RGB Mew Is Selling for $4,000 a Copy, and Jirachi ex Jumped 36% in a Week

Pokemon's 30th Celebration went on sale worldwide on September 16, the first set in the game's history to launch everywhere on the same day, and TCGplayer's 3,000 pack opening turned up the friendliest pull rates of the modern era. Prices fell accordingly. Most of the set is cheaper today than it was on launch day, and the two cards worth talking about this week both went the other way for opposite reasons. One is so rare that Pokemon still has not admitted it exists. The other fell so far so fast that buyers came back for it.

What's hot: Mew R/RGB (30th Celebration, R/RGB)

Three Mew cards are hiding in 30th Celebration packs. There is a red one, a green one and a blue one, all illustrated by YOSHIROTTEN, and instead of a collector number they carry R/RGB, G/RGB and B/RGB. Those stand for Pokemon Red, Green and Blue. They are also the only cards in the set that Pokemon has never published.

PokeBeach broke the story on September 12, four days before release, after fans pulled all three out of product that reached shelves early. Pokemon added the cards to Pokemon TCG Live in an internal update on September 15 and has said nothing publicly since. They are missing from the card list booklet inside the Elite Trainer Box. Japan normally holds a set's secret rares back until the following set ships, so official acknowledgment could still be months away.

Nobody knows how rare they are. TCGplayer opened 3,000 English packs to work out this set's pull rates and could not pin the Mews down at all. For comparison, the gold Mega Darkrai ex from Pitch Black came in at 1 in 1,081 packs off 4,000 packs opened, which is why PokeBeach puts the RGB Mews in gold territory at minimum. Pokemon TCG Live's own rarity table reportedly lists RGB Rare at 1 in 10,000, but that number comes from the game client rather than from Pokemon, and no real opening has confirmed it.

The red one is the expensive one. Across 30 completed sales between September 17 and September 27, the median landed right at $4,000, with the cheapest at $3,500 and a single outlier at $5,969.55. PriceCharting's ungraded figure read $4,000.00 when we pulled it on September 29, with the green Mew at $3,750 and the blue at $3,800 the same day. Both the English and Japanese markets rank them in that order, red first, then blue, then green.

Two things in those sales matter more than the headline number. The first is that copies are drying up: there were 25 sales in the six days to September 22 and only five in the week that followed, and the median on those five came in at $4,350 rather than $4,000. The second is that nobody has sold a graded copy yet. PriceCharting shows zero completed sales in every graded bucket, which is what you would expect two weeks after a release, and it means any PSA 10 number quoted for this card has nothing behind it. That gap between a quoted graded price and a real one is the subject of why a huge PSA 10 multiplier is usually a trap.

If you pull one, know that TCGplayer is not where this card is trading. The TCGplayer page carries no market price at all because no copy has ever sold through it, just asks sitting at $5,999 and $6,499.64 on September 29, roughly $1,600 to $2,100 above where eBay is actually clearing.

There is also a risk on this card that nobody mentions. eBay removed leaked 30th Celebration listings earlier this month under its stolen property policy after TPCi contacted them, because the pre release copies came out of an unauthorized source inside the distribution chain. Anything pulled from retail product on or after September 16 is fine, but photograph and date your pull anyway.

Grading is a wait rather than a no. At $4,000 raw with an empty graded board, you would be guessing at both the PSA 10 price and the odds of hitting one, and PSA's cheapest tier only insures $1,000, so this card needs Super Express at $349.00 per card to be covered for what it is worth.

Biggest gainer: Jirachi ex (30th Celebration #155/128)

Jirachi ex 155/128 is a Special Illustration Rare illustrated by Akira Egawa, and it is the biggest gainer in 30th Celebration's main set this week. The TCGplayer market price went from $71.07 on September 22 to $97.04 on September 29, up 36.5 percent, while the cheapest listing rose from $68.68 to $82.46 over the same stretch.

That is a recovery off the bottom rather than a fresh run, and the full path is worth seeing. The card sat at $249.99 in presale on September 16, printed $123.99 in its first real sales on September 17, then fell every day for a week down to a $69.00 sale on September 21. The climb back toward $100 happened after that. Sales on September 27 ran from $78 to $127, and the most recent day on the board, September 28, came in at an $89.00 median, so the bounce is already softening.

