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TCGplayer has kicked disconnected its one-day-only Mayhem sale, wherever you'll get 10% backmost successful store recognition connected everything you bargain connected May 16, 2025 (singles, sealed products, preorders, and much each count).
Since it's a one-day event, and you apt don't person the clip to excavation done each imaginable option, I've done the hard enactment for you. Let's excavation into the champion Pokémon cards to bargain today.
Top 10 Pokémon Cards to Buy Today
Since it's 10% cashback (well, store credit, springiness maine a break), I narrowed this down to the apical 10 Pokémon TCG pursuit cards that you should beryllium adding to your handbasket close now.
This isn't conscionable 10 random picks either, arsenic each of these person featured successful our Pokémon Card Market Watch play roundups: "Crashers and Climbers".
IGN Photo Composite / The Pokémon CompanyThe astir melodramatic clang this week is Greninja ex 214/167, crashing by astir fractional erstwhile compared the the commencement of this year.
The week before, my apical picks from the crashers were Magikarp 203/193 and N's Reshiram 167/159 (Journey Together Stamped)... and speaking of Journey Together.
Top Picks: Journey Together
Look the apical 10 cards to bargain enactment was bully and all, but there's much to consider, truthful lets excavation done immoderate of the different blistery sets and the champion singles you tin prime up from each arsenic well.
For starters, Journey Together singles person been getting little and little arsenic the weeks post-release rotation on. Having a main pursuit paper successful Lillie's Clefairy ex 184/159 for nether $200 showcases the kinder propulsion rates successful this set.
IGN Photo Composite / The Pokémon CompanyEven the alternate rares successful this acceptable are precise reasonable, with immoderate going nether $10 and arguably having amended artwork than the concealed creation rares. Plenty of pursuit cards to adhd to your Mayhem merchantability cart here.
Destined Rivals Preorders
Destined Rivals is going to beryllium 1 of the coolest expansions from the Scarlet and Violet era, with it's crown Jewel being Giovanni's Mewtwo SIR. Whilst azygous cards for this acceptable not being disposable until motorboat connected May 30, there's plentifulness of opportunities to get a cheeky discount connected sealed product.
Credit: IGN Photo Composite / The Pokémon CompanyThere's besides immoderate coagulated prices connected The Glory of Team Rocket and Heat Wave Arena, the Japanese sets that marque up the expansion. If you're looking for much inspiration, you tin cheque retired my hands-on preview of Destined Rivals.
Top Picks: Prismatic Evolutions
Getting 10% cashback connected this acceptable is practically a imagination travel existent erstwhile there's truthful galore costly pursuit cards. Based of pricing close now, you could get $110 disconnected Umbreon ex SIR.
IGN Photo Composite / The Pokémon CompanyThat means you tin get the astir costly pursuit paper of Scarlet and Violet for a tidy $990. This is going to beryllium the lone accidental you'll spot this paper going for nether a grand.
Unreal times for Prismatic Evolutions collectors.
Top Picks: Surging Sparks
Pikachu ex SIR for astir $250 sounds large to me, oregon grabbin the Latias ex SIR and Latios IR for a corporate $180 aft 10% cashback are fantastic deals.
IGN Photo Composite / The Pokémon CompanyRemember, subscribers get an adjacent bigger discount, truthful trainers request to beryllium each implicit Surging Sparks travel earlier the merchantability expires aft May 16.
Top Picks: Stellar Crown
Not lone has Squirtle and Bulbasaur illustration rares travel down successful price, but the different Stellar Crown pursuit cards person travel down successful terms too.
That means you tin drawback thing similar Terapagos ex SIR for nether $45
What Is TCGPlayer?
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Think astir it similar this: It’s Pokémon eBay, but cleaner. But the happening I’ve ever liked astir TCGplayer is it’s not conscionable 1 warehouse selling cards. Every bid goes done a web of section crippled stores and idiosyncratic hobby sellers.
It’s 1 of the fewer ways you tin bargain cards online and inactive enactment tiny businesses successful the process. The marketplace is massive, the prices are competitive, and I’ve ne'er had an contented uncovering what I needed (or thing I didn’t request until I saw it).
If your postulation has been sitting successful stasis oregon your decklist has a fewer excessively galore question marks, this is simply a bully clip to hole that. You’ll get store recognition for your adjacent bid conscionable by doing what you were already readying to do.
Best of the Rest
Twilight Masquerade
Greninja ex SIR adjacent mint for nether $250? Yep, that's the benignant of gains we're talking astir successful the Mayhem 10% cashback time connected May 16. Fancy different banger to popular successful your cart?
How astir Eevee IR for $45? Yes please. Snap them up trainers!
Shrouded Fable
Don't slumber connected Shrouded Fable, it's 1 of the astir underated sets of Scarlet and Violet.
You tin get Persian IR, Cassiopeia Trainer Art and Fezandipiti ex SIR for conscionable northbound of $100 successful the TCG Player Mayhem merchantability erstwhile you origin successful cashback. That's a savage deal.
Temporal Forces
I privation those past Johto dogs successful my postulation yesterday. Raging Bolt ex SIR, Walking Wake ex SIR and Gouging Fire ex SIR volition springiness you a corporate $17 store recognition connected TCG Player, bagging 3 astonishing pursuit cards for $170.
That means you could past usage that recognition to bargain the Gastly IR for $11.50.
Paldean Fates
Mew ex SIR astatine $290 volition get you a beauteous $29 store recognition to sound Charizard ex SIR down to $134.70. Considering the prices connected some of these cards person besides dropped recently, this is an epic deal.
Paradox Rift
So Groudon IR has dropped by 16% to $69 from $81.99, taking the other 10% disconnected gives you this epic paper for $62.10. Realistically it's inactive $69 but you get $6.90 cashback connected your relationship aft the transaction, but the worth is inactive determination and you're evidently going to bargain much cards. Admit it.
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So $107.20 for Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Charmander IRs retired of the gate, which person travel down rather a spot successful the past period anyway.
That woody unsocial volition container trainers $10.72 store recognition to sound disconnected different purchase, which is blooming (waters) marvelous.
Obsidian Flames
The main pursuit paper of this set, Charizard ex SIR, is present down to $49.99. Ninetales IR has besides travel down 47% from a period agone to $18.17.
Not lone person you bagged 2 awesome cards for your collection, you've besides got $6.81 store credit. Winner.
Paldea Evolved
I privation that Magikarp. You privation that Magikarp. We some besides privation the caller little terms and juicy $18.99 store recognition for buying it too.
It besides means you tin shave disconnected immoderate of that accelerated terms emergence connected Tyranitar IR astatine $38.48.
Scarlet and Violet Base Set
Gardevoir ex - 245/198 is simply a beauteous card, with the improvement enactment telling a beauteous communicative of Pokémon and trainers increasing together.
This banger of a pursuit paper has dropped by implicit 30% successful worth to $38, however awesome is that? The 10% $3.80 store recognition for much terms crashes is awesome too.
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.
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