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How the Delta Reign pre-orders went at Pokémon Center
Pre-orders opened on September 30, 2026, 37 days before the November 6 release, as the last two sets suggested. They sold out in about two hours. Many people in line watched their wait go down, then back up.
In short
About two hours of stock. Pre-orders went live around 11:01 AM Central, and everything looked sold out by about 1:01 PM.
The line moved backwards for many people. Wait estimates dropped, then jumped back up, often after a repeat CAPTCHA check.
Plenty of people did get through, mostly in the first two hours.
Pokémon Center hasn't explained the line. Its support team doesn't take queue questions. We list the open questions below.
What happened, minute by minute
Times are Central (CT). Each line links to the post that reported it.
All Delta Reign pre-orders appear sold out (report)
The timing matched the last two main sets: Chaos Rising opened 39 days before release and Pitch Black 37 (PokeBeach). Delta Reign opened 37 days out, which PokeBeach confirmed (PokeBeach).
Joseph Writer Anderson reported an initial wait of "8+ hours" that soon "climbed to 9 hours" (Joseph Writer Anderson). Pokémon Center's own help page says wait estimates vary with traffic, that customer support can't help with queue questions, and that waiting in line "does not guarantee product availability" (Pokémon Center Support).
What we saw in line
We joined the line about 12 minutes after it opened. The estimate said about 12 hours. We stayed on the same page the whole time and watched the number of people ahead of us drop fast, then climb back up, then drop again. It was nowhere near the 12 hours it first showed.
We still don't know why. People may have been removed by bot protection, or the line may have kept moving after the product had already run out.
Others saw the same thing
A timer that dropped to a couple of hours, then went back up to 7, over and over (post).
Repeated CAPTCHA checks every few minutes, where missing one sent people to the back of the line (post, post).
Estimates that jumped from 2.5 hours to about 7 (post), and from 3 hours to 14 (post).
Being sent back to the start, then finding the ETBs gone on getting in (post).
Reaching checkout, having cards declined, then losing access to the site (post).
Plenty got through, too
Many people posted a secured pre-order between about 11:15 AM and 1 PM (example, example).
One buyer got a booster box but missed the ETBs by about 10 minutes, and asked why it sold out in under two hours (post).
One collector defended the queue: janky, but facing a huge number of attempts in a few minutes, and fairer than raffles, which bots win (post).
Why would a line move backwards?
Pokémon Center hasn't said, and it hasn't named the waiting-room system it uses. Guides written by people who inspected the page point to Imperva's waiting room, formerly Incapsula (TechStory). Imperva's documentation describes a setting where a visitor who stays inactive too long "is considered as having left the queue" and, on coming back, "moves to the end of the queue" (Imperva). We don't know how Pokémon Center has it set up.
These are the possible explanations; none is confirmed.
Re-checks that reset your place. If a repeat CAPTCHA or bot check fails or times out, or counts as leaving, the visitor can be sent to the back of the line. The CAPTCHA reports above fit this.
Recalculated estimates. Wait estimates are usually based on how fast the line is moving. If the store lets people in more slowly, for example to keep checkout from crashing, the estimate goes up even if your place doesn't change.
Removed visitors. If flagged bot sessions are taken out of the line, the number ahead of you should only go down. On its own, that doesn't explain it going up.
Sold out, line still running. Everything was gone by about 1 PM, while people who joined later still had hours showing.
This has happened before
Pitch Black, June 10, 2026: the site crashed (Tech Times), and people reported being ejected from the queue after long waits and having to start over, while all three products sold out fast (Reno Gazette Journal).
30th Celebration, September 2026: Pokémon Center canceled thousands of pre-orders, mainly ones placed by bots, and some regular buyers who waited in line for hours were canceled too. The Pokémon Company made no official statement (Kotaku).
Why not show how much is left?
Pokémon Center could show people in line how much of each product is left, or at least when it's gone. Nobody would wait hours for something that already sold out, and people could leave the line once their item was gone instead of holding a place for nothing. Stores sometimes keep stock numbers private so bots can't time their attempts, but a sold-out notice for people already in line gives nothing away.
It would also help Pokémon Center's own score. On our Store Report Card, publishing stock counts or how orders were allocated is worth 4 points under Transparency. Pokémon Center gets none of them today; earning them would lift its score from 83 to 87.
