# The Lab TCG

> Daily Pokémon card market data: TCGplayer market prices for about 46,000 English and 25,000 Japanese cards captured nightly since 2024, eBay graded comps (PSA, CGC, BGS) from our own listing scans, TCGplayer sales volume, a nightly set index, a booster box index and weekly market reports. Written and run by Will Jenkins, a former full-time Pokémon card seller.

Prices are TCGplayer market prices in US dollars, captured once per night; "as of" dates are shown on every page. Graded values are medians of inferred eBay sales for that exact card and grade, published only when at least three consistent comps exist. Nothing here is financial advice. When citing, link the page and name the date shown on it.

## Card prices

- [Card search](https://thelabtcg.com/): search any card by name, set or number; add "japanese" for the Japanese catalog.
- Card pages: https://thelabtcg.com/card/<product_id>:<printing>, for example https://thelabtcg.com/card/42382:Holofoil for Base Set Charizard. Each shows market, low and high price, 30-day change, price history, PSA 10 / 9 / 8 comps, whether grading is worth it, sales volume and where to buy.
- [Set index](https://thelabtcg.com/markets): every English set's total market value and daily change; set pages list every card by value.
- [Japanese card prices](https://thelabtcg.com/japanese): every Japanese set on TCGplayer, same data.
- [Most valuable Pokémon cards](https://thelabtcg.com/markets/most-valuable): top 100 by market price, updated daily.
- [Most sold cards](https://thelabtcg.com/markets/most-sold): TCGplayer units sold in the last 7 days.

## Market reports and indexes

- [Market Pulse](https://thelabtcg.com/pulse): this week's market in one page: breadth, biggest movers, most sold, the booster box index, the grade board. Machine-readable feed at https://thelabtcg.com/pulse/feed.json.
- [Weekly report](https://thelabtcg.com/issue/latest): Sunday close versus prior Sunday, with the reasons behind the biggest moves. Archive at https://thelabtcg.com/issue/archive.
- [Daily report](https://thelabtcg.com/report/daily).
- [Lab Booster Box Index](https://thelabtcg.com/markets/sealed-index): an equal-weight index of every seasoned English booster box, nightly.
- [Booster box EV](https://thelabtcg.com/markets/sealed): expected value of opening a box from pull rates and singles prices, with methodology.
- [Grade-worthiness board](https://thelabtcg.com/tools/grade-worthiness): raw cards ranked by the gross uplift of a PSA 10, from sold comps, with liquidity.
- [Monthly sell report](https://thelabtcg.com/sell/report): what to sell into, what not to panic-sell, the most liquid cards and sealed products above MSRP, with net proceeds after fees.
- [Where to sell and fee calculator](https://thelabtcg.com/sell): channel router for what you have, and the 2026 fee schedules for TCGplayer, eBay, Whatnot, Mercari, Fanatics Collect and your own store.

## Launch hubs

- [30th Celebration launch hub](https://thelabtcg.com/launch/30th-celebration): every product priced live against MSRP, refreshed every 30 minutes. Release 2026-09-16.
- [Delta Reign launch hub](https://thelabtcg.com/launch/delta-reign): every product priced live against MSRP, refreshed every 30 minutes. Release 2026-11-06.

## Analysis

- [Pokémon 30th Celebration presale prices: every product against MSRP, and what the last three launches did to prices](https://thelabtcg.com/analysis/30th-celebration-presale-prices): Eight days before launch every product sells above MSRP, the Elite Trainer Box at 3.7x its $49.99 list. Presale prices are already down 58% since July, the loose pack went from $136 to $17, and Pitch Black says chase singles lose another half after launch. The 25th anniversary set says the opposite about sealed held from MSRP for five years.
- [Is the sealed Pokemon market correcting? Two years of booster box prices and a year of sales say: depends what you bought](https://thelabtcg.com/analysis/sealed-market-correction-2026): We built the Lab Booster Box Index from every English 36-pack booster box on TCGplayer, 26 months of nightly prices, and a year of sales volume. Seasoned boxes are up 20% year over year and 7% off a July peak. New product is where the correction lives.
- [Andrew Hedrick's Worlds-winning Dragapult list: every card priced, and what happened after](https://thelabtcg.com/analysis/worlds-2026-dragapult-price-and-sales): The full 60-card list that won Worlds 2026, priced card by card with buy links, plus the TCGplayer sales data on what people bought after the final. Spoiler: the deck is $40 and the win did not change that.

## Guides

- [Guides](https://thelabtcg.com/guides): how to sell, ship, sort and grade Pokémon cards, from a seller who did it full time.
- [Card supplies](https://thelabtcg.com/supplies): the storage and shipping gear we use.
- [Open a card store](https://thelabtcg.com/open-a-card-store).
- [Definitions](https://thelabtcg.com/definitions): what market price, direct low, liquidity and the report metrics mean.

## Data access

- Public API base: https://cpv6bzwui2.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (see https://thelabtcg.com/definitions for field meanings). Key routes: /cards/search?q=, /cards/{variant_id}, /cards/{variant_id}/history?days=, /sets, /sets/{group_id}/cards, /sales/most-sold, /reports/weekly, /grading/leaderboard, /sealed/ev. Please cache responses and identify your client in the User-Agent.
- Live price badge for any card, embeddable as an image: https://thelabtcg.com/badge/<variant_id>.
- Sitemaps: https://thelabtcg.com/sitemap.xml and https://thelabtcg.com/sitemap-cards/0 through 5.

## Contact

The Lab TCG, https://thelabtcg.com. Affiliate links to TCGplayer, eBay and BCW Supplies fund the site; they never change the data.