Rayquaza

Short answer: Delta Reign Mega Rayquaza ex comes in three English versions when the set lands November 6: the regular double rare (084/103), a special illustration rare (138/103), and a gold Mega Hyper Rare (141/103). The Japanese version of this set, Storm Emeralda, has been on sale since July, and its sales already show the pattern. Graded copies of the top Rayquaza cards sell every day right now, and the gold card’s PSA 10 price has slid since September. The 2015 Roaring Skies M Rayquaza EX shows what happens ten years later. Its PSA 8 and PSA 9 copies still sell every week, while its PSA 10 sells about once a month at prices that can halve or double within a season.

Delta Reign is one of the two Friday releases we flagged in November TCG drops. More Pokémon coverage lives on the Pokémon hub, and the grading frameworks are collected in Collector Guides.

What Delta Reign actually prints

Pokémon’s August 20 media alert confirms Mega Evolution—Delta Reign for November 6, 2026, with prereleases starting October 24 and Pokémon TCG Live access on November 5. It’s Mega Rayquaza’s first appearance since XY—Ancient Origins. Pokémon lists 4 Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, 6 Pokémon ex, 14 illustration rares, 17 ultra rares, and 6 special illustration rares. The official set page says the set has more than 135 cards in total.

The base card is a 280 HP Mega Rayquaza ex with the Ruler’s Roar ability and the Storm Emerald attack. Set lists from Bulbapedia and Coded Yellow put the higher-rarity versions at 138/103 (special illustration rare) and 141/103 (Mega Hyper Rare, the gold card). Pokémon hasn’t published pull rates, so we won’t guess at them. Here’s the sealed product, per Pokémon’s October 23 product showcase:

• Booster Display Box: 36 packs, each with 10 cards and 1 Basic Energy.
• Elite Trainer Box: 9 packs, a full-art foil Kyogre promo, 65 sleeves, 40 Energy cards, and dice.
• Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box: 11 packs and two Kyogre promos, one with the Pokémon Center logo.

The current chase: what Japan’s Storm Emeralda already shows

Storm Emeralda released in Japan on July 31 and holds the same Rayquaza cards under Japanese numbers: SAR #110 and the gold MUR #113. Here’s what dated sales logged on PriceCharting show as of October 29:

• Gold Mega Rayquaza ex #113, PSA 10: the 30 most recent sales run from September 5 to October 21. The 22 September sales ranged from $1,350 to $2,799. The eight October sales ranged from $1,100 to $1,390 (PriceCharting).
• SAR Mega Rayquaza ex #110, PSA 10: the 30 most recent sales all came between October 20 and October 29, at $427.69 to $722.70. PriceCharting estimates about three sales a day (PriceCharting).
• The rest of the set is cooling. DarkDex‘s October 19 snapshot of Japanese near-mint prices has the gold and SAR Rayquaza at €450.51 and €271.36, about 76% of the set’s chase value between them. The Kyogre and Kecleon illustration rares fell from roughly €32–€37 in August to under €8.

That’s what a new set’s market looks like. There are plenty of copies, people are grading them, and buyers are still settling on a price, so these cards are easy to sell. They’re also heading down from the opening weeks. English copies come from a separate print run and sell to a different set of buyers, so don’t treat the Japanese prices as the price of the English 138 or 141.

The historic lesson: 2015 Roaring Skies M Rayquaza EX

Mega Rayquaza first appeared as a card in XY—Roaring Skies on May 6, 2015. Pokémon’s official checklist shows the same split Delta Reign has now. There’s a regular holo M Rayquaza-EX at #76 and a full-art rare Ultra version at #105, and both carry the same attack and a “Δ Evolution” Ancient Trait. Here’s what eleven years did to those two cards:

• Full art #105, PSA 8: 25 sales between August 13 and October 21, 2026, from $676 to $999.99 (PriceCharting).
• Full art #105, PSA 9: 19 sales between August 9 and October 29, from $1,575 to $3,000. The two most recent were $2,425 on October 26 and $2,176 on October 29.
• Full art #105, PSA 10: the only PSA 10 sale logged in that same window is $24,095 at Goldin on August 10. PriceCharting’s price guide puts the card at $22,040 and estimates about one sale a month.
• How much the PSA 10 has moved: PSA 10 sales ran $460 to $839 in mid-2023, then $18,750 in October 2025, $9,600 to $9,999.97 in December 2025, and $25,000 to $26,600 in June and July 2026.
• Regular holo #76, PSA 10: two sales since August, $2,003.56 on August 19 and $4,000 on September 18. The same grade sold for about $112 in mid-2024. Its PSA 9 sold seven times in the same stretch for $213.50 to $400 (PriceCharting).

Same Pokémon, same set, same text. The full art’s PSA 10 now prices about eleven times the regular holo’s PSA 10 ($22,040 vs. $2,004 on PriceCharting’s guide), and both PSA 10s trade about once a month. The grades that still sell every week are the PSA 8 and PSA 9 copies of the full art. A gem copy can be the best long-term hold and still be the hardest card to sell on the day you need to.

How to use the Rayquaza lesson on Delta Reign

• Don’t pay launch-week prices for the gold or SIR. Japan’s gold PSA 10 fell from mostly $1,350 to $2,799 in September to $1,100 to $1,390 in October. Expect English prices to look shaky for a while too.
• The double rare is the playable card, not the scarce one. 084/103 will be in decks and binders everywhere, which is why it sells easily and why it’s cheap.
• If you’re holding for years, hold the version people collect. In 2015 the full art carried the long-run premium, and even then its PSA 10 lost nearly half its price between October and December 2025.
• Mid-grade copies are your way out. On #105, the PSA 8 and 9 tiers made up most of the graded sales this fall. Grade with the copy you’ll sell in mind, not only the copy you’d love to own.
• Read the slab label. Pokémon reprinted the #76 M Rayquaza-EX in the 2021 Celebrations Classic Collection, and listing logs sometimes mix those slabs in with 2015 copies. Check the year and set name before you trust a comp.

For more on how top grades and raw copies drift apart, see why Pokémon PSA 10 prices held up as modern raw prices softened. For another case of the same card trading very differently by edition and grade, read Base Set Charizard: liquidity by edition and grade. Set details come from Pokémon. Prices above are dated completed sales or price guides with dates attached, and asking prices aren’t treated as sales.