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moonstone · set deskSeptember 2026

Swsh01: Sword & Shield Base Set

english printsungradedtcgplayer marketas of 2026-09-22
Full set$546
Median card$0.22
30 days−1.2%
90 days−1.9%
Top 10 share64%
Priced235

Set Market Report PRO

Where it sits in its own history346 recorded readings
All-time high$5802026-07-21
From that high−5.9%set value today
First recorded$285when we started tracking, not a release
Dearer than79%272 of 346 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 = 64% of the bill
10 cards · $347other 225 · $199

The short, expensive tail of the set.

Chase laddertop 10 by price
$104
Snorlax VMAX (Secret)01
Snorlax VMAX (Secret)
−3.4% 30d
$55.71
Snorlax VMAX02
Snorlax VMAX
+0.9% 30d
$35.55
Marnie (Full Art)03
Marnie (Full Art)
+4.4% 30d
$34.37
Snorlax V (Full Art)04
Snorlax V (Full Art)
−3.2% 30d
$26.33
Morpeko VMAX (Secret)05
Morpeko VMAX (Secret)
+5.6% 30d
$21.2
Lapras VMAX (Secret)06
Lapras VMAX (Secret)
+5.6% 30d
$21.11
Zacian V (Secret)07
Zacian V (Secret)
+4.3% 30d
$20.88
Marnie (Secret)08
Marnie (Secret)
−5.2% 30d
$13.91
Morpeko V (Full Art)09
Morpeko V (Full Art)
−2.5% 30d
$13.73
Sableye V (Full Art)10
Sableye V (Full Art)
+9.7% 30d
If you are building it

You can own 225 of the 235 priced cards in Swsh01: Sword & Shield Base Set for about $199. The median card is $0.22. The remaining $347 sits in just 10 chase cards, and one of them (Snorlax VMAX (Secret), $104) is 19% of the entire set on its own. A full set is not one long climb. It is a cheap, fast 36% and then a very short, very expensive tail.

Advisor read
Card vs box−84.8% vs the box
chase card · Snorlax VMAX (Secret)$104.4
sealed booster box · Swsh01: Sword & Shield Base Set$688.99
the card15.2% of the box

CHEAPER THAN THE BOX

The single most valuable card in this set costs $584.59 less than one sealed booster box of it. Box price TCGplayer, as of 2026-09-20.

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

The quant read346 recorded points · 603 days
30-day return-1.6%
90-day return-2.1%
Realized vol6%annualized, ~90d daily returns
Max drawdown-6.2%recorded window
Off recorded high-5.9%

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
Set valuereal tcgplayer prices · summed daily · −1.2% 30d · −1.9% 90d
2025-01-27$5462026-09-22

Breadth: 58 cards up · 65 down · 112 flat over 30 days. Biggest mover: Indeedee V (Full Art) (+11.5%).

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