Great Encounters Booster Box

Great Encounters Booster Box guide

What's inside the Great Encounters Booster Box

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

About Great Encounters

A Diamond & Pearl set themed around Sinnoh's mythical and legendary Pokémon. Released on 1 February 2008, it belongs to the EX, Diamond & Pearl and HeartGold SoulSilver years, whose sealed product is now scarce. 18 years on, most of its sealed stock has long been opened, and unopened product mostly changes hands between collectors.

Great Encounters has 106 cards in its main numbering.

What collectors open Great Encounters for

The Great Encounters cards collectors most want to pull are Togekiss, Tangrowth, Swampert, Sceptile and Rotom. 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 4 LV.X, 11 Holo Rares and 21 Rares. See every Great Encounters card price for what each is worth.

Great Encounters Booster Box price today

Right now the cheapest Great Encounters Booster Box on eBay costs €46,910 including delivery to Germany, and the typical asking price across 1 listing is €46,910 (ebay.com from €46,910).

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 of €46,910, each of the 36 packs works out at €1,303.

Great Encounters Booster Box as an investment

After 18 years, sealed Great Encounters 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 Togekiss and Tangrowth: if those cards rise, unopened product usually follows.

Only buy a Great Encounters 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 €46,910 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). 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.