Pokémon Pitch Black booster bundle hits Amazon at $54.95
The new Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Pitch Black six-pack box is listed below its usual Amazon price as the expansion launches.
By Poppy Nakagawa · Culture Writer
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The Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Pitch Black Booster Bundle is already getting a launch-week cut at Amazon, where the six-pack box was listed for $54.95 as of July 17.
That price is $3.54 below the product’s usual $58.49 Amazon price, a 6% drop on a new expansion that might have been expected to run hotter on release day. Price tracker camelcamelcamel shows the listing went live in May and marks $54.95 as the lowest price seen for it so far.
The math works out to about $9.16 per booster pack before tax. For collectors and players looking to rip packs without jumping to a full booster display, the bundle sits between buying individual packs and spending more on a 36-pack Booster Display Box.
Amazon deal beats its earlier preorder price
The current Amazon price is also well below a previously noted preorder level of $67.92 earlier in July. The listing with the strongest delivery estimate at the time of writing came from third-party seller BetterShopping4You, with delivery available as soon as July 22.
Amazon’s listing includes the retailer’s 30-day refund or replacement window, according to the deal details shown for the product.
Amazon is not the cheapest place to buy the bundle, though. TCGplayer listings for unopened Pitch Black Booster Bundles start at $42.99 with shipping included, according to the marketplace. That is below TCGplayer’s listed market price of $47.12.
What comes in the box
Each Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Pitch Black Booster Bundle includes six sealed Pitch Black booster packs. Each pack contains 10 trading cards, one Basic Energy card and one Pokémon TCG Live code card.
The format is aimed at buyers who want more than a single loose pack but do not want to go all the way up to a larger booster box. With six packs inside, it gives players and collectors a compact shot at the new expansion’s pulls.
Some of the higher-value cards from Pitch Black are already listed individually on TCGplayer. The cards named in current listings include SIR Mega Darkrai ex, MHR Mega Darkrai ex, SIR Morpeko ex and SIR Mega Zeraora ex.
Those chase cards are listed at values reaching nearly $400, according to the marketplace information cited for individual card listings. Buying the singles directly is the more predictable route, while the booster bundle is the sealed-pack gamble.
For Amazon loyalists, the key number is $54.95. For the lowest listed bundle price, TCGplayer is undercutting it. Either way, Pitch Black is now out in the wild, and the launch-day pricing fight has already started.
This story draws on original reporting from Mashable.