The vendor's catalog photograph of VSTAR Universe 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.
Tracking the VSTAR Universe Booster Pack means following the single-pack product from S12a: VSTAR Universe, a Japanese Pokémon TCG expansion from the Sword & Shield era that released on December 2, 2022. The booster pack is the basic way to open the set, one pack at a time, for pulls rather than for play out of the box. The set has two sealed products in all, this pack and a booster box.
Each sealed Japanese VSTAR Universe Booster Pack holds 10 random cards from the S12a: VSTAR Universe set. The cards inside are randomised, so the rarity mix differs from one pack to the next, and every pack is a single sealed unit sold on its own.
The VSTAR Universe booster pack is opened for a set whose top cards are Giratina VSTAR, an Ultra Rare, followed by the Art Rare Pikachu, the Ultra Rare Arceus VSTAR, the Special Art Rare Mewtwo VSTAR and the Ultra Rare Origin Forme Dialga VSTAR. The set carries 135 chase-tier cards among its 262 catalog printings, and its value is fairly concentrated, with the top five cards making up 42 percent of the set's total card value. Packs from the set can yield those cards.
As of October 23, 2026, the VSTAR Universe booster pack has been tracked only since September 2026, so the record is short. The price sits 3 percent above its September 2026 low and is up 3 percent over the past 30 days, a modest move off the bottom of that brief window. The figures rest on a modelled market guide rather than confirmed recent sales.
Written from market data as of October 24, 2026; the tables update live.
Among the 27 booster packs from the Sword & Shield era, the VSTAR Universe Booster Pack ranks 6th by price, at about 2.1 times the era median. The comparable pack from the previous set, Paradigm Trigger Booster Pack, is priced lower, as is the Scarlet ex Booster Pack from the next set. Within its own set's line it ranks 2nd of 2 priced products, behind the VSTAR Universe Booster Box.
| Measure | This productVSTAR Universe Booster Pack | Median of 27 booster packsSword & Shield median | Previous setParadigm Trigger Booster Pack | Next setScarlet ex Booster Pack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Set | S12a: VSTAR Universe | — | S12: Paradigm Trigger | SV1S: Scarlet ex |
$20.52, the venue's modelled guide price, not a confirmed sale, as of October 30, 2026.
VSTAR Universe Booster Pack is from S12a: VSTAR Universe.
We don't currently track retail stock for VSTAR Universe Booster Pack, which is not the same as it being sold out.
| Release date | Dec 2, 2022 | — | Oct 21, 2022 | Jan 20, 2023 |
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| Price | $20.52 | $10.05 | $7.90 | $3.91 |
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guide · modelled
units · vs prior 30d
as of Oct 30, 2026 · UTC
VSTAR Universe Booster Pack · 1DMkt$20.520.0%guide priceitem price
Vol — sold·0 prints·1 obssingle obs — no range
collector thesis · 180-720d horizon · 60% confidence on 31/100 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 26/100 (composite weight 32%).
Model pq-quant-2026.10.0, as of 2026-10-30.
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 S12a: VSTAR Universe.
Withheld — 6 of the 9 inputs have no sealed evidence, so there is nothing honest to blend.
On file: 8 asks · 9 sales · 51 daily guide points · 87 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 30, 2026 | 7h | 90% | No |
| Price statisticAn observed figure computed over several rows rather than one print — a delivered floor, a published median over a window. | Oct 30, 2026 | 7h | 90% | No |
| Guide priceA calculated market guide — a model of where the product is trading. Never a confirmed sale, and always marked Modelled. | Oct 30, 2026 | 15h | 90% | Yes |
| Confirmed saleA completed transaction at a known price — the strongest evidence on this page. Prices are delivered (item + required shipping). | Oct 16, 2026 | 15d | 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 33, 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 30, 2026 |
| 7h |
| 70% |
| No |
No retailer is tracked for this product yet, which is not the same as it being sold out.
No wholesale listings seen for this product as of the last catalogue read on 2026-10-30.
No wholesale listings seen for this product as of the last catalogue read on 2026-10-30.
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 S12a: VSTAR Universe 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.