Storm Emeralda Prices in Japan: Real Yen, 3 Days In

Three days after Storm Emeralda (ストームエメラルダ) hit Japanese shelves, everyone in English is asking what the cards cost and nobody is answering with yen. So here are the actual numbers, read off two Japanese shops’ price lists on August 3, 2026. Sealed is fixed and knowable — ¥200 for a 5-card pack, official. Singles ran from ¥30 to ¥298,000, and on the set’s two headline cards the shop’s buyback price was 45% of its own ask.

How much do Storm Emeralda cards actually cost in Japan right now?

Packs are ¥200 each for 5 cards. Singles at yuyu-tei (遊々亭) on August 3, 2026 ran ¥30 for a common up to ¥298,000 for the MUR Mega Rayquaza ex — but the median card in the set is ¥80, and 93 of the 113 singles the shop lists are ¥500 or less.

The number that gives you the real picture isn’t the ask. It’s the ask next to what the same shop pays to buy the card back.

All figures read from yuyu-tei’s /sell/poc/s/m06 and /buy/poc/s/m06 pages on August 3, 2026, tax included. Two card names have no published English yet: ヒガナの信頼 is a Supporter for the character localized in English as Zinnia, and ギリー is a new character with no announced English name. Rarity codes are the shop’s; if MUR, SAR and AR mean nothing to you, we broke them down in Japanese rarities explained.

The two prices every Japanese shop publishes

English-language price sources show you one number: what someone is asking. Japanese shops publish two, on mirrored pages, for thousands of cards at once — 販売 (hanbai, the shop sells to you) and 買取 (kaitori, the shop buys from you). Nothing is hidden and no account is needed. The mechanics of using those pages for any card are in how to check what a Japanese card is worth; what follows is what they said about this set, three days in.

Read down that list and one thing stands out: the spread is not constant. Cards at 60 and 61 percent sit beside a pair at 45 and one at 24. A shop closing to within 60% of its own ask is telling you it wants that card and expects to move it; a 24% offer on a ¥420 SR is telling you it has plenty and isn’t fussed. Neither number predicts anything. Both describe what a professional appraiser was willing to commit to on August 3.

The buyback list also carries direction. yuyu-tei strikes through the previous figure when it raises an offer, and on the day we checked, 20 of the 39 Storm Emeralda cards on its buyback list carried that flag — the MUR Mega Rayquaza ex among them, revised up from ¥90,000 to ¥135,000. It also stops well short of the full set: only 39 of the 113 cards it sells have any published buyback price at all. The other 74 are bulk in the shop’s eyes.

Why the highest prices are the least real

Here’s the part that costs people money. On the sell page, 12 of 113 cards showed 在庫 : × — out of stock — and they were not randomly distributed. Seven of the ten most expensive singles in the set had none on hand, including every Mega Rayquaza ex print above ¥1,000.

A second shop makes the point concrete. Suruga-ya (駿河屋), checked the same day, had a physical MUR 113/076 in stock, graded B on its own condition scale, at ¥153,900 — roughly half yuyu-tei’s ask for a clean copy, and close to yuyu-tei’s ¥135,000 buyback. That is not two shops disagreeing about value; it’s one price for a card in hand in imperfect condition and one price for a card that isn’t there. Suruga-ya’s condition grades and yuyu-tei’s 傷無し / 傷有り split are two different systems, and both are decoded in Japanese card condition terms explained.

One shop we could not read at all: cardrush-pokemon.jp returned 403 to every request, as it has every time we’ve researched it, so nothing from Card Rush is in this article. We’d rather tell you a source is closed than guess what it would have said.

Sealed is the only fixed price in the set

The official product page publishes one number and it does not move: ¥200 including tax, 5 cards a pack, released Friday July 31, 2026. No Basic Energy is in the set, which the official page states outright, so every card in a pack is a set card. The official page does not publish how many packs are in a box — if you see a box count quoted as official, it came from a retailer’s listing, not from The Pokémon Company.

Singles have no such anchor, and three days after release the arithmetic is stark. Buying one of every card yuyu-tei lists would cost ¥474,430. Two cards — the MUR and SAR Mega Rayquaza ex — are ¥426,000 of that, about 90%. Strip those two out and the remaining 111 singles come to ¥48,430 together, which is roughly what 242 packs would cost you.

For the chase cards the math isn’t close in either direction — a ¥298,000 ask and a ¥200 pack are not really competing products, and which side of that you land on is about how you want to spend an evening, not about value. For everything else in the set, the singles list is a menu with the prices written on it, and we listed the chase targets by collector number when the card list dropped.

What “three days old” does to all of this

Every figure above has a date on it for a reason. Three days after release is the noisiest possible moment to read a card price: supply is still arriving in shops, the buyback side is being revised in public (20 of 39 cards flagged as raised), and the cards carrying the biggest numbers are the ones the shop quoting them cannot supply. This is a snapshot of a market mid-argument with itself, not a settled level.

What you can take away as durable: the ¥200 pack price, the shape of the set (a handful of chase cards carrying almost all the value, and a long tail at ¥30 to ¥500), and the habit of reading both shop numbers instead of one. What you should re-read rather than trust in a month: every single price in this article. We’ll check them again.