Attack of the Vine Just Got Its Big Reveal, and Pitch Black Is Next
Ravensburger pulled the sheet off Attack of the Vine this week, dual-ink chases and all, while the Wilds Unknown Iconics keep climbing. Plus where the Pitch Black preview sits before July prereleases.
By Chase Society Desk
Thursday is new releases, and the Pokemon side of the desk is slow this week. No new English set just hit shelves, and most of the money is sitting on its hands. We're between catalysts, waiting on the three that matter.
Pitch Black is the close one, three weeks out. The 30th Anniversary set still has cards left to show before September. Delta Reign and its Mega Rayquaza cover don't land until November. The calendar is loaded. It just isn't firing this week.
So the action is one game over, in Lorcana. If you only collect Pokemon, it's still worth your time, because what's happening there is a pattern you already trade.
Ravensburger ran its Lorecast earlier this week and pulled the sheet off Attack of the Vine, Lorcana's 13th set. Monsters Inc., Up, and Turning Red all show up for the first time. The set runs past the usual 204 cards to 207, trades the usual villain glimmers for new Vineling cards, and brings back dual ink.
We have every card revealed so far rendered on the set page. We're one of the few places anywhere you can see the whole board in one spot while it fills in.
The Iconics Are the Whole Story
Two dual-ink cards lead the chase, both with picture-in-picture art styled like old movie posters: Belle & Beast, Certain as the Sun, and Lilo & Stitch, Fun-Loving Friends. They sit in the secret range above the numbered set, in the new "Cinemayhem" treatment Ravensburger built for its top tier.
 Belle & Beast, Certain as the Sun |  Lilo & Stitch, Fun-Loving Friends |
Even if you've only ever looked at Pokemon, this belongs on your radar. It's the same chase mechanic you already trade. A top rarity, a brutal pull rate, a short list of marquee characters, and a market that pays up for the ones people actually love. Swap the Special Art Rare for the Iconic and you're looking at the same setup.
Lorcana's last set already showed what the tier does. Wilds Unknown came out in May, and its Iconics have run hard. Over the past month, Buzz Lightyear, Jungle Ranger has run from about $1,900 in late May to $5,000, the most expensive card in the set. Merida, Formidable Archer more than doubled in the same stretch, to $2,277.
The driver is supply. The Iconics sit above the numbered set at the hardest pull rate in the product, and the speculative money that floods a launch has already moved on. What's left is collectors fighting over a tiny float.
The Sealed Side Tells the Older Version
It isn't just the chase singles. Lorcana sealed is climbing too. A First Chapter booster box, the very first Lorcana product from 2023, trades around $488, up about 47% over the past month. The Wilds Unknown box sits near $226, up roughly 83% in the same window, and that set's only been out seven weeks.
Attack of the Vine isn't even out and its box is already trading above the $144 retail.
Step back and it's starting to look like Lorcana's breakout moment in the hobby. The Pixar vault is open, the top rarity is running, and the money is showing up where it used to be Pokemon-only. How far it runs is a print-run question, but the attention is real.
Pitch Black Is Almost Here
Back to Pokemon, and the one set with live numbers worth watching right now. Pitch Black lands July 17, with prereleases starting July 4. The rip videos kick off in about nine days.
Japan has had this set as Abyss Eye for a month, and it's our only live preview. The Mega Darkrai ex Special Art Rare (SAR) has bled the whole way down. It opened our coverage in early June around $587, hit $523 a week later, $444 last Thursday, and sits near $388 today, off about 12% in a week. Booster boxes have come down harder, around 24% over the past month to roughly $107.
A Japanese print doesn't dictate the English number, though. The demand pool, the print timing, the allocation, all of it resets once the set ships in English. Still, this tape is the only live preview we get, and right now it says the early frenzy faded long before the English boxes arrive. So the question into July 17 is simple: where does that SAR settle? Wherever it lands is the price English packs open against. Follow it live on the Abyss Eye set page.
And July 17 is stacked. Pitch Black goes wide, Attack of the Vine starts its prereleases, and the parks-only Heroines box lands at five Disney stores the same day. Three drops, two games, one Friday.
If you've ridden a hyped Pokemon set before, you already know the shape of what's coming. The scarcity playbook doesn't care which game prints the cardboard.
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