$2.7 Million Pikachu Illustrator Leads Top 5 TCG Card Sales of the Week
A PSA 9 Pikachu Illustrator sold privately for $2.7 million, while PSA 10 Lugia and CGC Pristine 10 Typhlosion sales helped the weekly top five reach $3.936 million.

A PSA 9 Pikachu Illustrator sold privately for $2.7 million, while PSA 10 Lugia and CGC Pristine 10 Typhlosion sales helped the weekly top five reach $3.936 million.


Delta Reign launches November 6, with prereleases from October 24 and more than 135 cards. Its $49.99 Elite Trainer Box includes eight packs and a full-art Kyogre promo.

Illustration rares and special illustration rares featuring the legendary bird trio, Sylveon, Greninja, Jirachi ex and others were shown ahead of the September 16, 2026 launch.
Store owners have linked one suspect to about 20 thefts across North Alabama, with individual cards worth hundreds of dollars and missing inventory forcing some shops to raise prices.
Romance Dawn Manga Rare Shanks rose from under $800 to $4,000 in a year, while a championship-exclusive Shanks can fetch $5,700 graded—but all listed cards belong to the One Piece Card Game.
A BGS 9.5 Japanese Gold Star Charizard reached $18,600 after selling for $8,700 in December, while a PSA 10 Grey Stamp Nidoking brought $22,500 at Heritage.
The expansion contains more than 115 cards and arrives July 17, with Mega Darkrai ex, Slowbro and Armarouge joining the newly previewed lineup.
Slowking reached the Turin Special Championships final and Ross Cawthon took the deck to NAIC's Top 4; testing suggests its Dragapult ex matchup is even or slightly favored.
Five cards from the 115-plus-card expansion are previewed, including Mega Chandelure ex, Mega Delphox ex, and Mega Darkrai ex, ahead of its July 17, 2026 release.
GameStop cut its 30th anniversary ETB from $169.99 to $99.99 and its Ultra Premium Collection from $600 to $399.99; earlier preorders qualify for refunds or store credit.
Five cards are previewed ahead of the July 17 launch, including Mega Chandelure ex, Mega Delphox ex and Mega Darkrai ex; the expansion contains more than 115 cards.
Amazon UK opened invite-only access to Chaos Rising and Phantasmal Flames ETBs for £44.99 each, plus a Prismatic Evolutions Booster Bundle for £21.29; requests are not guaranteed.
Austin’s first Trading Card Con expects tens of thousands of cards to trade over three days, while one vendor recalls selling a PSA 10 Neo Genesis Lugia for $80,000 in 2021.
Legendary Ocean Trench requires both halves in hand and doubles all healing, while Mega Golisopod ex has 340 HP and can deal 220 damage for one Grass Energy.
EB Games Australia cut 30th Celebration pre-orders to A$120 for an ETB and about US$305 for each Ultra Premium Collection, still well above prior products’ typical prices.
June moves included ST21-014 Monkey D. Luffy rising from $2 to an $8 level, Charlotte Pudding’s alternate art doubling to $50, and OP15-114 Wyper falling from $30 to $13.
The brothers raided two UK card shops in April, stealing cards and sealed products before CCTV and a broken getaway van helped secure guilty pleas; one received 29 months in prison.
Amazon restocked six-pack Pitch Black Booster Bundles for preorder at $57.92 ahead of the July 17 launch—about $12 below resale market price but 93% above the $30 MSRP.
The complete digital card list is available ahead of the set’s July 17, 2026 launch.
Bandai posted an English-language notice on July 10 outlining intellectual-property protections for the ONE PIECE Card Game, but the available text provides no specific policy details.
Cardmarket sales rank Monkey.D.Luffy’s ST01-001 tournament promo highest at €6,800, ahead of nine other English One Piece cards priced from €729.99.
EB Games will cancel policy-violating orders, reduce existing preorders to revised prices and release the recovered allocation in a final wave within weeks, though ETBs remain $20 above JB Hi-Fi.
Existing preorders will automatically receive the lower final price, matching Pitch Black, while cancelled policy-violating orders will fund one last allocation in the coming weeks.