Amazon’s Got Mega Evolution Pokémon Cards Back in Stock, But the Real Deal’s Hiding Elsewhere

Let's commencement things disconnected with the Mega Evolution Elite Trainer Box (ETB). You're getting 9 Mega Evolution booster packs, 1 full-art foil promo paper featuring Riolu oregon Alakazam, 65 paper sleeves, 40 vigor cards, a player’s usher to the Mega Evolution expansion, six damage-counter dice, 1 competition-legal coin-flip die, and the collector’s container to clasp everything.

MSRP is $49.99, but these tally astatine a 100% markup close now, and the marketplace terms sits astir $90-$100 astatine the clip of writing. So, portion Amazon does person this successful stock, it is besides listed astatine market price ($99.99), not MSRP. It's bully for those who person the currency and privation an casual and reliable escaped delivery. You mightiness adjacent person immoderate acquisition paper recognition leftover you privation to use.

The Mega Evolution Booster Bundle is successful akin situation, and successful banal for $59.99 astatine Amazon. That's astir a 100% markup from the MSRP of $29.99. It includes six Mega Evolution boosters, which works retired astatine astir precisely $10 per pack.

Still, if those prices arent what you're looking for, you're adjacent champion stake for uncovering ETBs oregon Booster Bundles for the caller acceptable is via trusted resale sites similar TCGPlayer. In my sentiment its the champion spot to find sealed booster sets similar these, and often capable it's cheaper than paying straight done Amazon.

Right now, that's surely the case, arsenic you tin bargain the ETB for astir $90-$92 including shipping, and the Booster Bundle for astir $54-$56. It's a tiny redeeming compared to Amazon, but inactive a redeeming nonetheless.

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Pokémon TCG: Upcoming Black Friday Deals

The person we get to the November, the much apt you are to spot the connection "Black Friday" peppered crossed your each waking moment. Pokémon TCG deals during the Black Friday income are a analyzable beast, arsenic it's improbable you're going to find overmuch astatine each that's really beneath its archetypal MSRP.

If you're looking for thing much immediate, the champion proposal I tin springiness is to see Amazon's Prime Visa Card. If you're a Prime Member already, you'll container a $150 acquisition paper (that you tin instantly usage to bargain Pokémon cards if you truthful wish), and up to 7% cashback connected purchaes utilizing the card. It's a small niche, but if you don't caput the recognition cheque it's not a atrocious deal.

If you're not keen, for present you're amended disconnected holding retired for different Walmart+ driblet similar the 1 that went down astir recently. In lawsuit you missed the news, Walmart was granting aboriginal entree to uncommon elusive TCG sets arsenic portion of its Collector Con sale.

That includes Prismastic Evolution ETBs for $59.99, a immense discount compared to the $200 minimum you’ll presently find connected different marketplaces similar TCGPlayer for the aforesaid set. There was besides Phantasmal Flame preorders, including ETBs for $55, different elephantine redeeming considering these spell for $150+ resale close present arsenic well. There was a clump much included arsenic well, specified arsenic enactment figures, Magic: The Gathering sets, and more, but you get the gist.

The thought is that aft that aboriginal entree period, the deals volition past beryllium made disposable to the wider nationalist who don’t person Walmart+. However, fixed however rapidly astir immoderate MSRP-priced banal sells out, astir items are typically gone mode earlier wide buyers tin adjacent get a sniff.

If you don't privation to miss retired connected the adjacent one, alongside immoderate of Walmart's upcoming Black Friday deals (which they besides enactment connected aboriginal entree for), I'd suggest picking up a Walmart+ rank erstwhile you can.

It's $12.95/mo, oregon $98 annually, and offers a scope of benefits beyond aboriginal buying privileges. Members person escaped transportation with nary bid minimum, savings connected fuel, entree to Paramount+ oregon Peacock astatine nary other cost, and further perks specified arsenic pharmacy transportation and discounts astatine selected partners.

Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.

Note: Pokémon TCG pricing is incredibly volitile and immoderate notation of merchantability pricing is indicative of the existent marketplace complaint for the aforementioned products.

For example, Pokémon Elite Trainer Boxes are meant to merchantability for astir $50-$60 MSRP, but alternatively retailer astatine astir $100+ station launch.

Originally posted:

Oct 10, 2025 3:12 pm