What Pokémon Center could tell buyers
Show people in line how much of each product is left, or tell them when it sells out.
Explain what makes a place in line or a wait estimate jump.
Say whether bot sessions were removed, and roughly how many.
Say whether orders from bots or over-limit accounts will be canceled, how regular buyers are protected from being canceled by mistake, and whether that stock comes back.
We've asked Pokémon Center's press contact about the release, the waiting room and showing how much stock is left, and we'll update this page with any answer.
What to do next time
Other stores usually open Delta Reign pre-orders later, a few weeks before release. Each store's status is on the Delta Reign page.
Local game stores take pre-orders at the counter and get stock a week before big-box stores.
Posts from individual buyers are public X posts, linked as reports of their own experience, not confirmed facts. Last updated September 30, 2026. See also Why sealed cards cost so much.
Japanese vs English Pokémon: what's different, and why loose packs are risky
Japanese Pokémon cards are loved for their print quality and art, and plenty of US shops sell them. They are a different product from English cards, though, and loose packs, Japanese ones especially, carry a risk most new buyers don't know about.
In short
Japanese Pokémon is its own product. Packs hold 5 cards instead of 10, boxes hold 30 packs instead of 36, and each set comes out in Japan months before its English version.
A Japanese box with no shrink wrap is normal. Stores in Japan often remove it at checkout. It also makes tampering easier, so buy from sellers who explain how they check boxes.
Loose packs can be weighed. A seller with a precision scale can find the packs holding heavier foil cards, keep them, and sell the rest one by one. If a loose pack's price looks great, assume it has been weighed. Some sets are easier to weigh than others, and loose packs sold on live streams carry the same risk.
The safest buy is sealed: a box, Elite Trainer Box or bundle from a shop you trust. The shops we check are on Deals.
English and Japanese, side by side
A main-set pack and boxMega Evolution sets, 2026
English
Cards per pack10plus an Energy and a code card
Packs per box36
Pack price (MSRP)$4.49
Box price (MSRP)$161.64
Comes outMonths laterDelta Reign: Nov 6, 2026
Japanese
Cards per pack5no Energy or code card
Packs per box30
Pack price in Japan¥200
Box price in Japan¥6,000about $65–85 in the US for a recent set
Comes outFirstStorm Emeralda: Jul 31, 2026
Pack contents: Dexerto and pokemon-card.com (Storm Emeralda). English box MSRP: PHD Games. US price of a Japanese box: Abyss Eye sales on PriceCharting, September 2026. Special sets differ: a 30th Celebration pack holds 6 foil cards, 20 packs to a box.
How Japanese sets line up with English ones
Japan gets each set first. The English version follows months later, usually under a different name: Japan's Storm Emeralda (July 31, 2026) becomes Delta Reign in English on November 6 (pokemon.com). That head start is why a set's Japanese boxes reach US import shops months before the English version. The Pokémon Company doesn't distribute Japanese product in the US, so every Japanese box here is imported by a shop or seller (TCGplayer). You can see upcoming Japanese sets under Releases with the Japanese filter.
No shrink wrap is normal, and it cuts both ways
Many stores in Japan remove the plastic from booster boxes at checkout to stop scalpers, and Japanese Pokémon Centers have done it for years (VGC). So a Japanese box without shrink isn't a warning sign on its own. It is easier to tamper with, though. The main fraud is the resealed box: packs are weighed, the heavy ones taken out, the box refilled with common packs and wrapped in new plastic (PACKRAT). Shops that sell no-shrink boxes safely will tell you how they check them, and refund a box that turns out to be repacked (Moxie Card Shop's FAQ is a good example).
What a weighed pack is
Foil and full-art cards weigh a little more than plain ones. Wargamer weighed a few cards from one set, Crown Zenith: a full art came to about 2.00 grams and a common to 1.81 grams (Wargamer). That was a small sample, not a lab study across Pokémon printing, so treat the numbers as an example of the gap, not a rule. A pack holding a heavier card weighs slightly more, and a precision scale can pick that up.
English packs: since late 2011 every pack has a code card, and those are deliberately made in a range of weights, which makes weighing English packs unreliable (Wargamer).
Japanese packs: there's no code card and only 5 cards, so one heavier card is a bigger share of the pack's weight, and Japanese packs can be weighed (Sleeve No Card Behind). Older English packs from before the code card can be weighed too.
