Pokémon Cards
SEALED POKÉMON CARDS: TCG BOOSTERS, DISPLAYS AND BOXES
THIRTY YEARS OF COLLECTIBLE CARD GAME POKÉMON
The Trading Card Game Pokémon was released in Japan in October 1996, one year after the Game Boy games, published by Media Factory; Wizards of the Coast brought it to the United States in January 1999 and to France immediately. Thirty years later, it is the best-selling card game in history, with more than 75 billion cards printed, and the only collectible where a childhood object reached the price of an apartment: the Pikachu Illustrator from 1998, sold for 5.275 million dollars in 2022. The Pokémon Company celebrated the 30th anniversary on September 16, 2026 with a dedicated expansion, launched simultaneously worldwide, and this is what we are offering you in a set of six boosters.
BOOSTER, DISPLAY, TRAINER BOX ELITE: UNDERSTANDING THE FORMATS
Everything starts with booster : ten random cards from an expansion, including at least one rare. The display brings together 36 sealed in factory blister packs - the collector's format, because it guarantees the distribution of rarities and increases in value when closed. Between the two, the boxes: the Elite Trainer Box, or ETB, with nine boosters, card sleeves and dice; the bundle of six boosters, the tripack and its three boosters plus a promo card, the binder box which combines portfolio and boosters. Each format has its audience: the booster for the opening, the display for the investment, the ETB for the gift.
MEGA-EVOLUTION, 30th ANNIVERSARY, SCARLET AND PURPLE: THE EXTENSIONS OF OUR SELECTION
The current block is called Mega-Evolution, launched in October 2025 in the wake of Legends Pokémon : Z-A. We are following its French releases: Transcendent Heroes on January 30, 2026, Perfect Balance on March 27 with Méga-Zygarde-ex, and the Elite Trainer boxes that accompany them. The set of six boosters 30ᵉ Anniversary, released in September, is the most sought-after piece of the year.
The previous block, Scarlet and Violet, left extensions that have already become classics: 151, which revisited the Pokémon of the first generation, Prismatic Evolutions and its Eevee illustration cards - of which we have the binder box -, Fable Nébuleuse in tripack, Aventures Ensemble and Fated Rivalries in single boosters, Black Lightning and White Flame in bundles. And for collectors, the Celebrations booster of the 25 years, released in 2021 with its reprints of historical cards.
HOW TO BUY CARDS POKÉMON WITHOUT MAKE A MISTAKE
Three rules. A sealed product can be judged by its packaging: intact factory blister, embossed Pokémon logo, no trace of regluing — repackaged displays with weighed boosters exist, and they no longer contain anything rare. An extension is collected at the display or at the ETB if the objective is value, at the booster if the objective is the pleasure of opening. And the market has its cycles: the block that has just finished is often cheaper today than it will be in three years, when it will no longer be printed. All our products are sealed and purchased through official distribution. In our collectiblessection, the Pokémon cards are the ancestor of the blind box that Sonny Angel and Labubu took over — chance, rarity, the filmed opening.







































