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Sealed Market Research • Coverage Note No. 011 • FINAL
Aug 03 2026 • live + archived feed
e-Card Block — 3 sets, 2002–2003
Coverage Initiation • Pokémon TCG • Sealed Product Desk

e-Card Block: The WOTC Send-Off — Crystal Cards and the Quarter-Million Tier

The complete sealed matrix — 3 SKUs plus 9 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 PriceCharting 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 desk’s summit
Skyridge Box $190,7982026 English closes $177K–$206K — the final WOTC set
The crystal vault
Aquapolis $150,000+Italian copies ask $170K live — English trades above, private treaty
The opener
Expedition Box $81,250$38K spring closes → $81K summer — the run is on
Crystal chases, live
Aquapolis Lugia $2,225Skyridge Alakazam H1 $1,199 • Expedition Gengar $799
Prepared, audited & time-stamped by TCG Study · Sealed Market Research Desk
Verified layer — 3 sealed SKUs + 9 chase cards, each with a 16-point verified ladder (quarterly ’24–’25, monthly ’26) from the archived TCGplayer daily feed + live Aug 3 pull
APPROVED & SIGNED OFF BYBailey· SERIAL PN–011–ECARD–080326 · Aug 19, 2026
verified (archived or live feed) estimated (pre-2024) MSRP baseline LINEARLOG 24H7D1M
PRICES AS OF Aug 19, 2026 · AUTO-REFRESHED NIGHTLY · 21:30 UTC
HOW TO READ · +% MSRP = total gain since original retail price · 24H / 7D / 1M = market movement over that window (tap to switch) · solid chart points = verified sales · hollow = estimates
How to read: % MSRP = gain vs original retail · since ’24 = verified gain from archived feed · colored movement box = price change over the window selected above (24H / 7D / 1M) · est. close = thin-trade estimate from recent verified sales
EC1
Expedition Base Set
The e-Reader era begins — Charizard’s WOTC farewell
REL SEP 2002
EC2
Aquapolis
Crystal Lugia’s vault — the $150K+ tier
REL JAN 2003
EC3
Skyridge
The final WOTC set — the most valuable box on the desk
REL MAY 2003 • WOTC 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 PriceCharting 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