How weighed packs end up for saleWhy a cheap loose pack is often a worse deal than it looks
1. Open a boxA seller buys sealed boxes and opens them.
2. Weigh every packA precision scale picks up the small difference a heavier card makes.
3. Keep the heavy packsThese are the likeliest to hold a hit, so the seller keeps them.
4. Sell the light packs looseListed one by one, often at a price per pack that looks too good to pass up.
The weighing and resealing tactic is described by PACKRAT. Card weights: Wargamer.
If a loose pack's price seems great, it's probably been weighed. A sealed box keeps its full mix of heavy and light packs. A pile of loose packs from someone who opened boxes may not.
Some sets are easier to weigh than others
Weighing only works when a pack's weight gives its contents away. That depends on the set: whether it has a code card, and whether every pack holds a foil.
Which packs a scale can readLoose packs from the "easier" group carry the most risk
Older English sets, before late 2011Made before code cards were added to every pack (Wargamer).
Harder to weigh
English sets since late 2011Each pack has a code card made in a range of weights, which hides the difference a foil makes (Wargamer).
Vintage Japanese sets from Jungle to NeoA foil in every pack, so there is no light pack to tell apart (collectors on Elite Fourum).
Harder to weigh doesn't mean safe. Any pack can be opened, searched and re-crimped (next section).
The more a set's big cards are worth, the more a seller gains by weighing it. Take the most care with loose packs from the Japanese sets everyone is chasing.
Opened and re-crimped packs
The top and bottom of a pack are sealed with a crimp, the zigzag pressed into the foil at the factory. Factory packs are crimped, not glued, so any glue on a pack means someone opened it (Sleeve No Card Behind). A pack can be opened, searched and pressed shut again. Look for uneven pressure, melted-looking or glossy flat spots, split foil, glue, or a crimp that doesn't match other packs of the same product (PokeSnap).
Loose packs are also sold one at a time in live auctions and breaks on apps like Whatnot, and tampered packs have turned up there. In September 2025 a Whatnot seller was caught on their own stream selling resealed Pokémon packs, given away when one pack held two copies of the same card (Dexerto). Whatnot's own rules say a sealed pack's contents must be unknown to both the buyer and the seller when it's sold (Whatnot), so a weighed or searched pack breaks them. Report it.
Packs come from a loose pile, not a box opened on camera. You can't tell where they came from or what was done to them.
A pack leaves the camera's view between the box and the rip.
The bidding runs far past what the pack costs in a store. Live auctions move fast; one buyer paid 500% over the usual retail price for three packs (Kanto Post). Know the price before the stream starts.
Before you buy loose packs, especially on eBay
The price per pack is well under what the same pack costs from a sealed box. That's the classic sign of weighed, light packs.
The listing says "heavy", "weighed" or gives the pack's weight in grams. Some eBay sellers advertise weighed packs openly. A seller who weighs packs knows which ones they kept, and some packs sold as "heavy" are light ones from a box the seller already sorted (Card Collector). An "unweighed" label can't be checked either.
The seller lists many loose packs of the same set, especially a set that sells for a lot by the box. Ask where the packs came from.
Photos are stock images or one pack standing in for all of them. Ask for photos of both crimps and the back seam.
"Japanese box, no shrink" priced far under other sellers. Some boxes sold as Japanese are Korean, which cost less, and very low prices can mean counterfeits or a repacked box (Japan-Figure).
New seller, little feedback, or feedback mentioning resealed or searched product.
Safer ways to buy: a sealed box, Elite Trainer Box or bundle from a shop you trust; for Japanese product, a shop or Japan-based exporter that says how it checks no-shrink boxes; and on eBay, pay through eBay so the Money Back Guarantee covers an item that isn't as described. Loose packs aren't for beginners. If you want to open packs, opening your own sealed box is the fair way to do it.
This guide is about Pokémon, where weighing is best documented. The same habits protect you in any card game: buy sealed, from shops you trust, at a price that makes sense.
The price printed on the box is what the maker suggests. What you actually pay depends on how much got printed, when you buy and who you buy from. Here is how it works, and when waiting saves you money.
In short
MSRP is the price on the box. An Elite Trainer Box (ETB) is $49.99. Anything much above that is a markup, and some of it is a scalper markup.
Launch day is the most expensive day. Prices are highest right before and at release, then usually fall within days or weeks as more product ships.
