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Sealed Market Research • Coverage Note No. 005 • FINAL
Aug 03 2026 • live + archived feed
XY Block — 14 sets, 2014–2016
Coverage Initiation • Pokémon TCG • Sealed Product Desk

XY Block: The Vintage Frontier — Five-Figure Boxes and the Decade-Sealed Tier

The complete sealed matrix — 72 SKUs plus 42 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 boxes are charted from mid-2021 via PriceCharting monthly closes (eBay solds); everything with a live TCGplayer print is verified from Feb 2024 onward. Four grail boxes trade too thin for a live print and are carried entirely on eBay closes, labeled as such.
The crown
Phantom Forces Box $14,835eBay closes — no live print exists at this altitude
The verified 13x
Roaring Skies Box $4,274$324 Jun ’21 → today, every point charted
The anniversary
Generations SPC $4,697ETB $2,999 • Red & Blue Charizard $1,002
The regret trade
Evolutions Box $2,501$795 Feb ’24 → today — +214% in 30 months, verified
Prepared, audited & time-stamped by PokeNoted · Sealed Market Research Desk
Verified layer — 72 sealed SKUs + 42 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–005–XY–080326 · RENDERED —
verified (archived or live feed) estimated (pre-2024) MSRP baseline LINEARLOG
XY1
XY Base
Where mega evolution (the first one) began
REL FEB 2014
XY2
Flashfire
Charizard’s set — boxes trade by private treaty
REL MAY 2014
XY3
Furious Fists
The fighting set — quietly a $4,700 box
REL AUG 2014
XY4
Phantom Forces
The five-figure box — the desk’s crown
REL NOV 2014
XY5
Primal Clash
Primal reversion — the biggest XY print run
REL FEB 2015
DC
Double Crisis
Team Aqua vs Magma — packs alone trade $431
REL MAR 2015 • MINI SPECIAL SET
XY6
Roaring Skies
Rayquaza’s set — a verified 13x in five years
REL MAY 2015
XY7
Ancient Origins
Golden Rayquaza — thin supply, deep demand
REL AUG 2015
XY8
BREAKthrough
The BREAK era begins
REL NOV 2015
XY9
BREAKpoint
Shiny Gyarados tins and a vanished box supply
REL FEB 2016
GEN
Generations
The Radiant Collection — the anniversary that 5x’d
REL FEB 2016 • 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
XY10
Fates Collide
Zygarde’s set — the sleeper of 2016
REL MAY 2016
XY11
Steam Siege
The era’s value box — still four figures
REL AUG 2016
XY12
Evolutions
Base Set nostalgia — the box everyone regrets not buying
REL NOV 2016 • 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