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The Lucky Egg Report delivers the week’s most interesting Pokémon card market news straight to your inbox: TCG news 📣, weekly price trends 📈, sales highlights 📊, and more!

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PSA 9 Pikachu Illustrator Sells $1.4 Million ⚡️, 7,000-Pack Ascended Heroes Study Reveals SIR Pull Rates 🍀, Japanese Sabrina Gym Theme Deck Case Sells $37k 🔮, PSA 10 Reverse Holo Togetic Sells $20k 🐤

Subscribe March 23rd - March 29th, 2026 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 GameStop Keeps Hiking Pokémon Card Prices Above MSRP GameStop has been steadily increasing prices on Pokémon TCG products, with markups now rivaling reseller prices. Sleeved booster packs that typically retail for $4.99 are being sold at $6.99, while some products have seen much steeper hikes. A GameStop exclusive Ultra Premium Collection originally sold at $180 is now...

Subscribe March 16th - March 22nd, 2026 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 Chaos Rising Prerelease Promos Likely Revealed Early Crobat and Goodra from Ninja Spinner are getting new alternate art promos in Traditional Chinese. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, players who win three rounds of Ninja Spinner tournaments will receive a promo pack with one of the two cards, and based on the pattern from previous sets like Inferno X, these are almost guaranteed to...

Subscribe March 9th - March 15th, 2026 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 “Aura Seeker” Trademarked as Upcoming Pokemon TCG Set A new trademark for “Aura Seeker” (ハドウシーカー, Hadou Seeker) has been filed by The Pokemon Company under the same product classifications used for TCG set names. The word “hadou” refers to the concept of aura tied to Lucario’s ability to sense living beings and manifest wave-like energy, strongly suggesting the set will...

Subscribe March 2nd - March 8th, 2026 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 Hong Kong based MemeStrategy Launches Tokenized Pokemon Fund, Targets 25% of PSA 10 Van Gogh Pikachu Supply Note: I’m not 100% sure about the claim that it is the first tokenized trading card fund as I have seen similar services appear in the past that are along the same lines but decided to summarize the article as is in case something about their process is indeed...

Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe here! February 23rd - March 1st, 2026 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 ‘Pay for your tattoo with Pokémon cards’ A tattoo artist named Martin Moore, co-owner of Mavericks Tattoo Studio in Totton near Southampton, is offering tattoos in exchange for Pokémon cards to grow his collection of tens of thousands. The story was published in connection with Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, which fell on Friday. Moore...

Sign Up February 16th - February 22nd, 2026 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 NYC Pokémon Card Store Robbed, Then Forced to Rebrand by Nintendo The Poké Court, a Pokémon card shop in New York City owned by Courtney Chin, was robbed by three armed, masked individuals during a community event roughly a month ago, with over $100,000 in merchandise stolen from smashed glass displays. Shortly after, Nintendo contacted Chin over trademark concerns with...

Sign Up February 9th - February 15th, 2026 Hello everyone! You’ll notice this week’s Lucky Egg Report is a bit shorter. I thought I might try keeping it closer to a TLDR style email by just cutting down on content in a couple places and reducing fluff where applicable. Please let me know if you have any feedback (by replying to this email) and thanks for reading as always 🙂! 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 “First Partner Illustration...

Sign Up February 2nd - February 8th, 2026 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 Brilliant Illusions Set Revealed for China China’s eighth Scarlet & Violet set, Brilliant Illusions, has been revealed with Milotic ex as the headliner and a release date of March 13, 2026, offering both 5-card and 20-card booster packs. It’s a compilation pulling from Twilight Masquerade, Shrouded Fable, and Surging Sparks, continuing China’s accelerated catch-up lineup....

Sign Up January 26th - February 1st, 2026 🏆 Card of the Week: This Giratina card is featured in Japanese 11th Movie Commemoration Set as 005/009. It is illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno. This unique promo card depicts Giratina in its Origin Forme and was released exclusively in Japan to commemorate the 11th Pokémon movie. 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 Creatures Inc. Announces Japanese Booster Pack Price Hike Creatures Inc. has announced that the...

Sign Up January 19th - January 25th, 2026 Hello! I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed by Card Codex! Click here to check it out and get some more insight on the Lucky Egg Report! Don't hesitate to reach out anytime (by replying to this email) with feedback about the report if there is something I can improve on or something you would like to see added 🙂🥚. 🏆 Card of the Week: This Steelix card is a great example of how Pokémon integrate into daily life helping out with all kinds of...