Week 37: A €49.98 Sundering Titan and What an Honest Average Week Looks Like

Week 37 in numbers

Some weeks the board is loud. Week 37 was not one of them — and that makes it a useful week to write about, because a quiet week tells you more about how mystery packs actually behave than a headline card ever will. Twenty-seven cards were drawn from the sealed pools, together worth €271.25 at market, with a RAW NM Sundering Titan at €49.98 sitting on top. Forty-nine packs are live across Pokémon, Magic, One Piece, Lorcana, Dragon Ball, Star Wars and the cross-game Mystery line.

Divide it out and the average card drawn this week was worth about €10.05. That is the number we want collectors to internalise. The top of the board is fun, but the middle of the board is the experience: a steady flow of mid-value raw cards and slabs, with the occasional card that jumps clear of the pack.

The top pull: Sundering Titan, RAW NM

Kaladesh Inventions is one of those small, strange, extremely collectible sets — a masterpiece series printed in tiny numbers and slipped into Kaladesh boosters, with borderless frames that still look unlike anything else in Magic. Sundering Titan is not the most famous name on that list, but it is a genuine Commander staple in the right decks and the Inventions treatment keeps demand steady rather than spiky.

At €49.98 in RAW NM it is a clean, liquid card: easy to price, easy to move, and the kind of thing that holds its value quietly instead of swinging 30% on a single announcement. It was the strongest card of the week, and it is worth being clear that €49.98 is a good week-topper, not a life-changing one.

The rest of the board

Behind the Titan the week was broad rather than deep. A RAW NM Sisu - Divine Water Dragon (V.2) from Rise of the Floodborn landed at €47.82, close enough to the top card that either could have carried the week. Then two graded oddities, a PSA 9 Pokémon Old Maid spare card at €22.91 and a CGC 10 Gem Mint holo Lechonk sticker at €22.05 — the sort of Japanese side-product slabs that surprise people who only follow main-set chase cards.

Sundering Titan€49.98 · RAW NMSisu - Divine Water Dragon (V.2)€47.82 · RAW NM2019 Pokémon Old Maid Spare Card€22.91 · PSA 9Holo Lechonk (Marumiya Stickers)€22.05 · CGC 10Wally's Compassion€19.78 · RAW NMKoraidon€17.50 · RAW NM

Raw NM and slabs sit side by side

Five of this week's eight logged highlights were RAW NM, three were graded. That mix is deliberate. Slabs give you a locked-in condition and an easier resale conversation; raw NM cards give you flexibility — you can send them to grading yourself, play with them, or keep them in a binder without a plastic tomb around them.

Two more raw cards rounded out the week: Wally's Compassion from Mega Evolution at €19.78 and a Temporal Forces Koraidon at €17.50, plus a €6.37 Throne of Eldraine promo Rankle, Master of Pranks and a €6.18 Oswald - The Lucky Rabbit from Azurite Sea. Modern-set raw cards like these are the working backbone of the pools.

New this week: Mystery Elite Raw

The newest pack is Mystery Elite Raw, an all-games raw-card pack built at 85% expected value. That number is published on purpose. It means that across the whole sealed pool, the average market value of the card you draw is 85% of the pack price. Not 100%, and not 150%.

The remaining 15% is the shop: sourcing and authenticating cards, photographing them, insured vault storage, packing and shipping, and running the draw certificate system. So the honest framing is:

• A mystery pack is a way to buy cards you did not choose, with a published pool and a verifiable draw — not a way to grow money.
• Expected value is an average over the whole pool. Any single opening lands above or below it.
• Every card in the pool is listed and sealed before the pack goes on sale, so you can read the full range before you spend anything.
• You can recompute your own draw certificate afterwards and confirm your result came from that sealed pool.

Movers worth watching

Outside the pools, these were the cards moving on the wider market this week:

• 2023 Pokémon Japanese SV2A 151 #038 Ninetales ex, PSA 10 — €367.08
• 2023 One Piece OP05 Awakening of the New Era #012 Monkey D. Luffy, PSA 10 — €312.80
• 2024 One Piece ST03-013 Boa Hancock, CGC 10 Pristine — €147.15
• 2023 Pokémon Japanese 151 Art Rare #170 Squirtle, PSA 10 — €138.00
• 2025 Dragon Ball Super Divers Anniversary God Rare Gogeta, PSA 10 — €105.80
• Cavern of Souls, Tales of Middle-earth Commander — €79.74

The theme is consistent: Japanese 151 slabs and early One Piece PSA 10s keep absorbing money, while Magic's movement comes from reprinted format staples rather than art chase.

Focus set: how high Lorcana's ceiling goes

This week's focus game is Lorcana, and its top 10 is a promo story from start to finish. Nine of the ten most valuable cards are promos or challenge promos; only one, Mickey Mouse - Brave Little Prince (V.2) from Fabled, comes from a retail set.

Read that table as market education, not as a pack preview. Tournament-distribution promos are not something you open your way into; if you want to know exactly what a Lorcana pack can produce, the pool list for that pack is the only document that matters, and it is published before sale.

What happens to a card after you open it

Everything drawn this week is sitting in the insured vault under the collector's name. From there you have two doors, always open: sell the card back for euro store credit at the listed rate, or request shipping and have it in your own binder. There is no deadline and no forced choice — the catalogue behind the pools now runs to 356,212 cards, and part of a collection's value is being able to change your mind about it.

Our advice for week 38 is unchanged: read the pool, read the expected value, pick the game you actually collect, and treat the €10.05 average as the realistic picture rather than the €49.98 headline.