Forbidden Light Booster Box

Forbidden Light Booster Box guide

What's inside the Forbidden Light Booster Box

Each Forbidden Light Booster Box is a factory-sealed display of 36 sealed booster packs, every one of them from Forbidden Light.

About Forbidden Light

Built around Ultra Necrozma-GX and Kalos Pokémon. Released on 4 May 2018, it belongs to the Sun & Moon era. 8 years on, most of its sealed stock has long been opened, and unopened product mostly changes hands between collectors.

Forbidden Light has 131 cards in its main numbering, plus 15 secret rares numbered beyond it.

The cards a Forbidden Light Booster Box can hold

The Forbidden Light cards collectors most want to pull are Ultra Necrozma-GX. 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 15 Secret Rares, 21 Ultra Rares and 41 Rares. See every Forbidden Light card price for what each is worth.

Forbidden Light Booster Box price today

Right now the cheapest Forbidden Light Booster Box on eBay costs €1,633 including delivery to Germany, and the typical asking price across 9 listings is €1,730 (ebay.com from €1,633).

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 Forbidden Light Booster Box works out at €48.06, compared with €59.40 in a Forbidden Light Booster Pack and €127.50 in a Forbidden Light Elite Trainer Box. That makes it the cheapest way to buy Forbidden Light packs sealed right now.

Forbidden Light Booster Box as an investment

Older sealed product tends to rise as boxes are opened and supply shrinks, and Forbidden Light is now 8 years past release. Its price still depends on demand for its chase cards and on any reprints. 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 Ultra Necrozma-GX: if those cards rise, unopened product usually follows.

Only buy a Forbidden Light 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. At €1,730 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. 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). Always compare totals with delivery included, and keep sealed product away from sunlight, heat and damp once it arrives.