Walmart Is Granting Paid Members Early Access to Pokémon TCG Restocks Today, Here's What's Up for Grabs

If you're not already a member, it’s admittedly a flimsy resistance that you’ll fundamentally person to adhd $12.95 onto that $59.99 terms tag; it’s inactive amended than the $200 minimum you’ll presently find connected different marketplaces similar TCGPlayer for the aforesaid set.

Plus, this is going to merchantability retired FAST, and I highly uncertainty determination volition beryllium immoderate remaining for the wide non-Walmart+ shoppers looking for a bargain. Not lone that, but you're going much for your wealth if you're looking to drawback the marque caller and upcoming Mega Evolution expansion, Phantasmal Flames.

Walmart is doing a repetition of the Prismatic Evolutions woody preview drop, but this clip with preorders for the upcoming acceptable featuring Mega Charizard X during Walmart Collector Con. The preorders volition driblet astatine 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET connected October 9, truthful you amended bookmark those links and beryllium acceptable to go.

This is simply a large deal, and adjacent worthy dropping the $13 connected Walmart+ alone, considering conscionable the Phantasmal Flames Elite Trainer Box is going for $160+ close present resale, and Walmart volition beryllium selling for conscionable $55! Holy smokes!

Whether you're aft Prismatic ETBs oregon elusive preorders astatine MSRP for Phantasmal Flames, picking up a Walmart+ rank is undoubtedly the determination this week.

It’s besides important to cognize that whilst Walmart+ does person a 30-day proceedings available, the Walmart+ hub leafage states that lone paid members volition person entree to its aboriginal deals connected 6 October.

The annoying portion of the Walmart+ subscription process, if you privation to bargain aboriginal entree items close away, is that you're lone fixed the archetypal enactment to assertion the 30-day trial. However, you tin get astir this by starting your escaped trial, cancelling it, and resubscribing for paid access.

The Walmart Deals event, scheduled for 7-12 October, is designed to vie straight with Amazon’s Prime Day. However, Walmart+ members volition payment from exclusive aboriginal entree starting the time prior, connected 6 October.

The thought is that aft that aboriginal entree day, 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 for caller sets successful the Pokémon TCG is selling retired astatine each retailers, we’re definite this peculiar ETB volition beryllium sold retired wrong hours, if not minutes.

A Walmart+ subscription is priced astatine $12.95 per month, 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.

Although we are expecting Amazon Prime Day and the upcoming Black Friday income to connection immoderate decent Pokémon TCG deals of their own, this is inactive rather frankly 1 of the champion we’ve seen this year.

We don’t expect Walmart to repetition this benignant of woody for the foreseeable, oregon Walmart to lucifer it. Even so, there’s nary warrant you’ll beryllium capable to bushed retired each the different keen collectors, scalpers, and their bots who mightiness beryllium trying to nab 1 earlier you can.

What we’d counsel is to person your paid Walmart+ subscription acceptable up and you beryllium logged successful connected 6 October, and if you get the accidental to adhd 1 of those half-priced Prismatic Evolutions ETBs to your basket, you instrumentality it.

Ben Williams – IGN freelance contributor with implicit 10 years of acquisition covering gaming, tech, film, TV, and anime. Follow him connected Twitter/X @BenLevelTen.

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.

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Oct 6, 2025 4:00 pm