The Highest-Priced Playing cards In Pokémon TCG’s Surging Sparks

Whereas the Pikachu ex is likely to be making all of the headlines and drawing all the broader consideration, Pokémon TCG’s Surging Sparks set is pulling in resale costs on a number of playing cards like the sport hasn’t seen in years. And though the opening fortnight’s craziness is starting to settle down, it’s nonetheless a surprisingly pricy assortment.

Playing cards have held their worth properly into the second week, after we’d usually see them crashing down, although I nonetheless strongly suspect we’ll see a bunch of these costs dropping by the top of November.

Nevertheless, I feel what we’re seeing with Surging Sparks is one other of the Pokémon TCG’s occasional peaks, these moments when it grabs the zeitgeist as soon as once more and everybody’s leaping in for a little bit of hypothesis. That’s doubtless pushed partially by the expectations for January’s new set, Prismatic Evolutions—a set that has already bought out on early pre-orders due to its deal with Eevee-lutions. Everybody all the time goes nuts over these, and it’s more likely to see costs that make Surging Sparks’ look minimal.

I’ve ripped open about 60 packs of Surging Sparks (partially due to The Pokémon Firm, who despatched Kotaku a hefty pile), and haven’t had good luck in any respect. Pull charges appear about commonplace for 2023-24, a disappointing one in 5 for the standard ex or higher, and much decrease if you wish to see any of the astonishing variety of attractive artworks within the set.

It’s getting to a degree the place it simply feels foolish to let artists create a lot lovely work, after which make it so phenomenally tough for anybody to see any of it. And given Pokémon isn’t seeing any of the earnings made by these reselling them, the monetary incentive is barely in hoping that individuals will simply purchase extra packs to attempt to discover them. However given that everybody’s getting used to the horrible probabilities, that’s not an amazing long-term technique. Grimly, I managed to get three of the ghastly full-art Bruxish playing cards (the artwork is nice, the Pokémon is hideous), and comprehensively missed out on any of the 35 totally different playing cards I’d hoped to drag. The total-art Castform is beautiful, although, and I’m happy to have it.

Nonetheless, you could have been far luckier. Often after we put these articles collectively, there’s one card teetering at round 100 bucks, after which it’s down into the kids by card 5 – 6. Not so in Surging Sparks.

As ever, all costs are right on the time of writing, however these items change fairly quickly. Verify newest numbers your self through TCG Participant.