30th Celebration Prices in Singapore: Five Weeks On

The set's expensive half has fallen 41% in a month. Its cheap half has not moved. And Singapore's asking prices are still set at September's numbers.

Mew ex #158 from the English 30th Celebration set was worth S$149 a month ago. Today PriceCharting's book value for it is S$82.38 — a 45% fall in four weeks. KyoCards is asking S$200.

That is not a rogue listing. It is the pattern across the whole expensive half of the set. Of the 13 English 30th Celebration singles currently booking above S$60, twelve are cheaper than they were on 24 September, by a median of 41%. Of the 133 English singles booking under S$5 — 69% of the set — the median card has not moved at all. The correction everyone expected after a mass-market anniversary set came, and it came almost entirely out of the ex cards, while Singapore's local asking prices stayed where they were pitched at release.

This is a companion to our weekly deals column, which flagged a 30th Celebration pricing gap and predicted last week that the books would fall. They did. The useful part turns out to be which books fell, and the answer changes what a Singapore collector should buy and where.

Key Findings

- The correction was top-down. English singles now booking S$60+ are down 41% at the median since 24 September; the S$20–60 band is down 32%; the S$5–20 band is down 26%; and the under-S$5 bulk is flat (+1.5%).
- Charizard and Lugia held. The Japanese Charizard #137 (S$236.38) and Lugia #142 (S$240.86) are within 2% of their late-September book. Every ex card near them fell by 30–55%.
- The Japanese print corrected far less than the English one: its S$60+ band is down 23% against England's 41%, and its bulk is exactly flat.
- The Chinese print is still deflating. Every single tier is down, from −23% at the top to −87% in the bulk, and 100% of its priced singles fell. The Korean print cannot be priced at all — only 49 of its 178 rows carry a price.
- Singapore asks have not followed the fall. On cards whose book dropped more than 25%, Carousell's median ask is 38% above book and 74% of its listings sit over it. On cards whose book held, KyoCards sits 47% under. Local pricing is tracking September, not October.
- Sealed fell harder than singles. The 33 English sealed products are down 16% at the median, with mini tins down 38–50% — while the two Greninja ex products rose 29–40%.
- Value is concentrated to an extreme. Set the three unverifiable Mew RGB promos aside and the top ten English singles carry 52% of the whole print's singles book value; the median card is worth S$2.47.

Scope: 30th Celebration released 16 September 2026, so these figures cover days 8 to 38. All four locale prints plus the Japanese Premium Deck — 804 PriceCharting rows in total. Prices are PriceCharting loose values converted at a derived S$1.2778/USD; Singapore asking prices are live listings from the tcgTalk Singapore Market Mapper comparison set generated 24 October 2026. Rows with fewer than two confirmed sales are excluded throughout, as are listings outside a 0.25×–4× band around book.

Why We Start the Clock on 24 September, Not Release Day

One methodological point first, because it is the difference between a real finding and a fake one.

PriceCharting cannot price a set on release day. On 17 September, the day after 30th Celebration hit shelves, only 85 of 720 rows across the five prints carried a price at all, and the median of those was US$48.85. A week later, 477 rows were priced and the median was US$5.12. Nothing fell by 90% in that week. What happened is that placeholder and pre-order asks were replaced by actual sales data as it arrived.

So any "price since release" chart for a new set is mostly an artefact of coverage arriving, and the deepest apparent crashes are in the cards that got priced last. We therefore measure from 24 September — day eight, by which point the English print had 191 of its singles priced on real sales — and we only compare cards that carry a price and two or more confirmed sales on both dates. That cuts the sample but makes the numbers mean something.

It is also why we do not compare this set's decline to an older set's. A 38-day-old set and a three-year-old set are not measured on the same footing.

The Shape of the Set

Before the movements, the levels. These are the English print's singles as PriceCharting values them today.

Measure	English 30th Celebration
Singles with a price and 2+ sales	193
Median card	S$2.49
Cards under S$5	133 (69%)
Cards over S$50	16
Most valuable verified single	Lugia #149 — S$275.25
Top ten share of total singles value	52% (excluding the Mew RGB promos)

Two thirds of the set is worth less than a kopi. That is normal for a 200-card mass-market anniversary product and it is worth saying plainly, because the marketing around a 30th anniversary set invites the opposite assumption.

A note on the three most expensive rows. PriceCharting lists Mew R/RGB, Mew B/RGB and Mew G/RGB in the English print at US$4,295, US$4,000 and US$3,599 — S$4,599 to S$5,488. We exclude them from every aggregate above and we would not quote them to a buyer. They carry no release date, no live Singapore listing on any platform we track, and on one of the three the graded price is lower than the loose price, which is a reliable signature of a thin, unverified row. If you are chasing an RGB Mew, that is a negotiation, not a market price.

