Pokémon TCG: Here's The Best Journey Together Pokémon Cards To Buy Standalone

I wanted Journey Together to deed big. After Surging Sparks and Prismatic Evolutions delivered immoderate existent heat, it felt similar we were connected a roll.

But alternatively of a cleanable three-hit combo, this acceptable tripped implicit itself connected the mode retired the gate. Prices were inflated from the start, and present that the marketplace has had clip to breathe, this correction is aggressive.

It’s inactive a coagulated set. Great art, amusive pulls, immoderate nostalgic hits. But a batch of the azygous prices were built connected hype that couldn’t hold.

Collectors thought we’d get different circular of accelerated worth climbs. That didn’t happen. If you're buying now, you're catching cards connected the mode down alternatively of riding them connected the mode up.

Just spell successful knowing what’s worthy grabbing and what’s inactive floating connected leftover launch-day fumes.

Illustration Rares

Articuno had a beardown start. Prices deed $55 backmost successful precocious March, which made consciousness astatine the time—it's a fan-favorite Legendary with large artwork.

Since then, it’s taken a 36% dip and present floats astir $35. Honestly, that’s inactive a spot high. I’ve seen near-mint listings astatine $18.69, and that feels much successful enactment with wherever this paper belongs.

I deliberation it’s a coagulated pickup if you conscionable privation a great-looking vertebrate without the aboriginal adopter tax.

Wailord was 1 of those aboriginal hype Illustration Rares that got pumped fast, mostly due to the fact that it’s Wailord and radical person a brushed spot for absurdly ample h2o types.

It deed $60 astatine the extremity of March, which didn’t past long. It’s present dropped 63.66% to a marketplace worth of astir $22.49, and I’ve seen copies listed for arsenic debased arsenic $14.55. Personally, I deliberation this one’s owed for a brushed bounce backmost to $30, but lone erstwhile the panic listings wide retired and the Wailord fans ellipse back.

My favourite Illustration Rare is N’s Reshiram. The artwork is top-tier, and the quality pairing really adds thing meaningful to the card. It started astatine $39.43, which honestly didn’t consciousness excessively acold disconnected fixed the request astatine launch.

Now it’s sitting astir $17.44. Even the Journey Together stamped variant, which you'd deliberation would transportation immoderate other value, is undercutting the regular 1 astatine astir $14. That’s a 79.51% drop, and successful my opinion, a steal. If you privation a pursuit paper without paying pursuit prices, this is the one.

Special Illustration Rare And Hyper Rares

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Lillie’s Clefairy ex SIR was positioned arsenic the look of the set, and for a infinitesimal it looked similar it mightiness enactment there. Prices deed $400, which was wild, considering the lone happening much costly than that successful Journey Together was astir apt regret.

Now it’s sitting astir $180 and successful my opinion, it’s inactive excessively high. It’s a gorgeous card, nary uncertainty astir that, but I deliberation we’ll spot it deed $150 soon. Not a clang but a correction to thing a small much successful enactment with what astir radical are consenting to pay.

I thought Iono’s Bellibolt ex SIR was going to beryllium the apical paper of the set. It had the rarity, it had the character, and it looked conscionable chaotic capable to go a instrumentality favorite. Instead, it’s hovering astir $80, which is fine. Not great, not terrible.

The terms feels stable, and I don’t deliberation it's going to vessel similar immoderate of the different launch-day hype magnets. If you similar it, drawback it. If you're hoping it doubles successful value, possibly instrumentality a walk.

Salamence ex SIR is astir apt the champion illustration of what went incorrect with Journey Together’s aboriginal pricing. At launch, radical were paying up to $250 for it similar it was the past dragon paper ever printed. Now it’s going for astir $106, and I deliberation it’ll settee person to $100.

Still expensive, sure, but astatine slightest present it’s priced similar a high-tier pursuit paper and not a collector’s status plan. The art’s strong, and Salamence has ever had staying power, truthful I deliberation this 1 holds up amended than most.

Full Arts

Iono’s Bellibolt ex is my favourite afloat art, mostly due to the fact that I pulled it and instantly convinced myself I was sitting connected gold. At launch, it was going for astir $80. It's present comfortably sitting successful the $7–$8 range.

Honestly, if you paid thing supra $15, I don’t cognize what to archer you. It’s a great-looking card, though, and I deliberation it’ll instrumentality astir this terms for a portion present that the particulate has settled. Just possibly don’t bargain it reasoning it's the adjacent Supporter-tier Iono. It’s a Bellibolt. Let’s beryllium reasonable.

Lillie’s Clefairy ex had a bizarre start. Prices climbed past $110 earlier launch, which had maine wondering if radical thought it was a Special Illustration Rare by mistake.

It’s present recovered its lane astatine astir $17–$19, which is wherever it astir apt should’ve been each along. I deliberation it’s a large pickup astatine that terms if you're into Lillie, oregon Clefairy, oregon conscionable privation thing that won’t suffer fractional its worth earlier it hits your mailbox.

N’s Zoroark ex started retired a small much grounded astatine astir $30, but adjacent that wasn’t harmless from the drop. It's landed astir $12 now, which honestly feels similar a just deal. The paper inactive looks fantastic, and it’s got immoderate collector entreaty acknowledgment to N.

But erstwhile I accidental Journey Together prices are crashing, this is precisely what I mean. Remember each those “can’t-miss deals” I was posting astatine launch? It wasn’t due to the fact that the cards were underpriced — it’s due to the fact that they were astir to autumn disconnected a cliff.

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Christian Wait is simply a contributing freelancer for IGN covering everything collectable and deals. Christian has implicit 7 years of acquisition successful the Gaming and Tech manufacture with bylines astatine Mashable and Pocket-Tactics. Christian besides makes hand-painted collectibles for Saber Miniatures. Christian is besides the writer of "Pokemon Ultimate Unofficial Gaming Guide by GamesWarrior". Find Christian connected X @ChrisReggieWait.