The pull rate did both halves of this. TCGplayer's 3,000 pack opening put Special Illustration Rares at 1 in 21 packs in 30th Celebration against 1 in 80 in Pitch Black, four times easier, and nothing in the modern era has been friendlier. Everybody who bought a box got one, everybody listed at once, and the price fell through the floor in five days. Then the panic listings cleared out and the buyers who had been waiting for a $150 card to become a $70 card stepped in.

It probably does not hold here. 30th Celebration has not finished shipping: the Booster Bundle lands on October 2 and the Battle Decks on October 30, and each wave puts more packs in front of people who now know a Special Illustration Rare shows up roughly once every 21 packs. The depth is real, at least. PriceCharting has 42 completed sales on this card with a $99.99 median and a $69 to $139.99 range, so there are plenty of copies changing hands rather than one buyer setting the price.

Do not send this one to PSA yet. PriceCharting quotes a PSA 10 at $536.54, a little over five times the raw price, but the graded sales tables are completely empty, exactly like the RGB Mew's. Nobody has sold a graded Jirachi ex because PSA has not returned one yet. A five times figure with zero sales behind it is a placeholder, and we have watched those close the wrong way before, most recently in PSA 10 Pokemon card prices are dropping faster than raw cards. If you want the card, buy it raw somewhere in the $80 to $100 range and wait for real graded sales before deciding whether to submit it.

The Classic Collection rally has already stopped

One more thing out of this week's numbers, because the coverage is getting it slightly wrong. The story going around is that the Classic Collection, the 30 card subset of old favorites carrying a 30th stamp, is the part of the set going up while the rest falls. That was true through September 22 and it is not true now.

Across the 12 days from September 17 to September 29, the Classic Collection was 26 cards up against 4 down while the main set was 26 up against 43 down. Look at the last seven days on their own and the Classic Collection was 13 up and 17 down. Only the headline names are still climbing: Crystal Lugia at $389.31, Magikarp at $134.64 and Base Set Charizard at $207.72. Gengar Prime fell 24.6 percent this week to $78.83, Shining Celebi fell 28.8 percent to $35.63, and Base Set Pikachu, Raikou, N and Dark Tyranitar all dropped double digits.

A Classic Collection card turns up in 1 pack in 10, so scarcity was never what held the subset up. Lugia, Charizard and Magikarp are the names collectors chase hardest, and they are the ones still climbing while the other 27 sort themselves out. Month two is usually where new set prices find their real level, which we went through in why new set chase cards drop in month two.

What we called, and where it stands

Three of our recent calls are mid flight and one of them is in trouble.

On September 18 we called Crystal Lugia lower at $251.05, expecting it under that by November 17 as the set kept getting opened. It closed September 29 at $389.31, up 55 percent from the call. That is badly offside with seven weeks still to run, and the reason is the thing we just got wrong above: we priced the Classic Collection as launch supply and the market priced it as a Lugia.

The other two are tracking. The Futuristic Rare Mew ex 158/128, called lower at $157.94 on September 17, sits at $93.10, down 41 percent. Gengar Prime, called lower on September 10, has gone from $97.29 to $78.83. Neither is due for scoring yet, so neither is banked.

This week's two calls

Both of these are predictions, and we will grade them right or wrong when they come due.

Mew R/RGB: we expect the PriceCharting ungraded price to be below $4,000 on November 15, 2026. 30th Celebration keeps shipping through October, the pull rates are the friendliest in years so packs keep getting opened, and every wave adds copies of a card whose entire price rests on almost nobody having one. Wrong if it is at or above $4,000 on that date. We are not naming a landing price, because our own record says we get those wrong.

Jirachi ex 155/128: we expect the TCGplayer market price to be below $97.04 on November 1, 2026, on the same reasoning plus a 1 in 21 pull rate. Wrong if it holds at or above $97.04.

The takeaway

Both of this week's cards say the same thing about 30th Celebration, which is that the pull rate is setting nearly every price in this set. The cards you can find are cheap and getting cheaper. The cards you cannot find are the only ones holding, and once the market works out which of those is which, the tier a card sits in stops telling you anything.

So price this set card by card instead of by rarity. If you are buying Special Illustration Rares at 1 in 21 packs, there is no reason to hurry, and two more product waves land before Halloween. If you are holding something out of the Classic Collection that is not Lugia, Charizard or Magikarp, this week's numbers say the subset premium has already left. And if you pulled an RGB Mew, sell it where the sales are recorded, not on a TCGplayer page asking $2,000 more than the last copy actually cleared. We built Flipr to watch exactly this kind of gap between what a page asks and what a card sells for.