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Sealed Market Research • Coverage Note No. 002 • FINAL
Aug 03 2026 • live + archived feed
Sword & Shield Block — 17 sets, 2020–2023
Coverage Initiation • Pokémon TCG • Sealed Product Desk

Sword & Shield Block: Seventeen Sets, One Lesson — Time Out of Print Beats Everything

The complete sealed matrix — 161 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. Flagship products are charted from launch via PriceCharting monthly closes (eBay solds); every product is fully verified from Feb 2024 onward.
The grail
ES Box $480 → $2,510Feb ’24 → today, verified • Jun ’26 peak $2,703
Singles apex
Moonbreon $540 → $2,320+329% in 30 months, all archived-feed verified
Stealth monster
Fusion Strike Box $992.57the era’s quiet four-figure climber
Era closer
CZ GG Giratina $369.04Crown Zenith PC ETB Plus $597 behind it
Prepared, audited & time-stamped by PokeNoted · Sealed Market Research Desk
Verified layer — 161 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
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verified (archived or live feed) estimated (pre-2024) MSRP baseline LINEARLOG
S01
Sword & Shield Base
Where the era began — six years sealed
REL FEB 2020
S02
Rebel Clash
The quiet second set — scarcer than its reputation
REL MAY 2020
S03
Darkness Ablaze
Charizard VMAX’s home set
REL AUG 2020
CP
Champion’s Path
The Shiny Charizard lottery
REL SEP 2020 • SPECIAL — NO BOOSTER BOXES
S04
Vivid Voltage
Rainbow Pikachu’s set
REL NOV 2020
SF
Shining Fates
The shiny vault — the Ascended Heroes of its day
REL FEB 2021 • SPECIAL — NO BOOSTER BOXES
S05
Battle Styles
The era’s value entry point
REL MAR 2021
S06
Chilling Reign
Shadow Rider’s slow burn
REL JUN 2021
S07
Evolving Skies
Moonbreon’s house — sealed trades like vintage
REL AUG 2021 • THE MODERN GRAIL SET
CEL
Celebrations
The anniversary premium that never faded
REL OCT 2021 • 25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
S08
Fusion Strike
Gengar VMAX alt — the era’s stealth four-figure box
REL NOV 2021
S09
Brilliant Stars
Charizard returns — the 2022 anchor
REL FEB 2022
S10
Astral Radiance
Origin formes and the trainer-gallery era
REL MAY 2022
GO
Pokémon GO
The crossover — sealed held better than the singles
REL JUL 2022 • SPECIAL CROSSOVER
S11
Lost Origin
Giratina alt — the era’s late-cycle monster
REL SEP 2022
S12
Silver Tempest
Lugia alt closes the numbered run
REL NOV 2022
CZ
Crown Zenith
The Galarian Gallery send-off — no boxes, pure special
REL JAN 2023 • ERA-CLOSING SPECIAL SET

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