Answers come from this page's recorded prices and verified PSA sold medians, with the sample size behind each one.
Recorded moonstone data only. Not financial advice.
The short, expensive tail of the set.
You can own 141 of the 151 priced cards in Xy Base Set for about $165. The median card is $0.44. The remaining $652 sits in just 10 chase cards, and one of them (Blastoise EX (142 Full Art), $160) is 20% of the entire set on its own. A full set is not one long climb. It is a cheap, fast 20% and then a very short, very expensive tail.
CHEAPER THAN THE BOX
The single most valuable card in this set costs $3,567.95 less than one sealed booster box of it. Box price TCGplayer, as of 2026-09-22.
Two recorded prices. The odds of pulling the card are the rip simulation below, not this line.
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.
| Product | Price | Family | Packs | $/pack | 30d | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | XY Booster Box | $3,728.00 | Booster Box | 36 | $103.56 | · |
| 02 | Kalos Starter Figure Box [Chespin Box] | $999.99 | Accessory | · | · | 0.0% |
| 03 | Kalos Starter Figure Box [Fennekin Box] | $999.99 | Product | · | · | 0.0% |
| 04 | Kalos Starter Figure Box [Froakie Box] | $999.99 | Product | · | · | 0.0% |
| 05 | Legend of Kalos Tin [Xerneas EX] | $800.00 | Tin | · | · | 0.0% |
| 06 | Garchomp EX Box | $599.99 | Product | · | · | · |
| 07 | Legend of Kalos Tin [Yveltal EX] | $550.00 | Tin | · | · | · |
| 08 | XY Base Set Sleeved Booster Pack | $159.99 | Booster Pack | 1 | $159.99 | · |
| 09 | XY Booster Pack | $125.13 | Booster Pack | 1 | $125.13 | +12.5% |
| 10 | Collector's Pin Three Pack Blisters (Froakie) | $29.99 | Blister | · | · | 0.0% |
| 11 | XY Base Set Theme Deck - "Destruction Rush" [Yveltal] | $29.98 | Deck | · | · | 0.0% |
Every price is the tracked TCGplayer figure from our nightly sealed sync. Cost per pack is shown only where the pack count is recorded on a single-unit product; lots (cases, multi-sets) are listed but never enter per-pack math. No pack counts are assumed.
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.
Breadth: 56 cards up · 33 down · 62 flat over 30 days. Biggest mover: Aromatisse (+80.2%).