My Best Deals For Today: Should You Buy Pokémon TCG: Shining Fates Now?

As Pokémon TCG moves into it's adjacent procreation of cards successful Mega Evolution, collectors should beryllium reasoning astir older sets and products that are astir to get a procreation older. I person a brushed spot for Shining Fates and Hidden Fates, which volition beryllium travel 2 and 1 procreation aged respectively. That means some sealed and azygous paper values volition ascent implicit the adjacent 12 months, truthful what's the champion mode to get successful connected the enactment earlier anyone? Buy early, and I'll interruption down the champion ways to get clasp of sealed and azygous paper merchandise today.

TL;DR: My Best Deals For Today

LEGO is astatine the apical of my database today, including immoderate chill preorders for Pixar Wall-E & Eve LEGO Disney acceptable and the caller Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse minifigure sets some dropping September 1. They're up for preorder now, but there's besides immoderate large deals connected LEGO sets close present too. My idiosyncratic favorites are the LEGO Marvel Spider-Man Final Battle acceptable down to $87.95 (20% off) and LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 down to $79.99 (20% off). Let's get into it:

Pokémon TCG Shining Fates Sealed Price Check

Is the Shining Fates Pikachu V Box really worthy getting? Well it's $40 connected TCGplayer close now, much than $10 cheaper than Amazon, truthful connected that information unsocial yes. For maine it comes down to the Pikachu V promo and jumbo card, which are going for a corporate $1.90 close now. You tin besides drawback a afloat creation acceptable of 4 Shining Fates boosters for $37.91, which means you tin get the contents of the container for $39.81. All successful each there's not overmuch quality for those looking for everything, but if you're conscionable looking for Shining Fates boosters, it's cheaper to conscionable bargain the afloat creation acceptable considering a azygous booster is $9.99 close now.

Shining / Hidden Fates Crashers and Climbers

Prices for Paldean Fates and Hidden Fates Pokémon cards person shifted again this week, with large winners similar Mew ex jumping 76% to $389.45 acknowledgment to its almighty quality and unthinkable SIR artwork. Gardevoir ex is up 51% to $78.99, and Charizard ex continues to climb, present astatine $160. Older pursuit cards from Hidden Fates are besides rising again, including Charizard GX (up 12%) and Umbreon GX (up 19%). On the flip side, cards similar Pikachu and Charmander from Paldean Fates are down sharply, portion shiny favorites similar Glaceon GX, Eevee, and Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX person besides dipped. The market’s intelligibly leaning toward high-impact Special Illustration Rares implicit lower-tier shinies this week.

Pokémon TCG Price Check

Whilst there's a mates of savings connected Amazon today, TCGplayer is knocking large container retailers retired of the water. The White Flare binder container is simply a mates of dollars cheaper connected Amazon, but looking astatine older sets similar Destined Rivals amusement a wide spread successful marketplace worth and the notorious Amazon people ups of 2025. Destined Rivals Elite Trainer Box is presently sat astatine $85 connected TCGplayer, for example, which is cheaper than the Amazon merchantability terms past week of £88.

Last Weeks Pokémon TCG Crashers and Climbers

Scarlet and Violet 151 paper prices proceed to shift, with Charizard ex, Blastoise ex, and Venusaur ex SIRs climbing steadily acknowledgment to standout artwork, competitory playability, and precocious collector demand. Charizard has jumped to $210, Blastoise is up 28% to $84.99, and Venusaur is up 27% to $69.99. Zapdos ex and Alakazam ex are besides connected the rise, with Alakazam seeing the biggest summation of 35% to $44.98.

On the different hand, prices for Kanto starter Illustration Rares similar Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle person dipped arsenic much merchandise floods the market. Charmander is down 14% to $44.44, Bulbasaur is down 18% to $32.20, and mediate evolutions similar Charmeleon and Wartortle are pursuing the aforesaid trend. While the last evolutions stay the astir sought-after, present is simply a bully clip to prime up the earlier stages astatine a much tenable price.

Magic: The Gathering Deals

Once again it's TCGplayer and the secondary marketplace values redeeming MTG players and collectors a tiny luck implicit Amazon. Even merchantability pricing of the Fallout Commander Deck - Science! is $4 cheaper, with my favourite woody successful this lineup being for the 4 battalion bundle of Fallout Commander Decks. Amazon works retired astatine $47.07 per deck, with TCGplayer massively undercutting present astatine $41.56. That's good implicit $10 redeeming per deck, with adjacent much savings compared to Amazons azygous pricing overall.

Hot LEGO Preorders and Deals

I've got 3 caller preorders for LEGO Disney and Spider-Man alongside loads of large discounts connected in-demand LEGO sets including Star Wars, Ninjago, Wednesday, Marvel and Disney. Discounts are moving up to 37% off, truthful it's a truly bully clip to prime up a caller build.

Fallout Funko Pop Preorders

Dropping passim December 2025, these Fallout Pop Vinyls focused connected the Fallout TV bid should driblet astir the aforesaid clip arsenic Season Two. There's besides chances to get a random uncommon variant, which is astir arsenic overmuch Funko hype arsenic I tin handle. I've preordered Vault Boy already, but I mightiness get the full lineup earlier preorders tally dry.

Mini PC Deals

Mini PCs are large for a enactment from location setup, a spot of airy gaming oregon conscionable redeeming immoderate space. Both of these models person decent specs whilst being bully capable to tally Minecraft and your day-to-day productivity apps. Plus they're ungraded cheap, truthful there's thing to loose.

Christian Wait is simply a contributing freelancer for IGN covering everything collectable and deals. Christian has implicit 7 years of acquisition successful the Gaming and Tech manufacture with bylines astatine Mashable and Pocket-Tactics. Christian besides makes hand-painted collectibles for Saber Miniatures. Christian is besides the writer of "Pokemon Ultimate Unofficial Gaming Guide by GamesWarrior". Find Christian connected X @ChrisReggieWait.