Champion's Path Elite Trainer Box

Champion's Path Elite Trainer Box guide

What's inside the Champion's Path Elite Trainer Box

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

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.

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

About Champion's Path

A special set with no booster box. Its rainbow Charizard VMAX made it one of the most sought-after products of 2020. Released on 25 September 2020, it belongs to the Sword & Shield era, when the collecting boom pushed print runs to record levels. 6 years on, most of its sealed stock has long been opened, and unopened product mostly changes hands between collectors.

Champion's Path has 73 cards in its main numbering, plus 7 secret rares numbered beyond it.

Chase cards to look for

The Champion's Path cards collectors most want to pull are Charizard VMAX and Charizard V. 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 7 Secret Rares, 5 Ultra Rares and 3 VMAX. See every Champion's Path card price for what each is worth.

Champion's Path Elite Trainer Box price today

Right now the cheapest Champion's Path Elite Trainer Box on eBay costs €116.19 including delivery to Germany, and the typical asking price across 75 listings is €248.31 (ebay.de from €116.19, ebay.co.uk from €182.52, ebay.com from €160.23).

Asking prices are what sellers hope to get, not what elite trainer boxes actually sell for, so treat the cheapest listing as the benchmark for a fair deal.

Price per pack

At the typical price, each of the 10 packs in a Champion's Path Elite Trainer Box works out at €24.83, compared with €47.06 in a Champion's Path Booster Pack. That makes it the cheapest way to buy Champion's Path packs sealed right now.

Champion's Path Elite Trainer Box as an investment

Older sealed product tends to rise as boxes are opened and supply shrinks, and Champion's Path is now 6 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 VMAX and Charizard V: if those cards rise, unopened product usually follows.

Past prices do not guarantee future ones, and this is not financial advice. Read should you buy sealed Pokémon products? for the pros and cons.

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 €248.31 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. Check whether delivery from ebay.de adds import fees, and store sealed product flat, out of sunlight and away from damp.