Diamond & Pearl Booster Pack

Diamond & Pearl Booster Pack guide

What's inside the Diamond & Pearl Booster Pack

Each Diamond & Pearl Booster Pack is a single foil pack of a random selection of 9 to 11 cards, with at least one rare 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. Any one pack can hold them, but most packs will not: buying the single card is usually cheaper than opening for it.

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 Pack price today

Right now the cheapest Diamond & Pearl Booster Pack on eBay costs €300.00 including delivery to Germany, and the typical asking price across 3 listings is €625.82 (ebay.de from €300.00, ebay.co.uk from €625.82).

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, a Diamond & Pearl Booster Pack costs €625.82, compared with €4.04 in a Diamond & Pearl Booster Box. That makes it the most expensive way to buy Diamond & Pearl packs right now, which is normal for single packs.

Diamond & Pearl Booster Pack as an investment

After 19 years, sealed Diamond & Pearl booster packs rarely come up, and prices tend to rise as boxes are opened and supply shrinks. Single packs are the easiest to resell but also the most likely to have been searched or weighed. 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 Pack 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 packs is tight and crimped evenly at both ends, and loose or glossy wrap can mean a resealed product. At €625.82 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. Avoid "weighed" or searched packs from bulk sellers: some sellers weigh packs to pull the holos out first. 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.