Lunatone and Yamper both hit $15 over 7 days

Wednesday · 23 September 2026

One minute on what card prices did overnight.

Our 41-card price index · as of 22 September

The board splits hard: five gainers, three losers, and a $300 card that just became $150

Lunatone from Miracle of the Desert and Yamper from sN: Start Deck 100 CoroCoro Comic Version both climbed to $15 over 7 days, each up +50%. On the other side, Karen's Tyranitar from Pokemon VS fell from $300 to $150 in the same window.

236.9

Up this week

The twin peaks

Lunatone went from $10 to $15 over 7 days, up +50%. Yamper made the same move: $10 to $15, also +50%. Both cleared the bar on 688 cards out of 52,610 scanned.

Our take: two cards hitting the same price and the same percentage in the same week smells like one trade moving both, not the market waking up to either one.

Lunatone
Miracle of the Desert · was $10

$15

+50.0%

Yamper
sN: Start Deck 100 CoroCoro Comic Version · was $10

$15

+50.0%

Snorlax
XY2: Wild Blaze · was $11

$15

+41.1%

Dragonite ex δ
Dragon Frontiers · was $335

$472

+40.7%

Wartortle - 3
Intro Pack (Squirtle) · was $50

$70

+40.0%

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Up this week

The rest of the gainers

Snorlax from XY2: Wild Blaze went $11 to $15, up +41.1%. Dragonite ex δ from Dragon Frontiers climbed from $335 to $472, up +40.7%. Wartortle - 3 from Intro Pack (Squirtle) rose $50 to $70, up +40%.

Our take: the smaller cards are moving together, but Dragonite ex δ is doing real work at the $300-plus level, and that probably matters more.

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Down this week

The wreck

Karen's Tyranitar from Pokemon VS fell from $300 to $150 over 7 days, down -50%. Torchic - 002/019 from Torchic Constructed Starter Deck went $50 to $25, also down -50%. Muk ex from Rulers of the Heavens dropped from $40 to $22, down -45%.

Our take: a $300 card losing half in a week smells like one seller dumping, not the world ending. Watch whether it holds $150 or keeps sliding.

Karen's Tyranitar

Pokemon VS · was $300

$150

-50.0%

Torchic - 002/019

Torchic Constructed Starter Deck · was $50

$25

-50.0%

Muk ex
Rulers of the Heavens · was $40

$22

-45.0%

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-17.1%

over 30 days, as of 22 September

$702

one of every priced single

A set on the move

Pitch Black is down hard

ME05: Pitch Black fell -17.1% over 30 days and is now worth $702 as a complete set of singles. That is a real pullback for a set that size.

Our take: if this keeps up, the set is probably done running. Watch the next 30 days to see if it finds a floor.

See the whole set →

341

Bulbasaur a day

MEP Black Star Promos, over the last 10 days, as of 22 September

Grading numbers

Bulbasaur keeps the graders busy

Bulbasaur from MEP Black Star Promos is averaging 341 submissions a day over 10 days of snapshots. That is 3,407 submissions in 10 days into a registry already 20,560 deep.

Our take: that many Bulbasaurs going out for grading probably means a lot of 9s for sale by Christmas.

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Worth a look · 2,587 cards

The screener is watching the raw-to-slab gap

The widest gap between raw and slabbed cards right now sits at 2,587 cards in our catalog. These are raw cards under $25 with a PSA 10 median at least 10 times the raw price.

Our take: that is a lot of room for somebody to be wrong, and usually somebody is.

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The index is up +0.8% over 7 days to 236.9. Karen's Tyranitar is the story to follow: if it holds $150, the dump is done; if it keeps sliding, we are probably seeing real selling pressure at the high end. Dragonite ex δ at $472 is the only big card that actually moved.

Pokemon fun fact · checked by hand

Lunatone and Solrock were version exclusives in the original Ruby and Sapphire: Lunatone came with Sapphire, Solrock with Ruby, and you traded for the other.

See you tomorrow morning.

Morning Pull, by moonstone

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How this was made

Morning Pull is written each morning from the prices moonstone recorded overnight. Price changes: 52,610 cards checked, 688 moved enough to make the list, each price the middle of a week of readings. Card art belongs to its publishers. Read this edition on the web.