Pokémon Price Update: 2016 Pokémon Evolutions Set (Nov. 2020)
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2016’s Pokemon Evolutions has particularly stood out in popularity among the recent market boom. Pokemon collectors of all types seem to gravitate to this set for a few reasons:
1) Its use of nostalgic artwork from the original base set
2) It’s Charizard city, containing 5 different types of Zards
3) Pokemon announced that they stopped printing the set in September 2020, right when Charizard fever started to pick up
The combination of these elements coupled with the noise from some serious pop culture icons and Pokemon card enthusiasts (Gary V, Logan Paul, Logic, Steve Aoki) lead to a quick and substantial price jump for sealed Evolutions booster boxes - from $130 to $200 and even selling for upwards of $600 per sealed box in October. The current selling price for a sealed booster box is around $400-$500.
The facts speak for themselves. Check out the Google Trends comparing searches for different Pokemon booster box sets. Evolutions is only second to the most recently released 2020 Vivid Voltage, beating out vintage 1999 sets like Base Set and Fossil.
A TON of these boxes have been opened recently and a TON of cards are either with or on their way to PSA, BGS and CGC. The prices we will see below are expected to change rapidly in the coming months, so make sure you are subscribed as I’ll be sharing monthly price updates on this set and many others!
I do believe PSA 10 values will continue to increases as there are far and few clean gem mint cards coming out of Evolutions. This set is notorious for its horrendous centering, bad print quality and dull cuts/edges, making it rather difficult to pull a PSA 10 worthy cards from a fresh pack.
With so many interesting card to watch in this set we’ll rapid fire a few honorable mentions *** Most recent eBay sale and PSA populations (via www.Pokemonprice.com)
M Charizard EX Holo #13/108: PSA 10/9 ~ $168/$110 (pop.1025/435)
Surfing Pikachu Secret Rare #111/108: PSA 10/9 ~ $181/$45 (pop.68/68)
Chansey Reverse Holo #70/108: PSA 10/9 ~ $187/$2 (pop. 17/8)
Charizard EX Holo #12/108: PSA 10/9 ~ $170/$100 (pop. 503/285)
Dragonite Full Art EX #106/108: PSA 10/9 ~ $180/$68 (pop. 349/584)
Nidoking - Holo #45/108: PSA 10/9 ~ $320/$20 (pop. 4/63)