Is Journey Together worth opening? EV, pull rates and chase cards

Verdict

No Journey Together product holds its price in raw card value: EV ratios run from about 0.06 to about 0.39 as of September 20, 2026. A Journey Together booster box sells for about $238, the lowest box price of the four sets compared here (Journey Together, Destined Rivals, Mega Evolution and Phantasmal Flames), and the cards inside are worth about $88 at raw market, an EV ratio of about 0.37. That is a little above the roughly 30 to 35 cents of raw card value per dollar that a typical booster box holds, and it is the highest standard booster box ratio of the four, level with the Mega Evolution Enhanced Booster Box. The set is thin: all 190 cards at market add up to roughly $487, only two cards are worth $50 or more, and the per-pack EV of about $2.45 is the lowest of the four. The gap between the box price and the raw card value inside, about $150, is the smallest of the four in dollars, and so is the amount of card value in a box. One of every card at market costs about the same as two booster boxes.

What Journey Together is

Journey Together (set code JTG) released on March 28, 2025 in the Scarlet & Violet era, with 159 cards in the printed numbering and 190 in total. The rarity names follow the SV pattern: Double Rares are the standard ex cards, Ultra Rares the full-art versions, Illustration Rares the alternate-art single Pokémon, Special Illustration Rares the alternate-art ex and Trainer cards, and Hyper Rares the gold cards. The set introduced Trainer's Pokémon to the era, which is why four of the top five cards belong to Lillie, N, Iono and Hop.

Here is where the set stands today.

All 190 cards are priced. As of September 27, 2026, the median card is about $0.17. An earlier version of this page gave the median as about $0.31, a figure that valued each card at its dearest printing rather than its standard one. At September 20, 2026 prices, eleven cards are worth $10 or more, two are worth $50 or more, and the total market value of the set, about $487, is well under half of the other three sets' totals, which run from about $1,160 to about $1,730.

The chase cards

Here are the most valuable cards in the set right now.

Lillie's Clefairy ex #184, the Special Illustration Rare, leads at about $101, roughly a fifth of the set's total value. Salamence ex #187 is about $57, N's Zoroark ex #185 about $44, Iono's Bellibolt ex #183 about $38, Hop's Zacian ex #186 about $31 and Volcanion ex #182 about $18. Those six SIRs average about $48 and together make up roughly $289, or about 59% of the set.

Below them, Articuno #161 at about $20 and N's Reshiram #167 at about $15 lead the eleven Illustration Rares, which average about $7.60. The three Hyper Rares average about $10.50; N's Zoroark ex #189 tops them at about $14. The eleven Ultra Rares average about $2 and the 16 Double Rares about $0.92.

Pull rates and what "1 in N" means

These are the published pull rates for the set, in packs per hit.

Double Rares come about once every 5 packs, Illustration Rares once every 11, Ultra Rares once every 15, Special Illustration Rares about once every 93, and Hyper Rares about once every 131. About 1 pack in 6 (0.167) has a hit above a Double Rare: an Illustration Rare, an Ultra Rare, a Special Illustration Rare or a Hyper Rare. The source lists a rate for every tier the EV uses in this set, so none of the rows is an era average. The full tier list is on the Journey Together pull-rates page.

A 36-pack booster box averages about seven Double Rares, three Illustration Rares, two Ultra Rares, about 0.39 Special Illustration Rares (36 ÷ 93) and about 0.27 Hyper Rares. Roughly one box in three contains an SIR. If the six SIRs are equally likely, any one of them, say the Clefairy, is about 1 in 558 packs, or about 15.5 boxes. Of the four sets only Phantasmal Flames has shorter odds on its top card, about 1 in 400 packs, with five SIRs at about 1 in 80; Destined Rivals is about 1 in 1,034.

A 9-pack Elite Trainer Box averages under one Illustration Rare, under one Ultra Rare, and has about a 1 in 11 chance at an SIR. The model gives an ETB an 81% chance of at least one hit of any kind.

Sealed EV

Here is the expected value of each Journey Together product against its current market price.

EV ratio is gross EV divided by market price; 0.37 means 37 cents of raw card value for every dollar of sealed price. Net EV is what you would clear on resale after a 15% marketplace fee and $1 shipping per card worth at least $1, with cards under $1 counted as bulk at about two cents. Chase share is the fraction of hit EV that comes from Special Illustration Rares and Hyper Rares. The sealed cases, the Build & Battle Box display and the Fun Pack carry no pack count on the site and so no EV, and none is quoted here.

