The breaking culture is going to ensure your booster boxes will gradually decline in supply and be rare in the future.

I always wondered what happens to all the supply of booster boxes and finally realized I already saw the answer in front of my from an interaction from another TCG. I was selling some expensive booster boxes from another game and was able to move almost thousands of dollars in product in 2 weeks. As I was chatting with my buyers I realized they were not HODLers, investors or collectors. They are all breakers selling slots for the packs in the cases they are buying. Yes, they are buying cases and one thing that stood out was they consume an insane amount. One buyer who bought more than $10K of product came back and was looking for more.

As I always said, the invisible under-the-radar consumption of product is going to ensure the out-of-print boxes are going to be rare in the future. It does not matter what the box is as long as there is a demand for people to open it and rip packs in a gambling sort of fashion. So the rarer the box, the demand looks to be potentially higher as people will gamble on a few packs from the box in order to "chase" certain cards.

The key factor is the overall value of the box. The more value of the box spread across the cards in the set from the box, the better the demand for it. This is important as sets that contain a good EV spread across multiple cards from that set means there is a higher demand for that box in the future. This means that you need to stay away from boxes that have very few cards that carry the value from the set. This is what makes most of the SWSH and even the S&V boxes a good play as the introduction of the alt arts plus the character rares means there is more reason to crack those boxes in the future when they get older. Combined this with the Pokemon having the highest product consumption in all of the big 3 TCGs then you have a formula for guaranteed value of those boxes.

It will be impossible to see the whole picture of how much product is being consumed but based on how much supply is still disappearing over time, I suspect that these breakers take up a lot of sealed product consumption that we never see or hear about.