Celebrations Elite Trainer Box

Celebrations Elite Trainer Box guide

What's inside the Celebrations Elite Trainer Box

Inside a sealed Celebrations Elite Trainer Box you get 10 booster packs plus card sleeves, energy cards, dice, condition markers and a storage box. The packs are all Celebrations.

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.

Celebrations is a special set with no regular booster box, so elite trainer boxes are one of the main ways to buy it sealed.

About Celebrations

The 25th anniversary set, with a Classic Collection of reprinted iconic cards in every pack. It had no booster box, and its packs hold 4 cards. Released on 8 October 2021, it belongs to the Sword & Shield era, when the collecting boom pushed print runs to record levels. 5 years on, most of its sealed stock has long been opened, and unopened product mostly changes hands between collectors.

Celebrations has 25 cards in its main numbering, and a 25-card Celebrations Classic Collection subset.

The cards a Celebrations Elite Trainer Box can hold

The Celebrations cards collectors most want to pull are Charizard and Mew. 10 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 1 Secret Rare, 1 Ultra Rare and 2 VMAX. See every Celebrations card price for what each is worth.

Celebrations Elite Trainer Box price today

Right now the cheapest Celebrations Elite Trainer Box on eBay costs €139.99 including delivery to Germany, and the typical asking price across 106 listings is €402.07 (ebay.de from €139.99, ebay.co.uk from €214.18, ebay.com from €156.22).

Bear in mind these are asking prices rather than sold prices: sellers at the top of the range often accept offers or wait a long time to sell.

Price per pack

At the typical price, each of the 10 packs in a Celebrations Elite Trainer Box works out at €40.21, compared with €13.52 in a Celebrations Booster Bundle and €50.35 in a Celebrations Booster Pack. That makes it mid-priced among Celebrations sealed products.

Celebrations Elite Trainer Box as an investment

Older sealed product tends to rise as boxes are opened and supply shrinks, and Celebrations is now 5 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 and Mew: if those cards rise, unopened product usually follows.

None of this is financial advice: sealed prices can fall as well as rise. Our guide should you buy sealed Pokémon products? weighs up both sides.

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 €402.07 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. Compare the total with delivery, not just the price, and store sealed product flat, out of sunlight and away from damp.