Ascended Heroes Tins Restock Mega ex Cards Aug. 28

Three new Pokémon TCG tins land August 28, 2026, each carrying one of the same Mega Feraligatr ex, Mega Meganium ex, or Mega Emboar ex foil promos that originally shipped inside April's $89.95 Ascended Heroes boxes — but this time for $21.99. Loose copies of those promos are already reselling for $56.99 to $154.00 apiece, so a cheaper mass restock is bad news for anyone holding the cards and good news for anyone still chasing them.

What is the Ascended Heroes Tin, and how does it differ from the original box?

The Mega Evolution—Ascended Heroes Tin is a $21.99 product releasing August 28, 2026, sold as three separate SKUs — one per Mega ex — each holding a single foil promo card plus four Ascended Heroes booster packs, according to PokeGuardian and ScreenRant. That is the same core promo card found in April's $89.95 Mega ex Boxes, but the tin drops the oversized lenticular card and the premium packaging that padded out the original box price.

The original boxes, confirmed by Pokemon.com's product gallery, released April 24, 2026 at $89.95 each and included the foil promo, a matching oversized lenticular card, and four booster packs. ComicBook.com reported at launch that "starter Pokémon products tend to sell through" quickly and urged buyers to lock in preorders before shelves emptied — which is exactly what happened, and why the promos now carry a resale premium over their original packaging cost.

Product	Release date	MSRP	Contents
Ascended Heroes Mega ex Box	April 24, 2026	$89.95	Foil promo + oversized lenticular card + 4 packs
Ascended Heroes Mega ex Tin	August 28, 2026	$21.99	Foil promo + 4 packs (no lenticular card)

That's a 76% drop in the cost of getting one of these promo cards into a pack-opening bundle, with the same card at the center of both products.

Ascended Heroes was the special ME2.5 set slotted between ME02 and ME03 in the Mega Evolution block (see our full ME01-ME06 set map for where it fits), and its Mega ex promos have carried the block's steepest single-card premiums since launch. That history is exactly why a cheaper restock of the same three cards is worth watching closely instead of shrugging off as routine.

How much do the Mega ex promo cards cost right now?

As of August 3, 2026, PriceCharting lists the three promos' Ungraded prices at $154.00 for Mega Feraligatr ex, $84.17 for Mega Meganium ex, and $56.99 for Mega Emboar ex — figures pulled directly from each card's PriceCharting page. Feraligatr ex's single loose card already costs $64 more than an entire original box's $89.95 MSRP did back in April, before counting the jumbo card or the four packs that came bundled with it.

Card	Ungraded price (Aug. 3, 2026)	vs. original box MSRP ($89.95)
Mega Feraligatr ex	$154.00	+$64.05
Mega Meganium ex	$84.17	-$5.78
Mega Emboar ex	$56.99	-$32.96

Feraligatr ex is the outlier: it's the only one of the three trading above what the entire original box cost. Meganium and Emboar are already close to or below that April price point, meaning the market has priced in less scarcity for those two even before the tins arrive.

Will the August 28 restock crash these prices?

A restock that cuts the cost of pulling the same promo by 76% should push loose prices down, though not to zero — the tin still requires opening a $21.99 product and getting the card you want out of a fixed three-SKU lineup, not buying it directly. Our own coverage of Pitch Black's launch showed a comparable pattern: Mega Darkrai ex's Mega Hyper Rare fell from a $750 presale high to $470 by its first week once real supply hit the market (see our Pitch Black chase card crash breakdown), and Mega Greninja ex and Mega Dragonite ex cooled 16.6% and 6.8% in the week before that same set even launched, as attention and buying pressure shifted (see Mega Evolution chase cards cooling before Pitch Black). Both cases show collector-driven Mega ex prices react fast to new supply or shifting attention, and a direct restock of the exact same card is a stronger signal than either of those.

The one difference here: this isn't a full second print run of the Ascended Heroes set, only a repackaging of the three chase promos into a cheaper container. That caps how far prices can fall — Feraligatr ex isn't going back to bulk — but it removes the "you missed the window" premium that's built into $154.00 right now.

Which of the three cards is most exposed, and which is safest?

Mega Feraligatr ex carries the most room to fall because it's the only one of the three still trading above the original box's full MSRP; a $21.99 restock that undercuts its own prior packaging cost by that much is the clearest mispricing of the group. Mega Emboar ex, already at $56.99 and well under the old box price, has the least room to drop and could even hold flat if tin demand outpaces the promo supply it adds. Mega Meganium ex sits in between at $84.17, close enough to the old $89.95 box MSRP that it's the one most likely to track wherever the broader Mega Evolution chase-card market moves next.

Should you buy a tin to pull the promo, or buy the card raw?

If you want a specific card and don't care about opening packs, wait: buying the promo directly gets more expensive the longer you wait only if the tin sells out fast, and PokeGuardian's report gives no indication these are limited the way the original boxes were. If you want packs anyway and are fine with the tin's fixed choice of one promo per SKU, $21.99 for four packs plus a card worth $56.99–$154.00 today is a good floor — track your slabs and raw copies with Valusaur's live TCGplayer and Cardmarket pricing so you know the moment post-restock prices settle, rather than guessing from a single sale.

FAQ

When do the Ascended Heroes tins release? August 28, 2026, at $21.99 MSRP each, according to PokeGuardian and ScreenRant's coverage of the reveal.

Are the tin promos the same cards as the original boxes? Yes — the tins carry the same Mega Feraligatr ex, Mega Meganium ex, and Mega Emboar ex foil promos from April's $89.95 boxes, just without the oversized lenticular card.

Which Mega ex promo is worth the most right now? Mega Feraligatr ex, at $154.00 Ungraded on PriceCharting as of August 3, 2026 — more than any of the other two and more than the original box's full MSRP.

Will the restock make these cards worthless? No. The tins repackage three specific promos, not the whole set, so it's a supply bump on three cards rather than a full reprint. Expect prices to soften, especially on Feraligatr ex, not collapse to bulk.

Should I track these prices before buying? Yes — chase-card prices on newly restocked promos can move within days of release, so check current TCGplayer and Cardmarket data (Valusaur pulls both live) before paying a presale premium.