Pokemon TCG: Journey Together Booster Box claimed the top spot on the February 2025 TCGplayer Top 25 Sealed Products Chart (see "February 2025"). This new chart provided some insight as to what trends are developing in the TCG market.

The TCG market is just all Pokemon TCG, right now. Pokemon TCG managed to clear a whopping 17 spots on this chart, up from 14 spots on last month's chart (see "January 2025"). That means that close to 70% of this list is Pokemon TCG, which represents an almost unimaginable amount of product sold. What's even more impressive is that most newer Pokemon TCG product is actually gaining value immediately after it gets released, as is the case with the Prismatic Evolutions products. Pokemon TCG is just firing on all cylinders and leaving other TCGs its wake.

As for the Best of the Rest, Magic: The Gathering is holding its own. Final Fantasy Collector Boosters are pre-selling well, and Aetherdrift had a decent first couple of weeks, followed by the usual sales drop-off. Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is turning in its usual performance, based on its limited SKU count, and it looks like the new Star Wars Unlimited set, Jump to Lightspeed, is doing well on preorder. One Piece CG is not very high on the list this time, but that's mainly due to Bandai not putting out a new expansion since December 2024.

Beyond all that, Disney Lorcana seems to have been bumped off the list entirely. Their next set, Archazia's Island, hits on March 22, 2025 (see "Next 'Disney Lorcana' Set"), which is not on the chart, and it's strange to see a TCGplayer Sealed Chart without at least First Chapter boxes on there. The bloom seems to be coming off this TCG rose pretty rapidly. The Into the Inklands print-to-meet-demand plan may partially be to blame for this (see "Into the 'Fallen Empires'"), as the recent wave of retailers mass-discounting boxes for this set is not inspiring confidence in this product and probably putting a damper on preorders.

As noted in a previous column (see "The JDS Perspective"), the TCG space looks very healthy. Even if, from this chart, it appears that it's all Pokemon all the time, that doesn't mean the other mid-size to small TCGs aren't doing well too. Pokemon is just a juggernaut at the moment, and likely clearing hundreds of millions in sales per quarter, which is even surpassing the hundreds of millions Magic makes each quarter. Don't make the mistake of thinking that smaller card games aren't lucrative; it's just on a much smaller scale when compared to their large market-cap counterparts.