What do you guys know about the Russian XY sets and price?
From what I understand the TCG was shortlived and only some XY sets were printed, no clue about how much was printed. But I can’t really find much information on pricing online.
I managed to snag a Flashfire Box for near retail a while ago, but the only one on eBay is up for $2700 which seems overkill when the english are up for $1600.
There is no fixed price for them, they are becoming hard to get.
Some background info about why Russia stopped :
The remaining boxes were dumped a couple years ago at the last Russian event for dump prices ($20/30) before Nintendo Russia shut down Pokémon TCG for Russia(my friends showed me images of the products being dumped). The players did not want them for full retail since the cards were badly translated and preferred English, only collectors liked them. Even the English sets they imported were getting too expensive since the dollar was far too strong at that time against the ruble,making it not interesting for new players.
Reasons were told by the community that there was corruption going on, and the last manager manager before was also fired for the same reason (bribery).
Also in 2018, a certain president from the USA was about to charge 10% import tax. That didn’t help.
How do I know all of this? I have some online friends from Russia that were into Pokémon TCG there. I never bought Russian AO Lugia EX Full Art back then (however I had opened Russian packs before and had Russian cards) , but when I heard I absolutely rushed hard to get one, and boy was it hard to obtain. Nobody in their local community sold it. My friends helped me there.
So yeah, it’s up to you if you want to splash all of that Russian Cash. I personally don’t think it’s worth that price, but it’s really up to you how much you find it worth. Like I said, it’s rally getting hard to get one outside of Russia,or you need to have certain connections. It’s Flashfire after all, the Charizard set. I bet there are Charizard collectors that would go crazy for these kind of products. I know the charizard network collects them, he has some Russian zards though already.
I have it tweeted all here in 2018 on why they stopped including the official statement from Nintendo Russia:
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Oh Damn, what a peculiar story. It ain’t Russia if doesn’t involve corruption. 
I’ve got relatives living in Russia and they managed to find the box I have which was pretty cool. Thanks for the information, greatly appreciated!
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