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Release date, card count, chase cards, value and how it compares with the EX era.
POP Series 8 sits in the EX era of the English-language Pokémon TCG as a promotional run, released on September 1, 2008 under the set code P8. It is a promo collection of 17 cards, the same as its official count, and every one is a printed card with no secret numbering above it. The run leans on Grass, Fighting, Fire and Lightning Pokémon, and its headline cards are Lucario and Luxray, both Rares, backed by Piplup, Happiny and Cherrim from the lower rarities. The card list is short and plain, a small promotional release rather than a full expansion.
POP Series 8 was released September 1, 2008.
POP Series 8 has 17 cards.
POP Series 8 is part of the EX era.
The pull structure in POP Series 8 is flat: six Commons, six Uncommons and five Rares, with no chase-tier rarity and no secret cards above the printed 17. The most valuable cards are Lucario and Luxray, both Rares, illustrated by Kent Kanetsuna and Ken Sugimori respectively. Piplup, a Common drawn by Atsuko Nishida, ranks 3rd, followed by Happiny and Cherrim. The top five cards hold 60 percent of the set's total card value, so a handful of cards carry most of what this small promotional run is worth.
As of October 2026, POP Series 8 ranks 10th of the 10 comparable EX-era sets by total card value, at about 0.3 times the era median, and 26th across the 35 comparable sets in the game. Its single most valuable card also ranks 10th in the era, while its trading activity is better, at 6th. At 17 printed cards it is about the same size as the era median of 17. It followed POP Series 7, which holds more total value, and came before POP Series 9, which also holds more. Fourteen of its cards first appeared in the Japanese DP-P Promotional cards, released December 1, 2006.
| Measure | This setPOP Series 8 | Median of 10 promo releasesEX median | Previous setPOP Series 7 | Next setPOP Series 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Sep 1, 2008 | — | Mar 1, 2008 | Mar 1, 2009 |
| Printed cards | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| Master set value | $157.09 | $597.16 | $228.68 | $181.08 |
| Most valuable card price | $27.54 | $119.00 | $35.86 | $66.80 |
| Priced cards | 17 of 17 | 17 | 17 of 17 | 17 of 17 |
Completing POP Series 8 means finding all 17 catalog printings, and every one of them is priced, so the full card list can be tracked end to end. Because the top five cards account for 60 percent of the set's total card value, the cost of a complete set comes down mostly to Lucario, Luxray and a few others, while the remaining commons and uncommons add comparatively little. The sealed line is limited to a single product, listed under other sealed, so most of the collecting here happens at the single-card level.
Market comparisons as of October 2026.