Story Booster 01 ten weeks in: 24 of 25 alternate arts are cheaper than in September, one Vegeta held

Story Booster 01 came out on August 21. Ten weeks later, the Dragon Ball Super Fusion World set has given back most of its launch prices, and the pattern is almost perfectly one-sided: of the 25 alternate arts we can follow since early September, 24 are cheaper today. The one that held is the card that was already the most expensive.

All prices below are the ones shown on TCGIndex's card pages on October 30, 2026 (TCGplayer market price, US dollars, Near Mint). We compare them with the first point on each card's own price history after September 1, because the release-week points are thin: the Son Goku ST01-044 alternate art printed $212.50 on August 23 and $95.00 two days later. Starting in September keeps that noise out.

The most expensive Story Booster 01 cards today

1. Vegeta ST01-053 (Alternate Art, Leader): $246.78
2. Broly FB08-073 (Alternate Art, Leader): $136.82
3. Vegeta ST01-071 (Alternate Art, Secret Rare): $126.97
4. Vegito ST01-070 (Alternate Art, Secret Rare): $80.67
5. Vegito FB05-025 (Alternate Art, Leader): $72.08
6. Prince of Destruction (Alternate Art, Super Rare): $61.31
7. Son Goten ST01-001 (Alternate Art, Leader): $59.97
8. Majin Buu / Majin Buu : Pure Evil // Majin Buu : Evil (Alternate Art, Leader): $49.51
9. Vegeta ST01-066 (Alternate Art, Rare): $40.00
10. Son Goku ST01-004 (Alternate Art, Super Rare): $33.33

The Vegito FB05-025 and Majin Buu leaders only have price history from October, so they are ranked but left out of the comparisons below. The whole set (146 cards tracked) is worth $1,378 on its set page, down 2.5 % over 7 days, and the top 10 cards carry 48 % of it.

24 of 25 alternate arts are down since September

Add up the 25 alternate arts that have a price from the first days of September: they cost $1,720.21 then and $1,000.81 now, a 42 % drop. Some of the larger moves:

• Son Goku ST01-044 (Alternate Art, Super Rare): $78.86 on September 1, $32.48 today, down 59 %
• Son Goku ST01-004 (Alternate Art, Super Rare): $75.00 on September 3, $33.33, down 56 %
• Vegito ST01-070 (Alternate Art, Secret Rare): $180.79, $80.67, down 55 %
• Vegeta ST01-071 (Alternate Art, Secret Rare): $228.49, $126.97, down 44 %
• Broly FB08-073 (Alternate Art, Leader): $232.50 on September 4, $136.82, down 41 %
• Majin Buu : Kid ST01-037 (Alternate Art, Rare): $21.42, $5.41, down 75 %
• Vegito ST01-025 (Alternate Art, Rare): $18.50, $4.30, down 77 %

The slide has slowed. Most of these cards lost the bulk of their value in September; the two Super Rare Gokus have stayed between $29 and $38 since October 1. If you are buying singles for a deck rather than for a binder, the launch premium is mostly gone.

The one that held: the Vegeta leader

Vegeta ST01-053 (Alternate Art, Leader) was $240.17 on September 2 and is $246.78 today, up 3 %. It peaked at $261.23 on October 1 and has eased since, but far less than anything around it. At that price it is 18 % of the whole set's value on its own, and the gap to the next card ($136.82) is wider than it was in September, when Broly and the Secret Rare Vegeta sat within $12 of it.

That is a familiar shape for a set whose cards mostly carry starter-deck numbers (ST01): demand concentrates on one card, and the rest of the alternate arts settle toward what a playset costs.

Two cheap exceptions

Not everything went down. Two Dragon Ball Pattern commons doubled from their first listed price:

• Son Goku ST01-003 (Dragon Ball Pattern): $5.00 on August 23, $7.03 on October 12, then $10.76 from mid-October
• Vegeta ST01-052 (Dragon Ball Pattern): $5.00 to $10.09

These are small amounts on cards that rarely trade, so read them as a curiosity, not a signal. The other five Dragon Ball Pattern cards we track are all lower than on September 30.

How we checked

We read 42 Story Booster 01 card pages on October 30. Four cards whose page price and latest history point disagreed by more than 3 % were left out of every comparison (among them the Son Gohan : Adolescence ST01-011 and Broly ST01-049 alternate arts), as were cards without history before October. Every price here links to its card page, where the full history is public. Follow any card on TCGIndex to see its price move day by day. The whole set, every card with today's price, is on the Story Booster 01 card list.