Where Are the Best Pokemon Card Deals in Singapore This Week?
Week of 2 November 2026 — 91 cards clear every guard, the Start Deck 100 price cut holds, and we drop three platforms from our tracked list after they missed the deadline we set themCarbink #752, the Japanese Start Deck 100 common we led with two weeks ago, is still S$7.02 on Yuyutei. That matters more than the price itself. Two weeks ago it was S$11.52; it got cut to S$7.02 by the time we published last week's edition, and we could not tell you whether that was a real repricing or a single cheap listing passing through our "lowest live ask" rule. It is now the same S$7.02 a week later, against a book value that has barely moved (S$25.49, versus S$25.44 a fortnight ago). Weavile #746 tells the same story: still S$8.82 on Yuyutei, unchanged. The cut held. It was a repricing, not a fluke.
The second piece of news is one we are acting on rather than just reporting. Three weeks ago we said SNKRDUNK, TCGPlayer and Facebook would either be back with live data by the first November edition or we would drop them from our stated platform list. This is that edition, and all three are still at zero live rows. We are dropping them from the list, effective this week. If any of them return with real listings, we will add them back and say so.
This Week's Highlights
- Best deal: Carbink #752 (Japanese Start Deck 100) — still 72% below its S$25.49 book on a fresh Yuyutei ask of S$7.02, unchanged from the confirmed repricing discussed below.- Best fully-fresh deal: Audino #156 (Japanese Black Bolt) at S$7 on Telegram Groups, 68% below book, corroborated by a same-day Yuyutei ask at S$16.02 (−26%). Both sources under two days old.
- Best high-value deal: Mewtwo ex #134 (Japanese 30th Celebration) at S$50 on Carousell — 53% below its S$107.28 book, with KyoCards agreeing at S$75 (−30%). This fits the top-down correction on 30th Celebration pricing we reported last week.
- The board: 91 cards clear every guard, from a combined sample of 12,676 cards (61% of the 20,990 we track). Median saving 30%, median book S$28.88, range 21–73%. Yuyutei holds the cheapest live price on 59 of them, KyoCards on 20, Carousell on 7, Telegram Groups on 5.
- The Start Deck 100 cut held. Carbink #752 and Weavile #746 are both unchanged from last week's post-cut prices — the first confirmation that Yuyutei's repricing of this set is durable, not a one-off listing.
- Three platforms dropped. SNKRDUNK, TCGPlayer and Facebook have returned zero live rows for a third straight week. Per the deadline we set in the 26 October edition, they come off our stated platform list starting this edition.
- KyoCards is still frozen. Its newest row is still dated 10 October — the same date it was stuck on last week. Three weeks with no new listings, not one.
Scope: Week of 2 November 2026 · tcgTalk Singapore Market Mapper, comparison set generated 1 November 2026 · baseline = PriceCharting loose price from the 1 November snapshot, FX derived from the data rather than assumed · all prices SGD · lowest live price per platform · cards with fewer than two confirmed PriceCharting sales excluded via the baseline check · sets released in the last 30 days excluded · pokecompare.com excluded (sealed-only, wrong join key) · listings outside a 0.25×–4× band around book excluded as variant mismatches · cards whose dearest in-band platform asks more than 4× its cheapest dropped entirely. This edition's sample is a 12,676-card pool (61% of all tracked cards), not an exhaustive sweep — board size and counts below should be read as a majority-sample estimate, not a census.
Platform Feed Health: Check This Before You Trust Any Ranking
| Platform | Live listings (sample) | Median age | Newest row | Share under 30d | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telegram Groups | 164 | 1 day | 31 Oct 2026 | 100% | Current |
| Yuyutei | 9,707 | 2 days | 30 Oct 2026 | 100% | Current |
| KyoCards | 1,923 | 22 days | 10 Oct 2026 | 71% | Frozen |
| Carousell | 426 | 36 days | 31 Oct 2026 | 44% | Scraping, backlog growing |
| CardMarket | 184 | 36 days | 26 Sep 2026 | 0% | Excluded — broken join |
| pokecompare.com | 58 | 53 days | 9 Sep 2026 | 0% | Excluded — sealed only |
| SNKRDUNK | 0 | — | none | — | Dropped from platform list |
| TCGPlayer | 0 | — | none | — | Dropped from platform list |
| 0 | — | none | — | Dropped from platform list |
Carousell's backlog got worse, not better. Two weeks ago we reported 59% of its listings under 30 days old with a 26-day median. This week, on a different (larger) sample, that reads as 44% under 30 days with a 36-day median. The newest row is still from yesterday, so the scraper is still running — but the backlog behind it is now a bigger share of the feed than it was. We flag this as a genuine reversal, with the caveat that our sample composition changed between weeks, so treat the direction as more reliable than the exact numbers.
