Special Pokémon TCG set Pokémon 151 has been in the wild for about a month now, meaning people have had time to get over the initial fervour, and the best cards have risen to the surface. A smaller set to collect, but with an ongoing release schedule for new products, this return to the series’ Kanto roots has proven hugely popular. So, which of your pulls should you be double-sleeving, and how much is too much for that one missing card in your master set?
Sets like 151 always feel more collectible in the short-term, given the far wider availability of product, and the extended release schedule. Like Crown Zenith at the start of this year, and other recent specials like Pokémon GO, Celebrations, and Shining Fates, there’s a greater temptation to try to complete them, one that perhaps isn’t so present for the tri-monthly releases of the much larger main sets.
Paradox Rift comes out November 3, but with 266 cards to collect, pretty grim pull-rates, and a short release window, it’ll be too easy to have moved on to whichever set comes out next in January. For 151, however, it’s sticking around for a bit, and has only 206 cards to pick up, the vast majority of them common, easy-to-pull cards. Of the remaining 44 rarer cards, they’re fetching much higher prices than we’ve seen in any previous Scarlet & Violet set, where the top 10s have struggled to reach over $15. So let’s look at which are fetching the highest prices, and why.
(All prices are correct at the time of writing, based on the market prices given by TCG Player, but will obviously quickly change.)
