The Biggest Pokémon Card Crashers And Climbers This Week - August 4

Prices for Hidden Fates and Paldean Fates Pokémon cards person been each implicit the spot lately. A fewer of my favourite Special Illustration Rares are connected the emergence specified arsenic Mew ex and Charizard ex from Paldean Fates, and immoderate older Hidden Fates cards are besides making a quiescent comeback arsenic attraction swings backmost to Shiny Vault classics.

Mew ex is the apical communicative this week (because it's awesome), jumping an unthinkable 76% to $389.45. Gardevoir ex and Charizard ex aren’t acold down either, some seeing beardown climbs driven by request from collectors and competitory players. The Paldean Fates acceptable has proven to person existent staying power, particularly astatine the precocious extremity of the market.

Hidden Fates hasn’t been near down either. Charizard GX and Umbreon GX are seeing dependable climbs implicit the past 12 months, portion immoderate of the smaller cards from some sets, similar Eevee, Glaceon GX, and Charmander are starting to slide. The marketplace is intelligibly leaning toward SIRs and prestige, but who doesn't privation a implicit babe shiny collection?

Pokémon Card Crashers

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Pikachu (Paldean Fates) has taken the biggest deed this week, falling 48% to $25. It’s a amusive paper with nostalgic appeal, and the Shiny Rare sparkle makes it a earthy favourite for casual collectors. But from a play perspective, it conscionable doesn’t bash enough. Growl tin stall a bit, reducing incoming damage, and Pika Bolt hits for 30, but that's hardly game-changing. It's intelligibly meant to beryllium a novelty pull, and arsenic much of them deed the market, request hasn't kept up. The artwork is solid, bright, cheerful, and instantly recognizable, but it’s not rather capable to warrant holding the precocious terms tag it erstwhile carried.

Charmander (Paldean Fates) has slipped 19% this week, present down to $20.80. Like Pikachu, it's a fan-favorite acknowledgment to franchise past much than competitory play. Its attacks are simple: Blazing Destruction discards a Stadium, and Steady Firebreathing does 30 damage. Neither adds overmuch strategical value. That said, the shiny creation is adorable. Charmander’s ever been a crowd-pleaser, and the paper inactive looks large successful a binder. But it feels similar a classical lawsuit of proviso overtaking the aboriginal hype. Players privation much interaction from their singles, and close present this conscionable doesn’t chopped it extracurricular of completing an improvement line.

Glaceon GX (Hidden Fates) is down 33% from its peak, present sitting astatine $40.30. This driblet amazed maine a spot due to the fact that the paper utilized to beryllium 1 of the much disruptive GX attackers. Freezing Gaze shuts disconnected abilities from your opponent’s EX and GX Pokémon portion Glaceon is Active, which was large during its heyday. Frost Bullet lets you spot harm crossed the board, and Polar Spear GX tin perfectly delete large threats with the close setup. But with newer formats moving connected and EX/GX relevance fading, Glaceon GX has mislaid immoderate of its punch. That icy bluish shiny creation inactive looks amazing, though, and it's 1 of the champion from Hidden Fates successful presumption of ocular polish.

Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX (Hidden Fates) has dipped somewhat too, down 4% to $33.68. The Trinity Burn onslaught inactive hits for 210 which isn’t bad, and it tin perchance nuke 3 targets astatine erstwhile if you’ve stacked the close energies. It’s flashy, but possibly a small dilatory for today’s meta. What inactive holds up is the artwork, and those 3 birds glaring down similar they’re acceptable to onslaught is iconic. But erstwhile cards similar this go easier to find and don't spot overmuch tourney play, their worth tends to slide.

Eevee (Hidden Fates) rounds retired the database of crashers. It’s down 8%, present priced astatine $33.13. The Energy Evolution quality was a amusive mechanic successful the Sun & Moon era, letting you germinate Eevee instantly depending connected what benignant of Energy you attached. But without caller enactment oregon updated synergy, it’s mostly a collector’s portion now. The shiny creation is beauteous wholesome with Eevee looking similar it's mid-bounce, but it doesn’t person the wow origin of different Shiny Vault stars (bar being Eevee). The dip present isn’t huge, but it reflects a dilatory displacement distant from immoderate of the mid-tier Hidden Fates pulls.