Main sets get reprinted. Waiting a few weeks for a regular set is usually cheaper. It may not drop all the way to MSRP.
Exclusives and out-of-print sets don't come back. Waiting doesn't help with those; they tend to go up.
Buy from real stores. Most big stores, the official shops and local game stores sell at or near the box price. Release-day listings on Facebook, Marketplace or eBay are often two to three times higher.
They print a lot. It still isn't enough.
The Pokémon Company printed about 10 billion cards in its last fiscal year (April 2025 to March 2026), and about 85 billion since the game started. Demand still outran supply (Kotaku, PokeGuardian). Since 2021 the company has said it prints "at maximum capacity" and reprints to restock stores (ICv2, Wargamer).
Pokémon cards printed each yearBillions of cards, fiscal years April to March
3.72020–21
9.12021–22
9.72022–23
11.92023–24
10.22024–25
102025–26
Calculated from the company's running totals (30.4 billion in 2021 to 85 billion in 2026) as reported by ComicBook.com and Kotaku.
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2020–21
3.7 billion
2021–22
9.1 billion
2022–23
9.7 billion
2023–24
11.9 billion
2024–25
10.2 billion
2025–26
10 billion
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The bottleneck is the printer. Pokémon's main US printer is building a much larger campus, but full operation isn't expected until late 2028, so supply won't jump before then (Wargamer).
Local shops get an allocation from distributors, not what they order. For Prismatic Evolutions, some shops reported getting only a small fraction of their order: one owner described asking for 100 ETBs and being allowed 15 (Dexerto).
Nintendo's president said in June 2026 that "limited-quantity cards are purchased in large volume, leading to high-priced reselling," and that The Pokémon Company is responding with made-to-order sales and agreements with marketplaces (Nintendo shareholder Q&A).
One set, many release days
A set doesn't come out all at once. Products arrive in waves over weeks or months. The 30th Celebration set, for example, started on September 16, 2026 with the Elite Trainer Box, the Pokémon Center ETB and collections. Booster Bundles and Mini Tins follow on October 2, Battle Decks on October 30, the big collections on November 6, and the Binder Collection on December 4 (Pokémon.com). If you miss one wave, more product is usually on the way. The release calendar lists every wave.
One set, many release days30th Celebration, 2026
Sept 16Elite Trainer Box, Pokémon Center ETB, collections, ex Box
Oct 2Booster Bundle, Mini Tins
Oct 30Battle Decks
Nov 6Ultra-Premium, Ditto Premium and Figure Collections
A Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box is a different product from the regular one. It's sold only by the Pokémon Center, has 11 packs instead of 9 and two promo cards instead of one, and costs $59.99 instead of $49.99 (Pokémon.com).
The Pokémon Center has used an online waiting room for big drops since January 2025. Refreshing or leaving loses your place (ComicBook.com).
The Pokémon Company doesn't announce when a set stops being printed. Collectors generally expect about 12 to 18 months for a main English set, but that's a rule of thumb, not an official number.
Why launch day costs the most
Everyone wants a new set in the first week, and there's never enough on day one. Bots and resellers buy online drops in seconds, and the same boxes show up on Facebook groups, Marketplace and eBay the same day at two to three times the box price. Seeing boxes sell out and prices climb makes people afraid of missing out, and some pay the markup. It isn't only individuals: at the 30th Celebration launch, GameStop listed the $49.99 ETB at $150 (Tech Times).
Then more product ships, and prices fall.
What happened next, in real numbers
30th Celebration (September 2026): the top card sold for $850 to $1,400 before release and about $120 five days after (Kotaku). The Pokémon Center ETB went from about $495 to about $300 within two weeks. The regular ETB still sells for about $160, three times its box price, with more waves coming.
Prismatic Evolutions (January 2025): around launch, the $59.99 Pokémon Center ETB was reselling for about $400 (Kotaku). It never got regular restocks and still sells for about $410. The regular ETB, reprinted several times, sells for about $140: well above its $49.99 box price, but a fraction of the exclusive.
Disney Lorcana, The First Chapter (2023): the booster box peaked above $400 against a $143.99 MSRP. After Ravensburger reprinted it, the box fell to about $159 within about four months, and the next set dropped below MSRP within 19 days of release (WDWNT).
