On Wednesday, September 16, Pokemon TCG: 30th Celebration went on sale worldwide, the first simultaneous global launch in the game's thirty years. By Wednesday evening the pattern was familiar: UK retailers' allocations sold out within minutes, many pre-orders were delayed, and the secondary market had already priced the chase.

The set

199 cards: 128 main, 33 secret rares, 30 Classic Collection reprints (including the Base Set Charizard and a Crystal Lugia) and eight energies. Every card is foil, every pack holds six cards instead of five, and every pack contains one of thirty Pikachus, each by a different illustrator. The new Futuristic rare tier, illustrated by YOSHIROTTEN, carries Mew ex and Mewtwo ex. Six products launched alongside: two Elite Trainer Boxes, a Poster Collection, the Sylveon ex and Greninja ex boxes, a Tech Sticker Collection and a Knock Out Collection.

The RGB Mews

What The Pokemon Company did not put in the set list is three ultra-rare Mew ex variants in Red, Green and Blue, now being called the RGB Mews. They are not on the official checklist and had not been revealed before launch; collectors found them in product. The first reported sale, a Blue, closed on eBay for $20,000 on launch day, with most of the print run still in transit. That is the only RGB sale reported as of Wednesday night, so it is a single data point from the day the supply was smallest, and it will not be the price in a month. But three unrevealed chase cards, in a set whose pull rates for everything else are generous, are the scarcity the set was otherwise designed not to have. A master set now requires all three.

What it does to prices

Three predictions, to be checked in two weeks. First, the announced chase cards (the Mew ex and Mewtwo ex Futuristic rares, the special illustration rares, the Classic Collection Charizard and Crystal Lugia) will settle well below launch-day asks, because all-foil six-card packs with 33 secret rares produce a lot of hits per box. Second, the RGB Mews will stay in four figures and may stay in five, because the pull rate is unknown and the Pokemon Company has said nothing. Third, the 2021 Celebrations set and its Classic Collection, the previous anniversary product, keep drifting lower in our modern Index (-1.1 and -2.0 percent this week) as the new reprints replace the old ones as the default anniversary cards.

Sources: Kanto Post, September 16, 2026; Pokemon.com, September 1, 2026.

The Lead ran in The Pack Report, September 17, 2026: 30th Celebration Is Out, and an Unrevealed Mew Sold for $20,000 on Day One. Published by Rip Station.