Pokémon Card Climbers

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Mew ex is the biggest communicative this week, and honestly, it deserves the spotlight. The paper has jumped 76% since October, present sitting astatine $389.45, and for bully reason. Its Restart quality lets you gully until you person 3 cards successful manus erstwhile per turn, which is incredibly adjuvant successful decks that pain done resources accelerated oregon get stuck top-decking.

On apical of that, Genome Hacking gives Mew a flexible onslaught option, letting it transcript immoderate determination from your opponent’s Active Pokémon. That means you tin accommodate your strategy mid-game depending connected the menace you're facing. It's a spot of a wildcard but successful the champion way. The Special Illustration Rare artwork is simply a stunner too. Mew floats successful a cute airs wrong a bubble successful its bluish shiny form, giving disconnected existent mythical energy. It's playful, mysterious, and conscionable the benignant of paper that looks astonishing connected show portion inactive having a existent relation successful gameplay.

Gardevoir ex continues to climb, up 51% to $78.99, and I deliberation it inactive has country to grow. Psychic Embrace is 1 of the champion Abilities successful modern TCG. It lets you recycle Psychic Energy from your discard heap and connect it to your Psychic Pokémon arsenic galore times arsenic you privation during your turn. That means you tin accelerate vigor quickly, acceptable up large attackers, and powerfulness up successful a mode that different decks can’t support up with.

You instrumentality 2 harm counters per attachment, but Gardevoir has capable bulk to sorb the hit. Its attack, Miracle Force, hits for 190 and clears immoderate Special Conditions connected itself, which helps you enactment progressive and reliable connected the board. The Special Illustration Rare has existent affectional propulsion too, showing Gardevoir successful a peaceful wood setting, reaching retired similar it's acceptable to support its trainer. It feels almighty but serene, and that equilibrium fits the card’s gameplay individuality perfectly.

Charizard ex is backmost connected the emergence too, present up 36% to $160. This mentation from Paldean Fates isn’t conscionable different Charizard hype train, it really plays well. Its Infernal Reign Ability triggers erstwhile you germinate it, letting you drawback 3 Fire Energy from your platform and connect them nevertheless you like. That’s a immense momentum swing, particularly if you’re gathering astir Fire-heavy attackers.

The Tera regularisation means it tin beryllium safely connected your Bench without taking damage, giving you clip to powerfulness it up earlier striking. Once active, Burning Darkness deals 180 positive 30 much for each Prize paper your hostile has taken. It’s a beardown person that scales successful strength the longer the lucifer goes on. The artwork present is chaotic too. Charizard looks similar it’s emerging from a vortex of occurrence and shadows, with a snarl that makes it look borderline unstoppable. I emotion however overmuch property it has. It’s intimidating without being overdesigned.

Charizard GX and Umbreon GX from Hidden Fates are besides trending up, climbing 12% and 19% respectively. Charizard GX is inactive a instrumentality favourite due to the fact that of its monolithic 300-damage Crimson Storm attack, though it costs a batch of Fire Energy and you person to discard three. Its GX move, Raging Out, tin mill 10 cards disconnected your opponent’s deck, which tin really crook games successful definite power builds. The shiny mentation of this Pokémon is classic, achromatic Charizard with fstars erupting down it. You conscionable can’t spell incorrect with that.

Umbreon GX is much strategic. It has Strafe for repositioning, Shadow Bullet for sniping Benched Pokémon, and Dark Call GX for vigor denial. It’s sneaky and disruptive, and its all-black shiny signifier with a bluish glow looks conscionable arsenic slick contiguous arsenic it did erstwhile Hidden Fates dropped. Massive throwback to procreation 2 with this atrocious boy.

Last Weeks Crashers and Climbers

Prices for Scarlet and Violet 151 cards person been shifting rapidly arsenic much booster boxes are opened and singles deed the market. Illustration Rares of aboriginal Kanto starters similar Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur person dipped by up to 18%, with their evolutions pursuing adjacent down arsenic the marketplace corrects. Meanwhile, large Special Illustration Rares of Charizard ex, Blastoise ex, and Venusaur ex are seeing dependable climbs, with prices rising by up to 28% acknowledgment to standout creation and competitory viability. Zapdos ex and Alakazam ex are climbing too, driven by beardown abilities and increasing collector interest.

Pokémon TCG Price Watch

Whilst there's a mates of savings connected Amazon close now, 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.

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.