.

The odds are the one input we cannot derive. The Pokemon Company publishes no pull rates for English product, so those come from published counts of large numbers of opened packs, per set, dated on the page that uses them. They are checked two ways: against a second independent count, which agrees to within a fifth of a percentage point on every tier, and against our own PSA population data, where the implied grading rate rises with card value in nearly every set as it should. A set with no published rate is left out rather than given a borrowed one, which is why the page covers 17 sets rather than all of them.

Graded prices

Graded numbers come from sales of slabbed copies, matched to the same card by its TCGplayer id. The ladder runs the full PSA scale, 1 through 10, on 32,703 cards, with a monthly price history and the population report where the grader publishes one.

Two sources fill it and the card page says which you are looking at. Most rungs come from a marketplace price history that goes back to late 2020. The rest, 8,267 rungs across 4,226 cards, are ours: a median of what copies actually sold for, with the number of sales printed beside it. Those are rungs nobody else prices at all, mostly the played grades below a 7, and the count is there because a median of six sales and a median of six hundred are different claims.

Both rest on 0 completed sales across 0 cards, recorded by PSA itself and going back to 2017. All but 0 carry a photograph of the exact slab that sold and a link to the listing, so any price here can be checked against the sale behind it.

One thing worth being blunt about, because most sites are not. A grade with no sales at that grade still gets a price, and that price is modelled from the grades that did sell rather than observed. Where that is the case we label it on the card page instead of letting it pass as a sale.

The grading verdict is built on the population report rather than on the top price. Knowing a PSA 10 sells for ten times the ungraded card is close to useless if only one submission in two hundred comes back a 10, so every grade is weighted by how often the card actually lands on it.

What this does not cover

• Korean, Chinese and the European languages. English and Japanese only.
• Any assessment of your own copy. A condition ladder prices near mint through damaged, but it describes the market, not the card in your hand.
• Cards that have never sold often enough to carry a market price.
• Currency conversion. Where a price is not quoted in your currency by someone who trades in it, we do not have it.
• Opening simulations outside Scarlet & Violet. Earlier sets file several kinds of card under one rarity while their odds are published separately for each, and spreading one probability across that mixture would raise the answer rather than widen it.
• What a product ships beside its packs. The opening figures count pack contents only, so anything sold for its guaranteed promo card reads low.

Corrections

If a price here looks wrong, it is usually one of two things: the card has several printings and the one you are looking at is not the one in your hand, or the card trades rarely enough that a single sale moved the market price. Both are visible on the card page itself, on the printing bars and the history chart.