30th CELEBRATION Premium Deck Set Price in Japan: ¥18,000 vs ¥6,200

You searched for the 30th anniversary Umbreon and landed on a Japanese deck set with a ¥6,200 price printed on it. That number is real, and nobody outside a lottery has paid it since September. As of October 14, 2026, a sealed 30th CELEBRATION Premium Deck Set Espeon & Umbreon (30th CELEBRATION プレミアムデッキセット エーフィ・ブラッキー) closes at a median of ¥17,999 in Japan, and the full-art Umbreon ex 044/040 on its own is ¥12,800 at Tokyo shop yuyu-tei, out of stock, with a ¥9,000 buyback. What is inside the box and how the lotteries went is in the Premium Deck Set contents guide. This page is only about what it costs now.

How much does the 30th CELEBRATION Premium Deck Set cost in Japan right now?

About ¥18,000 for a sealed set, 2.9 times the ¥6,200 list price. That is the median of 144 single-set sales that closed on Yahoo! Auctions and Yahoo! Flea Market (Yahoo!フリマ) between the morning of October 12 and the morning of October 14, 2026 JST. The spread is unusually tight: the middle half of those sales sits between ¥17,800 and ¥18,000, and the whole range runs ¥16,000 to ¥23,000.

The shop ladder is worth a second look. kakaku.com aggregates Rakuten, Yahoo! Shopping and Amazon.co.jp offers, and on October 14 it listed nine sealed offers between ¥18,864 and ¥20,960 before the next tier started at ¥22,528; the two offers labeled Amazon.co.jp were ¥25,000 and ¥27,500. So a Japanese shop with a returns policy costs about ¥900 to ¥3,000 more than the median private sale.

For scale, the ¥7,200 30th CELEBRATION booster box was closing at about ¥25,000 on October 8, a 3.5 times multiple; the numbers are in 30th CELEBRATION prices in Japan. The deck set’s multiple is lower, and the reason is in the next table.

What are the four full-art cards worth as singles? (Umbreon ex 044/040 and the rest)

One card carries this set: the full-art Umbreon ex 044/040 at ¥12,800, which is 52% of the ¥24,690 it costs to buy one of every card yuyu-tei lists. These are yuyu-tei (遊々亭) asking prices read on October 14, 2026, with the shop’s buyback beside each. The buyback is what a professional appraiser will pay with their own money; the stock line tells you whether anyone has tested the ask.

Two things stand out. First, the gap between the two headline cards is not close: the Umbreon ex asks 2.6 times the Espeon ex, and the buyback gap is six to one. The ¥9,000 buyback is also exactly where one Umbreon ex 044/040 closed on Yahoo! Auctions on October 13 after 13 bids, so the shop’s floor and the open market agree today. Second, the Umbreon is the one card the shop does not have. A ¥12,800 ask with 在庫 : × has not been paid by anyone at yuyu-tei that day; the tested numbers for this card are the two ¥9,000 figures.

Official product image © The Pokémon Company (from the linked official page).

Sealed set at ¥18,000, or the Umbreon ex alone at ¥12,800?

Today the arithmetic favors the sealed set if you want all four full arts, and the single if you want only the Umbreon. The four full arts add up to ¥19,340 at yuyu-tei’s asks (¥12,800 + ¥4,980 + ¥780 + ¥780), which is already above the ¥17,999 a sealed set closes for, and the set also hands you both 60-card decks, the tin double deck case, two coins, the playmat and the counters. At buyback the same four cards are ¥11,200, so the floor under a ¥18,000 set is a little over 60% of its price before you count anything else in the box.

The single wins on postage. A card in a toploader ships in an envelope; a tin case with 120 cards and a full-size playmat ships from Japan Post’s 1 kg EMS row. If the Umbreon ex is the only thing you want, ¥12,800 plus a small parcel beats ¥18,000 plus a heavy one, with the caveat that the ¥12,800 was untested on October 14 and the tested price was ¥9,000.

Where the ¥18,000 comes from: 144 closings in two days

The 200 most recent closings the search returned all ended between October 12 at 09:32 and October 14 at 07:30 JST, so this is a two-day reading, not a two-week one. The page states about 8,887 closings for this search over the past 120 days at an average of ¥21,795; that average mixes in multi-set lots and booster-box bundles, which is why we do not quote it as the price.

From the 200 we kept the 144 that were one sealed set. We dropped 19 two-set lots (median ¥36,000, so ¥18,000 a set, the same answer), larger lots, bundles with the FUTURISTIC BOX or booster boxes, singles, supplies-only listings, the “no promo” titles above, and three single-set listings that closed at ¥35,999, ¥54,500 and ¥72,000 with no explanation in the title. By day, October 12 gave 69 sales at a ¥17,900 median and October 13 gave 71 at ¥18,000. Ten listings that mention the factory tape (テープ付き) closed at a ¥17,850 median, so unlike shrink-wrap on the booster box, tape earns no premium here; sealed is the default and the tape is assumed.

The method for reading any Japanese card’s price off the mirrored sell and buyback pages is in how to check what a Japanese card is worth.

Import from Japan now, or wait for the English Battle Deck on October 30?

If you want this box, Japan is the only place it exists, and the supply there is deep: 144 sealed sets changed hands in two days at a near-identical price. The English 30th Celebration Battle Deck—Espeon ex & Umbreon ex due October 30, 2026, as our contents guide recorded it from the Pokémon.com showcase, is a different product: one deck per box, Espeon ex or Umbreon ex, no tin double deck case.

Japan first, because it is the side we measured: a proxy fee plus 1 kg EMS on top of ¥18,000 is a number you can compute from the import tax and customs breakdown, and the Mercari and Yahoo! Auctions searches in the box at the foot of this page reach the same listings. If you would rather skip the proxy, the sealed set on eBay (paid link) and the Umbreon ex 044/040 single on eBay (paid link) are the two searches to set against the Japanese numbers: compare the eBay total, shipping included, with ¥18,000 or ¥12,800 plus your proxy’s fee and postage, and let the lower number decide.

What this check could not confirm

Three gaps, stated plainly. We could not read the Pokémon.com 30th Celebration showcase with our tools on October 14 (the page loads through scripts), so the English Battle Deck’s October 30 date and single-deck format rest on our contents guide’s earlier reading. We did not read Mercari closings, so the ¥18,000 median is a Yahoo-only figure; the kakaku.com shop offers point the same way. And the Umbreon ex 044/040’s ¥12,800 ask had no stock behind it, so the only prices verifiably paid for that card on October 13 and 14 are the two ¥9,000 figures. Every other number here was read from the linked source on October 14, 2026, and all of them can move by the time you read this. The rest of the 30th CELEBRATION lineup sits on our JP release calendar.