Pokemon x Santa Cruz TCG Decks: 30 Designs and Three Gold Chases
Santa Cruz's October 17 Pokemon TCG drop brings 30 card-art skateboard designs and three gold chases. Here's what's confirmed and what's still unknown.
Santa Cruz has confirmed an October 17, 2026 worldwide release for its Pokemon TCG collection. The headline is a blind-bag skateboard deck featuring card artwork, with 30 main designs and three extra glitter gold foil chase variants.
Finally, a Pokemon collectible that makes your binder look reasonably sized.
The confirmed details
Santa Cruz’s official collaboration page describes one randomly assorted 8-inch by 31.6-inch skateboard deck in each sealed blind bag. The main designs use original Pokemon TCG card artwork, with surrounding deck designs inspired by the cards and Pokemon.
Each bag also includes a Limited Edition Pokemon Player’s Guide booklet covering all 30 deck designs and the three chase variants. The wider collection includes apparel and griptape.
Designs to chase
A sample of the revealed designs, the collage-style decks and the apparel. Images: Santa Cruz Skateboards.
Main designs versus gold chases
| Detail | Main lineup | Chase lineup |
|---|---|---|
| Designs | 30 | 3 additional variants |
| Artwork approach | Artwork from individual Pokemon TCG cards | Multi-card collages using global versions of Pokemon TCG cards |
| Finish described by Santa Cruz | No specific finish stated | Glitter gold foil |
| Announced quantity | Not stated | 500 of each variant worldwide |
| Pull odds | Not stated | Not stated |
The three chase runs total 1,500 decks. That is a quantity, not a pull rate. Without the total production run and distribution details, there is no sound way to turn it into your chance of finding gold.
The blind-bag catch
Random means you do not select your favorite design when buying a sealed bag. This is booster-pack suspense in a package big enough to trip over.
For a collector who wants one specific design, comparing an identified deck with sealed options after release may make more sense than repeatedly buying blind bags. That is a collecting strategy, not a prediction about resale prices.
This is a skateboard-deck collection, not an announcement of new playable TCG cards. The official page describes a deck and a guide booklet as the bag’s contents; do not treat the card artwork as a promise of a matching physical trading card.
Price and release-time limits
The official page still did not list a price when we checked on October 8. PokéBeach estimates roughly $110 based on previous collaborations, while saying no MSRP has been announced. That estimate is not a confirmed price for this drop.
The official page lists the date and displays “9am EST / 6am PST.” Those labels need care for an October release, when many U.S. locations observe daylight time. The date is confirmed; verify the sale time with your intended retailer rather than silently converting those labels into a local countdown.
Collector take
The interesting crossover is familiar card art becoming a large display collectible. The gold variants add a chase, but limited production alone does not establish demand, value or a profitable flip.
Buy for a design you want to live with. Your wall does not care what the next auction does.
Sources
Checked October 7-8, 2026.
- Santa Cruz: official Pokemon collaboration page - Release date, configuration, dimensions, booklet, collection categories and gold-variant quantities.
- PokéBeach: Santa Cruz x Pokemon TCG skateboards revealed - October 6 reveal coverage and clearly attributed price estimate.
