Everyone's eyes are glued to Ascended Heroes, Prismatic Evolutions, and the upcoming Chaos Rising set.

Ours aren't.

Our pick this week is sitting two generations back, and almost nobody's talking about it.

Brilliant Stars.

Yeah. The 2022 set you probably haven’t heard much of since then. Hear us out.

Let’s be honest here, Sword & Shield as an era has been getting completely outshined by Scarlet & Violet for over a year.

SV got the viral sets, the Costco pallets, the Rip & Ship treatment.

SWSH was forgotten.

But here's the thing about being forgotten in this hobby: it usually also means out of print. No new supply. No restocks.

That's where Brilliant Stars lives right now.

The setup:

📦 Booster Box: ~$600. Hovering here for 9 months straight.

🎁 Elite Trainer Box: ~$180. Quietly climbing the last few weeks.

🚫 Out of print. Done.

9 months of consolidation and has been markedly outperformed by Scarlet and Violet.

Why this set is different:

Most modern sets depend heavily on one card.

Brilliant Stars? It's stacked top to bottom.

Three chase-tier Charizards. The best Trainer Gallery in SWSH. Eeveelutions. Arceus as the namesake. All of these cards have been hovering around the same price for the past year.

$600 for a 4-year-old out-of-print Charizard set with one of the deepest chase lists in modern Pokemon.

Make it make sense. It makes particularly no sense when compared to sets like Destined Rivals that came out less than a year ago and fetch even higher prices while still being printed every day.

The 30th Anniversary catalyst:

September 18, 2026. The first-ever simultaneous worldwide Pokemon set launch.

Anniversary hype historically drags older sealed products back into the conversation. Nostalgia buying wakes up. Any older products with Charizards get rotated back into people's watchlists.

Brilliant Stars is sitting right where that energy lands having three chase-tier Charizards!

Our take:

SWSH still doesn't have the narrative tailwind SV has. The "current era" crowd skips it.

This thing could sit at $600 for another six months before it moves. Long consolidations resolve one of two ways, and nobody gets to pick which one.

That being said, it seems that a few powerful narratives could align very soon that get everyone looking for a set exactly like this one.

Just sharing what's actually on our radar right now while everyone else is staring at the same four sets.