Ruby & Sapphire Booster Box

Ruby & Sapphire Booster Box guide

What's inside the Ruby & Sapphire Booster Box

Each Ruby & Sapphire Booster Box is a factory-sealed display of 36 sealed booster packs, every one of them from Ruby & Sapphire.

1st Edition and Unlimited booster boxes are both listed here, and 1st Edition sells for far more, so check the listing title before comparing prices.

About Ruby & Sapphire

The first set after the license moved from Wizards of the Coast to Nintendo, opening the EX series and introducing Pokémon-ex. Released on 1 July 2003, it belongs to the Wizards of the Coast era, when Pokémon cards first took off and print runs were far smaller than today. 23 years on, most of its sealed stock has long been opened, and unopened product mostly changes hands between collectors.

Ruby & Sapphire has 109 cards in its main numbering.

The cards a Ruby & Sapphire Booster Box can hold

The Ruby & Sapphire cards collectors most want to pull are Mewtwo ex. 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 14 Holo Rares and 21 Rares. See every Ruby & Sapphire card price for what each is worth.

Ruby & Sapphire Booster Box price today

Right now the cheapest Ruby & Sapphire Booster Box on eBay costs €111.26 including delivery to Germany, and the typical asking price across 1 listing is €111.26 (ebay.com from €111.26).

Bear in mind these are asking prices rather than sold prices: sellers at the top of the range often accept offers or wait a long time to sell.

Price per pack

At the typical price, each of the 36 packs in a Ruby & Sapphire Booster Box works out at €3.09, compared with €303.28 in a Ruby & Sapphire Booster Pack. That makes it the cheapest way to buy Ruby & Sapphire packs sealed right now.

Ruby & Sapphire Booster Box as an investment

Sealed Ruby & Sapphire is now a collector's item: very few unopened booster boxes survive, and each one opened makes the rest rarer. Condition and authenticity matter more than anything else at this age. 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 Mewtwo ex: if those cards rise, unopened product usually follows.

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

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. Compare the total with delivery, not just the price, and store sealed product flat, out of sunlight and away from damp.