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set deskOctober 2026

Dark Explorers

111 cards trackedenglish printsungradedtcgplayer marketas of 2026-10-06
Full set$4,191
Median card$1.4
30 days+4.4%
90 days+14.6%
Top 10 share86%
Priced112

Set Market Report PRO

Where it sits in its own history378 recorded readings
All-time high$4,2732026-09-22
From that high−1.9%set value today
First recorded$1,513when we started tracking, not a release
Dearer than96%363 of 378 recorded days were cheaper

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Answers come from this page's recorded prices and verified PSA sold medians, with the sample size behind each one.

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Cost concentration10 cards = 86% of the bill
10 cards · $3,535other 102 · $656

The short, expensive tail of the set.

Chase laddertop 10 by price
$946
Gardevoir01
Gardevoir
+36.4% 30d
$790
Darkrai EX (107 Full Art)02
Darkrai EX (107 Full Art)
+0.0% 30d
$427
Groudon EX (106 Full Art)03
Groudon EX (106 Full Art)
+0.0% 30d
$320
Raikou EX (105 Full Art)04
Raikou EX (105 Full Art)
+0.0% 30d
$319
Kyogre EX (104 Full Art)05
Kyogre EX (104 Full Art)
+0.0% 30d
$256
Entei EX (103 Full Art)06
Entei EX (103 Full Art)
−20.0% 30d
$170
Archeops07
Archeops
+0.0% 30d
$106
Kyogre EX08
Kyogre EX
−6.4% 30d
$99.99
Tornadus EX (108 Full Art)09
Tornadus EX (108 Full Art)
+0.0% 30d
$99.69
Pokemon Catcher (Gold)10
Pokemon Catcher (Gold)
−13.3% 30d
Every card111 cards · 111 priced
No.CardRarityMarket
1/108BulbasaurCommon$8.42
2/108IvysaurUncommon$9.53
3/108VenusaurRare$38.08
4/108ScytherUncommon$6.54
5/108CarnivineRare$1.35
6/108LeafeonRare$14.27
7/108DwebbleCommon$0.33
8/108CrustleUncommon$0.40
9/108KarrablastCommon$0.30
10/108ShelmetCommon$0.31
11/108AccelgorRare$1.59
12/108FlareonUncommon$4.26
13/108Entei-EXRare$49.58
14/108TorchicCommon$0.40
15/108TorchicCommon$0.71
16/108CombuskenUncommon$0.76
17/108BlazikenRare$20.12
18/108TorkoalUncommon$0.57
19/108HeatmorRare$0.57
20/108LarvestaCommon$0.37
21/108LarvestaCommon$0.33
22/108VolcaronaRare$2.53
23/108SlowpokeCommon$9.96
24/108SlowbroUncommon$2.35
25/108VaporeonUncommon$8.06
26/108Kyogre-EXRare$105.91
27/108PiplupCommon$2.01
28/108PrinplupUncommon$0.49
29/108EmpoleonRare$9.86
30/108GlaceonRare$7.97
31/108TympoleCommon$0.34
32/108PalpitoadUncommon$0.32
33/108VanilliteCommon$0.30
34/108VanillishUncommon$0.72
35/108DucklettCommon$0.31
36/108SwannaRare$0.77
37/108JolteonUncommon$8.83
38/108Raikou-EXRare$54.95
39/108PlusleCommon$12.32
40/108MinunCommon$6.83
41/108JoltikCommon$4.96
42/108JoltikCommon$4.26
43/108GalvantulaRare$1.08
44/108TynamoCommon$0.31
45/108TynamoCommon$0.39
46/108EelektrikUncommon$0.48
47/108EelektrossRare$2.18
48/108EspeonRare$10.55
49/108SlowkingRare$5.54
50/108WoobatCommon$0.36
51/108YamaskUncommon$0.41
52/108CofagrigusRare$1.44
53/108AerodactylRare$3.55
54/108Groudon-EXRare$81.73
55/108DrilburCommon$0.51
56/108ExcadrillRare$0.71
57/108ExcadrillRare$0.86
58/108TimburrCommon$0.33
59/108GurdurrUncommon$0.59
60/108UmbreonUncommon$24.09
61/108UmbreonUncommon$18.90
62/108SableyeUncommon$2.29
63/108Darkrai-EXRare$26.74
64/108SandileCommon$0.34
65/108KrokorokUncommon$0.43
66/108KrookodileRare$1.27
67/108ScraggyCommon$0.31
68/108ScraftyRare$0.55
69/108ZoruaCommon$1.40
70/108ZoruaCommon$1.47
71/108ZoroarkRare$1.18
72/108BisharpRare$0.87
73/108VullabyUncommon$0.45
74/108EscavalierRare$0.75
75/108KlinkCommon$0.52
76/108KlangUncommon$0.65
77/108KlinklangRare$2.10
78/108PawniardCommon$0.35
79/108BisharpRare$1.25
80/108ChanseyCommon$1.79
81/108ChanseyCommon$0.98
82/108BlisseyRare$2.21
83/108EeveeCommon$7.88
84/108EeveeCommon$3.21
85/108ChatotUncommon$0.45
86/108LillipupCommon$0.39
87/108HerdierUncommon$0.44
88/108StoutlandRare$0.92
89/108HaxorusRare$7.73
90/108Tornadus-EXRare$18.16
91/108CherenUncommon$0.31
92/108Dark ClawUncommon$3.53
93/108Dark PatchUncommon$1.78
94/108Enhanced HammerUncommon$0.72
95/108Hooligans Jim & CasUncommon$0.47
96/108NUncommon$2.72
97/108Old Amber AerodactylUncommon$0.39
98/108Professor JuniperUncommon$0.93
99/108Random ReceiverUncommon$0.49
100/108Rare CandyUncommon$1.49
101/108Twist MountainUncommon$0.38
102/108Ultra BallUncommon$1.84
103/108Entei-EXUltra Rare$320.00
104/108Kyogre-EXUltra Rare$318.96
105/108Raikou-EXUltra Rare$320.40
106/108Groudon-EXUltra Rare$427.46
107/108Darkrai-EXUltra Rare$816.28
108/108Tornadus-EXUltra Rare$80.00
109/108GardevoirSecret Rare$946.32
110/108ArcheopsSecret Rare$170.24
111/108Pokémon CatcherSecret Rare$115.00

