What drops on October 2 in the 30th Celebration line

What arrives on October 2

Fifteen 30th Celebration products are dated October 2, 2026. Ten are mini tins holding two packs each, one is the six-pack Booster Bundle, one is the Mini Tin Display, and three are cases: the Booster Bundle Case, the Mini Tin Display Case and the Binder Collection Case, which is dated October 2, 2026 although the Binder Collection itself is dated December 4, 2026. The set itself released on September 16, 2026, so the Elite Trainer Box and its case, the Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box, the Tech Sticker, Poster and Knock Out Collections, the two ex Boxes, the two retail ex tins and loose packs already trade on live prices, while the Binder, Figure, Ditto and Ultra-Premium Collections are dated later and are still on presale. Everything dated October 2 is on presale too, so the figures below are what copies are trading for ahead of release.

Eleven of the fifteen carry an expected value here and four do not, and the line between them is a verified pack count. A mini tin holds two packs and the Booster Bundle holds six. Those eleven products come to about $649.89 at presale market for 26 packs between them, or about $25.00 a pack, against about $16.44 for a loose 30th Celebration pack as of September 23, 2026. That is the comparison running through the whole drop: the same pack from the same pool, at eleven different prices per pack.

The ten mini tins

Each of the ten holds two 30th Celebration packs, a sticker sheet and an art card, and pokemon.com says ten different artworks are available. The expected value here is built from the two packs alone, so it is the same figure for all ten. Prices are as of September 23, 2026 and are presale figures.

Those ten rows are fixed to the date above. The board below is the live version of the same arithmetic for this set's loose packs, Elite Trainer Boxes, bundle, blister and tins; the collections, the two ex boxes and the Elite Trainer Box Case carry the same figures on their own product pages.

Because every tin holds the same two packs, the expected value is identical across all ten: about $28.71 of raw card value gross, about $20.53 net after a 15 percent marketplace fee and shipping on the cards worth a dollar or more. Break-even is the same $28.71 in each case. Only the price moves, so the ratio moves with it, and nothing else in the figures separates one tin from another. PHD Games lists a mini tin at $9.99 MSRP, against presale prices of about $48.99 to $56.82, roughly 4.9 to 5.7 times that figure.

A spread of $7.83 across ten two-pack tins

The dearest tin, Zapdos at about $56.82, is $7.83 above the cheapest, Mew at about $48.99. That is about 16 percent more money for the same two packs, and it works out to about $3.92 a pack, from about $24.50 up to about $28.41. On the EV side it is the difference between a ratio of about 0.51 and about 0.59, since $28.71 of card value is divided by a larger or a smaller price.

The ten together come to about $526.87 at presale market for 20 packs. Twenty single packs at this site's market price of about $16.44 come to about $328.80, a difference of about $198.07 across the ten, for the tins themselves, the sticker sheets, the art cards and the two-pack packaging. This site records the same two packs in each of the ten; it records nothing about why one artwork carries a higher presale price than another, so nothing here explains the $7.83.

The Booster Bundle

The Booster Bundle is about $123.02 for six packs, or about $20.50 a pack. Its EV is about $86.14 gross and about $61.59 net, a ratio of about 0.70, with break-even at about $86.14. Six single packs at about $16.44 come to about $98.64, about $24.38 under the bundle price. PHD Games lists the bundle at $26.94 MSRP, so the presale price is about 4.6 times that figure.

The nearest already-released comparison is the Elite Trainer Box at about $177.98 for nine packs, about $19.78 a pack and a ratio of about 0.73. The bundle is about $0.73 a pack above it. Against the mini tins, the bundle is about $3.99 a pack under the cheapest of them and about $7.91 under the dearest.

The display and the three cases

Four of the fifteen carry no pack count and therefore no EV: the Mini Tin Display at about $355.83, the Booster Bundle Case at about $2,415.04, the Mini Tin Display Case at about $1,999.99 and the Binder Collection Case at about $424.53.

The reason is a rule rather than an absence of numbers. This site gives a product a pack count only when its contents are verified, and for multi-unit products the rule recognizes three configurations, the three that a distributor's own solicitation states: a booster box case at six displays, a standard Elite Trainer Box case at ten boxes, and a sleeved booster case at 144 packs. Displays are excluded as a class. So a unit count that is stated but not applied still gives no pack count, as with the display here, which PHD Games prices at $99.90 for ten mini tins; and neither does a count that is stated but disputed, as with booster bundle cases, which sellers list at 10, 25 and 60 units under the same name. None of these four products is one of the three configurations the rule counts.

30th Celebration has no booster box at all, so the one case in the set that does carry a count is the Elite Trainer Box Case, already on sale at about $1,682.26 for 90 packs, about $18.69 a pack, EV about $1,292.10, ratio about 0.77. For the other four this site records no pack count, and it does not divide a case price by a unit price to produce one, so no price per pack and no EV appear on their pages.

