Pokémon TCG resale prices balloon as Ascended Heroes drives record highs

Ascended Heroes has arrived awkwardly: only the triple-pack sticker collection reached shelves after the set’s official January 30 release, and the next wave of products — including the Elite Trainer Box — is due February 20. Early copies of the ETB and some collectors boxes arrived in reviewers’ hands, revealing the largest Pokémon TCG set ever produced: 217 regular cards, 77 ultra-rares and an array of alternate prints from reverse-holos to multiple Poké Ball variants and Team Rocket reverses.

The set also brings back Mega Pokémon, “Mega Attack rares,” Trainer Pokémon cards, two gold cards and a Special Illustration Rare of Gengar. Pull rates look brutal. After opening about 35 packs, one reviewer saw no SIRs among 22 possible and no golds; early statistics point to SIRs at roughly one in 100 packs and golds at about one in 1,000.

From those openings there were six regular ex cards, two ultra rares, and two Mega Attack rares (Lucario and Diancie). That enforced scarcity is pushing resale values even higher.

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