Pokémon · Blue chip sealed · Eeveelution demand · about a year
This is the entry for Pokémon Evolving Skies Booster Box — The Pokémon Company, Pokémon, one of 70 sealed products ranked on four separate axes. 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 88 with liquidity 92 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 15 is the catch. That score tracks whether you can buy near MSRP or you're already paying a premium to someone else, and at 15 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 88 ranks 4th of 12, liquidity 92 ranks 1st, accessibility 15 ranks 10th, and risk 15 is the 5th-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Pokémon Crown Zenith ETB, which scores 90 and 88 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
A one-year horizon means you're betting on a single body of work — one season, essentially. That's a much narrower bet than a career, and it should be sized like one.
At 15, this is one of the calmer entries in here. Read that as relative: the floor under any card is whatever the next person will pay, and that number can move a long way in a month.
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.
Or browse all sealed products · how these scores are built