Pokémon Worlds Promo Price History: What the Cards Are Actually Worth

The short answer

The card you are handed at Singapore 2027 will be worth less a month later than it is on the day. That is the clearest thing in 375 days of daily price snapshots. The 2026 Worlds Pikachu fell −35.4% in its first 34 days of real trading. The 2025 Pikachu fell 53% over its first thirteen months. Nothing in this dataset shows a new Worlds promo appreciating early.

What does carry value is the stamp and the locale, not the card. A winner-stamped 2026 Pikachu is 9.08x the public print of the same card number. The English 2025 Paradise Resort is 4.54x the Korean printing of the same card. And most Worlds products have no price at all — 61 of the 154 products in our series carry no published price today, and 60 never have.

What these numbers are

Every figure on this page is PriceCharting’s PriceCharting `loose-price` — the ungraded/raw price column in USD, as of 2026-10-07, read from 375 dated daily exports rather than from the live site. Three things about that matter before you read a single price:

• It is a trailing monthly average, not a last-sale price. a trailing monthly average, not a daily mark: it sits pinned at one value for days and then steps, so a single day cannot resolve an event-week spike A card that spiked yesterday will not show it here for weeks.
• A missing price means no recorded sales, not no value. We print “no recorded sales” and never a zero, never a dash on its own, and we never put a null into an average.
• A sale count of 1 or less is an ask, not a price. 1 or 0 recorded sales. PriceCharting means "no confirmed sales yet": the number on screen is an ask nobody has paid. We do not publish it as a price. Every price below is rendered next to the count behind it, and the weak ones are marked instead of being quietly dropped.

The series has 3 known holes in it, and one of them matters a great deal to the companion page on event effects:

Six families, never one average

“Worlds cards” is not a market. It is six markets that behave nothing alike, and the spread between the trophy row and the Worlds-stamped row below is five orders of magnitude. Any single “average Worlds card price” you see quoted is an artefact of adding those rows together, which is why this page publishes no such number.

“Tradeable” here means the product carries a published ungraded price with five or more recorded sales behind it. On that definition 70 of the 154 products in our daily series qualify. The family rows above add up to more than 154 because the Worlds-stamped family is not in that series at all — those cards live in ordinary sets, so their figures come from the dated cross-check and carry no sale counts.

The six findings

Each one is a rule you can act on, the figures it rests on, and what it means for the card you will be holding in Singapore. Two of them correct the brief this page was commissioned from; one of them is a finding that there is nothing to find.

A new promo, week by week

The 2026 Worlds Pikachu is the single most useful product in this dataset, because it is the only Worlds promo whose entire post-issue life sits inside our series. This is what happened to it, and it is the closest thing we have to a preview of the Singapore 2027 card.

Pikachu [World Championship 2026] #93 — the 2026 mass promo

The US$37 opening mark on 29 Aug sits against a sale count of 1, so it is an ask and we do not treat it as a price. From the first mark with real volume behind it — US$29 on 2 Sep, 1,038 recorded sales — it fell to US$18.73 by 6 Oct. That is −35.4% in 34 days, in twelve consecutive downward steps, while the sale count fell from 2,140 to 408.

Note the first row. US$37.00 on 29 Aug 2026 sits against a sale count of 1, so it is somebody’s asking price and we do not treat it as a price at all — it is greyed out above for that reason. The fall is measured from 2 Sep, the first mark with real trading behind it.

Over exactly the same weeks, the winner-stamped version of the same card did not fall:

Pikachu [World Championship 2026 - WINNER] #93 — the winner stamp

Over the same weeks the winner-stamped version of the same card went the other way: US$170 on 9 Sep, US$173.19 on 17 Sep, US$170 on 19 Sep, on 309 to 469 recorded sales. It then stopped appearing in the daily snapshots, so we have nothing after 19 Sep.

And the 2026 attendee promo — the Paradise Resort card, the direct analogue of what Singapore 2027 will hand out — has almost no history at all, because PriceCharting did not list it until five weeks after the event:

Paradise Resort [World Championships 2026] #92 — the 2026 attendee promo

PriceCharting did not list this card until 2026-10-01, five weeks after it was handed out, so there is no post-event decay curve for the 2026 attendee promo at all. The two priced days disagree by 39% on a sale count that fell 60%, which reads as a re-scoped listing rather than a move. This is the single biggest hole in the dataset and it closes on its own as the series lengthens.

That hole is the biggest weakness on this page, and we would rather say so than present two disagreeing days as a trend. It closes on its own: by December 2026 that card will have about sixty days of history.

For a full year of an attendee promo we have to go back to the 2025 card, which turns out not to be a decay curve at all:

Paradise Resort [World Championships 2025] #224 — a full year after Anaheim

Month-end marks, forward-filled. The arc is not a decay curve: from the first trustworthy mark of US$257.48 at end-November 2025 it fell to a sustained US$105–118 through June to August 2026, then jumped back to US$174.82 in the last days of September 2026. Down 54%, then up 48%, in thirteen months, on a sale count that never dropped below 34.

