Pokémon Elite Trainer Box: contents, price and the best ones

A Pokémon Elite Trainer Box, ETB for short, is the collector's box of a set with booster packs and everything you need to play. According to the publisher, every current box holds 9 booster packs, a full-art promo card, 65 card sleeves in the theme of the set, Energy cards, dice and a storage box with dividers for your own cards. Below is every current Elite Trainer Box with its contents, market price, price per pack and the top card of the set.

Every Pokémon Elite Trainer Box at a glance

The table lists every Elite Trainer Box, newest set first. The price is the Cardmarket trend price as of 9 November 2026, the going rate on Europe's largest trading card marketplace, in euros. We worked out the price per pack from it. The pack value next to it is what the packs inside would cost on their own, each at the price of a single pack of the set or, where none is sold, as a share of the booster bundle.

Source: contents and sets from the publisher's product pages; prices: Cardmarket trend price, as of 9 November 2026.

Each box name leads to the full card list of its set.

What comes in an Elite Trainer Box?

The layout has stayed the same for years; only the number of packs and Energy cards has changed. Since Scarlet & Violet every box holds 9 packs, Crown Zenith had 10, Silver Tempest and Brilliant Stars had 8. According to the publisher, a current box contains:

• 9 booster packs of the set. For special sets such as 151, Prismatic Evolutions and 30th Celebration, the ETB is one of the main ways to get packs.
• 1 full-art promo card, usually holographic and found only in this box.
• 65 card sleeves in the theme of the box, enough for a 60-card deck.
• 40 to 45 Energy cards; 30th Celebration comes with 16 holographic basic Energy cards.
• Dice and markers: 6 damage-counter dice, a coin-flip die and, depending on the set, a plastic coin or condition markers.
• Storage box with 4 or 6 dividers, plus a rules guide and a code card for Pokémon TCG Live.

Which Elite Trainer Box is worth it?

That depends on whether you want to open the box or keep it. If you plan to open, compare the price with the pack value in the table: the difference is what you pay for the promo card, sleeves, dice and storage box. The closest to the value of its packs right now is the Black Bolt Elite Trainer Box: €117.45 for the box against €114.66 for 9 single packs. The lowest price per pack belongs to the Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box at about €6.89.

If you collect, the set matters most. Older boxes and special sets cost noticeably more sealed, because they are harder to find in stores and many collectors keep them unopened. The highest price per pack belongs to the 151 Elite Trainer Box at about €43.12. If you want a box to stay sealed in your collection, check that the shrink wrap is intact.

For many people, the top card of the set is the reason to open:

• 30th Celebration: Mew at €2,785.82
• Prismatic Evolutions: Umbreon ex at €907.87
• Ascended Heroes: Pikachu ex at €752.39
• Black Bolt: Zekrom ex at €564.09
• Phantasmal Flames: Mega Charizard X ex at €548.51

These cards sit in very few packs, because the rare tiers from Illustration Rare upward are numbered above the set number. How rare each tier is gets explained in our article on rare Pokémon cards.

Elite Trainer Box, booster box or booster bundle?

• Elite Trainer Box: 8 to 10 packs with a promo card, sleeves, Energy cards and dice. The best start if you also want to play.
• Booster box: 36 packs of a main set, no accessories. The largest contents and often the lowest price per pack.
• Booster bundle: six packs in a sleeve, no accessories.
• Collection: packs with promo cards and a collector's extra such as a poster, figure or binder.

30th Celebration, Ascended Heroes, Black Bolt, White Flare and Prismatic Evolutions come without a booster box. For these sets, the Elite Trainer Box is the largest pack product next to the collections.

What is the most expensive Charizard card?

Charizard cards from sets like 151 are among the most sought-after pulls of all. Which Charizard cards reach the highest prices, from the early years to today, is covered in our article on the most expensive Charizard card. Every set in the series so far, with its cards and rarities, is listed under Pokémon cards.