Price Trends: Pokémon Cards Climbing in Price - 06/23/2026
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 May 23 and June 21, 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 $50 or less.
Top 5 Price Increases—PKMN Cards $50 or Less
- Set: Temporal Forces
- Increase: +$20.50
- Current Market Price: $60.48
Gouging Fire had a red-hot sales day on May 28, with roughly eight times more sales than its daily average for the year. Shoppers that day bought an average of 13 copies each, which suggests a deliberate buyout. While that unusual sales day only spiked this card’s price by $10, Gouging Fire continued to grow over the next few weeks due to low supply.
Gouging Fire could retrace on those gains in the near future—at time of writing, there are six listings below Market Price.
- Set: XY Promos
- Increase: +$28.20
- Current Market Price: $77.02
This promo was originally distributed in a single-pack blister for XY Phantom Forces in November 2014. It’s fairly obscure, and doesn’t sell often—so when somebody bought two copies on May 21, that little push was all it took to send the price rocketing up. At time of writing, there’s only one Near Mint listing on TCGplayer, for one cent under $400.
The timing may be related to the release of Chaos Rising on May 22, which reminded Pokémon fans how much they love Greninja, or it could have been a coincidence.
- Set: Mega Evolution Promo
- Increase: +$28.67
- Current Market Price: $61.40
This card was distributed to stores that ran Chaos Rising Prerelease events between May 9 and 21, 2026. Early listings for the card pegged its price at around $35, but strong demand wiped out those listings in a couple of weeks, so the card’s price naturally spiked.
- Set: Prismatic Evolutions
- Increase: +$29.26
- Current Market Price: $77.27
Much like Gouging Fire, Iron Valiant ex appears to have been bought out on May 28, when the average number of copies per buyer spiked to 10.0. That kicked off a rapid price spike, which also might retrace in the next few weeks. At time of writing, there are five NM listings below Market Price on TCGplayer.
- Set: Team Up
- Increase: +$58.67
- Current Market Price: $99.49
This card had an even more dramatic spike, which has already started correcting.
On June 1, The Pokémon Company revealed more information about the 30th anniversary set, including that it would contain a 30-card Classic Collection subset of reprints from the game’s history, stamped with the 30th anniversary logo. This card is among those being reprinted, and speculators responded by buying more copies in one day than are normally sold in a month.
It’s hard to call this a coordinated buyout, since with only 2.4 copies per buyer, it’s possible that most of the demand was organic. Regardless, the price spike from this high-volume day didn’t last. Today, Pikachu & Zekrom-GX has lost around $40 in value since its peak on June 3rd, and continues to drop, which is exactly what we’d expect to see from a forced buyout.
Next, these are the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price over $50.
Top 5 Price Increases—PKMN Cards Over $50
#5 Rayquaza VMAX (Alternate Art Secret)
- Set: Evolving Skies
- Increase: +$109.71
- Current Market Price: $1,055.07
Rayquaza VMAX actually broke the four-digit threshold in May, but its Market Price finally caught up to recent sales in June. While this card’s sales volume has been low and stagnant, it’s still been persistent enough to wipe out Rayquaza’s supply over time.
There’s been a trend of Rayquaza cards ticking upward since April of this year, including Amazing Rare Rayquaza, TG20 Rayquaza VMAX and M Rayquaza-EX. This growth might be related to the upcoming release of Mega Rayquaza-themed sets like Delta Reign later this year.
- Set: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery
- Increase: +$111.46
- Current Market Price: $428.87
After three months of thoroughly average sales numbers, this card spiked hard in early May and kept climbing for the next month and a half. You can either call this a natural result for a beautiful card that’s over three years old at this point, or you can blame the new Mega Darkrai card for bringing the community’s attention back to AKIRA EGAWA’s artwork.
- Set: Paldean Fates
- Increase: +$116.33
- Current Market Price: $1,026.76
“Bubble Mew” has been climbing—sometimes steadily, sometimes rapidly—since the beginning of the year, helped along by the conventional wisdom that TPCi doesn’t reprint sets like Paldean Fates once they’ve rotated out of Standard. Then on June 8, somebody bought 10 copies of Mew ex at once and finally pushed the card over into quadruple digits for the first time.
#2 Rayquaza V (Alternate Full Art)
- Set: Evolving Skies
- Increase: +$118.46
- Current Market Price: $502.08
Here’s another high-value Rayquaza card that’s been rising since April.
This Rayquaza was actually bought out on August 15, 2025, back when its Market Price was $200. In a single day, buyers purchased more copies of this card than had sold in the previous five months, with an average of 33.1 copies per buyer. It spiked to over $300 by the end of 2025, but by March 2026 it had settled back down to $280.
Then in April it started spiking again, only this time, without any buyouts. In the past three months, the number of copies sold hasn’t come anywhere close to what it was on August 15, but the card’s Market Price has nearly doubled anyway.
The lesson is either that the true impact of buyouts can take a while to manifest, or that they have less influence over the market than the simple force of dwindling supply.
#1 Gengar & Mimikyu GX (Alternate Full Art)
- Set: Team Up
- Increase: +$173.74
- Current Market Price: $1,539.59
This card’s current climb began all the way back in November 2024, when it was “just” $320. This month we saw the first real break in that growth streak, when the card dropped from $1400 to $1260, but it quickly recovered and bounced back to a new all-time high.
Gravity seems to work in reverse on Alt-Art Gengar & Mimikyu-GX—it just keeps going up at the same consistent pace.
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