The Correction Came From the Top

Here is the central table. Each card is compared with its own 24 September price; cards are grouped by what they are worth now.

English print

Current book	Cards	Median change since 24 Sep	Share down
Under S$5	133	+1.5%	47%
S$5–20	32	−26.4%	78%
S$20–60	13	−31.7%	92%
S$60+	13	−40.8%	92%

Japanese print

Current book	Cards	Median change since 24 Sep	Share down
Under S$5	53	0.0%	47%
S$5–20	40	+1.7%	45%
S$20–60	11	−20.3%	91%
S$60+	9	−23.4%	89%

Read those two tables together and the story is not "30th Celebration crashed." It is that the English print's chase cards gave back roughly 40% while its commons were already on the floor, and the Japanese print did the same thing at half the magnitude.

The individual falls are large and specific:

Card	Print	Book now	Change since 24 Sep
Pikachu ex #127	Japanese	S$109.67	−55%
Mewtwo Ex #151	English	S$68.41	−51%
Mew Ex #152	English	S$116.98	−52%
Mew ex #135	Japanese	S$86.86	−50%
Gengar Ex #154	English	S$97.55	−46%
Mew ex #158	English	S$82.38	−45%
Mewtwo ex #157	English	S$62.74	−42%
Pikachu ex #149	English	S$63.89	−42%

And the cards that did not move are as consistent as the ones that did:

Card	Print	Book now	Change since 24 Sep
Charizard #137	Japanese	S$236.38	−0.1%
Lugia #142	Japanese	S$240.86	−1.6%
Magikarp #165	Japanese	S$85.84	−3.9%
Charizard #4	English	S$230.00	−6.6%
Gengar #150	Japanese	S$84.28	+25.8%

The pattern is clean enough to act on: the full-art ex cards were the speculative tier and they corrected; the character-anchored holos at the top of the set did not. Charizard, Lugia and Magikarp are the cards a non-competitive collector wants on a shelf, and their prices have behaved like collectibles. The ex cards were priced on release-week scarcity and have been repriced on supply.

The Four Prints Are Four Different Markets

Print	Priced singles (2+ sales)	Median card	S$60+ band since 24 Sep	Verdict
English	193	S$2.49	−41%	Corrected, now stabilising
Japanese	172	S$4.13	−23%	Mild correction, bulk flat
Chinese	129	S$3.68	−23%, every tier down	Still deflating
Korean	49 of 178 rows priced	—	—	Unpriceable

The Chinese print is the one to be careful with. Every one of its priced tiers is down and 100% of its singles fell over the month — −87% in the bulk, −53% in the S$5–20 band, −42% in the S$20–60 band, −23% at the top. Some of that is still coverage arriving late (it had only 35 priced singles on 24 September against 129 now), but the direction is unanimous in a way the other prints are not.

The Korean print has no market data. 178 rows exist; 49 carry any price; only 22 have two or more confirmed sales. We cannot give you a median, a trend or a fair price for Korean 30th Celebration, and anyone who quotes you one is guessing. The three Korean Mew RGB rows carry a release date and nothing else — no price, no sales.

Singapore: Local Asks Are Still at September's Prices

Now the part that matters if you are buying here. We matched every live Singapore listing on a 30th Celebration card to that card's book change over the month, then asked a simple question: do local asking prices track the fall?

They do not.

One caveat before the tables, because it applies to every Pokemon card prices Singapore figure we publish: these are asking prices with an age. KyoCards' feed has a median listing age of 13 days and has not refreshed since 10 October; Carousell's median row is 16 days old. Every ask below carries its age, and anything over a fortnight should be confirmed with the seller before you treat it as live.

What the book did	Platform	Listings	Median ask vs book	Share above book
Fell more than 25%	Carousell	38	+38%	74%
Fell more than 25%	KyoCards	73	−6%	42%
Fell 10–25%	Carousell	11	+45%	91%
Fell 10–25%	KyoCards	37	−29%	24%
Held (better than −10%)	Carousell	20	+48%	65%
Held (better than −10%)	KyoCards	54	−47%	13%

The two columns to compare are KyoCards' medians: −6% on the cards that crashed, −47% on the cards that held. A shop whose prices tracked the market would show a similar discount in both rows. KyoCards shows a 41-point difference, which is what it looks like when a price list is set once and not revised: on the cards that fell by half, a September price is now roughly at or above the new book, and on the cards that held, a September price looks like a bargain.