Current prices are recent sold prices from PriceCharting in late September 2026, rounded; they change daily.
When waiting doesn't help
Waiting works for main sets that are still being printed. It doesn't work for products that won't be made again.
What boxes sell for now, compared with the price on the box1× is the box price (MSRP). Late September 2026 unless noted.
Exclusive or no longer printedStill printed or reprinted
Scarlet & Violet 151 ETBno longer printed
10×
Prismatic Evolutions Pokémon Center ETBexclusive
6.8×
30th Celebration Pokémon Center ETBexclusive, 2 weeks after release
5×
One Piece OP-13 booster boxafter its reprint
3.8×
30th Celebration ETB12 days after release
3.2×
Prismatic Evolutions ETBreprinted
2.8×
Lorcana The First Chapter boxafter its reprint, Dec 2023
1.1×
Magic Aetherdrift play booster boxregular set
0.6×
1× box price
Current prices are recent sold prices from PriceCharting, rounded; Lorcana from WDWNT. Box prices from the makers' posted prices.
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Times box price
Scarlet & Violet 151 ETB (no longer printed)
$49.99
about $500
10×
Prismatic Evolutions Pokémon Center ETB (exclusive)
$59.99
about $410
6.8×
30th Celebration Pokémon Center ETB (exclusive, 2 weeks after release)
$59.99
about $302
5×
One Piece OP-13 booster box (after its reprint)
$119.76
about $453
3.8×
30th Celebration ETB (12 days after release)
$49.99
about $158
3.2×
Prismatic Evolutions ETB (reprinted)
$49.99
about $139
2.8×
Lorcana The First Chapter box (after its reprint, Dec 2023)
$143.99
about $159
1.1×
Magic Aetherdrift play booster box (regular set)
$164.70
about $106
0.6×
Store exclusives. The Prismatic Evolutions Pokémon Center ETB sells for about $410 today (box price $59.99), while the regular ETB from the same set sells for about $140. The exclusive never got the same restocks.
Sets that stopped printing. Scarlet & Violet 151 ETBs, about $50 new in 2023, sell for about $500 three years later.
Supply that's capped on purpose or by the printer. Reprints bring prices down, but they don't promise MSRP. If you want an exclusive to open or to give, the release-day pre-order at the box price is usually your best chance.
Why One Piece boxes cost even more
The One Piece Card Game is younger (English release in December 2022) and built on one of the biggest stories in the world: the manga has passed 600 million copies (Anime News Network). Bandai makes the cards mostly in Japan and has said it is still expanding production (Bandai Namco). Demand has run ahead of supply for most sets.
For collectors
A booster box is 24 packs at $4.49 to $4.99 each, about $108 to $120 at MSRP. The Carrying On His Will (OP-13) box more than tripled in two months after release (TCGplayer). Bandai announced a reprint in February 2026, and the box still sells for about four times MSRP.
Reprints go first to stores that run official tournaments, and Bandai's own shops sell hot products through lotteries (Bandai). Official One Piece stores in the US open the shrink wrap on booster boxes at purchase to make them harder to flip (Wargamer).
Older English boxes that are no longer printed, like Awakening of the New Era (OP-05) and Romance Dawn (OP-01), sell for $1,000 or more.
Since 2026 Bandai releases every product worldwide on the same day, so English players no longer wait months behind Japan (One Piece Card Game).
And Magic: The Gathering?
Most Magic sets sell at or below their box price. A regular Aetherdrift play booster box, about $165 at MSRP, sells for about $106. The exceptions are special crossover sets: Final Fantasy sold $200 million in its first day even after Wizards increased production four times before release, according to Hasbro's CEO (Kotaku).
How to avoid overpaying
Know the box price. Every product on Printed Price shows its MSRP and how far over or under it a price is.
Skip launch week for main sets unless you find one at the box price. Prices usually fall once more product ships.
Use the fair ways in. Queues, drawings and invitations at the big stores sell at the box price. The Windows page lists them.
Check local game stores. A few dollars over the box price is normal for a small shop covering its costs. Our Deals page lists checked shops near MSRP.
Be careful with Facebook and Marketplace listings. Release-day boxes there are often marked up two to three times, and "too cheap" listings can be resealed or fake.
Decide early on exclusives. If you want a Pokémon Center exclusive, the release pre-order is your best chance at the box price; waiting rarely helps.
