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.

170 catalogue cards have no usable Near Mint price in this market. They remain in the list and are not counted as zero in the figures.

• Over a month

  -3.7%

  Take the 54 cards that already had a price a month ago. One of each cost €1,296.09 in total back then. Today, the same cards cost €1,248.23.

  Card by card, 13 went up and 27 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 €1,300.54 in total back then. Today, the same cards cost €1,309.42.

  Card by card, 14 went up and 22 went down. The other 35 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 an observation that is still current contains at least one Near Mint copy for sale in this market.

• One of each

  €1,316.78

  If you bought one copy of each of the 82 priced cards, you’d pay €1,316.78 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 72 rated cards

  • 8Fast departures
  • 49Intermediate 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.