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The Two Hypno Cards Worth Owning in Simplified Chinese

Hypno cards in the Simplified Chinese Pokemon sets: 7 cards, 2 with a PSA 10 value, top card at 38 dollars

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Hypno in the Chinese-only set codes is 4 products, with Collect 151 alone printing 3 of the 7 cards. Hypno #77 leads at $37.93 as a PSA 10, and that one card holds 50 percent of everything the character is worth.

What makes the shape worth reading is where the cards sit. 3 of the 7 Hypno cards come out of Collect 151 at #97, and that one line supplies 1 of the 2 ranked cards. The top of the list is not from that line at all: Hypno from Brilliant Fantasy takes first place at $37.93.

How this list was built

Three rules, applied in this order.

  • The card has to sit in a Chinese-only set. Every card below carries a set code ending in C — 151C, csv10C, csv8C and cs3bC. That trailing letter marks a Simplified Chinese print run, and it is the dependable way to tell a Chinese-only card from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese. Reading a Chinese set code from end to end covers the whole system.
  • The card has to have a tracked PSA 10 value. 7 Hypno cards exist across these sets and 2 have a PSA 10 price on record. The 5 that do not are Hypno [Master Ball] #97, Hypno [Reverse] #97 and 3 more — none of them has a graded sold record yet, and a card with no price cannot be ranked.
  • The card has to be a Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope.

One exclusion applies here as it does to every character ranking we publish. Promo printings of Hypno exist in Chinese and they are not on this list. Promo numbering is shared across the Chinese branches — the same promo number appears in Traditional Chinese product as well — so a promo number on its own cannot establish which branch a card came from. Everything below sits inside a numbered set whose code ends in C, which is unambiguous.

The two, ranked

1. Hypno #77 — Brilliant Fantasy (csv8C) — $37.93

Raw $1.69 · grade 9 $12.29

The highest-priced Hypno card in these sets and the one entry from outside the Collect 151 line. The card under it is priced within a dollar of this one. At $1.69 raw against $37.93 graded it multiplies 22.4 times.

2. Hypno #97 — Collect 151 (151C) — $37.53

Raw $1.79 · grade 9 $12.75

The last card on the list and a Collect 151 print. Less than a dollar separates it from the card above. Raw copies at $1.79 becoming $37.53 in a PSA 10 holder is a multiple of 21.0, the shape most set-checklist foils in this series have. Number 97 in Collect 151 is Hypno’s entry in the set of the original 151 Pokémon, the only product where every one of them has a card.

Ranked bar chart of the 2 most valuable Hypno cards in the Chinese-only Pokemon sets, from 38 dollars down to 38 dollars
The 2 priced prints, by PSA 10 value. The top card alone is 50 percent of the character’s value.

What the ranking shows

Hypno splits into 1 bands across 2 priced cards, and the top band is where the ranking is decided.

Band Cards Combined PSA 10 value Share of total
$38 – $38 — ranked 1 to 2 2 $75 100.0%
Every priced Hypno card 2 $75 100%

Two further patterns run across the whole group.

A Kanto entry breaks the run. Hypno is one of the original 151 Pokémon, so Collect 151 prints it, and that print lands at number 2. Characters from later generations have no entry in that set and therefore no card that can break a Gem Pack run.

The band is $0 wide. Between $37.93 at the top and $37.53 at the bottom, the whole ranked list sits inside a $0 window — narrow enough that assembling the entire run costs close to what the first card costs alone.

Where Hypno is printed

Product Set code Hypno cards With a PSA 10 value
Collect 151 151C 3 1
Chasing Glory Together csv10C 2 0
Brilliant Fantasy csv8C 1 1
cs3bC cs3bC 1 0
Total 7 2

Collect 151 supplies 3 of the 7 Hypno cards and 50 percent of the $75 total, because the expensive cards are inside that line. Collect 151 prints Hypno as one of the original 151, and those prints are priced generously relative to the Gem Pack foils. 5 of the 7 cards carry no price at all, so the checklist in the table above is longer than the ranking it supports. If the goal is the group rather than the single card, completing a Simplified Chinese set sets out what a full run involves.

If you want one card

  • One card, no budget limit: Hypno #77 from Brilliant Fantasy at $37.93. It is the highest-priced Hypno card in these sets.
  • The second line: Hypno #97 from Collect 151 at $37.53, the second-highest Hypno card in these sets and the next step down from the top.
  • The Kanto print: Hypno #97 from Collect 151 at $37.53 — the character’s entry in the set of the original 151, and the only Hypno card that exists in that product.

Frequently asked questions

How many Hypno cards are there in Simplified Chinese?

7, across 4 products. 2 of the 7 carry a tracked PSA 10 value.

What is the most valuable Hypno card in Simplified Chinese?

Hypno #77 from Brilliant Fantasy, tracked at $37.93 as a PSA 10 and $1.69 raw. It is the only Hypno card in these sets above $38, and it holds 50 percent of the character’s combined value.

Why is there a Collect 151 Hypno card on the list?

Because Hypno is one of the original 151 Pokémon and Collect 151 prints every one of them. It lands at number 2 at $37.53. Characters from later generations are not in that set, so they have no Kanto print to break a Gem Pack run.

Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?

Raw-to-graded multiples across the list run from 21.0 to 22.4, so on most cards the graded premium is real. Where the multiple is lowest, the raw price already carries most of the value. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a prediction about what any individual card will grade at.

Do the Collect 151 prints come in more than one treatment?

Yes. A number in Collect 151 exists as a plain card, a reverse holo and a Master Ball reverse holo. Only the plain print usually trades enough to have a price attached. The series guide explains the two reverse holo patterns.

Other character rankings

Each character with a full five or ten-card ranking has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, and among the shorter runs Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable, Crocalor, Cubone, Fuecoco.

Beyond the single character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and the collector’s index lists every Pokémon that appears in the Chinese-only sets with its card count, priced count and top value.

Sources

Sources and further reading
  1. PriceCharting — Pokémon Chinese console listings, including Collect 151 (151C), Chasing Glory Together (csv10C), Brilliant Fantasy (csv8C), cs3bC. PSA 10 values retrieved 25 September 2026.
  2. PriceCharting — individual card pages for the Hypno prints listed above, across 7 numbered cards.
  3. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.