Is the Great Encounters booster box worth it?
Cheaper to buy singles
The booster box costs €1,497.06 today (Cardmarket trend). 27 cards are worth €5 or more — €757.44 together, 0.51× the box price. The top five cards make up 38% of the whole set’s value.
How cards are priced
Most cards in any set are commons worth cents. Whether a box pays off depends on hitting one of the few top cards.
Most valuable cards in the set
Full set →| # | Card | Set | Price today | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Dialga 105/106 | Great Encounters | €166.30 | +39% |
| 2 |  Palkia 106/106 | Great Encounters | €68.28 | -13% |
| 3 |  Darkrai 3/106 | Great Encounters | €65.63 | +534% |
| 4 |  Darkrai 4/106 | Great Encounters | €65.63 | +534% |
| 5 |  Darkrai 104/106 | Great Encounters | €56.03 | +16% |
| 6 |  Blaziken 1/106 | Great Encounters | €55.17 | +59% |
| 7 |  Mudkip 80/106 | Great Encounters | €47.41 | +151% |
| 8 |  Magcargo 45/106 | Great Encounters | €44.91 | +329% |
| 9 |  Slugma 83/106 | Great Encounters | €42.62 | +314% |
| 10 |  Cresselia 2/106 | Great Encounters | €40.05 | -57% |
| 11 |  Cresselia 103/106 | Great Encounters | €36.59 | -47% |
| 12 |  Pachirisu 5/106 | Great Encounters | €30.55 | +90% |
| 13 |  Latios 23/106 | Great Encounters | €22.10 | +117% |
| 14 |  Slowpoke 82/106 | Great Encounters | €20.16 | +34% |
| 15 |  Swampert 9/106 | Great Encounters | €15.75 | -7% |
| 16 |  Lapras 21/106 | Great Encounters | €13.72 | +53% |
| 17 |  Milotic 25/106 | Great Encounters | €13.10 | +54% |
| 18 |  Sceptile 8/106 | Great Encounters | €10.28 | +23% |
| 19 |  Latias 22/106 | Great Encounters | €10.00 | +66% |
| 20 |  Igglybuff 70/106 | Great Encounters | €9.61 | +81% |
Prices: Cardmarket trend, updated daily — as of Oct 29, 2026.
How to read these numbers
The full-set value is what all cards would cost as singles. One box won’t complete the set and the rarest cards are rare, so we focus on cards from €5. If they are worth many times the box price, the set is rich in valuable cards; if value is concentrated in a few cards (high top-5 share), opening is a lottery.
If you want a specific card, buying it as a single is almost always cheaper. A box makes sense if you enjoy opening, play limited/draft or collect sealed product.