SNKRDUNK, TCGPlayer and Facebook are dropped from the platform list, effective this edition. We said in September and October that all three were tracked platforms; none of them has returned a single live row in the comparison set for three consecutive weeks. We are not deleting the plumbing — if any of them starts returning data again, we will notice and add it back — but until then we will stop listing them among the platforms this column compares.
The Platform Scorecard: Who Is Actually Cheapest?
Median deviation from book, per platform, on cards with a book value of S$5 or more, from our most_listed sample (the unbiased pool — not the deal-hunting sorts used for featured cards below). 3,800 listings considered; the mismatch band removed 21.2% on the low side and 1.8% on the high side.| Platform | Listings scored | Median vs book | Share below book | Q1 | Q3 | Data age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telegram Groups | 82 | −32% | 78% | −48% | −6% | 1d |
| Yuyutei | 2,065 | −17% | 65% | −36% | +20% | 2d |
| KyoCards | 579 | −11% | 63% | −37% | +11% | 22d (frozen) |
| Carousell | 196 | +4% | 43% | −14% | +27% | 36d |
The Value-Tier Flip
| Platform | Book S$5+ | Book S$50+ | Book S$200+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuyutei | −17% | +31% | +99% |
| KyoCards | −11% | +11% | +37% |
| Carousell | +4% | +6% | +9% |
Here is that flip on the specific chase cards we have been tracking for a month:
| Card | Book | Yuyutei | Second opinion | Change from last week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primal Groudon EX #94 (Bandit Ring) | S$260.00 | S$808.20 (+211%) | None — KyoCards corroboration has dropped out entirely | Price unchanged; second opinion lost |
| Primal Kyogre EX #93 (Bandit Ring) | S$316.77 | S$808.20 (+155%) | None — same | Price unchanged; second opinion lost |
| Gengar VMax #20 (Gengar VMAX High-Class) | S$1,028.86 | S$2,682.00 (+161%) | Carousell S$1,150 — 82 days old | Unchanged; Carousell quote aged another week, still not refreshed |
| Glaceon VMAX #91 (Eevee Heroes) | S$534.35 | S$898.20 (+68%) | KyoCards S$1,388 — 70 days old | Unchanged; book fell from S$546.70, narrowing Yuyutei's premium slightly |
| Gardevoir EX #101 (Scarlet Ex) | S$236.44 | S$223.20 (−6%) | Telegram Groups S$182 (−23%), 1 day old | Identical prices to last week, still live |
Gardevoir EX #101 is the one card on this list that has not moved at all — same Telegram ask, same Yuyutei price, second week running. Scarlet Ex is recent enough that Yuyutei still prices it close to book rather than at a domestic-scarcity premium.
Yuyutei's Start Deck 100 Cut: Confirmed, Not a Fluke
Two weeks ago Yuyutei cut its Start Deck 100 Battle Collection prices across the board. Last week we could not tell whether that was a genuine repricing or a single cheap listing moving through our pipeline. This week settles it.| Card | Book now | Yuyutei now | Yuyutei last week | Yuyutei two weeks ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbink #752 | S$25.49 | S$7.02 | S$7.02 | S$11.52 |
| Weavile #746 | S$25.45 | S$8.82 | S$8.82 | S$13.32 |
One nuance worth flagging. Weavile's discount reads as 65% this week against 70% last week — not because Yuyutei moved, but because the card's book value itself fell from S$29.54 to S$25.45 in two weeks. The price held; the percentage narrowed because the thing it's being compared against moved. Carbink's book barely changed (S$25.44 → S$25.49), so its 72% discount reads almost identically both weeks. When a discount percentage shifts, check which side of the fraction actually moved before writing the headline.
