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Mega Evolution Block: A Front-Loaded Market: ME01 & Phantasmal Flames Carry the Premium While the Back Half Trades Near Retail

Every sealed SKU in the block, priced release → today, with current prices from the live TCGplayer daily feed (pulled Oct 03, 2026). Historical points from dated eBay solds, TCGplayer market snapshots, and monthly sold comps. Sales outrank asks; contradictory prints are discarded, not headlined. StockX removed from the methodology entirely.

Top mover

AH ETB $104 → $170.65LIVE TCGplayer feed • +210% vs MSRP • case $1,816

The block split

PF Box $409 vs PB Box $187front half holds premium; ME03–05 boxes near retail

Singles apex

Gengar SIR $1,215.62most expensive EN card of 2026 • Pikachu SIR $1,160 right behind

Round trip

ME01 Box $346→$223→$31910 months • full cycle on the live feed

Prepared, audited & time-stamped by TCG Study · Sealed Market Research Desk
Certified price audit: 49/49 sealed SKUs and 20 chase-card ladders verified against the live TCGplayer feed, Oct 03 2026 · every figure traceable to a dated record · sales outrank asks
Auto-priced nightly · SERIAL PN–001–ME–080326 · Oct 03, 2026

verified (dated sale / tracker snapshot / live feed) interpolated between verified anchors MSRP baseline LINEARLOG 24H7D1M tap any point for its source

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

ME01

Mega Evolution

The Round Trip: the block’s completed price cycle

DESK TAG: RECOVERED
REL 09·26·25 • 311 DAYS • 188 CARDS

ME02

Phantasmal Flames

The Charizard Premium: the block’s most expensive box on the live feed

DESK TAG: BLOCK LEADER
REL 11·14·25 • 262 DAYS • ~120 CARDS

2.5

Ascended Heroes

The Special-Set Engine: no boxes, staggered waves, God Packs

DESK TAG: MOMENTUM
REL 01·30·26 • 185 DAYS • 295 CARDS: LARGEST EN SET EVER

ME03

Perfect Order

The Retail Reversion: spring premium fully given back

DESK TAG: AT RETAIL
REL 03·27·26 • 129 DAYS • 124 CARDS

ME04

Chaos Rising

Hot Launch, Cold Settle: Greninja premium worked off in 10 weeks

DESK TAG: NEAR MSRP
REL 05·22·26 • 73 DAYS • 122 CARDS

ME05

Pitch Black

Live Correction: $300 launch peak unwinding toward retail

DESK TAG: CORRECTING
REL 07·17·26 • 17 DAYS • 120 CARDS

30C

30th Celebration

Day one: 16 of 48 sealed SKUs are trading; the Oct–Dec waves open as they release

DESK TAG: DAY ONE
REL 09·16·26 • 0 DAYS • 184 CARDS

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.

HISTORY LAYER: DATED RECORDS

Trend points before the live pull are anchored to dated market records: eBay completed auctions, TCGplayer price snapshots, and tracker records (Cardrake, PackMagik, Beckett), each cited in its point’s tooltip. Unanchored stretches are drawn hollow and labeled estimated.

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