Carousell is above book in every bucket, worst on the cards that moved most.

The cards local sellers have not marked down

Card	Book now	Book change	Local ask	vs book	Ask age
Mew ex #158 (EN)	S$82.38	−45%	KyoCards S$200	+143%	13d
Mew Ex #152 (EN)	S$116.98	−52%	KyoCards S$255	+118%	13d
Mewtwo ex #157 (EN)	S$62.74	−42%	KyoCards S$120	+91%	13d
Mew ex #135 (JP)	S$86.86	−50%	Carousell S$170	+96%	29d
Pikachu ex #149 (EN)	S$63.89	−42%	Carousell S$108	+69%	0d
Gengar Ex #154 (EN)	S$97.55	−46%	Carousell S$158	+62%	14d
Jirachi ex #155 (EN)	S$57.50	−32%	Carousell S$88	+53%	14d

Every one of those is a card whose market value halved while the local ask stayed put. Mew ex #135 in Japanese is the clearest case: we quoted it last week at KyoCards S$140 against a S$107.96 book and called it "over book on both platforms." The book has since fallen to S$86.86 and the KyoCards ask is still S$140 — the markup went from 30% to 61% without anybody changing a price tag.

The cards that are fairly priced in Singapore

Card	Book now	Book change	Best local ask	vs book	Ask age
Lugia #142 (JP)	S$240.86	−1.6%	KyoCards S$200.61	−17%	13d
Dark Tyranitar #144 (JP)	S$24.69	−0.9%	KyoCards S$20	−19%	13d
Charizard #137 (JP)	S$236.38	−0.1%	Carousell S$225	−5%	10d
Magikarp #165 (JP)	S$85.84	−3.9%	KyoCards S$80	−7%	13d
Gengar #150 (JP)	S$84.28	+25.8%	KyoCards S$80	−5%	13d
Mewtwo ex #134 (JP)	S$78.53	−39.8%	Carousell S$60	−24%	0d
Pikachu & Zekrom Tag Team GX #160 (JP)	S$38.28	−28.6%	KyoCards S$30	−22%	13d

Notice what these have in common: they are overwhelmingly Japanese-print cards. Across the whole set, KyoCards' median ask on the Japanese print is 50% below book, against 13% below on the English print — and Carousell's is 5% below book on Japanese cards against 62% above on English ones. If you are buying 30th Celebration in Singapore right now, the Japanese print is where local pricing is sane.

And avoid the Chinese print locally. KyoCards prices Chinese 30th Celebration cards at a median 29% below their Chinese book, which sounds fine until you look at the individual asks: Pikachu ex #127 at S$50 against a S$31.82 book that fell 61% this month, Gengar Ex #131 at S$53 against S$31.28, Mewtwo Ex #128 at S$39.88 against S$22.04. Those are Japanese-print prices on a Chinese-print card.

What the whole set looks like across platforms

Platform	Listings scored	Median vs book	Share above book	Data age
KyoCards	213	−36%	23%	13 days
Carousell	85	+41%	73%	16 days

Last week those figures were −38% and +55%. KyoCards is unchanged; Carousell's premium narrowed by 14 points, which is what a fresher sample of asks looks like rather than a change in anybody's pricing. No other platform we track carries meaningful 30th Celebration singles coverage: Yuyutei lists almost none of it, and SNKRDUNK, TCGPlayer and Facebook have returned zero live rows for three weeks.

Sealed Fell Harder Than Singles

The 33 English sealed products behaved worse than the cards inside them. Median change since 24 September: −16.3%, against −7.8% for singles.

Product	Book now	Change since 24 Sep
Ultra-Premium Collection: Night	S$760.15	−10.2%
Ultra-Premium Collection: Day	S$611.72	−21.6%
Elite Trainer Box [Pokemon Center]	S$373.61	+3.4%
Mini Tin Display	S$288.16	−36.3%
Ditto Premium Collection	S$204.46	−18.7%
Elite Trainer Box	S$149.83	−32.4%
Binder Collection	S$121.39	+3.2%
Booster Bundle	S$103.68	−19.7%
Sealed Tin: Greninja ex	S$87.92	+39.7%
Greninja ex Box	S$88.04	+29.2%
Battle Deck: Umbreon ex	S$82.99	+10.4%
Sylveon ex Box	S$67.30	−29.9%
Mini Tin: Umbreon	S$38.91	−38.5%
Mini Tin: Day Pikachu	S$33.20	−47.5%
Mini Tin: Zapdos	S$29.66	−49.9%
Booster Pack	S$20.93	−3.2%

The mini tins are the story: seven of them are down between 38% and 50% in a month, and the display of them is down 36%. Mini tins are the product a retailer over-orders because they move at impulse prices, and they are the first thing to be discounted when the shelves do not clear.

