Let’s begin with a number that still hurts to look at if you missed the Hidden Fates boat. Once upon a time, the Hidden Fates Elite Trainer Box retailed for $50 USD when it dropped on September 20, 2019. Today, that exact same ETB sealed sells between $280 and $548 USD depending on where you […]
Hidden Fates: The Pokémon Set That Keeps Going Up – Our Investment Take Read More »
Ask most Pokémon investors where the vintage investment opportunity (if you have a butt ton of capital that is) is and the answer is almost always some combination of Base Set, Neo Genesis, and Skyridge. First editions, gold stars and holographic rares from the WOTC era, the “blue chip stocks” of the hobby if you
The Pokémon EX Era: Is It Worth Investing In? Our Honest Take Read More »
If you have made it this far, you’ve done the hard part (well done), built a collection worth some coin, identified the cards worth selling, and decided it is time to turn some cardboard into cash. Now comes the question most guides gloss over… where do you actually sell them? Because the platform you choose
Where to Sell Pokémon Cards in 2026: eBay vs TCGPlayer vs Local Shop vs Facebook Read More »
Here at The TCG Times, we spend a lot of time talking about which cards or sets are worth investing in. But today we are mixing it up and asking the more fundamental question underneath: which characters carry the deepest, most durable investment weight across the first four generations of the Pokémon TCG? Because understanding
Pokémon Gen 1 to 4: Which Characters Actually Have the Strongest Investment Case? Read More »
That’s right, it’s time for the most anticipated crossover of the year! The finance bros (and bro-ettes) meet the Pokémon “Investors”…. (it’s a joke, chill out homie) Let’s get into it. Every now and then, the world of traditional investing throws up a result that makes even the most emotionless financial brain do a double
Pokémon TCG vs Bitcoin: How Did Cardboard Stack Up in the First Half of 2026? Read More »
In every TCG, there is that one card (or character). The card that anchors the market. The one that non-collectors have somehow heard of. The card whose price people reference when they are trying to explain to a confused relative why they keep buying cardboard (we’ve all been here). In Pokémon, it is Charizard, we
Why We Think Gol D. Roger Is the Charizard of One Piece TCG Read More »
Every six months here at The TCG Times, we are going to do something that most card publications do not bother with: put our hobby’s investment performance directly next to the traditional financial benchmark that most of our readers money is sitting in when it is not buying cardboard, as we have said before, we
Pokémon TCG vs The NASDAQ: How Did Cardboard Stack Up in the First Half of 2026? Read More »
Two sets, two very different launches, two very different relationships but both have a sh*t ton of nostalgia. Like we have said before, nostalgia in TCG usual mean money. Celebrations arrived in October 2021 as Pokémon’s official 25th anniversary released a limited, special-distribution set built specifically to mark the occasion. On paper, Celebrations should have
Pokémon 151 vs Celebrations: Which Anniversary-Style Set Actually Held Its Value Better Read More »
A Rayquaza VMAX alternate art from 2021 is sitting at $1000+ today, and the price is climbing higher than the sky pillar, comfortably the second most valuable card in its entire set, despite sharing identical pull rates with three other Eeveelution chase cards currently trading at a third of that price. That is not a
Why We Think Mega Evolution – Delta Reign Will Be Worth Investing In Read More »
Here is a number that should terrify any chase card investor: Evolving Skies, released in August 2021, contains over 30 different alternate art secret rares, with each one appearing at a rate of roughly 1 in every 400 to 500 booster packs (if it doesn’t scare you keep reading…). That set has been opened, by
The Moonbreon Paradox: How One Overprinted Card Defied Every Rule of Chase Card Risk Read More »
