Shiny Vault's Cheapest Shinies Climbed Fastest, and Charizard-GX Just Kept Pace

Charizard-GX #SV49, the card the whole Shiny Vault exists to house, started the window at $768.10 and ended it at $779.27. That is a rise of 1.4%, which happens to be exactly what the typical card in the set managed over the same 30 days, October 10 to November 8. The pull that sells the boxes performed like the median, and I find that funnier than I probably should. Every price here is a TCGplayer market price on one of those two days, and what they describe is a 94-card annex that drifted up gently and did almost nothing dramatic anywhere, least of all at the top.

Eevee #SV41

October 10

$48.26

November 8

$44.66

Move

-7.5%

For anyone holding the Charizard raw, the month's move is the least interesting thing about it. A PSA 10 sells for $1,423.56, which is 1.8x the raw price, and 48.8% of the 20,090 copies graded have come back a 10. A PSA 9 sells for $552.76, less than the raw card, so the whole exercise is a weighted coin flip: grading one raw copy is worth $720.96 on average, and on average you come out ahead after fees. On average is doing real work in that sentence, because the 9 is a genuine loss. The raw card itself rose its quiet 1.4%, so nothing in this window changed the case for or against holding it. It sat at the top of the set being expensive, which is its job.

Across all 94 cards, 56 got more expensive and 38 got cheaper, and one copy of everything went from $3,440.03 to $3,472.60, up 0.9%. The five priciest cards still hold 47.1% of the set's entire cost, so the vault's center of gravity hasn't moved. What moved was the cheap end: the 15 cards between $1 and $5 rose a typical 7.8%, with nine of them climbing, while the 50 cards in the $5 to $20 middle managed a typical 1.5%. The 29 cards at $20 and up, the ones a binder page is actually built around, rose a typical 0.4% and essentially marked time. So the tail didn't catch the top five in any way that threatens them, but for one month it out-climbed them comfortably. Whether that holds is the one thing 30 days of prices can't tell you.

The losers were real but mild. The biggest drop among cards over $5 was Eevee #SV41, down 7.5% from $48.26 to $44.66, and it got there slowly, with no single day carrying more than 32% of the move. Type: Null #SV45 fell 6.1% and Rowlet #SV2 fell 5.8%, each doing most of its falling in one day, October 14 and November 7, though none of the ten biggest drops came as a single one-day repricing. The card that lost the most money was Cynthia #SV82, down just 2.7% but off $4.94 because it costs $180.97, then Scizor-GX #SV72, down 5.2% and $3.70. Sum every card that got cheaper and the whole set shed $27.80, with 57.4% of it from five cards. For a set carrying a $779.27 card, that is not a correction.

If your Shiny Vault card sits in the expensive tier, this window gave you no reason to do anything, which is itself the story for a set this concentrated. If you're holding the sub-$5 shinies, you had the best month in the set and nobody noticed, because nobody checks the back pages of the binder. And if the Charizard is raw in a top loader, the grading maths is the only number here with real money behind it, provided you'd survive opening the envelope to a 9. The vault still belongs to the chase card. This month it just didn't charge rent.

Population: Hidden Fates Shiny Vault, 94 English cards with a TCGplayer market price on both October 10, 2026 and November 8, 2026. Every move compares a card to itself on the same TCGplayer product, first day against last, before anything is ranked or summed; a set total is never compared across days. Prices are TCGplayer market prices for the flagship printing, read from our daily price file. Graded figures are sold medians from our graded comps, PSA population counts come from our daily registry snapshot, and the expected value counts the PSA 9 outcome as well as the PSA 10, net of the grading fee and selling costs. Angle: how much of the whole population's value sits in its top few cards, and what those cards did.