At the other end, the two Greninja ex products rose 29–40% and the Umbreon battle deck rose 10% — single-character products tied to the set's most wanted Pokemon, which is the same logic that held Charizard and Lugia up on the singles side.

We cannot give you Singapore sealed asking prices this week. The only sealed feed in our comparison set, pokecompare.com, has not refreshed since 9 September — before the set reached shops. Its 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box ask of S$279.28 is a pre-release number against a book that is now S$149.83, and we exclude it rather than print it. For sealed, check Peninsula Plaza, Bugis or the Sim Lim Square shops in person; the honest answer is that we do not have a measured local sealed market for this set.

What This Means If You Are Buying

If you want the set's best cards

Buy the Japanese print, locally, now. Lugia #142 at S$200.61 from KyoCards is 17% under a book that has not moved in a month, and Charizard #137 at S$225 on Carousell is effectively at book on the single most wanted card in the set. These are the two cards in 30th Celebration whose prices have behaved like collectibles rather than speculation, and Singapore pricing on them is fair.

If you want the ex cards

Wait, or buy outside Singapore. Mew ex, Mewtwo ex, Pikachu ex and Gengar ex have all lost 40–55% of their book value in a month, and the local asks have not been revised. Paying S$200 for a card whose market price is S$82 is not a timing error, it is a 143% premium. If a shop will not move off a September price, the card is not scarce — it is sitting.

If you are buying bulk or building a set

The English bulk is flat and on the floor: 133 cards at a median S$2.49, unchanged over the month. There is nothing to wait for and nothing to chase. Buy the commons as a lot, locally, from whoever will do a bundle price — Bricks Play at 183 Toa Payoh Central, OBO Collectibles on Waterloo Street and Concept City on Jalan Besar all deal in set-building lots, and bundle pricing on sub-S$5 cards beats any per-card comparison in this report. The Singapore Telegram trading groups and the Singapore Pokemon Collectors Facebook group are the other place bulk lots change hands, usually at a price per hundred rather than per card — and they are where most Singapore Pokemon cards set-building actually gets done.

If you are buying sealed

The mini tins are 38–50% cheaper than a month ago and still falling, so there is no urgency. The Greninja ex tin and box are the only two sealed products appreciating, and both are already above their September price. Buy sealed to open, not to hold, unless you have a specific view on the Greninja products.

If you are buying to grade

Grade the cards whose book held, not the ones that fell. A 30th Celebration Charizard or Lugia has a stable raw floor to measure a PSA 10 premium against; an ex card that has halved in a month does not, and a grading fee is a larger share of the card's value every week that it falls.

What We Will Be Watching

Whether the English bulk floor holds. 133 cards sitting at a median S$2.49 with no movement for a month is either a genuine floor or a pause. The test is simple and we will run it weekly: does the under-S$5 median still read S$2.49 in four weeks?

Whether local shops reprice. KyoCards' median ask on cards whose book fell more than 25% is −6%, against −47% on cards whose book held. If that gap closes over the next month, local pricing is tracking the market with a lag. If it does not, the lag is a policy, and the practical advice — don't buy the fallers locally — becomes permanent rather than seasonal.

Whether the Chinese print finds a bottom. Every tier down, 100% of cards down, with coverage still arriving. Another month of the same pattern would mean the Chinese 30th Celebration print is being produced to a level the secondary market cannot absorb.

Whether the Korean print ever gets priced. 22 cards with confirmed sales out of 178 rows, five weeks after release. Until that improves there is no Korean 30th Celebration market to report on.

The ex cards' floor. Eight of the set's ex cards have fallen 42–55%. If they stabilise, the cards local sellers are holding at September prices become the set's obvious buys at a 40% lower level. If they keep falling, the holders have a bigger problem than a stale price tag.

Analysis based on PriceCharting snapshots from 24 September and 24 October 2026 across all four 30th Celebration locale prints (804 rows), converted at a derived S$1.2778/USD, combined with live Singapore listings from the tcgTalk Singapore Market Mapper comparison set generated 24 October 2026. Rows with fewer than two confirmed sales are excluded; the three Mew RGB promo rows are excluded from all aggregates as unverified. Prices in SGD. Availability and condition not guaranteed — verify on the source before purchase.