Current prices on this page are recent sold prices from PriceCharting in late September 2026, rounded, and change daily. Launch-day and historical prices come from the articles linked beside them. This page explains how prices usually behave; it isn't investment advice.
Store Report Card
How Walmart, Pokémon Center, Amazon, Target, GameStop and Dick's treat regular buyers of sealed trading cards online.
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Where things stand
No big store has this solved. Pokémon Center comes closest: it sells at MSRP behind a waiting room with purchase limits, but its drops are rarely announced and checkout errors are common. Walmart, Dick's and Amazon all ran a drawing or invitations for the 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box, a real step up from a race that bots win, but each charged well over MSRP for it: $69.97, $120 and $83.44 against $49.99. Target sold it at $69.99 in an overnight drop with no line at all. GameStop listed it at $150 and asked for a 50% deposit on pre-orders. Nobody publishes how much stock went up.
What this is
The report card grades how the big stores treat regular people buying sealed trading cards online. Part of Printed Price's mission is pushing big retailers to protect regular buyers, and the stores that already do some of this show it can be done. A public score makes it easy to see who is doing better, who is doing worse, and what each store could fix.
What we would like to see from every store is on For retailers. We re-score each store after every big release. Stores, and anyone with a better source, can write to info@printedprice.com.
For retailers
How card shops get listed on Printed Price, and what we ask of the big stores.
For card shops
Printed Price links buyers straight to sealed Pokémon and Lorcana product at independent card shops, at the price the shop sets. Local game stores and reputable online shops are a big part of this site. Many sell a little above MSRP, or at market price, and that is their call. The only shops we steer people away from are shady ones, or ones acting like scalpers.
Free, no sign-up. There is no fee to be listed. Buyers click through to your own product page and buy from you.
Every shop is checked first. We look at your website, contact details and independent reviews before listing a shop. Shops with a pattern of complaints are not listed.
What we read. Only the public product catalog your online store publishes, about every two hours, and less often when you have no sealed Pokémon or Lorcana in stock. If your robots.txt asks readers to skip your catalog, we skip your shop.
What we never do. We never add to a cart, check out or buy anything. Our reader names itself PrintedPrice and links to this page.
What shows. Sealed Pokémon and Lorcana products (and Japanese Pokémon boxes, labelled as imports), next to the price printed on the box (MSRP) and how far over or under it your price is. Prices are shown before shipping.
Getting listed. Email info@printedprice.com with your shop's website.
Getting removed. Email info@printedprice.com from your shop's email address and we take your shop off the same day.
What we ask of big retailers
Part of the mission is pushing big retailers to protect regular buyers online. The stores that already do some of this show it can be done.
A fair line. A queue or a drawing for hot products, like Pokémon Center's waiting room or Walmart's collectibles drawings, instead of a race that bots win.
Limits that hold. Per-customer limits enforced across accounts, cards and addresses, not just per order.
Bots stopped before checkout, so real people are not left fighting cart errors.
Drops announced ahead of time, at hours when people are awake.
The price you add to your cart is the price you pay.
The store's own stock first. Reseller listings above MSRP should not sit next to the store's own on hot items.
Transparency about how much stock went up and how orders were allocated.
What changed on Printed Price, and why. Newest first.
September 29, 2026
Riftbound in, Magic out, Gundam next
Printed Price covers games where regular buyers struggle to get sealed product at the price on the box. That's why we're changing which games we cover.
Magic: The Gathering is gone
Most Magic sets sell at or below their box price, often within weeks of release. The Aetherdrift play booster box, for example, went for about 0.6 times its price (see Why prices jump). There's no problem for us to solve there, so Magic has left the game switch, Releases and Deals. Items you added to your own collection stay.
Riftbound is in
Riot's League of Legends card game is the opposite of Magic. A booster display costs $120 at MSRP, but in September 2026 they sold for about $244 to $258 (Origins), about $186 (Spiritforged) and about $172 (Unleashed), according to PriceCharting. Store pre-orders for the next set, Radiance (October 23), have run $140 to $225 (RiftCompare). Riot's own store limits displays to one per Riot ID, and they sell out.
It's also a young game on the rise. It launched in October 2025, game stores reported strong sales and plenty of new players at launch (ICv2), and Riot now releases a new set every quarter.
