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Sealed Market Research • Coverage Note No. 013 • FINAL
Aug 03 2026 • live + archived feed
Wizards of the Coast Block — 7 sets, 1999–2000
Coverage Initiation • Pokémon TCG • Sealed Product Desk

WOTC Block: The Origin Vault — 1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited

The complete sealed matrix — 14 SKUs plus 21 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 origin
Base Set Unlimited $36,6001st Ed & Shadowless: tracking not fully current — auction-house tier, not printed
The 1st Edition divide
Gym Challenge 1st Ed $28,250Gym Heroes 1st $26,179 • Jungle 1st $18,131 • Fossil 1st $14,688
Rocket’s originals
Team Rocket 1st Ed $16,000unlimited $10,031 — the premium is the history
Every print tracked
12 boxes across 7 sets1st Edition and Unlimited carried separately, per print run
Prepared, audited & time-stamped by TCG Study · Sealed Market Research Desk
Verified layer — 14 sealed SKUs + 21 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–013–WOTC–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
WB
Base Set
Where it all began — unlimited printed; 1st Ed & Shadowless by treaty
REL JAN 1999 • 1ST ED & SHADOWLESS: TRACKING NOT CURRENT — TOO FEW SALES TO PRINT
WJ
Jungle
The first expansion — both prints tracked
REL JUN 1999
WF
Fossil
Aerodactyl’s era — both prints tracked
REL OCT 1999
W2
Base Set 2
The reprint — quietly $19K sealed
REL FEB 2000 • REPRINT SET
WR
Team Rocket
Dark Charizard — both prints tracked
REL APR 2000
WG
Gym Heroes
Brock, Misty, Lt. Surge — both prints tracked
REL AUG 2000
WC
Gym Challenge
Sabrina’s Charizard — the Gym send-off
REL OCT 2000 • WOTC-ERA CLOSER HERE

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