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Charizard VMAX
Shining Fates: Shiny Vault · SV107/SV122 · Shiny Holo Rare · released 2021 · tracking Holofoil
US Raw NM price, weekly (TCGplayer, USD)
Line: market price. Bars: NM copies sold that week. 52-week range $121 to $161; now 20% below the high; largest drop within the year 20%.
Why this score
| Blue-chip PokemonOne of the handful of Pokemon that carry the whole hobby's demand. | +12 |
| Liquid522 NM copies sold in the last year. | +2 |
| Stable priceWeekly moves average 3.4%. | +3 |
| Long out of printReleased 5 years ago; sealed supply is being opened, not printed. | +4 |
| Both markets fallingUS NM -6% in 4 weeks; Cardmarket EU sales -14% vs their 30-day average. | -3 |
| Base 50 + factors | 68 |
US USA · TCGplayer · raw NM · USD
| NM copies sold, 12 months | 522 |
| Open listings | 204 |
| Weekly volatility | 3.4% |
| NM Holofoil (tracked) | $128 522 sold |
EU Europe · Cardmarket · raw · EUR
| Trend price | €143 |
| Average sell price, 30 days | €147 |
| Average sell price, 7 days | €127 |
| 7-day vs 30-day average | -14% |
| Lowest listing any condition | €49.99 |
| Set index since 20 Jul 2026 | -10% |
Cardmarket price guide of 2026-10-04. Cardmarket does not split prices by condition, so these cover all raw copies; they are kept apart from the US Near Mint prices. Matched to Cardmarket by set and card number.
US vs Europe. The US raw NM price is 20% below the EU trend price converted at the ECB rate (1.1204 USD per EUR, 2026-10-05).
The card's whole set on Cardmarket: market-weighted trend-price index, 100 = 20 Jul 2026 (TCG Index Tracker).
Case study: The 2022 correction: 9 billion cards printed and the Shiny Charizard VMAX loses about four-fifths of its value
Fortune reported in July 2022 that the Shiny Charizard VMAX resale value had fallen from 350 times the price of a pack ($1,400) to about 75 times. The article does not state condition (it describes a pulled card's resale value, so most likely raw). Our raw NM series shows $128 today, with a 52-week range of $121-161.
- Trigger: the 2021 shortage. Shining Fates (February 2021) launched at the height of the boom, when product was scarce and every Charizard pull was resold at a premium.
- Reversal: The Pokemon Company printed 9 billion cards in the year to March 2022, roughly 30% of all Pokemon cards ever printed (Fortune), and promised to reprint affected products 'at maximum capacity'.
- Macro: Misprint lists the end of stimulus, speculator exits, inflation and much larger print runs as reasons modern prices never returned to COVID-era levels.
- Europe: recent data only, since we have no Cardmarket history for 2021-22. Cardmarket's Shining Fates index (EUR) is -10% since 20 Jul 2026, in line with this card's -11% in US NM. The Cardmarket match for this card is by set and number only.
Lesson. A modern card's price during a shortage says little about its long-run value. When the publisher prints its way out of the shortage, the most common chase cards fall the most.