Vaporeon, Jungle +68.5%

Morning Pull

Thursday · 1 October 2026

One minute on what card prices did overnight.

Biggest believable price rise this week

Why did Vaporeon jump so hard?

Vaporeon, Jungle jumped +68.5% this week.

$178

Vaporeon, Jungle, $106 a week ago.

+68.5% · this week against last week, as of 30 September

today's card · the others up this week

The question

Why did Vaporeon jump so hard? The earlier price rested on only a few readings, so one expensive copy or several selling at once could have lifted the median. I checked twice because the move felt big for a card that old.

Sylveon GX
SM4+: GX Battle Boost · was $27

$40

+47.4%

Pikachu
XY Black Star Promos · was $31

$44

+42.6%

Cresselia - 166/SM-P
SM-P: Sun & Moon Promos · was $30

$40

+33.3%

Dragonite GX - 112/094
SM11: Miracle Twin · was $50

$65

+30.0%

See the card and its prices →

today's picks

Daily Buys picked three

Daily Buys picked Pidgeotto from Obsidian Flames because new submissions are gemming less often and the card is hard to gem. Hisuian Zoroark VSTAR and Boss's Orders are coming back from dips.

Card

Entry

Pay up to

Pidgeotto good
Obsidian Flames · raw card · new submissions are gemming less often · hard to gem

$10.99

$12.09

Hisuian Zoroark VSTAR good
Lost Origin · raw card · coming back from a dip

$6.17

$6.79

Boss's Orders good
Ascended Heroes · raw card · coming back from a dip · people want this species

$6.79

$7.47

Picked from 25,855 cards at 10:30 UTC; pay up to is the most it would pay.

In the news

Walmart's Pokémon 30th Celebration TCG Lottery Starts Soon & Includes Mini Tins, Here's How to Win

Soaps She Knows · 16 hours ago

Walmart's 30th Celebration lottery starts soon with mini tins.

A Pikachu Pokémon Card Just Sold For An Inexplicable $8.4 Million, The Second-Highest Price Of All Time

Kotaku · 21 hours ago

Absurdly rare Raincoat Pikachu Pokemon card sells for $8.4 million

Gamesradar+ · yesterday

Only 100 of this Raincoat Pikachu exist; now the second most expensive.

Pokemon fun fact · checked by hand

Pikachu's name is two Japanese sounds glued together: pika, the sparkle of something bright, and chu, the squeak of a mouse.

Morning Pull, by moonstone

Why each one, and what could go wrong →

How this was made

Morning Pull is written each morning from the prices moonstone recorded overnight. Price changes: 19,427 cards checked, 230 moved enough to make the list, each price the middle of a week of readings. Daily Buys is its own list, published at 10:30 UTC and scored in public. Card art belongs to its publishers. Read this edition on the web.