Track what's chased. Ignore what's hyped.
Chase Season is the community-driven market index for Pokémon TCG. Not a marketplace, not a portfolio. A daily ranking of the cards collectors are actually chasing — driven by active chase signals alongside transparent market data.
The hype cycle was missing something.
I came back to Pokémon collecting after 25 years away. Watching streams, rip-and-shippers, set openings — I noticed the same handful of cards always got the spotlight. But the more time I spent in collector communities, the more I saw something the hype cycle was missing: most collectors had their own chase. A specific card. Their card. And those chases almost never matched whatever was trending.
Chase Season started as an answer to that. A place to discover new cards by seeing what other people are chasing — not the five cards influencers are hyping this week, but the ones a quiet majority of collectors actually want.
The index that matters is the one built by collectors.
Most price-tracking sites flatten the hobby into one ranking — usually whatever's most expensive, hyped, or recently sold. Chase Season treats the hobby as plural: every collector has their own chases, and the index that matters is the one built by collectors actively chasing cards.
The Chase Index is therefore not a price list pretending to be authoritative. It ranks the 100 cards with the most active collector chases. When cards are tied, current price provides a stable tie-breaker. That's the whole point.
Full methodology on the Chase Index page →Chase Season doesn't track your collection. There are good apps that do that. We track the collection — what collectors as a body are chasing, refreshed daily.
You don't sign up. You don't enter your inventory. You explore, you chase, you come back when next week's issue drops.
Chase Season is an independent project, not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or approved by Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, or Wizards of the Coast. Card images are sourced from pokemontcg.io and remain the property of their respective owners.
Some outbound buy links are affiliate links. If you buy through one, Chase Season earns a small commission and you pay exactly the same price. It never changes which cards we track or where they rank.
A hobby project, made for collectors, by Kevin.
An honest work in progress.
- →Refining the Chase Index formula — tuning the weights between price, community demand, and view momentum.
- →Refining the design across the site.
- →Improving price data — better sourcing, fewer gaps, more accurate daily refresh.
- ◇Search — jump straight to any card, set, or Pokémon.
- ◇Graded prices — raw vs PSA 9 vs PSA 10 alongside the chase score.
- ◇Written context for every set and era — history, key cards, why it matters.
- ◇Improving performance — faster loads, lighter pages, snappier navigation.