The per-pack EV is about $2.45. Illustration Rares add about $0.69 of that, Special Illustration Rares about $0.52, Double Rares about $0.18, Ultra Rares about $0.13 and Hyper Rares about $0.08, and the baseline for the common, uncommon and rare slots makes up the remaining $0.84 or so. The booster box at about $238 has a gross EV of about $88 and a net EV of about $53, for a ratio of about 0.37. Break-even, where gross EV equals price, is about $88 a box, and the market price is about 2.7 times that. The Enhanced Booster Box at about $254 is about 0.35; unlike Mega Evolution, where the enhanced box has the higher ratio of the two, the enhanced version has the lower one here.

Per dollar, the four-pack booster pack art bundle at about $25 has the highest ratio of the standard products at about 0.39, followed by a loose pack at about $6.49 and 0.38, the box at 0.37, and the enhanced box and the set of two three-pack blisters, six packs at about $42, both at about 0.35. The six-pack booster bundle at about $47 and the three-pack Yanmega blister at about $24 are both about 0.31, and the Build & Battle Box at about $39 about 0.25. The Elite Trainer Box at about $138 is only about 0.16, the lowest regular ETB ratio of the four sets: its nine packs work out to about $15.37 each against about $6.61 in a box, and the EV counts none of the box's accessories. The Pokémon Center ETB at about $195, with 11 packs, is about 0.14. The Melmetal single-pack blister at about $31.50 is about 0.08 and the Rhyperior premium checklane blister at about $42 is about 0.06, with one pack in each.

The chase share is about 0.37, the lowest of the four sets. Most of the hit value comes from Illustration Rares, Ultra Rares and Double Rares, so a box depends less on the SIR slot here than in the other three sets: a box with no SIR in it still averages about three Illustration Rares at about $7.60 each and about two Ultra Rares at about $2 each.

Who should open this

Players: the 16 Double Rares, the standard ex cards, average about $0.92 as singles and the Ultra Rares about $2, while a pack costs about $6.61 in a booster box and holds a Double Rare about one time in five. The Build & Battle Box at about $39 holds four packs plus a deck, which works out to about $9.85 a pack before the deck is counted.

Set collectors: the whole set at market is about $487, roughly the price of two boxes, and two boxes give you 72 packs with close to even odds of no SIR at all and about $176 of raw card value on average. The 184 cards outside the six SIRs sum to roughly $198 at market, and the six SIRs to about $289.

Chase hunters: the Clefairy is about $101 as a single, the only card in the set above $100; the next is the Salamence at about $57. At about 15.5 boxes per expected pull, the sealed route to that one card runs to roughly $3,700 of booster boxes at the September 20, 2026 price.

People who like ripping packs: a pack costs about $6.28 in the four-pack art bundle, about $6.49 loose, about $6.61 in the booster box, about $7.04 in the Enhanced Booster Box and about $7.78 in the booster bundle, and the ratios fall in the same order, from about 0.39 to about 0.31. Every pack has the same odds, a hit about every six packs, whatever it came in. A loose pack at about 0.38 sits level with the box at about 0.37, so the price per pack barely changes with the quantity.

How to buy it cheaper

Each Journey Together sealed product page on this site, code cards aside, shows the TCGplayer market price, the price history and, unless that market is under $5, more than 10% above the dearest copy TCGplayer lists or more than 25% above TCGplayer's middle listing, the price that counts as 12% below market, which is the figure to hold a listing against once shipping is included. Since September 23, 2026, the block below lists the best-scored of this set's eBay listings that are matched and scored at least 12% under market; if the site's eBay scan were off, it would show eBay searches for the set's main sealed products instead.

The eBay buttons on the booster box and art bundle pages open eBay's own search results, limited to Buy It Now listings from US sellers, with common junk keywords excluded and sorted by price plus shipping. If no box or art bundle is listed under the price today, use eBay's own "Save this search" on that results page so that eBay emails new matches. Compare landed price, item plus shipping, against market for the exact product, and ignore strikethrough prices. A box at 15% below market, about $202, would have a ratio of about 0.44 against about 0.37 at market, still far below 1.0, and the box price itself is the lowest of the four sets. The Deal Score method, which you can apply by hand to any listing, is documented at /methodology and every product for this set is on /sets/journey-together.

Bottom line

Journey Together has the lowest booster box price of the four recent sets, about $238, and the highest standard box ratio, about 0.37: the box holds about 37 cents of raw card value per dollar of sealed price, with the hit value spread across ordinary rarities rather than stacked on one card. It is also the thinnest, with a total set value of about $487 and a per-pack EV of about $2.45. One of every card at market costs about the same as two booster boxes, and two boxes contain about $176 of raw card value on average. The Clefairy is about $101 as a single and about 1 in 558 packs from sealed product. Among the sealed products, the four-pack art bundle at about 0.39 and a loose pack at about 0.38 have the highest ratios, and the Elite Trainer Box at about 0.16 is near the bottom. Figures are as of September 20, 2026 and move daily; the live board is on /sealed-ev.