Moonstone · Set economicsAugust 2026

FIVE cards.48% of the bill.

Sword & Shield · 216 tracked cards · $578 to complete

5 cards · $267

The short, expensive tail of the set.THE OTHER 230 CARDS · $311

$108

Snorlax VMAX (Secret)

Morpeko VMAX (Secret)

What this means if you are building it

You can own 230 of the 235 priced cards in Sword & Shield for about $311. The median card is $0.22. The remaining $267 sits in just 5 chase cards, and one of them (Snorlax VMAX (Secret), $108) is 19% of the entire set on its own. A full set is not one long climb. It is a cheap, fast 52% and then a very short, very expensive tail.

Set value · real TCGplayer prices, summed daily+3.6% 30d · +11.0% 90d

Breadth: 118 cards up · 75 down · 42 flat over 30 days. Biggest mover: Sableye V (+42.0%).

ENGLISH PRINTS · UNGRADED · TCGPLAYER MARKET · UPDATED DAILY

Rip or hold · 2,000 boxes simulatedSOURCED PULL RATES · REAL MARKET PRICES

A Sword & Shield booster box opens to $121 in singles on average against a real $694 box price — 0% of boxes beat the box. Half of all boxes land between $87 and $142.

The pulls that pay the bill

Snorlax VMAX #206$108 · 1 in 17 boxes

Snorlax VMAX #142$55.88 · 1 in 3.9 boxes

Snorlax V #197$35.65 · 1 in 13 boxes

Marnie #200$34.07 · 1 in 8.8 boxes

Morpeko VMAX #204$25.09 · 1 in 20 boxes

Simulated with the same sourced pull-rate model and card pools as the pack simulator; singles at TCGplayer market. Unpriced cards count $0 (216/216 priced). Tiers without published rates are excluded. Sealed box price: TCGplayer.