Flashfire M Charizard EX Price Check Exposes a 35 Percent Crash That Never Happened

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THE FLASHFIRE M CHARIZARD EX DROP IS A CONDITION SWAP: $1,501.23 NEAR MINT OUT, $504.98 LIGHTLY PLAYED IN. I AM HOLDING

TL;DR: One price tracker shows Flashfire down 35.1 percent in a week. It is not a sell off: its Flashfire M Charizard EX 108 price flipped from a $1,501.23 Near Mint figure to a $504.98 Lightly Played one. My call: HOLD. Data as of November 10, 2026.

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The Numbers Behind the 35 Percent Headline

• One price tracker’s 7 day set losers list, refreshed November 9, 2026: Flashfire total $1,847.89, down 35.1 percent, about $999.40 off a prior total near $2,847.29.
• M Charizard EX 108/106 Secret Rare, Near Mint: $1,501.23 TCGplayer Market Price, November 10, 2026, with zero Near Mint sales every week from August 17 to November 9.
• Same card, Lightly Played: $504.98 TCGplayer Market Price, November 10, 2026. Last Lightly Played sales $468.00 (week of September 28) and $468.95 (week of October 5).
• Gap between the two condition prices: $996.25.
• Raw eBay sales, all conditions, from the PriceCharting sold table: 16 sales October 21 to November 6, 2026, middle two $275.00 and $295.00. 14 sales September 16 to October 13, middle two $290.00 and $299.99.
• PriceCharting, November 10, 2026: $314.50 ungraded, $1,600.00 grade 9, $11,509.94 PSA 10.

The Flashfire M Charizard EX price did not crash this week, and neither did the set. One popular price tracker’s 7 day losers list, refreshed November 9, 2026, shows Flashfire down 35.1 percent to a $1,847.89 set total. That headline is a condition mix up. The tracker swapped a Near Mint price for a Lightly Played one on a single card.

My position up front: HOLD. Nobody is dumping Near Mint copies of the M Charizard EX 108/106 Secret Rare, because nobody is selling Near Mint copies at all. I never trade a headline number I cannot tie to sales, and this one ties to zero sales.

One Card Explains Nearly All of the Drop

Run the math. A $1,847.89 total after a 35.1 percent drop means the set started the week near $2,847.29, so about $999.40 left the total. On TCGplayer, the M Charizard EX 108 Near Mint Market Price reads $1,501.23 on November 10, 2026. The Lightly Played Market reads $504.98. The gap between those two is $996.25.

That is 99.7 percent of the set’s drop on one card. The tracker’s own card page now shows $504.98 as the market price, below its own $544.00 lowest listing. A market price under the cheapest copy for sale is the tell. The number changed because the condition behind it changed, not because a buyer paid less.

The $1,501.23 Was Never a Real Price Either

Here is the part that cuts both ways. TCGplayer recorded zero Near Mint sales of this card every week from August 17 to November 9, 2026. In the past year it logged three Near Mint sales in total: $622.52 the week of December 15, 2025, $500.00 the week of February 16, 2026, and $1,501.23 the week of May 4, 2026.

So the $1,501.23 Market rests on ONE sale from May. I would never value this card there, and I would not panic when a tracker drops it either. Our October 29 call on XY Pokemon cards set the rule for thin XY cards: measure them from real sales, with isolated prints set aside. One $1,501.23 sale is an isolated print.

What Raw Copies Actually Sold For

The real raw market sits in the sold listings. PriceCharting logs 16 raw eBay sales from October 21 to November 6, 2026, in every condition from creased to near mint, running $135.00 to $800.00. The middle two sold at $275.00 and $295.00.

The 14 raw eBay sales before that, September 16 to October 13, ran $125.00 to $692.10 with the middle two at $290.00 and $299.99. Same card, same mix of conditions, almost the same middle. That is a flat market, not a 35 percent collapse.

Condition still decides the price. Lightly Played copies sold on TCGplayer at $468.00 the week of September 28 and $468.95 the week of October 5, 2026. A Moderately Played copy sold at $319.95 the week of October 26. Those are the levels a buyer can lean on today.

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Sold or bought an M Charizard EX 108 this fall? Write to the editor at pokeinsiderinfo@gmail.com with the price, the condition and the venue, and I will add it to our sales notes.

The Other Flashfire Charizards Did Not Move

If Flashfire were breaking, the other Charizard chase cards would show it. They do not. Charizard EX 100/106 Full Art reads $298.34 TCGplayer Near Mint Market on November 9, 2026, up from $287.03 on October 1, with a Near Mint sale at $325.00 at the start of November.

M Charizard EX 107/106, the Y Secret Rare, reads $309.98 on November 8, 2026 against $316.98 on October 3, after a Near Mint sale at $279.71 in early November. M Charizard EX 69/106, the X Ultra Rare, reads $285.67 on November 9 against $285.94 on October 1. None of the three moved more than 3.9 percent.

The Flashfire M Charizard EX 108 is the only Charizard in the set whose tracker number fell off a cliff, and it is the only one whose condition label changed. That is not a market. That is a data feed.

Is Flashfire M Charizard EX crashing?

No. The Flashfire M Charizard EX 108 has no Near Mint sale since May 2026 to crash from, and raw eBay sales held their middle between $275.00 and $299.99 from mid September to early November 2026.

Trackers build a set total from one price per card. When that price flips from one condition to another, the total moves with no sale behind it. Flashfire came out May 7, 2014 in the XY era, and I expect out of print XY Charizards to keep holding over the next 12 months while new 2026 sets keep sliding… that is my read, not a promise.

The Graded Market Did Not Drop 35 Percent Either

PriceCharting shows a PSA 10 copy at $11,509.94 on November 10, 2026, with grade 9 at $1,600.00 and ungraded at $314.50. None of those moved anywhere near 35 percent this week.

The slab prices sit far above anything raw has sold for this fall. That spread is why owners of clean raw copies are not selling, and it is why so few Near Mint copies ever reach TCGplayer.

Did that 35 percent number make you think about selling your XY Charizards? Tell me in the comments what you did and the price.

More price reads and market calls live in our Market Analysis coverage.

I Am Holding M Charizard EX 108 and Ignoring the 35 Percent Set Number

My position: HOLD. If you own a raw Flashfire M Charizard EX 108, do not sell it because one tracker’s 7 day set total fell 35.1 percent. The drop is a Near Mint price swapped for a Lightly Played one, and raw eBay sales held their middle from September into November 2026.

What changes my mind: a Near Mint TCGplayer sale under $468.00, the level Lightly Played copies sold at this fall. If you are buying, price the copy off sales by condition, never off the $1,501.23 Market or a tracker’s $504.98. Tell us what you paid on our Facebook page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why did Flashfire drop 35 percent on a price tracker?

One tracker’s 7 day list, refreshed November 9, 2026, showed Flashfire at $1,847.89, down 35.1 percent. Its M Charizard EX 108 price swapped from the $1,501.23 TCGplayer Near Mint Market to the $504.98 Lightly Played Market, a $996.25 gap that explains nearly the whole drop.

How much is M Charizard EX 108 worth raw?

Raw copies sold on eBay from October 21 to November 6, 2026 for $135.00 to $800.00 across conditions, with the middle two at $275.00 and $295.00 (PriceCharting). Lightly Played copies sold on TCGplayer at $468.00 and $468.95 the weeks of September 28 and October 5, 2026.