Torchic breaks out of the pack

A quiet morning turned loud when Torchic jumped harder than anything else we track.

$39

Torchic, Shiny Collection, $23 a week ago.

+73.3% · this week against last week, as of 8 October

today's card · the others up this week

The biggest move this week

Torchic is up +73.3% over seven days. I checked the number twice because the earlier price rested on a full week of readings, not a single sale, so this one stuck. Four other cards climbed +57% or more: Raichu BREAK, Delcatty, Jirachi ◇, and Zoroark all moved together, which probably means something in the market shifted, not that each card found its own reason.

Raichu BREAK
BREAKthrough · was $16

$27

+65.9%

Delcatty
Legend Maker · was $15

$24

+63.5%

Jirachi ◇
Celestial Storm · was $15

$24

+57.5%

Zoroark
BW Black Star Promos · was $18

$28

+57.0%

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Today's picks

Daily Buys picked Dracozolt V from Evolving Skies this morning, a raw card coming back from a dip. Entry is $5.28, pay up to $5.81.

Card

Entry

Pay up to

Dracozolt V good
Evolving Skies · raw card · coming back from a dip

$5.28

$5.81

Picked from 30,741 cards at 10:30 UTC; pay up to is the most it would pay.

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Torchic's Pokedex entry says a flame burns inside its belly, so hugging one feels pleasantly warm.

See you tomorrow morning.

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: 42,391 cards checked, 849 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.