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Scarlet & Violet

258 cards trackedenglish printsungradedtcgplayer marketas of 2026-09-05
Full set$8,236
Median card$3.54
30 days+0.0%
90 days+1.0%
Top 5 share41%
Priced282

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Cost concentration5 cards = 41% of the bill
5 cards · $2,892other 277 · $5,344

The short, expensive tail of the set.

Chase laddertop 5 by price
$1,094
Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat01
Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat
+0.0% 30d
$698
Paradise Resort - 045 (World Championships 2023) [Staff]02
Paradise Resort - 045 (World Championships 2023) [Staff]
+0.0% 30d
$598
Paradise Resort - 150 (World Championships 2024)03
Paradise Resort - 150 (World Championships 2024)
+0.0% 30d
$370
Paradise Resort - 224 (World Championships 2025) [Staff]04
Paradise Resort - 224 (World Championships 2025) [Staff]
+4.0% 30d
$132
Hop's Snorlax - 184 (Prerelease) [Staff]05
Hop's Snorlax - 184 (Prerelease) [Staff]
+0.0% 30d
If you are building it

You can own 277 of the 282 priced cards in Scarlet & Violet for about $5,344. The median card is $3.54. The remaining $2,892 sits in just 5 chase cards, and one of them (Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat, $1,094) is 13% of the entire set on its own. A full set is not one long climb. It is a cheap, fast 59% and then a very short, very expensive tail.

Advisor read
Card vs box+269.4% vs the box
chase card · Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat$1,092.15
sealed booster box · Scarlet & Violet$295.69
the card369.4% of the box

PRICIER THAN THE BOX

The single most valuable card in this set costs $796.46 more than one sealed booster box of it. Box price TCGplayer, as of 2026-08-31.

Two recorded prices. The odds of pulling the card are the rip simulation below, not this line.

Pull ratesmeasured
The chase, priced in packsGardevoir ex ($71.69) lands about once per 318 packs · ~8.8 booster boxes · $2,612 of packs at today's box price
TierOdds per packCards in tierExpected per box
Double rare (ex)1 in 7125.14
Ultra rare (full art)1 in 15202.4
Illustration rare1 in 13242.77
Special illustration rare1 in 32101.13
Hyper rare (gold)1 in 5460.67

Odds are measured rates from TCGplayer Infinite pull-rate study (8,000+ packs); The Pokémon Company publishes no official odds. The chase math assumes every card in a tier is equally likely within its slot, and prices the packs at the tracked booster-box price. It is arithmetic, not a promise.

Rip or hold
Rip or hold · 2,000 boxes simulatedSourced pull rates · Real market prices

A Scarlet & Violet booster box opens to $136 in singles on average against a real $296 box price; 1% of boxes beat the box. Half of all boxes land between $101 and $163.

p5 $75median $128p95 $224
The pulls that pay the bill
Gardevoir ex #245$72.1 · 1 in 10 boxes
Drowzee #210$59.76 · 1 in 11 boxes
Ralts #211$43.65 · 1 in 11 boxes
Kirlia #212$43.16 · 1 in 8.7 boxes
Slowpoke #204$39.12 · 1 in 11 boxes

Simulated with the same sourced pull-rate model and card pools as the pack simulator; singles at TCGplayer market. Unpriced cards count $0 (258/258 priced). Tiers without published rates are excluded. Sealed box price: TCGplayer.

Set valuereal tcgplayer prices · summed daily · +0.0% 30d · +1.0% 90d
2025-01-27$8,2362026-09-05

Breadth: 79 cards up · 82 down · 121 flat over 30 days.

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