Price Trends: Pokémon Cards Climbing in Price - 03/03/2026
By Peter Day •
We want you to have the best information available when you price cards on the TCGplayer Marketplace. So to help you get the most from your inventory, we’ve put together a downloadable CSV report of Pokémon cards that have dramatically increased in Market Price in the past 30 days.
(Note: This report only considers Near Mint copies of cards with at least ten sales between January 29 and February 27, 2026.)
Here are ten highlights from that report. First, we have the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price of $25 or less.
Top 5 Price Increases—PKMN Cards $25 or Less
#5 Unfair Stamp
- Set: Twilight Masquerade
- Increase: +$8.84
- Current Market Price: $10.04
With Iono set to rotate out of Pokémon’s Standard format on April 11, players are about to lose their primary tool for disrupting opponents’ hands. Japanese players, who are already living in a post-rotation world, have adapted to the change by running Unfair Stamp as their ACE SPEC of choice, with six of the Top 8 decks at Champions League Fukuoka on February 21 choosing Stamp over the alternatives. U.S. players are taking the hint and grabbing their copies now.
Unfair Stamp has only been printed once, so it’s especially vulnerable to this surge in demand. After rotation, it could reach as high as Fezandipiti ex’s peak of $20 if it isn’t reprinted.
- Set: Expedition
- Increase: +$9.55
- Current Market Price: $29.40
The rise of this Common-rarity e-Card appears to have been the delayed result of a buyout back in September 2025. On September 11, this card saw more sales in a day than it typically sees in a month. Its Market Price didn’t react immediately, but that buyout accelerated the processes of this 24-year-old card selling out. At time of writing, there are only two Near Mint listings of this card left, both of which are listed for more than Market Price.
- Set: Deck Exclusives
- Increase: +$10.25
- Current Market Price: $30.50
This promo card from the Base Set 2-Player Starter Set has a similar story. On October 10, 2025, somebody bought 47 copies of Machamp in a single day, possibly betting that sales of the card would increase during Pokémon’s 30th anniversary year as Millennials became nostalgic for keepsakes from the old days.
So far, sales have actually been lower than they were this time last year, but with fewer listings on the marketplace, the card has spiked anyway.
- Set: Sword & Shield Promo Cards
- Increase: +$10.63
- Current Market Price: $28.70
This promo from the Celebrations Elite Trainer Box spiked to $30 back on June 28, 2025, during a stretch of days when the average number of copies per buyer never fell below 3.0. It quickly fell back down, and has fluctuated between $12 and $23 ever since.
It’s back up again, most likely due to interest in older anniversary sets in the wake of Pokémon’s 30th anniversary on February 27, 2026.
- Set: Lost Thunder
- Increase: +$12.64
- Current Market Price: $34.06
With Iono rotating out, Judge is about to be the best hand-disrupting Supporter card available to players. As the oldest and most expensive of the full-art Judge cards, this Judge from Lost Thunder is the clear choice for players who want to max-rarity their post-rotation decks… which might explain why there was a mini-buyout on the card on December 21, 2025.
Next, these are the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price over $25.
Top 5 Price Increases—PKMN Cards Over $25
- Set: Undaunted
- Increase: +$58.57
- Current Market Price: $352.56
Sales haven’t jumped for this 16-year-old card, the Near Mint listings have just naturally dried up. At time of writing, there’s only one NM listing on the entire marketplace, for $399.95. It’s a seller’s market.
- Set: Scarlet & Violet—151
- Increase: +$84.58
- Current Market Price: $344.62
Similarly, sales of the top chase card from 151 are actually lower this month than they were in previous months. But with reprints of this set well and truly coming to an end, the supply of this Charizard has only gone down, which has forced its price to go up.
#3 Gengar & Mimikyu GX (Alternate Full Art)
- Set: Team Up
- Increase: +$100.43
- Current Market Price: $1,323.56
Last month I guessed that we had finally reached the ceiling for alternate-art Gengar & Mimikyu-GX. That prediction turned out to be dead wrong, and the card continued its nearly two-year stretch of continuous growth, helped along by an unusually strong sales day on February 23. I won’t try to guess what’s going to happen next.
- Set: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards
- Increase: +$104.71
- Current Market Price: $612.04
This infamous promo plummeted from its high of $650 down to $500 in December, amid general concerns among speculators that the Pokémon market was softening. The panic appears to have been relatively short-lived, and Van Gogh Pikachu is rapidly retaking the ground it lost.
- Set: Prismatic Evolutions
- Increase: +$140.88
- Current Market Price: $1,085.28
This month, “Sunbreon” climbed back to three figures for the first time since December. It briefly hit an all-time low of $800 on December 31, so this recent spike represents a modest rebound for a card that was going for $1,600 a year ago.
The Pokémon Company International made good on its promise to print Prismatic Evolutions aggressively all year, but with the release of Ascended Heroes (which is having its own supply problems), we might be reaching the end of Prismatic Evolutions reprints. That would bode well for anyone who already owns this #1 chase card of the set.
By selling these cards online, you can reach a broad audience of customers who are willing to pay what these cards are truly worth. Download the February 2026 Price Trends Report to review every Pokémon card that went up in value this month. Then list those cards on TCGplayer so your inventory can do more for your business.
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