Price Trends: Pokémon Cards Dropping in Price - 02/18/2026
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 decreased in Market Price in the past 30 days. We hope this report will complement our report on Pokémon price increases to give you a more well-rounded view of the market.
(Note: This report only considers Near Mint copies of cards with at least ten sales between January 18 and February 16, 2026.)
Here are ten highlights from that report. First, we have the five cards that lost the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price of $30 or less.
Top 5 Price Decreases—PKMN Cards $30 or Less
- Set: Mega Evolution Promo
- Decrease: -$4.20
- Current Market Price: $23.62
The Ceruledge promo with the Phantasmal Flames stamp (available in 25% of Phantasmal Flames Build & Battle Boxes) spiked dramatically in the last week of 2025 and the first week of 2026. Since then, demand has cooled in the face of its new double-digit price tag.
Sealed Build & Battle Boxes, and the other promo cards contained within them, have continued to go up. The Toxtricity promo is up from $13 to $17 this month. By contrast, it looks like Ceruledge grew too much too fast, it’s now correcting back down closer to the other promos.
- Set: White Flare
- Decrease: -$4.41
- Current Market Price: $24.78
Special Illustration Rare (SIR) Jellicent ex has been on a steady descent ever since White Flare released. It currently lags behind the price of the most popular Illustration Rares (IRs) from the set, like Zoroark and Chandelure, as well as starters like Oshawott, Samurott, and Emboar.
Specific SIRs are only slightly harder to pull than specific IRs in Black Bolt and White Flare because of how many of the latter there are in these sets. That wiped out most of the advantage Jellicent ex would get from its higher rarity, and left it competing on popularity, where well-known Pokémon like Zoroark have an advantage.
- Set: Steam Siege
- Decrease: -$4.82
- Current Market Price: $16.53
Many old Mega Pokémon cards spiked early in 2025 in anticipation of renewed interest in them with the release of Pokémon Legends: Z-A and the Mega Evolution Series in October and September, respectively. Now that this period has passed and Mega Evolution Pokémon are the new “normal,” some of them are showing signs of weakness. M Gardevoir-EX in particular lost almost 25% of its value in one month.
#2 Marshadow
- Set: Cosmic Eclipse
- Printing: Reverse Holo
- Decrease: -$5.18
- Current Market Price: $18.64
The Reverse Holo printing of this obscure Rare grew from $1.50 to almost $40 in a little more than a month after fans realized that its art showed the same scene (by the same artist) as a new IR in Mega Evolution. That IR itself briefly passed $90 when the set first released.
Since then, IR Marshadow has quickly and definitely sunk to under $13. The Cosmic Eclipse Marshadow is still way above its pre-spike price, but it too has dropped as fans’ attention has moved on from this nifty callback.
#1 Cynthia's Garchomp ex - 104/182
- Set: Prize Pack Series Cards
- Decrease: -$7.49
- Current Market Price: $18.38
Prize Pack Series Eight debuted at the start of 2026. Like all the cards from this pack, Cynthia’s Garchomp ex has naturally become easier to find in the past month as more prize packs have been opened.
Next, these are the five cards that lost the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price over $30.
Top 5 Price Decreases—PKMN Cards Over $30
#5 Kabuto
- Set: Fossil
- Printing: 1st Edition
- Decrease: -$36.12
- Current Market Price: $23.28
The 1st Edition printing of Kabuto from Fossil—the first Kabuto card printed in English—became a meme in December after the year-long quest of Twitter/X user Kabuto King to collect every copy finally drove this card’s price up.
1st Edition Kabuto peaked in December at just over $100 in the wake of a Polymarket bet, and immediately relaxed back down to $25. Then in early January it spiked again to $55 after a new surge in purchases. It has now returned to its ~$25 price point and now seems stable in spite of a sizable buyout on February 10.
#4 Mega Gardevoir ex - 187/132
- Set: Mega Evolution
- Decrease: -$40.42
- Current Market Price: $215.96
Cards with the Mega Hyper Rare (MHR) rarity that was introduced in Mega Evolution have some of the most (if not the most) unforgiving pull rates we’ve ever seen. That fact helped MHR Mega Gardevoir ex briefly reach $600 soon after its debut, but it has been dropping steadily ever since.
MHR Mega Charizard X ex on the other hand has already begun to rebound, even though it’s twice as easy to pull as Mega Gardevoir ex. Even at the highest extremes of scarcity, character popularity remains the deciding factor when it comes to price.
#3 Umbreon V (Alternate Full Art)
- Set: Evolving Skies
- Decrease: -$42.75
- Current Market Price: $303.50
This drop is even bigger than it looks. At the start of October 2025, copies of Alt-Art Umbreon V were selling for almost $700, a massive climb from the $220 they’d been in August. That growth came after two months with more sales volume than the card had seen since May 2024.
All that sales volume dried up as soon as the card spiked, and its growth abruptly halted and reversed itself. With sub-$300 listings on the Marketplace at time of writing, Alt-Art Umbreon may still have further to fall.
- Set: Double Crisis
- Decrease: -$63.52
- Current Market Price: $472.77
This early example of the kind of full-card stylized illustrations that have defined the modern era of Pokémon cards had a wild ride last year. After several years of moderate growth, Team Magma’s Groudon-EX and its Team Aqua counterpart grew several times their original price over the course of 2025. All that growth has slowed the rate of sales, and Groudon’s starting to feel that shift in demand.
Team Aqua’s Kyogre-EX started 2025 higher, grew more modestly, and has retained all its gains so far. That suggests Groudon-EX is in for some light correction, but not a total reversal.
#1 Umbreon VMAX (Alternate Art Secret)
- Set: Evolving Skies
- Decrease: -$120.80
- Current Market Price: $1,673.95
Finally, Moonbreon continues to slump. Sales have all but disappeared since the card passed the $2000 threshold in early September 2025. While earlier this month it looked like Moonbreon would stabilize around $1,800, the card has instead continued to drop. It’s now below where it was this time last year, during the fever pitch around Prismatic Evolutions.
By keeping an eye on the market, you can make better pricing decisions and anticipate your customers’ changing preferences. Download the February 2026 Price Trends Report (Decreases) to review every Pokémon card that went down in value this month.
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