Price Trends: Pokémon Cards Climbing in Price - 03/25/2025
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 five sales between February 22 and March 23, 2025.)
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 $30 or less.
Top 5 Price Increases—PKMN Cards $30 or Less
- Set: Primal Clash
- Increase: +$18.10
- Current Market Price: $46.92
After The Pokémon Company announced during Pokémon Day that the Mega Evolution Series would be kicking off for the Pokémon TCG later this year, collectors and speculators turned their attention to the Mega Pokémon cards from earlier Series—especially the XY Series (2014-2016), which is where most Mega Pokémon cards originate.
Primal Kyogre-EX (Alpha) sales were slightly elevated in May, but that slight increase in demand was all it took to send its price spiking to over three times the Market Price it held in September. Sellers know we’re in a bull market for Pokémon cards and aren’t willing to cut deals for cards that could be worth twice as much a week from now, so new listings keep hedging higher and higher. And they keep selling anyway.
#4 Lucario & Melmetal GX - SM192
- Set: SM Promos
- Increase: +$18.29
- Current Market Price: $44.67
Available through the Lucario & Melmetal-GX Power Partnership Tin, Lucario & Melmetal-GX was a $9-$10 card all through 2024 until it started creeping up in December (along with basically every Pokémon card on the market). The most recent spike appears to have been the result of a small but concerted buyout, which temporarily sent the card’s price to over $55. It has since corrected back down to $45, and may correct further, but I wouldn’t expect it to settle back at $10 any time soon.
#3 M Gardevoir EX (156 Full Art)
- Set: Primal Clash
- Increase: +$25.74
- Current Market Price: $53.73
Like all “M” Pokémon cards, M Gardevoir-EX depicts a Mega Evolution Pokémon, so it’s been having a moment ever since the Pokémon Day announcement mentioned earlier. This particular Mega has had only a handful of listings and sales in the past year, so a low-volume buyout on March 7 was enough to mark its biggest sales day in the past 12 months and double its Market Price.
- Set: Legendary Treasures: Radiant Collection
- Increase: +$33.84
- Current Market Price: $50.56
This Shaymin card was creeping up naturally like every other Pokémon card between December 2024 and February 2025, but a buyout of 9 copies on March 17 pushed it over the edge, raising its Market Price from $30 to $50 in a matter of days. Given that this card released in 2013, the supply of Near Mint copies is small (and ever-shrinking), so its price is especially sensitive to sudden bursts of demand—organic or otherwise.
- Set: BREAKthrough
- Increase: +$35.49
- Current Market Price: $63.82
It’s a similar story for M Houndoom EX 154/162. This card was riding the Pocket Effect with the rest of the market, until a 9-card buyout on March 18 sent it to the moon. Neither this card’s featured Pokémon or its 5ban Graphics art would have marked it as desirable last year, so it’s either going to correct down after this buyout or prove that the Pocket Effect was even more powerful than we thought.
Next, these are the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price over $30.
Top 5 Price Increases—PKMN Cards Over $30
- Set: Unified Minds
- Increase: +$98.58
- Current Market Price: $346.68
This card’s rise looks entirely organic—the simple arithmetic of the Pocket Effect applied to an already valuable card (and one that was printed during the Sun & Moon Series, before The Pokémon Company doubled their annual card production during the pandemic). That’s not to say it couldn’t trend down again, but for now Misty’s Favor is setting an all-time high and still growing.
- Set: Prismatic Evolutions
- Increase: +$111.45
- Current Market Price: $307.94
This take on Roaring Moon by illustrator Shinji Kanda has risen steeply and steadily since mid-February, without any apparent buyouts. It now outranks even Special Illustration Rare Jolteon ex and Eevee ex as one of the most expensive cards from this Eevee-focused set.
It’s possible that the presence of God Packs in Prismatic Evolutions (special packs containing one of every SIR Eeveelution, plus SIR Eevee) may be resulting in more Eeveelutions in circulation than other SIRs from the set, but given how rare God Packs appear to be, that’s probably not the key element helping Roaring Moon to soar. More likely, it comes down to the artist. Shinji Kanda’s previous full art cards Giratin V and Magikarp have both exploded in popularity and price in the past few years, and now Roaring Moon is following suit.
#3 Gengar & Mimikyu GX (Alternate Full Art)
- Set: Team Up
- Increase: +$120.82
- Current Market Price: $743.03
Similar to Misty’s Favor, this card appears to be experiencing wild (but organic) growth thanks to the Pocket Effect. Alt-Art Gengar & Mimikyu-GX had one of the biggest price shifts of 2024, gaining almost $200 over the course of the year, and now it has surpassed that growth in just three months. Everybody loves Gengar!
#2 Rayquaza VMAX (Alternate Art Secret)
- Set: Evolving Skies
- Increase: +$155.53
- Current Market Price: $916.12
Back for another month in the #2 spot, Alt-Art Rayquaza VMAX has notched a new all-time high Market Price. I can’t say its rise looks as totally organic as Misty’s Favor’s and Gengar & Mimikyu GX’s—there were elevated sales on January 22, when the number of copies per buyer hit 4.0—but it’s managed to keep climbing even as Moonbreon from the same set has hit serious turbulence.
#1 Latias & Latios GX (Alternate Full Art)
- Set: Team Up
- Increase: +$198.72
- Current Market Price: $1,619.48
And the lovebirds are back on top. Last month, there were no Near Mint listings of Alt-Art Latias & Latios-GX below $1,899.99. This month, that floor has risen to $2,199.00, and we’ve seen five more completed sales for $2,000+. It’ll take a few more sales like that before the Market Price adjusts, but Latias & Latios-GX look like they’ll be hitting $2k officially in the near future. Chalk it up to them being from a wildly popular set that came out before the pandemic.
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