Riftbound is sold mainly through game stores, not big-box shelves, and about half the independent shops we check carry it. That's where Printed Price helps most: Releases lists every Riftbound product with its MSRP, and Deals shows the checked shops selling it at or near that price.
One Piece on Deals
One Piece was already on Releases. Deals now includes English One Piece booster boxes, premium boxes, double packs and starter decks from the shops we check, named by set code (OP-10, EB-02, PRB-01) and judged against Bandai's prices.
Gundam is next
Bandai's Gundam Card Game shows the same pattern. The first English set (GD01) sells for about $415 against a box price of about $120, and the latest (GD05) for about $190 (PriceCharting). The next set, GD06, is out October 30. We'll add it once Riftbound is running smoothly, with filters to keep Japanese boxes and Gunpla model kits out.
We're watching the Cyberpunk TCG too. It launches this fall, and we'll decide once there's a track record.
September 29, 2026
The Store Report Card now shows its math
Each big store's score now comes from a published formula: 40 points for price, 30 for fair access, 15 for stopping bots and 15 for transparency. Every point is tied to a fact with a source link. Price is measured on the Elite Trainer Box, the most popular launch purchase and where stores mark up the most. See the Store Report Card.
September 29, 2026
Set guides, starting with Delta Reign
Each big release gets one page with its date, MSRP for every product, where pre-orders stand at each store (checked and sourced), shops selling at MSRP, and the latest news. The first is Delta Reign. Find set guides at the top of Releases.
September 29, 2026
Where drop news comes from
We follow official channels, the press and other reputable sources. Every report links to where it came from, and community reports are labelled as reports, not confirmations.
Why this exists
Printed Price started as a personal tool, built by a newborn's father who wanted to start a Pokémon collection for his son the way a lot of us had one growing up: a booster box here, an elite trainer box there, at the price printed on the box.
That turned out to be the hard part. Sealed product sells out in minutes, resellers list it the same afternoon at double, and the tools that help you keep up are paid Discord servers running bots. Joining that was not an option. So he built his own, and this is the version anyone can use.
The idea is a single pane of glass. Release dates, pre-order windows, store queues, MSRP listings, the news and the rumors sit in one place, so you are not juggling a dozen tabs, apps and group chats to find out what is coming and where to buy it.
What it does
Shows what is coming. Release dates, pre-order windows and MSRP, from official announcements.
Points you to the fair ways in. Retailer queues, invitation lists and drawings. Those exist so ordinary people get a shot, and most people never hear about them in time.
Collects the news and the rumors from official sources, community press and public forums, with each claim marked by how well it is supported. Links go to the source; nothing is copied.
Lists sealed product at MSRP from independent card shops that publish their inventory, so honest retailers get a larger audience than a bot would ever give them.
What it will never do
No bots. It never joins a queue, adds to a cart or checks out for anyone.
No polling of retailers. It reads announcements, feeds and public indexes, once, for everyone.
No scalper listings. Marketplace resellers are filtered out, and anything over MSRP is labelled with exactly how much over. Every MSRP shows where it comes from: an official price for that product, or the standard price for its type. When a price was never announced, the site says so instead of guessing.
No sign-ups to use the site. No account, no Discord server to join, no email list: you open it and use it, and everything on it stays free to read. Later we may offer optional alerts for people who want reminders and drop notifications; the information on Printed Price stays free.
Clicks on links to other sites are counted: which site and from which page, as daily totals. Never who clicked.
No selling of your information. There is nothing here to sell: what you save stays in your own browser, and the site keeps no accounts or visitor profiles. Visits are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and does not identify you.
Retailers
We score how the big stores treat regular buyers on the store report card. Card shops, and anyone curious how shops get listed here, can read For retailers.
The goal is simple: more people enjoying the hobby at the price it was meant to cost. If people ask for features that need an account, like reminders on your phone or syncing between devices, those will be optional, and everything you see today stays free without one.
Headlines and links shown here belong to their publishers and are shown as citations; each one links to its source. Product names, set names and trademarks belong to their owners and are used only to identify the products discussed. This site is an independent fan project, not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Ravensburger or any retailer.
Everything here is provided as-is, without warranty. Prices, dates and availability come from the linked sources and can change or be wrong. Nothing here is financial advice.
Run a card shop? See For retailers for how listing works. It is free, and every shop is checked first.
Ideas, feature requests and bug reports: r/PrintedPrice on Reddit.
