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Palworld TCG Price Index: Weekly Market Watch
By Pal Stars
The Palworld card market spent most of the last month going one direction: down. Our Palworld TCG price index market trends page tracks 253 English printings on TCGplayer, and the composite now sits at 800.00, 20% under where it started the 30-day window. The good news is that the slide has stopped, at least for now. The line has been flat for more than a week.
This is our weekly market watch: what moved, what held, and what it means if you're buying or selling. If you're here for gameplay instead, our Palworld guides cover the video game side.
The headline number
The composite starts every window at 1000, and each card counts the same. A $0.25 common and a $300 SSP each get one vote, so a single expensive card can't drag the number around. Here's where things stand:
- Composite level: 800.00
- 30-day change: down 20.0%
- 7-day change: flat (0.0%)
- Breadth over 7 days: 50 cards up, 93 down, 110 unchanged
- One copy of every tracked card: about $4,395 (about $17,582 for full playsets)
Over the last 29 days the index fell on 17 days and didn't rise on any of them. The average daily move was 0.76%, and the worst single day was a 4.1% drop. That's a slow, steady bleed, not a crash.
The flat week is the interesting part. More cards fell than rose, but the typical card didn't move. Most of the losses were in cards that were already sliding, while the middle of the market held its price.
Which parts of the market fell hardest
Splitting the index by rarity shows where the selling was concentrated.
- Core singles: down 20.0%
- Chase rares: down 20.5%
- Parallels and promos: down 28.5%
- Market-cap weighted: down 26.8%
The market-cap version weights each card by its price, so expensive cards count more. It fell further than the equal-weight composite, which tells you the big cards gave back more than the cheap ones. That's normal after a release month. Collectors who paid launch prices for chase cards are the ones with the most room to sell.
By set, the spread is wider:
- PR promo and demo cards: down 59.0%
- Trial Deck Red・Blue: down 30.6%
- Dawn of Palpagos boosters: down 20.0%
- Trial Deck Green・Purple: down 4.6%
Promos took the biggest hit. Early event promos were scarce in the first weeks and priced like it. As more players attended shop tournaments, more copies reached the market. The Lamball promo (EPR-001) is the clearest example. It's down about 78% over 30 days, to roughly $15.
Biggest movers this week
These are TCGplayer market prices over the past seven days, limited to cards worth $3 or more so penny swings don't crowd the list.
Up
- Stone Pit TSR: about $10.00 to $21.72 (+117%)
- Pal Sphere SR: $4.22 to $6.00 (+42%)
- Helzephyr OSR: $6.45 to $8.20 (+27%)
- Petallia OSR: $5.50 to $6.89 (+25%)
Stone Pit's jump is the outlier. It's a Trial Deck parallel with very few listings, so a couple of sales can double the price. Treat that one as noise until it holds for another week.
Down
- Cryolinx promo: $6.17 to $4.00 (−35%)
- Grizzbolt TSP: $274.99 to $200.00 (−27%)
- Ribbuny TSR: $41.48 to $31.99 (−23%)
- Helzephyr SSP: $198.76 to $165.13 (−17%)
- Zoe's Strategy SP: $149.98 to $125.00 (−17%)
Grizzbolt's Trial Deck TSP is the one to watch. It's the most expensive card in the Red・Blue deck, and it's down about half from where it opened the window. If you've been waiting to pick one up, prices are a lot friendlier than they were a month ago.
What held up
Not everything is falling. A few of the big cards barely moved this week:
- Jormuntide Ignis SSP stayed at $300. It's still about 24% under its level 30 days ago, but the drop stopped.
- Astegon TSP is one of the few chase cards up over the month, rising about 24% to roughly $354.
- Lyleen SSP slipped 4% to about $354, a small move for a card at that price.
Green・Purple Trial Deck cards were the steadiest set overall, down less than 5% for the month. That deck's chase card, Astegon, carries most of the weight.
Japanese printings and Legends Awaken
Japanese copies are asking about 154% more than the matching English printing across the 67 cards we track in both markets. The published index stays English-only, so Japanese prices don't move the composite. You can switch them on in the chart to compare.
Legends Awaken cards aren't in the basket yet. They don't have enough TCGplayer price history to join the index this week. They'll start counting once that history builds up, and we'll call it out when they do.
What this means for you
If you're buying, this is a good stretch. Prices are well below launch and the slide has paused, so you aren't catching a falling knife on most singles. Compare stores on the Palworld TCG bulk orders platform before you check out, and set a target price on any card you're watching.
If you're selling, don't panic over the 30-day number. Most of that drop happened earlier in the window. Cards that held flat this week are holding for a reason. Thin cards like Stone Pit TSR are where a quick sale at a high price can still happen.
If you just want to know what your collection is worth, look up any card in the Palworld card list and open its price history.
How the index works
The Pal Stars TCG Price Index rebases every tracked card to the same starting day, then takes the median move across all of them. Using the median keeps one penny card going from $0.10 to $1.60 from distorting the whole market. Prices update twice a day, after the 07:10 and 19:10 UTC syncs, and the chart keeps one closing point per day.
FAQ
Is the Palworld TCG market going down?
Over the last 30 days, yes. The Pal Stars composite is down 20% on TCGplayer prices. Over the past week it held flat, so the decline has paused for now.
Which Palworld cards dropped the most this week?
Among cards worth $3 or more, the Cryolinx promo (EPR-005) fell about 35%, Grizzbolt's Trial Deck TSP fell about 27%, and Ribbuny TSR fell about 23%.
Which Palworld cards went up in price?
Stone Pit TSR roughly doubled to about $21.72, Pal Sphere SR rose about 42%, and the Helzephyr and Petallia OSR parallels both gained about 25%.
Are Palworld promo cards losing value?
Many are. PR promo and demo cards are down 59% as a group over 30 days, because more copies reached the market as players attended more shop tournaments.
How often is the Palworld TCG price index updated?
Twice a day, after the 07:10 and 19:10 UTC price syncs. The chart keeps one point per day.