All 12 big cards from Pokémon's ME: 30th Celebration are down, the median by 36%
The ex cards fell between 35% and 49% in less than a month. The two Mew RGB cards, the most expensive in the set, trade so rarely that their price changed only a few times.
ME: 30th Celebration came out on September 16, the same day as the Classic Collection reprints. We leave its first two weeks out, because launch prices are set before real supply arrives. From September 30 to October 25, all 12 cards worth $20 or more got cheaper, and the median card lost 36%. The reprints, by comparison, lost 27%.
Mew ex 158/128 lost half
Mew ex 158/128 fell the most, from $90.05 to $46.17, a 49% drop. Its first market price after release was $217.57, so a copy now costs about a fifth of what the first buyers paid.
Jirachi ex 155/128 is close behind, down 46% from $77.52 to $41.97, and Mew ex 152/128 lost 42%, from $144.48 to $84.50.
Every ex card fell by a third or more
The ten ex cards in the list lost between 35% and 49%. The two Pikachu ex cards are down 35% and 37%, Gengar ex 36%. There is no card in this set that held its launch week price.
The two Mew RGB cards rarely trade
Mew R/RGB is the most expensive card: $6,000.27 at the end of launch week, $4,278.49 on October 25. Mew G/RGB went from $3,738.75 to $3,581.00. Their market prices changed only 5 and 6 times in the last 30 days, while every ex card's price changed almost daily. With so few sales, one trade can move the number by hundreds of dollars, so read these two as rough.
All twelve cards
| Card | Sep 30 | Oct 25 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mew - R/RGB | $6,000.27 | $4,278.49 | −28.7% |
| Mew - G/RGB | $3,738.75 | $3,581.00 | −4.2% |
| Mew ex - 152/128 | $144.48 | $84.50 | −41.5% |
| Gengar ex - 154/128 | $101.94 | $64.88 | −36.4% |
| Pikachu ex - 150/128 | $92.16 | $59.74 | −35.2% |
| Mew ex - 158/128 | $90.05 | $46.17 | −48.7% |
| Pikachu ex - 149/128 | $73.35 | $46.15 | −37.1% |
| Mewtwo ex - 151/128 | $71.20 | $45.55 | −36.0% |
| Jirachi ex - 155/128 | $77.52 | $41.97 | −45.9% |
| Sylveon ex - 153/128 | $66.21 | $39.31 | −40.6% |
| Mewtwo ex - 157/128 | $57.36 | $37.51 | −34.6% |
| Greninja ex - 148/128 | $32.94 | $21.30 | −35.3% |
A faster drop than most new sets
Across 76 sets from all games released this year, the typical card worth $20 or more lost about 12% in the month after launch week. ME: 30th Celebration lost three times that in less than four weeks. Every card from the set is on the ME: 30th Celebration page.