Every Dark Explorers card in the moonstone catalog, in collector-number order. Market is the same TCGplayer figure each card page quotes; a dot means we hold no price for that card yet.

If you are building it

You can own 102 of the 112 priced cards in Dark Explorers for about $656. The median card is $1.4. The remaining $3,535 sits in just 10 chase cards, and one of them (Gardevoir, $946) is 23% of the entire set on its own. A full set is not one long climb. It is a cheap, fast 14% and then a very short, very expensive tail.

Advisor read
The quant read378 recorded points · 617 days
30-day return+4.4%
90-day return+14.6%
Realized vol24%annualized, ~90d daily returns
Max drawdown-8.7%recorded window
Off recorded high-1.9%

Computed from this set's own recorded value series; windows are stated and nothing is modeled. Medians anchor the return windows so a single outlier day never makes the figure.

Rip or hold
Rip report

No rip report for Dark Explorers

No published pull-rate study exists for this set, so there is nothing honest to simulate. We only rip sets whose per-pack odds come from a published, sourced study, and an inherited or inferred rate would put an invented number under every figure on this panel.

We publish a rip simulation only where per-pack odds come from a published, sourced study. Which sets have published pull rates counts what exists: 31 of the 110 English sets sold in booster packs, resting on eleven studies.

Set valuereal tcgplayer prices · summed daily · +4.4% 30d · +14.6% 90d
2025-01-27$4,1912026-10-06

Breadth: 42 cards up · 18 down · 52 flat over 30 days. Biggest mover: Blissey (+90.5%).

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