Diamond & Pearl Booster Box

Diamond & Pearl Booster Box guide

What's inside the Diamond & Pearl Booster Box

Each Diamond & Pearl Booster Box is a factory-sealed display of 36 sealed booster packs, every one of them from Diamond & Pearl.

About Diamond & Pearl

Opened the Diamond & Pearl series with the Sinnoh Pokémon and introduced Pokémon LV.X. Released on 1 May 2007, it belongs to the EX, Diamond & Pearl and HeartGold SoulSilver years, whose sealed product is now scarce. 19 years on, most of its sealed stock has long been opened, and unopened product mostly changes hands between collectors.

Diamond & Pearl has 130 cards in its main numbering.

Chase cards to look for

The Diamond & Pearl cards collectors most want to pull are Empoleon LV.X, Infernape LV.X and Torterra LV.X. With 36 packs, a box gives you the most chances at them of any sealed product, though no box is guaranteed to hold any one card.

Our catalogue lists the set's rarest tiers as 3 LV.X, 17 Holo Rares and 25 Rares. See every Diamond & Pearl card price for what each is worth.

Diamond & Pearl Booster Box price today

Right now the cheapest Diamond & Pearl Booster Box on eBay costs €74.31 including delivery to Germany, and the typical asking price across 9 listings is €145.53 (ebay.de from €114.00, ebay.co.uk from €74.31, ebay.com from €81.79).

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 36 packs in a Diamond & Pearl Booster Box works out at €4.04, compared with €625.82 in a Diamond & Pearl Booster Pack. That makes it the cheapest way to buy Diamond & Pearl packs sealed right now.

Diamond & Pearl Booster Box as an investment

After 19 years, sealed Diamond & Pearl booster boxes rarely come up, and prices tend to rise as boxes are opened and supply shrinks. Booster boxes are the sealed product most collectors hold long term, as they are easy to store and to value. Much of its sealed value rests on demand for Empoleon LV.X and Infernape LV.X: if those cards rise, unopened product usually follows.

Only buy a Diamond & Pearl Booster 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 booster boxes has neat seams, often with Pokémon logos printed on it, and loose or glossy wrap can mean a resealed product. A full box gives better odds than loose packs, and its value as a sealed item is easier to judge (how to value a sealed booster box). For product this old, ask whether it has been checked by an authenticator: fakes and resealed vintage boxes are made to fool buyers. Always compare totals with delivery included, and keep sealed product away from sunlight, heat and damp once it arrives.