Hey Guys
Tomorrow is new years eve and with it the end of 2024, which for the world of Pokémon cards has been some what of a rollercoaster with its ups and downs...
It Started off in January / February with Paldean fates and a huge hype around the Charizard, Mew and Gardevoir cards that came with that set but also the First ever Shiny Pikachu to be in a set as well!
From there we had temporal forces which for some what of a better word was a bit lackluster and didn't really have any kick to it with any of the artworks. It was short lived and forgotten once the next set release however with Twilight Masquerade bringing what was being called the next "Moonbreon" in the Greninja Alt Art (Which may I add I pulled from a 1 pack wonder from my local corner shop... yes I do buy packs myself still even though i own my own store...)
This card has now shot up to around £300 raw! which we haven't seen a card do in well over 12 months nearly. It looked like for us collectors things were about to be on the rise again with demand growing and what looked like lots of stock for older sets, however that was soon to change but not just yet.
Next up we had Stellar Crown in September by this time the year felt like it had flown by and Shrouded Fable the half set lets call it had barely been out a few weeks when Stellar crown was launched.
Stellar Crown brought us the new Rainbow border design which yet again seemed to kick off some rise in interest but didn't really ever take off, With a £80 raw value roughly it seemed like we was back to the old ways and the Greninja above was just a spike in demand and "FOMO"
Until... the next set... Surging Sparks comes out in November and would come to be the last set of 2024 and my my did it bring a bang to it all. Not many was expecting big things from this set but upon release the stock dried up quick, and the demand went haywire. On top of this we saw the Alt Art Pikachu shoot past the £300 mark raw! currently averaging around £350 and the Alt Art Latias EX at £150 that's 2 cards over double the highest value card from previous sets we have been used too!
Stock for surging sparks is still few and far between and is looking like any sort of mass restock will be non existent with Pokémon focusing on printing the newer sets now.
This brings me to the start of 2025 and what can we expect?
January is going to be a huge month with Prismatic Evolution pre orders sold out nearly everywhere and the Eeveelution cards being a hugely popular artwork as ever.
We also have the Japanese Set of Battle Partners releasing on the 24th January which is another hugely demanded set with the artworks of cards having their partners with them similar to Gym Heroes and Cosmic Eclipse in previous years. Both were hugely successful sets and we only expect more from this one. The Iono card image of this Blog is one of the few revealed so far.
Not long after both these sets we will have the English battle partners and also the Highly Demanded and Anticipated Team Rocket set which we are yet to still find out if it will have the return of "Dark Pokémon Cards" Similar to the Team rocket set for the 2000s!
I am going to leave that there for now guys with this being my first blog its a bit of a text wall... However ill be doing more regular posts like this covering news, games, cards whatever i feel like really being a fan of all things Pokémon.
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See you all in 2025!
Jay AKA Wrighty