Price Trends: Pokémon Cards Climbing in Price - 06/17/2025
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 May 17 and June 15, 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: XY Base Set
- Increase: +$9.57
- Current Market Price: $30.45
A (really) tiny buyout on May 16 of Near Mint copies of this 2014 Full Art card caused its price to jump about 50%, demonstrating again how small changes can have a big impact on old cards with vanishingly few Near Mint copies available.
#4 N's Reshiram - 167/159 (Journey Together Stamped)
- Set: Journey Together
- Increase: +$9.77
- Current Market Price: $22.67
This version of N’s Reshiram comes as a box-topper in the Journey Together Enhanced Booster Box, where it’s the only enhancement to the product compared to the regular, traditional Booster Box. Enhanced Boxes actually hold a lower Market Price than regular Booster Boxes right now, despite coming with this promo card, which suggests that fans aren’t as enthused about this promo as its recent spike would suggest.
In fact, the promo was targeted for a buyout. On June 12, the average number of copies per buy for this card spiked to 19.2 (up from 1.4 the day before), and Reddit user u/Calm_Wing_3881 even claimed responsibility for the buyout. There’s clearly a discrepancy here between the cost of these boxes and the cost of the promo that comes with them, so expect one or the other to change in the near future.
#3 Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff GX
- Set: Cosmic Eclipse
- Increase: +$10.88
- Current Market Price: $33.40
This card saw a few days of high volume sales and heightened (but still relatively low) copies per buyer between May 25 and 29th, when the average number of copies per buyer rose to a high of 2.3. That’s not high enough on its own for us to rule it a buyout, but speculators have been targeting Sun & Moon Series cards like Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX for years now, so it would fit the pattern.
The Pokémon Company massively increased the number of cards they print mid-way through the Sword & Shield Series, in response to the pandemic-fuelled collectibles boom. As a result, Sun & Moon cards have the special distinction of looking the same as other modern chase cards, with full-card artwork by a wide variety of artists, while being scarcer than most of the chase cards from Sword & Shield and Scarlet & Violet.
- Set: Rebel Clash
- Increase: +$11.05
- Current Market Price: $14.61
Tool Scrapper is the rare Pokémon price spike caused by the player side of the fanbase instead of the collector side. On May 30, it was revealed that Tool Scrapper would be reprinted in the Japanese set White Flare, meaning that in all likelihood the card will be legal in Standard again when the International White Flare set releases in July.
Since players love to bling out their decks as much as collectors love to bedazzle their binders, players and speculators immediately bought out the Secret Rare printing of Tool Scrapper from Rebel Clash, which is currently the highest-rarity printing of the card available.
#1 Hop's Snorlax - 117/159 (Cosmos Holo)
- Set: Journey Together
- Increase: +$23.13
- Current Market Price: $31.63
This special version of Hop’s Snorlax, identifiable only by the Cosmos foil pattern (which doesn’t appear on the normal version of Hop’s Snorlax in Journey Together) was available exclusively to fans who made a minimum purchase of Journey Together products in certain Asian markets when the set released, including Singapore, Malaysia, and The Philippines. That makes this card the Asian equivalent of the GameStop and EB Games-exclusive Hop’s Snorlax promos elsewhere in the world.
The card saw barely any sales on TCGplayer until May, so once more copies were purchased the market quickly corrected upward to reflect this card’s unique provenance.
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
#5 Latias & Latios GX (Alternate Full Art)
- Set: Team Up
- Increase: +$44.00
- Current Market Price: $1,782.85
While there have been some minor buyouts of Alternate-Art Latias & Latios-GX in the past—the last one being on March 28, when the average number of copies per buyer rose to 4.0—this card’s latest price increase simply reflects its status as the most valuable modern Pokémon card. It has managed to eclipse even Moonbreon, which has never risen above $1,750.00 and which is currently sinking below $1,500.
Moonbreon likely remains the better-known of the two chase cards, but the smaller print run of Sun & Moon Series sets like Team Up gives Latias & Latios-GX a huge advantage in terms of scarcity. You can see the difference in things like PSA’s population reports, which detail over 23k copies of Moonbreon, compared to only 4k copies of the lovebirds.
- Set: Team Up
- Increase: +$47.43
- Current Market Price: $190.90
This card, the base-rarity version of Gengar & Mimikyu-GX, was already up since January thanks to the general boom in Pokémon card collecting in early 2025 together with a buyout on April 28 that raised the average number of copies per buyer to 14.0. A smaller buyout on June 11 pushed this card to its current heights, though at time of writing there are several listings which undercut its supposed new Market Price.
#3 M Rayquaza EX (Shiny Full Art)
- Set: Ancient Origins
- Increase: +$51.12
- Current Market Price: $435.32
This card from 2015 has been on a steady upward trajectory since the start of the year. Part of that is simply due to age, but cards depicting Mega Pokémon have grown in price across the board since The Pokémon Company announced the return of Mega Pokémon to the TCG later this year to coincide with the release of Pokémon Legends Z-A.
#2 Arceus & Dialga & Palkia GX (Alternate Full Art)
- Set: Cosmic Eclipse
- Increase: +$56.68
- Current Market Price: $351.09
Surprisingly, this card hasn’t had anything that looks remotely like a buyout all year. Its steady climb since January appears to be due entirely to the organic factors, like the relative scarcity of Sun & Moon cards, and the inherent novelty of a card that depicts all three of these Godlike Pokémon together.
#1 Gengar & Mimikyu GX (Alternate Full Art)
- Set: Team Up
- Increase: +$70.37
- Current Market Price: $829.66
This card’s rise looks organic too. It started growing in early November, around the release of Pokémon TCG Pocket, and it just hasn’t stopped.
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