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Sealed Market Research • Coverage Note No. 006 • FINAL
Oct 03 2026 • live + archived feed
Black & White Block: 12 sets, 2011–2013
Coverage Initiation • Pokémon TCG • Sealed Product Desk

Black & White Block: Deep Vintage: Where Every Box Is a Grail

The complete sealed matrix: 23 SKUs plus 35 chase cards. Every product carries a verified ladder: quarterly 2024–2025 and monthly 2026 from TCGplayer’s archived daily feed, closed by today’s live pull. Nearly this entire block trades beyond the live feed: eleven grail boxes are carried on Monthly closes from eBay completed sales, spike-filtered and labeled. Loose packs and chase singles still print live on TCGplayer and are verified to the cent.
The crown
Plasma Storm Box $22,948eBay closes: the most valuable box on the desk
The dragon shrine
Dragons Exalted Box $21,958Dark Explorers $16,573 behind it
The send-off
Legendary Treasures $16,666Radiant Collection debut • packs alone $358
Singles apex
Plasma Storm Charizard $1,150Black Kyurem EX FA $699 • Lugia EX Plasma $725
Prepared, audited & time-stamped by TCG Study · Sealed Market Research Desk
Verified layer: 23 sealed SKUs + 35 chase cards, each with a 16-point verified ladder (quarterly ’24–’25, monthly ’26) from the archived TCGplayer daily feed + live Oct 3 pull
Auto-priced nightly · SERIAL PN–006–BW–080326 · Oct 03, 2026
verified (archived or live feed) estimated (pre-2024) MSRP baseline LINEARLOG 24H7D1M
PRICES AS OF Oct 03, 2026 · AUTO-REFRESHED NIGHTLY · FROM 21:30 UTC
HOW TO READ · +% MSRP = total gain since original retail · since ’24 = verified gain from the archived feed · 24H / 7D / 1M = market movement over the window selected above (tap to switch) · solid chart points = verified sales, hollow = estimates · est. close = thin-trade estimate from recent verified sales
BW1
Black & White
Where Unova began: fifteen years sealed
REL APR 2011
BW2
Emerging Powers
The quiet second set
REL AUG 2011
BW3
Noble Victories
Victini’s set: N’s era opens
REL NOV 2011
BW4
Next Destinies
EX cards return: Mewtwo EX mania
REL FEB 2012
BW5
Dark Explorers
Dark Rush: a $16,000 box
REL MAY 2012
BW6
Dragons Exalted
Rayquaza’s first shrine: $21,900 sealed
REL AUG 2012
DV
Dragon Vault
The dragon mini-set: blister gold
REL OCT 2012 • MINI SPECIAL SET
BW7
Boundaries Crossed
The Kyurem twins close 2012
REL NOV 2012
BW8
Plasma Storm
Team Plasma arrives: the desk’s $22,900 crown
REL FEB 2013
BW9
Plasma Freeze
Where the Elite Trainer Box was born
REL MAY 2013
BW10
Plasma Blast
The Plasma finale: five figures sealed
REL AUG 2013
LT
Legendary Treasures
The Radiant Collection debut: a $16,600 goodbye
REL NOV 2013 • ERA SEND-OFF

Data & Method

LIVE LAYER: TODAY

Current prices come from TCGplayer’s daily market-price feed (via the public TCGCSV mirror), pulled per set and matched to each product’s exact ID: the same Market Price shown on the product page, to the cent.

ARCHIVE LAYER: 2024 → NOW

The entire TCGplayer feed is snapshotted daily and archived back to Feb 2024. First-of-month snapshots are extracted for every product, giving verified quarterly points for 2024–2025 and monthly points for 2026: TCGplayer’s own numbers on those exact dates.

LAUNCH-ERA LAYER: 2021 → 2024

Older history comes from monthly closes, computed from eBay completed sales. Every series is validated against the live feed before use, and a spike filter drops lone artifact months. eBay solds running slightly under TCGplayer market is the natural spread between venues.

DESK MANDATES  ·  Sales outrank asks, always: every source is transaction-based  ·  StockX excluded by mandate (ask-driven)  ·  Solid dots = verified to a dated record; hollow dots = estimated and labeled  ·  Every product links to its exact TCGplayer page  ·  Sources cross-validated where they meet