30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box: price, contents and price per pack
The 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box sold for $139.22 on TCGplayer on October 12, 2026: 2.8× its $49.99 US MSRP, or $15.47 for each of its 9 booster packs.
Prices as of . We add a reading every Monday.
- Set
- 30th Celebration
- Released
- September 16, 2026pokemon.comOfficial
- Booster packs
- 9
- US MSRP
- $49.99Bill's ArchiveSecondary
- MSRP per pack
- $5.55
- TCGplayer market price
- $139.22Read October 12, 2026; 2.8× MSRP, $15.47 a pack
- How often we read it
- Every MondayWeekly tracker since October 12, 2026
What's in the box
- 9 booster packs from 30th Celebration
- 1 full-art promo card featuring Nidorina
- 65 card sleeves
- 16 foil Basic Energy cards
- Damage-counter dice, a coin-flip die and a plastic coin
- A box with six dividers
- A player's guide with deck-building tips for the set
Contents from pokemon.com, checked October 15, 2026.
Price and history
We read the market price on the product's TCGplayer page every Monday, in a browser the way you would see it; our history starts October 12, 2026. The 7 and 30 day changes on the tracker fill in once our own readings are that far apart.
Prices marked Secondary were published by Bill's Archive, which reads TCGplayer too. We show them for the earlier dates we have no reading for, and we never mix them into our own changes.
| Date | Market | Listed median | Sold, 3 months | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | $139.22 | $155.00 | 16,312 | SetPulls, read on the TCGplayer page |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $136.51 | — | — | Reported by Bill's ArchiveSecondary |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $187.77presale | — | — | Reported by Bill's ArchiveSecondary |
Price per pack against other 30th Celebration products
Per pack, the ETB is the third cheapest of the 8 30th Celebration products with a page here, at $15.47. Each product is shown at its cheapest variant, with the day it was read; the readings are a few days apart, so treat small gaps as noise.
| Product | Market $/pack | MSRP $/pack | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mini Tin (10-tin display) | $11.37 | — | Oct 13, 2026 |
| Booster Bundle | $12.32 | — | Oct 12, 2026 |
| ETB | $15.47 | $5.55 | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Ultra-Premium Collection (Day) | $18.72 | $6.00 | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Binder Collection | $21.93 | $6.40 | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Ditto Premium Collection | $24.09 | $5.00 | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Pokémon Center ETB | $25.92 | $5.45 | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Figure Collection (Mew) | $26.35 | $6.00 | Oct 15, 2026 |
Is it worth opening?
On average, 9 packs of 30th Celebration hold $64.80 in cards at TCGplayer prices of October 12, 2026, and $47.93 after the selling costs our EV page assumes. That is the same model and the same card prices as the 30th Celebration EV page; promos, figures and accessories are not in it.
Against the $49.99 MSRP the packs return $2.06 less on average; against the market price, 34% of what you pay.
The full answer, with the spread of outcomes and the chance to break even, is on Is 30th Celebration worth opening? Every product's EV, ROI and break-even chance. For the odds of a given rarity in 9 packs, use the pull rate calculator.
Our take
At $139.22 on October 12, 2026 the standard ETB is a box you buy for the box, not for the packs: $15.47 a pack is 2.8 times its sticker price per pack, and the mini tin display and the booster bundle were both cheaper per pack in our readings. Opened, its nine packs averaged $47.93 in cards after selling costs at October 12 card prices, so a buyer at market price pays about $91 for the sleeves, dice, Nidorina promo and the chance of a big hit. At or near $49.99 it is worth taking; at market, buy the bundle for packs.
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Where the numbers come from
- Contents and release date: pokemon.com Official
- MSRP: billsarchive.com Secondary. None of the pokemon.com pages we checked prints a price.
- Market prices: the TCGplayer product page of each variant, read by hand (Elite Trainer Box); earlier prices reported by Bill's Archive, marked Secondary.
- Value of the packs: our 30th Celebration EV model, card prices of October 12, 2026.
- Computed by SetPulls: the multiple of MSRP, price per pack and the comparison with other products.
Last reviewed .
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