Summary
- Prismatic Evolutions set is highly anticipated and pre-orders are sold out, creating scarcity.
- Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box exclusive Eevee promos are being scalped for over $100.
- The limited availability of items in the set, coupled with high demand, is fueling scalping issues in the Pokemon TCG market.
Prismatic Evolutions, based on the Japanese Terastal Festival set, is already shaping up to be one of the hottest Pokemon TCG expansions in years.
Heavily focused on Eevee and its evolutions, the set is following in the footsteps of Sword and Shield’s Evolving Skies, another extremely popular, extremely expensive set.
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The set is such a hot commodity that pre-orders have sold out almost everywhere, especially those for limited products like the Pokemon Center Exclusive Elite Trainer Box, and this has, of course, led to some major scalping.
Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Boxes are known for having an extra two packs of cards and a promo with an exclusive Pokemon Center stamp. So far, these promos have featured Charmander, Snorlax, and Mimikyu and, due to their limited availability, have quickly become some of the most expensive cards in the Scarlet and Violet era.
The limited availability, hype around Prismatic Evolutions, and the fact the card features the incredibly popular Eevee has proven a perfect storm for those trying to make a quick buck, with scalpers listing the promo ahead of its release for extortionate sums of money.
Listings for the Eevee promo have been live on eBay US for a while, with copies of the card selling for over $100. For context, the ETB costs $60. Things are no different in the UK either, with one copy of the card selling for more than £80 ($104) and another copy listed for £90 ($116).
The promo isn’t the only thing being scalped either, with listings for the Elite Trainer Box itself selling for over $250 on eBay US and £150 ($188) on eBay UK.
With Prismatic Evolutions bearing stark similarities to Evolving Skies, a set that has a card worth over $1,000 bucks, it’s no surprise a certain contingent of people are trying to capitalize on demand and FOMO, and it represents a wider problem the Pokemon TCG is facing right now.
Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Box
The Pokemon TCG’s Prismatic Evolutions expansion centers around Tera forms of Eevee and all eight of its evolved forms. Inside the Pokemon Center-exclusive version of its Elite Trainer Box you’ll find 11 booster packs from the expansion as well as a foil promo Eevee card and everything else you need to play the TCG.