The One Marowak Card Worth Owning in Simplified Chinese

Marowak in the Chinese-only set codes is 3 products, with Collect 151 alone printing 3 of the 5 cards. Marowak #105 leads at $35.85 as a PSA 10, while a Collect 151 print lands at number 1.

What makes the shape worth reading is where the cards sit. 3 of the 5 Marowak cards come out of Collect 151 at #105, and that one line supplies 1 of the 1 ranked cards — 100 percent of the character’s graded value. Every ranked card comes from that same line, so the ranking is a ranking of one product’s treatments rather than of competing products.

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, 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. 5 Marowak cards exist across these sets and 1 have a PSA 10 price on record. The 4 that do not are Marowak [Master Ball] #105, Marowak [Reverse] #105 and 2 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 Marowak 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 one card, ranked

1. Marowak #105 — Collect 151 (151C) — $35.85

Raw $1.39 · grade 9 $12.13

First on the list and a Collect 151 print. At $1.39 raw against $35.85 graded it multiplies 25.8 times. Number 105 in Collect 151 is Marowak’s entry in the set of the original 151 Pokémon, the only product where every one of them has a card.

What the ranking shows

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

Two further patterns run across the whole group.

A Kanto entry breaks the run. Marowak is one of the original 151 Pokémon, so Collect 151 prints it, and that print lands at number 1. Characters from later generations have no entry in that set and therefore no card that can break a Gem Pack run.

4 of the 5 cards have never traded enough to be priced. They are tracked in the catalogue but carry no PSA 10 value, so the ranking covers the priced part of the checklist rather than all of it.

Where Marowak is printed

Collect 151 supplies 3 of the 5 Marowak cards and 100 percent of the $36 total, because the expensive cards are inside that line. Collect 151 prints Marowak as one of the original 151, and those prints are priced generously relative to the Gem Pack foils. 4 of the 5 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: Marowak #105 from Collect 151 at $35.85. It is the highest-priced Marowak card in these sets.

Frequently asked questions

How many Marowak cards are there in Simplified Chinese?

5, across 3 products. 1 of the 5 carry a tracked PSA 10 value.

What is the most valuable Marowak card in Simplified Chinese?

Marowak #105 from Collect 151, tracked at $35.85 as a PSA 10 and $1.39 raw. It is the single priced card under this name in these sets.

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

Because Marowak is one of the original 151 Pokémon and Collect 151 prints every one of them. It lands at number 1 at $35.85. 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 25.8 to 25.8, 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

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.