What two packs and six packs average

No official odds table exists for this set. Every rate below was counted from opened packs at release and sits in the middle of a counted range, and the site uses those counts rather than a Mega Evolution era average. Every pack carries a Pikachu rare, the one contents guarantee stated for the set, so a mini tin holds two of them and the bundle six.

Past that guarantee, a two-pack tin averages about 0.44 Double Rares, about 0.36 Illustration Rares, about 0.20 Classic Collection cards and about 0.10 Special Illustration Rares. Put the other way round, a Double Rare lands in roughly one tin in 2.3, an Illustration Rare in roughly one tin in 2.8, a Classic Collection card in one tin in 5, a Special Illustration Rare in about one tin in 10, and a Futuristic Rare in about one tin in 50. The six-pack bundle averages about 0.31 Special Illustration Rares, roughly one bundle in 3.3, and a Futuristic Rare lands in about one bundle in 18. The full tier list, the card prices behind each tier and the ranges those rates were measured from are in Is 30th Celebration worth opening? EV, pull rates and chase cards.

Against what is already on sale

Setting aside the Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box and the 2-Pack Blister, which come next, price per pack among the already-released products with a verified pack count runs from about $13.92 for the Tech Sticker Collection [Lucario] up to about $23.75 for the retail ex Tin [Greninja ex]. Between those two sit the set of two Tech Sticker Collections at about $14.26, the Tech Sticker Collection [Alolan Exeggutor] at about $14.30, the Greninja ex Box at about $16.11, the Poster Collection at about $16.20, the Knock Out Collection at about $16.61, the Sylveon ex Box at about $17.84, the Elite Trainer Box Case at about $18.69, the Elite Trainer Box at about $19.78 and the retail ex Tin [Sylveon ex] at about $23.74, with a loose pack at about $16.44. The Lucario Tech Sticker Collection carries the highest EV ratio of any 30th Celebration product at about 1.03, and the two retail ex tins the lowest of that group, both at about 0.60.

Two more listings sit in the same per-pack range as the tins. A separate 2-Pack Blister listing is about $59.22 for two packs, about $29.61 a pack at a ratio of about 0.48. The Pokemon Center Elite Trainer Box, out since September 16, 2026, is about $300.21 for 11 packs, about $27.29 a pack at a ratio of about 0.53, above six of the ten tins per pack.

So the ten mini tins, at about $24.50 to $28.41 a pack and ratios of about 0.51 to 0.59, land at the upper end of what this set's sealed products cost per pack, and the Booster Bundle at about $20.50 lands between the Elite Trainer Box and the retail ex tins. Every one of these figures is built the same way, from the same per-pack card value of about $14.36, so the only thing separating the products is the price attached to each pack. The method is set out at /methodology.

Presale, and what comes after

Eleven of the fifteen are listed with their dates at /upcoming. The release calendar leaves cases and displays out, so the Mini Tin Display and the three cases are not on it; their dates and prices sit on /sets/30th-celebration instead. Each price here is at most a day old, and every product page plots the whole run since its listing first appeared. Both sides of each ratio are updated daily, the sealed price and the card values behind it.

The next dated group after October 2 is October 30, 2026: the Espeon ex and Umbreon ex Battle Decks. Neither holds a booster pack, so neither carries an EV. November 6, 2026 then brings the Day and Night Ultra-Premium Collections, the loose Classic Collection Pack, the Mew and Mewtwo Figure Collections at five packs each, the Ditto Premium Collection at eight packs, and the Ultra-Premium Collection Case. The figure collections and the Ditto collection do carry an EV. The two Ultra-Premium Collections carry none, for a reason unrelated to a missing unit count, and it is set out in What is inside the 30th Celebration Ultra-Premium Collections?.

Bottom line

Fifteen 30th Celebration products are dated October 2, 2026, and eleven of them carry an EV: ten mini tins of two packs and the six-pack Booster Bundle. The ten tins hold the same two packs and differ by $7.83, from Mew at about $48.99 to Zapdos at about $56.82, about 16 percent, which moves the price per pack from about $24.50 to about $28.41 and the EV ratio from about 0.59 to about 0.51 across the same $28.71 of card value. The Booster Bundle is about $20.50 a pack at a ratio of about 0.70. A loose pack is about $16.44 at about 0.87, and the Elite Trainer Box about $19.78 a pack at about 0.73. The Mini Tin Display and the three cases carry no pack count under this site's rule for multi-unit products, so neither an EV nor a per-pack price appears next to them. The October 2 figures are presale prices as of September 23, 2026, the comparisons are live prices of the same date, and all of them are on the product pages at /sets/30th-celebration.