The vintage Wizards-era surged across the board this week. Skyridge cards led the gain side, with Eevee, Murkrow, Alakazam, and Gyarados all posting triple-digit gains. The Shining tier from Neo Destiny split sharply: Shining Celebi and Shining Tyranitar both gained hundreds of percent, while Shining Gyarados and Shining Raichu shed half their value.
Here are the top gainers and top losers from Catchinary's daily price index, comparing the May 17 snapshot to May 10. Prices reflect raw (ungraded) TCGplayer market price.
Key takeaways
- Skyridge had 6 cards in the top 15 gainers list, suggesting set-wide collector demand rather than a single-card story.
- Shining Celebi and Shining Tyranitar each gained more than 500 percent. Shining Gyarados lost 74 percent and Shining Raichu lost 50 percent. The Shining tier did not move as a category.
- Mew Star (Dragon Frontiers) shed 90 percent in seven days, the single biggest percentage drop on the index.
- The biggest absolute-dollar gainer was Shining Tyranitar at +$3,580 ($670 to $4,250), narrowly ahead of Shining Celebi at +$3,100.
- A handful of entries on both lists reflect thin trading. Cards with one or two outlier sales can swing the TCGplayer market price meaningfully on low sample size.
The vintage Wizards-era surge
Six Skyridge cards posted triple-digit gains this week:
- Eevee (#54, Common) climbed from $35 to $200, +477%.
- Murkrow (#79, Common) went $21 to $76, +265%.
- Alakazam (#2, Rare) jumped $112 to $242, +116%.
- Gyarados (#11, Rare) climbed $200 to $430, +115%.
- Seel (#94, Common) moved $30 to $55, +83%.
- Vaporeon (H31, Crystal Holo) appeared on the losers side at $950 to $350.
Skyridge is the last Wizards of the Coast Pokemon TCG set, released in May 2003. Catchinary's Skyridge set page tracks all 182 cards in the set with daily prices. The bifurcation between the Crystal-tier cards (Vaporeon H31 dropped) and the lower-rarity cards (Eevee, Murkrow, Seel up) is unusual and worth watching over the next two weeks.
Two Legendary Collection cards also made the top gainers list:
- Zapdos (#19, Rare Holo) at $36 to $413, +1060%. This is the outsized print on the list and the most likely candidate for thin-trading distortion. The snapshot price is what TCGplayer reported.
- Dark Dragonite (#5, Rare Holo) at $209 to $561, +168%.
For context, Catchinary tracks 20,237 English Pokemon TCG cards. Weekly mover lists like this one are pulled directly from the daily snapshot table and ranked by percentage change, with a $20 minimum on both endpoints to filter out penny-stock noise.
The Shining tier split
Four Shining cards appeared in this week's top movers, two on each side of the ledger:
| Card | From | To | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shining Celebi (Neo Destiny #106) | $400 | $3,500 | +775.0% |
| Shining Tyranitar (Neo Destiny #113) | $670 | $4,250 | +534.3% |
| Shining Raichu (Neo Destiny #111) | $1,200 | $595 | -50.4% |
| Shining Gyarados (Neo Revelation #65) | $2,000 | $516 | -74.2% |
The Shining tier was the chase rarity in Neo Revelation through Neo Destiny. Eight Shinings total exist across those sets, sharing a single pull slot of roughly 1 in 72 booster packs.
When the entire tier moves together, the market is bidding the rarity category. When it splits like this week, individual card demand is doing the work. Celebi and Tyranitar both have strong character-IP draws: a Mythical Pokemon and a pseudo-Legendary, respectively. Raichu and Gyarados in Shining form don't carry the same individual-character premium. Catchinary's CIV score reflects this. The gainers score in the high 80s for Icon Status, while Raichu and Gyarados sit in the high 60s on the same axis.
Catchinary published a Shining Tyranitar deep dive two days before this week's snapshot. The market moved without our coverage. Momentum had been building since January 2026, which the deep dive tracks across the longer arc.
