Surging Sparks cards and prices

Checked on 9 October, card language: French, sellers: Worldwide, in Near Mint condition (as good as new). A card’s price here is the price of its cheapest copy.

• Over a month

  -3.7%

  Take the 52 cards that already had a price a month ago. One of each cost €1,291.09 in total back then. Today, the same cards cost €1,243.47.

  Card by card, 12 went up and 26 went down. The other 14 barely moved.

  The card that moved the total most: Latias ex (SSP 239), from €199.99 to €165.99.

• Over a week

  +0.7%

  Take the 71 cards that already had a price a week ago. One of each cost €1,300.04 in total back then. Today, the same cards cost €1,309.26.

  Card by card, 18 went up and 22 went down. The other 31 barely moved.

  The card that moved the total most: Latias ex (SSP 239), from €180.00 to €165.99.

• The middle card

  €3.00

  Line up the 82 priced cards from cheapest to dearest: the one in the middle costs €3.00.

  The cheapest, Amulet of Hope (SSP 162), is €0.10. At the very top sits Pikachu ex (SSP 238), at €380.00.

  How we count it

  A card counts as priced when we’ve seen at least one Near Mint copy for sale in the last two days.

• One of each

  €1,316.76

  If you bought one copy of each of the 82 priced cards, you’d pay €1,316.76 altogether. That’s 82 cards out of 252.

• How fast copies leave

  1.2 times slower

  This set’s copies leave 1.2 times slower than those of other cards followed in this same market.

  pokoSCORE of the 71 rated cards

  • 9Fast departures
  • 47Intermediate pace
  • 15Slow departures
  How we count it

  Every day, we look at which copies leave the listings. A copy that’s gone may have sold, or its seller may have taken it down: we only count those that do not reappear in subsequent observations.

  The pokoSCORE rates each card from 1 to 99 by how fast its copies leave. This bar compares standard Near Mint cards in the same language and seller area.

• Volatility

  5%

  Volatility tells you how much prices move around. Over the last month, on an ordinary day, the price of one of these cards sat about 5% away from its average. For a €100 card, that’s roughly €5 either way.

  How we count it

  We measured it on 71 cards, and the dearest ones count for more.