We can now also show more of the set: Mightyena #753 (−70%, Yuyutei S$7.02 against book S$23.21), Marill #748 (−68%, S$17.82 against S$56.49), Larry's Staraptor #756 (−57%) and Mawile #754 (−55%) all sit in the same deep-discount band, with KyoCards' frozen asks on most of them now 57–85 days old — a reminder that this whole set's "second opinion" column is stale even where the Yuyutei price is fresh.
Top Deals This Week
Ages are shown per platform below — read the KyoCards-sourced ones with the three-week freeze in mind.1. Carbink #752 (Japanese Start Deck 100) — 72% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuyutei | S$7.02 | −72% | 2d |
| KyoCards | S$24.00 | −6% | 22d |
Verdict: Buy on Yuyutei. KyoCards is essentially at book and three weeks stale either way.
2. Magcargo GX #68 (Japanese Thunderclap Spark) — 71% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuyutei | S$7.02 | −71% | 2d |
| Carousell | S$7.00 | −71% | 82d |
Verdict: Buy on Yuyutei. The agreement is reassuring on direction, not on Carousell's actual availability.
3. Mightyena #753 (Japanese Start Deck 100) — 70% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuyutei | S$7.02 | −70% | 2d |
| KyoCards | S$16.10 | −31% | 70d |
Verdict: Buy. Combine with other Start Deck 100 commons to split shipping.
4. Audino #156 (Japanese Black Bolt) — 68% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telegram Groups | S$7.00 | −68% | 1d |
| Yuyutei | S$16.02 | −26% | 2d |
Verdict: Buy. This is the cleanest deal of the week on a data-quality basis, even though it isn't the single biggest discount.
5. Pidove #153 (Japanese Black Bolt) — 67% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telegram Groups | S$8.00 | −67% | 1d |
| KyoCards | S$10.54 | −56% | 22d |
| Yuyutei | S$13.32 | −44% | 2d |
Verdict: Buy. This listing has now outlasted two editions of this column; it is either a very patient seller or a standing group-buy price.
6. Weavile #746 (Japanese Start Deck 100) — 65% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuyutei | S$8.82 | −65% | 2d |
| KyoCards | S$15.00 | −41% | 22d |
Verdict: Buy on Yuyutei. The price is confirmed stable across two editions now.
7. Mewtwo ex #134 (Japanese 30th Celebration) — 53% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carousell | S$50.00 | −53% | 1d |
| KyoCards | S$75.00 | −30% | 22d |
Verdict: Buy, with care. At this value, verify the seller and condition in person — Peninsula Plaza and Sim Lim Square are the obvious places to cross-check.
8. Gardevoir EX #101 (Japanese Scarlet Ex) — 23% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telegram Groups | S$182.00 | −23% | 1d |
| Yuyutei | S$223.20 | −6% | 2d |
Verdict: Buy if the seller checks out. Meet in person at this value.
9. Team Rocket's Nidoking ex #126 (Japanese Glory of Team Rocket) — 31% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telegram Groups | S$68.00 | −31% | 1d |
| Yuyutei | S$115.20 | +17% | 2d |
Verdict: Buy. The 69% gap to Yuyutei's figure is the kind of spread that makes a Telegram group worth checking before any other platform on this card.
10. Marill #748 (Japanese Start Deck 100) — 68% off
| Platform | Price | vs book | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuyutei | S$17.82 | −68% | 2d |
| KyoCards | S$54.00 | −4% | 57d |
Verdict: Buy on Yuyutei. Same set, same durable discount pattern.
