Santa Cruz Skateboards and the Pokémon Trading Card Game released their second blind bag skateboard deck collection on October 17, 2026, and the resale market moved the same day.
The first collection, in 2023, became a collector's item. This one celebrates 30 years of the Pokémon TCG, and sealed bags were already listed and sold on eBay before most buyers had received theirs.
What dropped and what it cost
Per Santa Cruz's collaboration page:
- 30 standard deck designs, each featuring artwork from one of 30 Pokémon TCG cards, including original-era cards such as Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise.
- 3 gold glitter chase decks, each a multi-card collage, limited to 500 worldwide per Santa Cruz.
- Each sealed blind bag holds one random 8" x 31.6" deck, plus a Limited Edition Player's Guide booklet showing all 30 designs and the 3 chase decks.
- Launch time: 9 AM ET / 6 AM PT on October 17.
At NHS Skate Direct, one of the stockists, the bag listed at $139.95. Santa Cruz's own page doesn't show a price. Our team's own post ahead of the drop put retail at about $140, and the first collection retailed around $110, per Kotaku's reporting at the time.
The odds of any single design, including the chase decks, haven't been published by Santa Cruz. Treat every bag as a random draw.
What eBay buyers paid
We checked eBay's sold listings on October 17, 2026. These are listing prices on sales that completed, before shipping. Some were "or Best Offer" listings, so the final price could be lower.
- Sealed, unopened bags (US sellers): most sales ran from about $220 to $350. Plenty cleared between $230 and $300.
- Shipping: anywhere from free to about $45. Compare the full cost, not just the listing price.
- International sellers (Australia, Italy): about $277 to $333 before shipping, with import fees due on top.
- Sealed multi-bag box: one listing of a sealed box containing five bags sold at $1,500 (plus shipping).
- Opened, revealed decks: a Rayquaza gold star deck sold at $699.99, and a Wartortle and Blastoise pair at $600. Those are single data points, not a market price.
- Empty bag and wrapping: one sold for $29.99.
Several of the sealed listings were labelled presale, meaning the seller hadn't received the bag yet. That's a risk for the buyer, and a cancellation risk for the seller if the order doesn't arrive.
The return rules matter
NHS Skate Direct's page says:
- Limit of 2 per customer, and orders it considers bot-assisted can be cancelled.
- Returns: full refunds within 60 days on most orders, in original, new condition.
- Opened blind bags cannot be returned.
So an unopened bag has a way out, and an opened one doesn't. Don't call this risk-free: a sealed bag is a resale bet, and a bag you open is final. We could not load Pokémon Center's product page for this deck, so we can't confirm its price or return policy. Check the page before ordering.
The fee math
eBay's standard final value fee for most categories is 13.6% up to $7,500, plus $0.40 per order over $10 (eBay's fee page). The Collectible Card Games rate is 13.25%, but a skateboard deck isn't a card, so check the rate for the category you list in. This is an illustration, not a quote:
- Sell one at $250 → fee of about $34.40 → $215.60 before postage, supplies and tax.
- Against a $139.95 retail cost, that leaves about $75.65 before shipping and sales tax. A $20 shipping bill drops it below $56.
That's a real margin, but only for a buyer who got the bag at retail. At $250 resale, a $40 swing in either direction changes the picture a lot.
Flip, hold or pass?
This is analysis, not a promise:
- Flip if you got a sealed bag at retail and the sold prices above are within a few days of your listing. The gap between $140 and $220 or more is the whole trade. Sold prices on day one often settle, as our 30th Celebration mini tin coverage showed.
- Hold if you want the chase decks. The 500-per-variant cap is real, but your odds of landing one in a random bag aren't published.
- Pass on paying $300 or more for an unrevealed bag. That price already assumes the market doesn't cool.
Our Pokémon lead Slumpd flagged this drop a day ahead and pointed to the first collection's sold prices as the benchmark to compare against. That's his reference point, not a call to buy.
Where this fits
This is a skate and Pokémon crossover, not a card release, so the usual Pokémon TCG retail playbook only partly applies. Skate shops and the brand's own pages run these drops, and stock shows up in waves. For card retailers and the 30th Celebration products, see how to buy Pokémon cards at retail and our 30th Celebration card prices. More coverage is on our Pokémon TCG category page, and our Pokémon group tracks drops like this as they happen.
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Sources
- Santa Cruz Skateboards: Pokémon TCG collaboration page
- NHS Skate Direct: 8in Pokémon TCG Blind Bag product page
- Nintendo Life: Pokémon blind bag skateboard decks return
- Video Games Chronicle: Pokémon and Santa Cruz reveal blind bag skateboards
- Kotaku: first Pokémon Santa Cruz blind bag coverage
- eBay selling fees
- eBay sold listings, searched October 17, 2026