The vendor's catalog photograph of 25th Anniversary Collection Booster Pack. It identifies the product; it is not evidence of condition, of what is inside, or of any price on this page.Product type, set and release date, contents, chase cards, price history and how it compares with the Sword & Shield era.
The S8a: 25th Anniversary Collection is a Sword & Shield era expansion for the Japanese Pokémon TCG, released on October 22, 2021, and its booster pack is the basic unit for opening it. The 25th Anniversary Collection Booster Pack is a single sealed pack, meant for ripping open and chasing the set's cards rather than for building a deck or following a themed collection. The set has two sealed products in all, this pack and a booster box, so the pack is the smaller way into the set's pulls.
The 25th Anniversary Collection Booster Pack is a single sealed pack of the Japanese set, and it holds 5 random cards drawn from the S8a card list.
Opening these packs is how the S8a set's best cards are pulled, and Mew, an Ultra Rare, leads the value ranking. Surfing Pikachu VMAX and Flying Pikachu VMAX, both Triple Rare, follow in 2nd and 3rd, with the Double Rare Flying Pikachu V in 4th and Pikachu V-UNION (Bottom Left), another Triple Rare, in 5th. The set has 13 chase-tier cards, and value is highly concentrated: the top five cards make up 78 percent of the set's total card value, so a handful of Pikachu-themed cards and Mew carry most of the worth.
As of October 23, 2026, the 25th Anniversary Collection booster pack price history is short, since tracking only began in September 2026. Over the past 30 days the pack is up 16 percent, and it sits 16 percent above its tracked low from September 2026. These figures rest on a modelled market guide rather than confirmed recent sales. With so little history, the early swing shows direction but says little yet about a longer trend.
Written from market data as of October 24, 2026; the tables update live.
Among the 27 booster packs in the Sword & Shield era, the 25th Anniversary Collection Booster Pack ranks 2nd by price and sits at about 3.6 times the era median. Its neighbours in the release order are priced lower: the previous set's Fusion Arts Booster Pack and the next set's VMAX Climax Booster Pack. Within its own set's line it is 2nd of 2 priced products, behind the 25th Anniversary Collection Booster Box, the highest-priced item in the set.
| Measure | This product25th Anniversary Collection Booster Pack | Median of 27 booster packsSword & Shield median | Previous setFusion Arts Booster Pack | Next setVMAX Climax Booster Pack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Set | S8a: 25th Anniversary Collection | — | S8: Fusion Arts |
$35.75, the venue's modelled guide price, not a confirmed sale, as of October 27, 2026.
25th Anniversary Collection Booster Pack is from S8a: 25th Anniversary Collection.
We don't currently track retail stock for 25th Anniversary Collection Booster Pack, which is not the same as it being sold out.
| Release date | Oct 22, 2021 | — | Sep 24, 2021 | Dec 3, 2021 |
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| Price | $35.75 | $10.05 | $10.05 | $26.57 |
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guide · modelled
units · vs prior 30d
as of Oct 27, 2026 · UTC
25th Anniversary Collection Booster Pack · 1DMkt$35.75+8.3%guide priceitem price
Vol — sold·0 prints·1 obssingle obs — no range
collector thesis · 180-720d horizon · 60% confidence on 33/100 data quality
Scenarios
ILLIQUID_UNKNOWN persists near current levels (non-probabilistic range -- data quality too thin to assign probabilities).rangeBASE · rangeILLIQUID_UNKNOWN persists near current levels (non-probabilistic range -- data quality too thin to assign probabilities).Evidence corroborates faster than expected, accelerating the thesis (non-probabilistic range).rangeBULL · rangeEvidence corroborates faster than expected, accelerating the thesis (non-probabilistic range).Evidence reverses sooner than expected, invalidating the thesis (non-probabilistic range).rangeBEAR · rangeEvidence reverses sooner than expected, invalidating the thesis (non-probabilistic range).Catalysts
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The strongest case against this thesis: Liquidity scored 22/100 (composite weight 32%).
Model pq-quant-2026.10.0, as of 2026-10-27.
Research classification generated from observable market data with stated confidence and assumptions. Not personalized financial advice.
No published pack count for this product, so its price cannot be put on a per-pack footing.
The cheapest of the 2 priced sealed products in S8a: 25th Anniversary Collection.
Withheld — 6 of the 9 inputs have no sealed evidence, so there is nothing honest to blend.
On file: 6 asks · 6 sales · 48 daily guide points · 85 stock readings.
| EvidenceEvidenceWhat kind of fact this row is. A completed sale, a live ask and a calculated guide price are three different weights of evidence about the same number, and this column is the difference between them. | ObservedObservedThe day the fact was read — not the day the underlying event happened, and not today. An old date is an old reading. | AgeAgeHow long ago this row was read, as of the moment the page was computed. | ConfidenceConfidenceHow much weight this row carries where it feeds a model, from the resolver that matched it. Lower means a looser match or a thinner source, and a low-confidence row is reweighted rather than dropped. | ModelledModelledYes = a CALCULATED value (a guide price, an estimate); No = something actually observed (a sale, a listing, a census count). A modelled row is evidence about a model, not about the market. |
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| Live askA copy offered for sale right now. An ask is what a seller wants, not what anyone paid — it bounds the price from above until it clears. | Oct 27, 2026 | 5h | 90% | No |
| Price statisticAn observed figure computed over several rows rather than one print — a delivered floor, a published median over a window. | Oct 27, 2026 | 5h | 90% | No |
| Guide priceA calculated market guide — a model of where the product is trading. Never a confirmed sale, and always marked Modelled. | Oct 27, 2026 | 16h | 90% | Yes |
| Confirmed saleA completed transaction at a known price — the strongest evidence on this page. Prices are delivered (item + required shipping). | Oct 26, 2026 | 2d | 85% | No |
Every price is that product’s newest stored daily bar, picked by the same precedence the chart above uses — a real observed sale beats a modelled guide, and the guide stands in only on days with no sale. Per-pack divides by the PUBLISHED pack count and is withheld wherever that count is not on file, because a guessed denominator makes a fabricated price. Products the set has but we cannot price keep their row, with a dash.
6 inputs have no sealed evidence and were reweighted away: supply tightness, absorption, auction demand, grading reflexivity, relative strength, reprint / supply risk.
Scored over a 30-day window on a sample of 31, formula pq-quant-2026.10.0. The packet reweighted 6 missing inputs away and applied a 33% confidence penalty for them: supplyTightness, absorption, auctionDemand, gradingReflexivity, relativeStrength, reprintSupplyRisk.
| Oct 27, 2026 |
| 5h |
| 70% |
| No |
No wholesale listings seen for this product as of the last catalogue read on 2026-10-27.
No wholesale listings seen for this product as of the last catalogue read on 2026-10-27.
A wholesale ask is a distributor’s price for a whole lot — freight, minimums and any trade terms sit behind it — and is not a price a single box trades at. Links go to the distributor’s own page; nothing here is an affiliate link. Per-pack figures divide the lot price by the pack count the distributor published, never by a guessed one.
No wholesale listing has ever been matched to this set.
No distributor we read lists S8a: 25th Anniversary Collection in bulk. That says nothing about the print run — only about these shelves.
A distributor’s public catalogue is a proxy for supply, not the print run.
No retailer is tracked for this product yet, which is not the same as it being sold out.