The biggest losers
Top losers this week, ordered by percentage:
| Card | From | To | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mew ★ δ (Dragon Frontiers #101) | $2,200 | $220 | -90.0% |
| Umbreon (Aquapolis #H29) | $1,253 | $220 | -82.4% |
| Poliwhirl (Skyridge #88) | $135 | $28 | -79.4% |
| Dark Typhlosion (Neo Destiny #10) | $297 | $73 | -75.6% |
| Shining Gyarados (Neo Revelation #65) | $2,000 | $516 | -74.2% |
| Dark Scizor (Neo Destiny #9) | $595 | $165 | -72.3% |
| Vaporeon (Skyridge #H31) | $950 | $350 | -63.2% |
| Rayquaza ★ (Deoxys #107) | $5,500 | $2,501 | -54.5% |
| Shining Raichu (Neo Destiny #111) | $1,200 | $595 | -50.4% |
| Leafeon LV.X (Majestic Dawn #99) | $393 | $200 | -49.2% |
The cluster of Dark Pokemon from Neo Destiny on the losers list is the interesting tell. Dark Typhlosion, Dark Scizor, Dark Houndoom, and Dark Pupitar all appeared in the top 25 losers. Neo Destiny Dark cards as a category gave back ground this week, even as Shining Tyranitar from the same set ran up. The market is distinguishing between the chase rarity and the secondary rarity within one set.
The dollar-change list
Percentage moves are cleaner for low-priced cards. For high-value cards, absolute-dollar change is the better signal. Top 5 by dollar gained this week:
| Card | From | To | $ Gain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shining Tyranitar (Neo Destiny #113) | $670 | $4,250 | +$3,580 |
| Shining Celebi (Neo Destiny #106) | $400 | $3,500 | +$3,100 |
| Mudkip Promo (Black Star Promos #5) | $300 | $1,500 | +$1,200 |
| Latias & Latios-GX (Team Up #170) | $2,603 | $2,995 | +$392 |
| Kyogre & Groudon LEGEND (HS Undaunted #87) | $127 | $499 | +$372 |
Latias & Latios-GX moved $392 in absolute terms but only 15 percent in percentage. That is a price discovery event happening at a high-value card: small percentage move, large dollar move, low noise. The card is on the radar but not the headline.
How to use this data
Weekly mover lists are useful for two things: spotting trend rotation between eras or rarities, and confirming or contradicting card-specific theses.
If you hold the cards on the loser list, this week's prints do not automatically mean sell. A 75 percent drop on thin trading can revert in a week. If you are watching a card on the gainer list, the same caveat applies in reverse. The signal to read is the cluster: when multiple cards from one set or rarity move together (Skyridge this week), the pattern is more durable than any one card.
Catchinary publishes this mover list weekly. The full daily price index for every English Pokemon card lives at Catchinary Markets. The CIV strength score for each card factors in the 7-day and 30-day price trend, so cards on the gainer list with stable CIV scores are more likely to hold than cards where the score spiked alongside the price.
FAQ
How does Catchinary compute weekly movers?
We pull the daily TCGplayer market price snapshot for every tracked card, store it in our card_price_history table, and compute the percentage change between today's snapshot and a snapshot from 7 days prior. Cards under $20 on either endpoint are filtered out to reduce noise from low-volume cards.
Why are some percentage moves so large?
A card priced at $35 jumping to $200 is a real recorded market price change, but it may reflect one or two sales on TCGplayer rather than sustained demand. The TCGplayer market price is a moving average over recent sales, so when a card trades thinly, one outlier transaction can swing the displayed price meaningfully. We flag entries that look like thin trading where we can.
Are these graded or raw prices?
Raw, ungraded. PSA 10 prices move differently and have their own pop-report dynamics. Catchinary tracks graded prices separately on the per-card pages.
Will you publish this every week?
Yes. Each Sunday we run the same query and publish the top movers. The previous week's post archives stay live so the series builds a long-tail trend record.
Why no Charizard this week?
Charizard cards specifically did not appear in this week's top movers. The major Base Set and modern Charizard cards held relatively flat. Movement was concentrated in the Wizards-era non-mascot Pokemon and the Shining tier this week.