A card we are not headlining
Shiftry GX #105 (Japanese Sky-Splitting Charisma) shows a 73% discount in our raw data — the deepest number on the whole board — but that figure comes from a Carousell listing that is 82 days old and almost certainly gone. The price you can actually act on today is Yuyutei's fresh ask at S$11.52, 55% below its S$25.49 book, which is a real discount but not the biggest one on paper. We are naming it rather than quietly dropping it, because the gap between "deepest in our dataset" and "deepest you can actually get" is exactly the kind of thing a stale corroborating feed produces, and it is worth seeing once in plain terms rather than only in a table.Also on the board
| Card | Set | Best price | vs book | Second opinion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snorunt #8 | PokeKyun Collection | S$8.82 Yuyutei | −66% | Carousell S$22 (82d) |
| Meowstic #17 | PokeKyun Collection | S$13.32 Yuyutei | −65% | Carousell S$37 (82d) |
| Growlithe [Holo 1st Ed.] #4 | Shiny Collection | S$13.32 Yuyutei | −65% | Carousell S$50 (2d, +30%) |
| Pidgeot ex #157 | Chinese CSV4C | S$9.15 KyoCards | −62% | Carousell S$20 (30d) |
| Larry's Staraptor #756 | Start Deck 100 | S$8.82 Yuyutei | −57% | KyoCards S$16.10 (85d) |
| Diancie #27 | PokeKyun Collection | S$13.32 Yuyutei | −56% | Carousell S$32 (82d) |
| Mawile #754 | Start Deck 100 | S$16.02 Yuyutei | −55% | KyoCards S$24.22 (85d) |
| Froslass #9 | PokeKyun Collection | S$11.52 Yuyutei | −55% | KyoCards S$35 (85d, +37%) |
| Lillie's Determination #91 | Mega Brave | S$100.00 KyoCards | −51% | Yuyutei S$160.20 (2d, −21%) |
Where the board clusters
By set, across the 91 cards: Black Bolt and VSTAR Universe 7 cards each, Start Deck 100 Battle Collection 7, PokeKyun Collection 6, Mega Dream ex 5, VMAX Climax 4, 30th Celebration 3. The same structural story as the last two editions — Japan-only or recently-reprinted products dominate the discount board, and Yuyutei's domestic-market pricing is where the gap to a US-dollar book value shows up most.By book value, the board skews cheap: 46 cards book under S$30, 23 between S$30–50, 15 between S$50–100, six between S$100–250, one above. Median saving by tier runs roughly flat across the cheap three tiers (around 30%) — there is no price band where discounts are systematically deeper, only bands with more cards in them.
Still flat: the Mega Dream ex trainer SARs
Steven's Metagross ex #245 is S$26.82 on Yuyutei and Iris's Fighting Spirit #247 is S$16.02 — the same prices we have quoted in every edition since 5 October. Both now carry a KyoCards figure too (S$40 and S$20 respectively), but that KyoCards data is dated 8 August, three months old, and adds nothing we can treat as current. These two cards have not moved in nearly a month on the only feed that is actually updating.The Baseline Check: Still Holding
Every discount above depends on the book value being roughly right, so we re-ran the same spot-check we introduced after the 23 October cache rebuild. We joined our sampled cards to today's PriceCharting CSV by id and compared the API's baseline against loose-price converted at a derived FX rate.This week's derived FX is 1.2809 (median of API baseline ÷ CSV loose-price across 9,036 matched cards), close to last week's 1.2778. 89.9% of matched cards agree with the CSV within 2%, and 96.0% agree within 10%. That is consistent with last week's 90.4% / 95.4% — no sign the cache has drifted back toward stale since the 23 October rebuild. The mismatches that remain are concentrated in very cheap cards (sub-S$5 book), where a few cents of absolute difference reads as a large percentage gap, and in a handful of promo cards where the CSV itself appears to have moved between snapshots.
We are not declaring this permanently solved — it is a weekly check precisely because it failed silently for nine months before 23 October — but for the second week running, it checks out.
What We Exclude, and Why
CardMarket — excluded, now five weeks running. Its feed has not refreshed since 26 September and the handful of listings that survive our trim still skew far below any sane price. We are not re-litigating the broken promo-card join we documented two editions ago; nothing has changed to fix it.pokecompare.com — excluded from singles. Sealed-only product, joined by expansion rather than card number. Its newest row is from 9 September.
The mismatch band. We drop any listing outside 0.25×–4× of book. This week it removed 21.2% of listings on the low side and 1.8% on the high side within our sampled pool — a higher low-side rate than the 12.4% we reported in late October, which is more likely a sampling-depth difference than a real market shift, since this week's sample draws more heavily from deal-hunting sorts that naturally surface more marginal matches.
The spread guard caught 2 cards this week in our featured-deal candidate pool: Pikachu [Holo 1st Edition] #7, where KyoCards asked S$40 against a Yuyutei ask of S$448.20 on the same card (an 11× spread — the two platforms are very likely not describing the same physical item), and Lilligant #92 for a similar reason. Both are dropped entirely rather than headlined.
Other guards: cards with fewer than two confirmed PriceCharting sales are excluded by the baseline check; sets released in the last 30 days are excluded; a card needs at least two live, in-band sources to be scored for the main board.
