Pokémon · 70+ alt arts · Out of print · Climbing fast · about two years
Pokémon Crown Zenith ETB: a Pokémon release from The Pokémon Company, scored here on appreciation, liquidity, accessibility and risk. It's filed as a hold-sealed play rather than something to rip, and those two strategies want opposite things — holding wants time and shrinking sealed supply, ripping wants peak demand right now.
Appreciation 90 with liquidity 88 is the combination worth looking for: room left to run, and a market deep enough that you could act on a change of mind. It's also the combination that attracts the most competition, which is usually why accessibility is the score that suffers.
Accessibility of 20 is the catch. That score tracks whether you can buy near MSRP or you're already paying a premium to someone else, and at 20 you are paying up. A box with real upside bought at double MSRP is a worse purchase than an ordinary one bought at retail.
Set against the 12 Pokémon sealed products scored here, its appreciation of 90 ranks 3rd of 12, liquidity 88 ranks 2nd, accessibility 20 ranks 9th, and risk 15 is the 5th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Pokémon Evolving Skies Booster Box, which scores 88 and 92 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
Two years gives the situation time to develop past its first impression, which is usually when the price is set by whoever shouted loudest. It also means two years of not touching it, including through the stretch where it looks wrong.
Risk is scored 15, toward the low end of anything in the tool. Low risk in trading cards is still not low risk in any sense your bank would recognise — it means the identifiable ways for this to go wrong are fewer, not that they're absent.
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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