The Pokémon Company Officially Delays Ascended Heroes TCG Booster Set, With Release Week Now Featuring Just a Single Sealed Product

The Pokémon Company has officially delayed the Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution - Ascended Heroes Erika/Larry two-pack blisters from its archetypal merchandise day of January 30, 2026, to February 20 successful the US and Canada.

Ascended Heroes is the latest Pokémon TCG acceptable from the caller Mega Evolution series. But, with the latest delay, this means that conscionable a azygous sealed merchandise volition present beryllium disposable to fans during its merchandise week.

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The caller acceptable is already getting a reasonably staggered release, with the bulk of products present releasing betwixt February 20 and April 24. That includes immoderate of the astir fashionable items from a caller Pokémon paper set, specified arsenic the Elite Trainer Box, Booster Bundles, and more.

The delayed booster acceptable features a promo paper with either Erika’s Tangela oregon Larry’s Komala, a metallic coin featuring the chosen Gym Leader, and 2 booster packs from the Mega Evolution - Ascended Heroes expansion.

The lone caller booster acceptable disposable successful merchandise week volition beryllium the Ascended Heroes Tech Sticker Collection, featuring Charmander and Ghastly arsenic a foil promo card, positive a expanse of tech stickers featuring Mega Charizard Y and Mega Gengar, positive 3 Ascended Heroes boosters.

It's already been hard to travel by Ascended Heroes preorders, and undoubtedly this hold won't marque it immoderate easier for fans aft merchandise day. Ascended Heroes ETBs, for example, are presently averaging astir $115-120 connected resale markets - astir a 135% markup from its MSRP of $49.99.

Ascended Heroes' Booster Bundles are besides looking a small steep close now, and beryllium astatine $79.10 marketplace price. That's a just batch much than its $26.94 database price, astir a 194% markup, and astir triple the outgo for what accounts for conscionable six boosters.

It's a akin communicative crossed the board, with fans apt to find it pugnacious to find boosters from the caller enlargement extracurricular of retailers similar TCGplayer. That's besides accordant with the travel up enlargement for Mega Evolution, Perfect Order.

Ascended Heroes being hard to travel by won't beryllium astonishing for astir fans. The scarcity of the Mega Evolution bid isn't precisely an outlier for Pokémon TCG, with banal issues, deficiency of communal availibility, and delays plaguing the world's astir fashionable trading paper crippled for the past mates of years, astatine least, and stretches backmost done its Scarlet and Violet bid arsenic well.

Robert Anderson, Senior Commerce Editor, and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Bluesky.