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Sealed Market Research Coverage Note No. 010 • FINAL
Aug 03 2026 • live + archived feed
EX Era — 16 sets, 2003–2007
Coverage Initiation • Pokémon TCG • Sealed Product Desk

EX Era: The Six-Figure Frontier — Gold Stars and the Deepest Vault

The complete sealed matrix — 20 SKUs plus 48 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 summit
Unseen Forces Box $96,753eBay closes — the most valuable box on the desk, era of Gold Star dogs
Rocket’s return
Team Rocket Returns $67,654Deoxys $30,971 • Crystal Guardians $27,641
Gold Stars, live
Charizard Star δ $4,000Treecko Star $2,400 • Raikou Star $1,600 — all live prints
Honest gaps
Four boxes: no reliable seriesSandstorm, Dragon, TMvTA, FRLG — private treaty by desk mandate
Prepared, audited & time-stamped by TCG Study · Sealed Market Research Desk
Verified layer — 20 sealed SKUs + 48 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–010–EX–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
EX1
Ruby & Sapphire
Hoenn begins — $16,200 sealed
REL JUN 2003
EX2
Sandstorm
No reliable series — trades by private treaty
REL SEP 2003
EX3
Dragon
No reliable series — trades by private treaty
REL NOV 2003
EX4
Team Magma vs Team Aqua
No reliable series — private treaty
REL MAR 2004
EX5
Hidden Legends
The regi set — $19,100 sealed
REL JUN 2004
EX6
FireRed & LeafGreen
Kanto remade — private treaty tier
REL AUG 2004
EX7
Team Rocket Returns
Rocket’s $67,600 return
REL NOV 2004
EX8
Deoxys
Rayquaza Star’s home — $30,900
REL FEB 2005
EX9
Emerald
The quiet one — still $14,000
REL MAY 2005
EX10
Unseen Forces
The desk’s six-figure summit — $96,753
REL AUG 2005
EX11
Delta Species
Where δ began — $25,000 sealed
REL OCT 2005
EX12
Legend Maker
Mew’s set — $13,400
REL FEB 2006
EX13
Holon Phantoms
δ deepens — $20,400
REL MAY 2006
EX14
Crystal Guardians
Alakazam Star — $27,600 sealed
REL AUG 2006
EX15
Dragon Frontiers
Charizard Star δ — packs alone $2,000
REL NOV 2006
EX16
Power Keepers
The EX era’s $19,900 goodbye
REL FEB 2007 • 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 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