Price Trends: Pokémon Cards Climbing in Price - 03/31/2026
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 February 28 and March 29, 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 $35 or less.
Top 5 Price Increases—PKMN Cards $35 or Less
- Set: Scarlet & Violet—151
- Increase: +$15.88
- Current Market Price: $50.80
151 cards have been spiking lately, as the set’s rotation out of Standard has assured collectors and speculators that it will never be reprinted. Dragonair is the latest example of this trend. While sales in March were only slightly elevated compared to February, and were down compared to most of 2025, the dearth of new listings has caused Near Mint copies under $45 to completely sell out.
#4 Pikachu
- Set: Crown Zenith: Galarian Gallery
- Increase: +$18.95
- Current Market Price: $45.29
Crown Zenith passed its three-year anniversary in January 2026, and most of the cards from the Galarian Gallery subset have seen positive movement since then. That certainly applies to the nine cards that combine to form a connected art woodland scene, of which Pikachu is the central panel and the best-known member.
- Set: SM - Lost Thunder
- Increase: +$19.42
- Current Market Price: $53.48
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. The volume of sales has returned to normal since then, but the card’s Market Price has not.
- Set: Crown Zenith
- Increase: +$20.72
- Current Market Price: $54.69
Most of Crown Zenith’s value is held in its Galarian Gallery subset, but this Pikachu is the exception as the sole Secret Rare in the main set. The card has seen periodic buyouts over the last couple of years, and the last one appears to have been the final straw. On March 18, the average number of copies per buyer rose to 5.6, and in response, the card’s price spiked from $42 to $59.
- Set: ME: Mega Evolution Promo
- Increase: +$24.95
- Current Market Price: $54.82
This Haunter promo was included in the Mega Gengar ex Mega Battle Deck. Level 2 decks tend to be too complicated for brand-new players and too weak for more experienced players, so they don’t always find an audience. Now that the deck has been out for a few months, boxes have mostly sold through, and new copies of this promo have become hard to find.
Speculators appear to have noticed the problem. On March 12, the average number of copies of Haunter per buyer rose to 4.1, and the card’s price spiked from $35 to $50 soon after.
Next, these are the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price over $35.
Top 5 Price Increases—PKMN Cards Over $35
- Set: Paldean Fates
- Increase: +$167.52
- Current Market Price: $717.11
Bubble Mew has bounced back. After reaching an all-time high of $700 back in September 2025, this card spent several months floating back down to earth as sales returned to their pre-Pocket levels. Then in mid-February 2026, the low-cost listings dried up. Without any significant growth in sales volume, the card soon regained all the value it had lost and then some. The card’s history probably reassured fans that it was safe to buy into the spike.
- Set: Ascended Heroes
- Increase: +$181.13
- Current Market Price: $1,102.03
The ultimate chase card of Ascended Heroes has climbed in price basically every week since the set became widely available in February. That mostly comes down to collectors acknowledging Gengar as a top-tier Pokémon on the same level as Pikachu and Charizard. Gengar cards across the market have been spiking for months, and now that The Pokémon Company has finally printed a new full-art Gengar card to chase, fans have enthusiastically answered the call.
#3 Umbreon VMAX (Alternate Art Secret)
- Set: Evolving Skies
- Increase: +$186.69
- Current Market Price: $1,869.68
Moonbreon is still well below its all-time high of nearly $2,300 that it reached in October 2025, but it has started to reclaim some of the value it’s lost since then. One buyer helped it along by picking up 16 copies at once on March 16.
- Set: Scarlet & Violet Promo Cards
- Increase: +$222.60
- Current Market Price: $826.80
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. Starting in early February, Van Gogh Pikachu began to reclaim the value it lost, and it’s now reached a new all-time high and still rising. While the Pokémon Center promotion made this card much easier to find than people feared it would be after its disastrous rollout at the Van Gogh museum, the story of that rollout and its unmistakable art have turned it into an iconic collectible.
- Set: Prismatic Evolutions
- Increase: +$327.69
- Current Market Price: $1,420.39
Sunbreon continues to grow, after briefly hitting an all-time low of $800 on December 31.
The Pokémon Company International made good on its promise to print Prismatic Evolutions aggressively in 2025, 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 March 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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