Staff, winner and the stamp premium

The brief for this page said staff variants run about 2x the public version and called it “a clean, chartable rule”. It is a reasonable central estimate and it is not a rule. Here is every variant pair we can actually defend, with the ones that are not like-for-like marked as such:

The extraction found eleven staff pairs, median 1.73x, range 0.98x to 12.57x. Nine of the eleven are not like-for-like: they compare a staff card against a single public baseline from a different year, because neither side carried a year. Filtering to pairs that share a card number, a locale and a year leaves the rows marked like-for-like above. Read 2x as the central tendency of two clean staff pairs, not as a rule — and note that the clean winner pairs are nowhere near 2x.

The practical reading for Singapore 2027: if you are staff, your card is worth roughly twice the one in the attendee bags. If you win an event, the multiple is very much larger, but read why — the winner multiple is big because the public Pikachu is a sub-US$20 card, not because winner cards are dear in absolute terms. US$170 is the 2026 winner Pikachu’s whole price.

The locale spread

This is the finding that matters most for an Asian host city, and it is the one the brief got exactly right. The same card, printed for different regions, is not worth the same money anywhere close.

And here is the open question of the whole event. Singapore 2027 is the first Southeast Asian World Championships. Fri 13 – Sun 15 Aug 2027 falls in a market that is neither Japan, nor Korea, nor the United States, and nothing in thirteen months of price data tells us which locale printings get distributed there. Whichever printing ends up in the attendee bag, the spread above says that choice will matter more to resale than anything else about the card.

Does age actually pay?

Older Worlds promos are dearer than newer ones. That much is solid in both locales we can chain. What is not solid is any particular multiple, and the brief for this page quoted one — about 4.5x from 2023 to 2026 — that turned out to be an artefact of comparing a Japanese card against an English one. The corrected chains, each kept inside a single locale:

Fitting price against years-since-issue across every public attendee promo gives a headline rate of appreciation, and we show it mainly so you can see how weak it is:

Treat those rates as description, not forecast. An r² of 0.145 on the English fit means age explains about a seventh of the price variation — the rest is print run, era and survivorship. The 2003 cards in that fit were handed to a few hundred people; the 2025 card went to tens of thousands. The Japanese fit looks tighter at 0.696 and the reason is itself a confound: the old Japanese cards were Japan-only distributions, not locale variants of a global card.

Graded figures, and the ones we withhold

PSA 10 figures for Worlds products are unusually unreliable, because a graded price and an ungraded price for a thinly-traded promo are often two different populations averaged together. We run every row through the same trust guard the rest of this site uses — A 30x cap on the PSA-10-over-ungraded multiple and a 20x bound against the set’s peer rows. Both are required: the cap alone becomes the ranking, the peer bound alone passes tiny-denominator junk. — and 46 of 68 Worlds products with a PSA 10 figure pass. Only passers appear here:

The passing multiples run from 1.64x to 6.53x, with the median at 3.93x — and that is the useful takeaway: on a Worlds promo that actually trades, a PSA 10 is worth a few times the raw card, not a few dozen times. Anything claiming otherwise is usually the artefact below.

What we are withholding, and why. A missing number here is a decision, not an oversight, so the notable failures are named:

The guards are applied per row and only to the graded columns, never to an aggregate — a peer bound applied to a weighted mean has previously moved this repo’s Pokémon loose average from US$46.92 to US$15.39, which is a measurement artefact, not a market.

One more thing worth knowing if you compare graders: the BGS 10 and CGC 10 columns in our source data are fixed multiples of the PSA 10 column on 93–99% of rows. They are not an independent cross-grader comparison, and nothing on this site presents them as one.

The products with no market

If you place well at Singapore 2027 you will be handed a placement-stamped card — Top Thirty-Two, Quarter-Finalist, Finalist, Champion. You should know in advance that there is essentially no market to value it in.

Every Champion-stamped product in the series — five of them, across four different card numbers — has no published price at all. If you finish top eight at Singapore 2027 and want to know what the card is worth, the honest answer is that there is no market to ask.

Singapore exclusives: no history

There is a permanent Pokémon Center at Jewel Changi Airport, it sells Singapore-exclusive merchandise, and a Worlds pop-up will almost certainly add more. We went looking for a price history on all of it. There is none.

Where we corrected ourselves

This page was commissioned from an internal brief that made 8 specific claims about Worlds prices. Checking them against the data left 1 standing as written, 3 confirmed in direction but wrong in the numbers, 2 corrected outright, and 2 that the data could not settle either way. We publish the scorecard because a page that will not show you where its own brief was wrong is asking you to take its method on faith.

What we do not know yet

This is a work queue with dates on it, not a disclaimer. Three of these resolve themselves simply by the series getting longer, and this page gets re-run against them.

Sources

Our figures come from dated daily exports of PriceCharting, not from its live pages, so expect the live site to have moved since 2026-10-07. Where another source owns the record better than we could, we link to it rather than rebuilding it.

• PriceCharting — World Championship Pokémon list — The underlying price source. Our figures come from dated daily exports of it, not from the live page, so expect the live page to have moved.
• Bulbapedia — World Championships promotional cards — The encyclopedic record: which card was handed out in which year, in which locales, and which variants exist. We do not rebuild this.
• championships.pokemon.com — The only binding source on what is actually distributed at a World Championships, and on pop-up access.

Price basis: PriceCharting PriceCharting `loose-price` — the ungraded/raw price, USD, as of 2026-10-07, from 375 daily snapshots beginning 2025-09-19. Every figure on this page was extracted by script from those snapshots; none was computed by hand.