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Sealed Market Research • Coverage Note No. 006 • FINAL
Aug 03 2026 • live + archived feed
Black & White Block — 12 sets, 2011–2013
Coverage Initiation • Pokémon TCG • Sealed Product Desk

Black & White Block: Deep Vintage — Where Every Box Is a Grail

The complete sealed matrix — 23 SKUs plus 35 chase cards. Every product carries a verified ladder: quarterly 2024–2025 and monthly 2026 from TCGplayer’s archived daily feed, closed by today’s live pull. Nearly this entire block trades beyond the live feed: eleven grail boxes are carried on PriceCharting monthly closes from eBay completed sales, spike-filtered and labeled. Loose packs and chase singles still print live on TCGplayer and are verified to the cent.
The crown
Plasma Storm Box $22,948eBay closes — the most valuable box on the desk
The dragon shrine
Dragons Exalted Box $21,958Dark Explorers $16,573 behind it
The send-off
Legendary Treasures $16,666Radiant Collection debut • packs alone $358
Singles apex
Plasma Storm Charizard $1,150Black Kyurem EX FA $699 • Lugia EX Plasma $725
Prepared, audited & time-stamped by PokeNoted · Sealed Market Research Desk
Verified layer — 23 sealed SKUs + 35 chase cards, each with a 16-point verified ladder (quarterly ’24–’25, monthly ’26) from the archived TCGplayer daily feed + live Aug 3 pull
APPROVED & SIGNED OFF BYBailey· SERIAL PN–006–BW–080326 · RENDERED —
verified (archived or live feed) estimated (pre-2024) MSRP baseline LINEARLOG
BW1
Black & White
Where Unova began — fifteen years sealed
REL APR 2011
BW2
Emerging Powers
The quiet second set
REL AUG 2011
BW3
Noble Victories
Victini’s set — N’s era opens
REL NOV 2011
BW4
Next Destinies
EX cards return — Mewtwo EX mania
REL FEB 2012
BW5
Dark Explorers
Dark Rush — a $16,000 box
REL MAY 2012
BW6
Dragons Exalted
Rayquaza’s first shrine — $21,900 sealed
REL AUG 2012
DV
Dragon Vault
The dragon mini-set — blister gold
REL OCT 2012 • MINI SPECIAL SET
BW7
Boundaries Crossed
The Kyurem twins close 2012
REL NOV 2012
BW8
Plasma Storm
Team Plasma arrives — the desk’s $22,900 crown
REL FEB 2013
BW9
Plasma Freeze
Where the Elite Trainer Box was born
REL MAY 2013
BW10
Plasma Blast
The Plasma finale — five figures sealed
REL AUG 2013
LT
Legendary Treasures
The Radiant Collection debut — a $16,600 goodbye
REL NOV 2013 • ERA SEND-OFF

Data & Method

LIVE LAYER — TODAY

Current prices come from TCGplayer’s daily market-price feed (via the public TCGCSV mirror), pulled per set and matched to each product’s exact ID — the same Market Price shown on the product page, to the cent.

ARCHIVE LAYER — 2024 → NOW

The entire TCGplayer feed is snapshotted daily and archived back to Feb 2024. First-of-month snapshots are extracted for every product, giving verified quarterly points for 2024–2025 and monthly points for 2026 — TCGplayer’s own numbers on those exact dates.

LAUNCH-ERA LAYER — 2021 → 2024

Older history comes from PriceCharting monthly closes, computed from eBay completed sales. Every series is validated against the live feed before use, and a spike filter drops lone artifact months. eBay solds running slightly under TCGplayer market is the natural spread between venues.

DESK MANDATES  ·  Sales outrank asks, always — every source is transaction-based  ·  StockX excluded by mandate (ask-driven)  ·  Solid dots = verified to a dated record; hollow dots = estimated and labeled  ·  Every product links to its exact TCGplayer page  ·  Sources cross-validated where they meet