The honest limitation this week. Only 6 of the 91 board cards are fully fresh on every platform quoted — far fewer than the 40 of 86 two weeks ago. The reason is almost entirely KyoCards: it supplies the second opinion on a large share of this week's board, and every one of those second opinions is now frozen at the same mid-October snapshot. Where we show a KyoCards price below, read it as "this was true three weeks ago," not "this is true today."
Recommendations by Budget
Budget collectors (S$100–300/month)
Yuyutei remains the default for everyday Japanese singles — 17% under book at the median, and 55% under on the Start Deck 100 and PokeKyun sets specifically. Batch orders to absorb international freight. For in-person buying, Bricks Play (183 Toa Payoh Central) and OBO Collectibles (Waterloo Street) price everyday singles sensibly and let you inspect before paying.Serious collectors (S$500–1,500/month)
Between S$50 and S$200 the Yuyutei advantage disappears (+31% at the median); KyoCards is nominally the better default there (+11%), but remember its feed has not moved since 10 October — confirm anything you act on with a phone call or an in-person visit. Peninsula Plaza and Peninsula Shopping Centre (Game Academia, B1-38/39) remain the densest concentration of singles in Singapore; Sim Lim Square (TripleTactics TCG #05-21, Card Gaiden #03-52) and the shops around Bugis are worth checking against any online price you're quoted.High-end collectors (S$2,000+/month)
Do not default to Yuyutei above S$200 — it is 99% over book at the median in that range this week, even sharper than two weeks ago. On the Bandit Ring Primal legendaries specifically, there is currently no second opinion at all to check Yuyutei's S$808.20 ask against — treat that price as unverified until a live corroborating source turns up. Use the community for chase cards: Telegram groups held the cheapest fresh ask on both Gardevoir EX (S$182) and Team Rocket's Nidoking ex (S$68) this week. Meet in person, verify in hand, never transfer first.Last Week's Watch List, Resolved
✅ "Whether Yuyutei's Start Deck 100 cut sticks." It did. Carbink #752 and Weavile #746 are both unchanged from their post-cut prices a week later — a confirmed repricing, not a listing passing through our pipeline once.✅ "Whether the baseline cache stays current." Yes, for a second week. This week's spot-check against today's CSV reads 89.9% within 2% and 96.0% within 10%, consistent with the 90.4% / 95.4% we found immediately after the 23 October rebuild.
❌ "KyoCards, again. If it is not back by 31 October..." It did not come back. Its newest row is still 10 October — three weeks with zero new listings now. We are not yet suspending the chase-tier comparison, because Yuyutei remains live, but every KyoCards figure in this report should be read as three-week-old information.
❌ "The platform list. SNKRDUNK, TCGPlayer and Facebook... back by the first November edition or dropped." This is that edition. All three are still at zero. They are dropped from our stated platform list starting now.
Also resolved: "Carousell's backlog." We predicted it might keep clearing. Measured this week it reads worse (36-day median, 44% under 30 days) than two weeks ago (26-day median, 59% under 30 days). We flag this as a real reversal, with the caveat that different sampling between weeks adds noise to the exact figures.
What to Watch Next Week
Whether KyoCards ever resumes. Three weeks dark is long enough that the honest framing is no longer "drifting" — it is frozen until proven otherwise. If it has not posted a single new row by the next edition, the over-S$50 half of this report is effectively single-sourced on Yuyutei alone, and we will say so plainly rather than keep presenting a stale figure as a second opinion.Whether the Bandit Ring Primal legendaries pick up any corroboration. Right now Yuyutei's S$808.20 ask on both Primal Groudon EX #94 and Primal Kyogre EX #93 is unverified by any other live platform.
Carousell's reversal. Worth confirming on a consistent sample next week before treating it as a trend rather than noise.
The baseline cache, a third time. Two consecutive clean checks is encouraging; a third would make "the cache is current" a default assumption rather than something we re-verify from scratch every week.
Deals based on tcgTalk Singapore Market Mapper data, comparison set generated 1 November 2026, with baselines checked against the same-day PriceCharting snapshot at a derived FX of S$1.2809/USD (consistent with last week's 1.2778). Sample: 12,676 cards (61% of the 20,990 tracked), 91 surviving every guard, 6 fully fresh on every quoted platform. Prices in SGD. Availability and condition not guaranteed — verify on the source before purchase.
Next week's deals roundup: Monday 9 November 2026.