Pokémon · Released Mar 27 · SIRs fetching record prices · roughly a month
This is the entry for Nihil Zero Booster Box (Japanese) — English counterpart is Perfect Order — The Pokémon Company, Pokémon, one of 64 sealed products ranked on four separate axes. It's filed as a rip rather than a hold, which means the case for it depends on demand at or near release rather than on sealed supply drying up years from now.
Liquidity of 88 is the standout number. You could move this in days rather than months, which matters more than people expect — an appreciation score of 72 is only worth anything if you can realise it when you decide to.
Accessibility of 40 means you'll pay somewhat over the sensible number but not absurdly so. Worth watching, because this score moves faster than any of the other three.
Set against the 12 Pokémon sealed products scored here, its appreciation of 72 ranks 9th of 12, liquidity 88 ranks 2nd, accessibility 40 ranks 6th, and risk 42 is the 12th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is 2020 Pokemon Champion's Path ETB (Peak Sell), which scores 55 and 70 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
This is a flip, not a hold. The window is weeks, and it exists because something is happening right now that produces fresh coverage every few days. Flips fail in a specific way: the story ends, attention moves on, and you're holding something you bought at the top of a news cycle. If you can't watch it, this isn't the entry for you.
A risk score of 42 means ordinary risk — the failure modes are the boring ones, which is also why they're easy to talk yourself out of worrying about.
You can realistically find Nihil Zero Booster Box (Japanese) — English counterpart is Perfect Order at a local card shop and online.
There is no big-box option for this one. Hobby configurations are allocated to card shops and distributors and do not reach Walmart or Target shelves at all, so a wasted trip is the likeliest outcome of looking there.
Every entry gets four separate scores instead of one grade, because a single grade hides the thing you needed. Full explanation in the guide: which sealed boxes return more than they cost.
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