Xerneas ◇ is up +72.8% this week

Morning Pull

Wednesday · October 21, 2026

One minute on what card prices did overnight.

Biggest price rise this week

The jump that stuck

Five cards climbed hard this week, with Xerneas leading the way.

$20

Xerneas ◇, Lost Thunder: the middle of the prices we recorded over the last 7 days, against $12 over the 7 days before.

+72.8% · this week against last week, as of October 20

today's card · the others up this week

Copies dried up

I checked the earlier price twice because both sides of the window sat on a full week of readings, so the step is real. My guess is copies dried up after a run of sales at the higher end, or a collector or two decided the card was underpriced next to what the graded ones fetch.

Shaymin ◇
Team Up · was $15

$25

+70.3%

Primarina (What's Your Favorite Stamp)
Miscellaneous Cards & Products · was $28

$41

+47.2%

Arceus ◇
Forbidden Light · was $41

$59

+43.9%

Victini ◇
Dragon Majesty · was $33

$46

+37.8%

Each price is the middle of the prices we recorded over the 7 days to October 20, so it can sit above or below today's price on the card's page.

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Today's picks

Daily Buys picked Stakataka from Unbroken Bonds this morning, a raw card coming back from a dip.

Card

Entry

Pay up to

Stakataka good
Unbroken Bonds · raw card · coming back from a dip

$5.89

$6.48

Picked from 31,534 cards priced or graded in the last three days, at 10:30 UTC; pay up to is the most it would pay.

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Back tomorrow with what moved overnight.

Morning Pull, by moonstone

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How this was made

Morning Pull is written each morning from the prices moonstone recorded overnight. Price changes: 43,363 cards checked; 844 moved 5% or more; 784 of those could be judged; 308 showed a recorded price that changed on more than half of the days and made the list, each price the middle of a week of readings. We left out 476 prices this morning because each was a price that was re-listed, not sold: the recorded price changed on half or fewer of the days we compared, where a card that trades changes on most of them. Daily Buys is its own list, published at 10:30 UTC and scored in public. Card art belongs to its publishers. Read this edition on the web.

moonstone

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