Rising Rivals Booster Box

Rising Rivals Booster Box guide

What's inside the Rising Rivals Booster Box

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

About Rising Rivals

Introduced Pokémon SP belonging to Gym Leaders, the Elite Four and Frontier Brains, and Rotom's forms. Released on 16 May 2009, it belongs to the EX, Diamond & Pearl and HeartGold SoulSilver years, whose sealed product is now scarce. 17 years on, most of its sealed stock has long been opened, and unopened product mostly changes hands between collectors.

Rising Rivals has 111 cards in its main numbering, plus 9 secret rares numbered beyond it.

What collectors open Rising Rivals for

The Rising Rivals cards collectors most want to pull are Snorlax LV.X, Mismagius GL LV.X, Luxray GL LV.X, Hippowdon LV.X and Flygon 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 9 LV.X, 13 Holo Rares and 33 Rares. See every Rising Rivals card price for what each is worth.

Rising Rivals Booster Box as an investment

After 17 years, sealed Rising Rivals 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 Snorlax LV.X and Mismagius GL LV.X: if those cards rise, unopened product usually follows.

Past prices do not guarantee future ones, and this is not financial advice. Read should you buy sealed Pokémon products? for the pros and cons.

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. Check whether delivery from abroad adds import fees, and store sealed product flat, out of sunlight and away from damp.