Burning Shadows Elite Trainer Box

Burning Shadows Elite Trainer Box guide

What's inside the Burning Shadows Elite Trainer Box

Inside a sealed Burning Shadows Elite Trainer Box you get 8 booster packs plus card sleeves, energy cards, dice, condition markers and a storage box. The packs are all Burning Shadows.

Pokémon Center exclusive ETBs come with extra packs and a stamped promo and sell for more, so they are left out of the prices here.

About Burning Shadows

Best known for Charizard-GX and Necrozma-GX. Released on 4 August 2017, it belongs to the Sun & Moon era. 9 years on, most of its sealed stock has long been opened, and unopened product mostly changes hands between collectors.

Burning Shadows has 147 cards in its main numbering, plus 22 secret rares numbered beyond it.

Chase cards to look for

The Burning Shadows cards collectors most want to pull are Charizard-GX and Necrozma-GX. 8 packs is a modest number of tries, so most ETBs are bought to collect or keep sealed rather than to chase one card.

Our catalogue lists the set's rarest tiers as 22 Secret Rares, 30 Ultra Rares and 40 Rares. See every Burning Shadows card price for what each is worth.

Burning Shadows Elite Trainer Box price today

Right now the cheapest Burning Shadows Elite Trainer Box on eBay costs €316.00 including delivery to Germany, and the typical asking price across 8 listings is €459.36 (ebay.co.uk from €454.61, ebay.com from €316.00).

These are live asking prices, not completed sales, so a good offer is usually close to the cheapest listing rather than the typical one.

Price per pack

At the typical price, each of the 8 packs in a Burning Shadows Elite Trainer Box works out at €57.42, compared with €38.83 in a Burning Shadows Booster Box and €58.97 in a Burning Shadows Booster Pack. That makes it mid-priced among Burning Shadows sealed products.

Burning Shadows Elite Trainer Box as an investment

Older sealed product tends to rise as boxes are opened and supply shrinks, and Burning Shadows is now 9 years past release. Its price still depends on demand for its chase cards and on any reprints. ETBs are popular to keep sealed because of their box art, but they take more space than they hold in packs. Much of its sealed value rests on demand for Charizard-GX and Necrozma-GX: if those cards rise, unopened product usually follows.

Only buy a Burning Shadows Elite Trainer Box to hold if you are happy to keep it either way, as prices can fall too. This is not financial advice; see should you buy sealed Pokémon products?

Before you buy

Check the shrink wrap: factory wrap on elite trainer boxes has neat seams, often with Pokémon logos printed on it, and loose or glossy wrap can mean a resealed product. At €459.36 it is worth asking for photos of every side and buying from sellers with a long, positive history, since resealed and weighed product is common. Check the listing photos show the ETB itself and not only the packs, and that it is the standard version rather than a Pokémon Center one if you are comparing prices. Always compare totals with delivery included, and keep sealed product away from sunlight, heat and damp once it arrives.