Flashfire Elite Trainer Box

Flashfire Elite Trainer Box guide

What's inside the Flashfire Elite Trainer Box

The Flashfire Elite Trainer Box holds 8 booster packs plus card sleeves, energy cards, dice, condition markers and a storage box, all themed to Flashfire.

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 Flashfire

A Fire-themed XY set that is collected above all for its two Mega Charizard-EX. Released on 7 May 2014, it belongs to the Black & White and XY era. It came out 12 years ago, so most sealed stock has been opened and what is left sits with collectors.

Flashfire has 106 cards in its main numbering, plus 4 secret rares numbered beyond it.

The cards a Flashfire Elite Trainer Box can hold

The Flashfire cards collectors most want to pull are M Charizard-EX and Charizard-EX. 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 3 Secret Rares, 15 Ultra Rares and 28 Rares. Prices for every card are on the Flashfire set page.

Is the Flashfire Elite Trainer Box a good investment?

After 12 years, sealed Flashfire elite trainer boxes rarely come up, and prices tend to rise as boxes are opened and supply shrinks. ETBs are popular to keep sealed because of their box art, but they take more space than they hold in packs. Watch the price of M Charizard-EX, the set's headline card, since sealed Flashfire tends to move with it.

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

Look closely at the wrapping in the photos. Factory wrap on elite trainer boxes has neat seams, often with Pokémon logos printed on it; baggy, shiny or uneven wrap is a common sign of a reseal. 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.