Psyduck’s most valuable appearance in the Simplified Chinese line is not on a Psyduck card. The two cards that actually carry the name sit under $42. The three that clear $100 are shared with Slowpoke.
Ten Psyduck cards exist across the Chinese-only sets, and five of them carry a tracked PSA 10 value. That is a small enough group to list in full, and the shape of it says something about how this market works: a character that is enormously popular in the anime and in memes has almost no standalone value in Chinese cards, because the Chinese line has not built a product around it.
How this list was built
- Chinese-only sets only. Every card below sits in a set whose code ends in C — 151C, csm2aC, csv10C. The reasoning behind that rule is here, and the same rule applies to every character guide in this series.
- A PSA 10 value has to exist. Ten Psyduck cards are printed across these sets. This list contains all five of the ones that are priced, which is why it runs to five entries rather than ten.
- Ranked by PSA 10 value. Raw and grade 9 values are given beside each card so you can see where the premium sits.
The five, ranked
5. Psyduck — Collect 151 (151C) #54 — $39
Raw $2.11 · grade 9 $13.24
The plain printing of Psyduck in Collect 151. It is a two-dollar card raw and a thirty-nine dollar card in a PSA 10 holder, and it is the least expensive way onto this list.
4. Psyduck [Reverse] — Collect 151 (151C) #54 — $42
Raw $2.75 · grade 9 $14.22
Collect 151 introduced two reverse holo treatments to the Chinese line — Poké Ball and Master Ball — and applied them across the set. This is the reverse holo version of the same number, and it carries a small premium over the plain printing: $41.56 against $38.87. A third version of #54 exists in the Master Ball treatment; it has not traded enough to be priced.
3. Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — csm2aC #4 — $130
Raw $28.94 · grade 9 $33.00
The lowest of the three tag team printings, and the point at which Psyduck cards stop being cheap. It is also the only one of the three where the grade 9 value sits above the raw price in the usual order.
2. Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — csm2aC #158 — $131
Raw $44.29 · grade 9 $26.51
Within a dollar of #4 on PSA 10 value, and a different card underneath: raw copies of #158 are tracked higher, at $44.29 against $28.94, while its grade 9 record sits lower, at $26.51. Where raw and grade 9 records cross like this, one of the two bands has thin sales behind it rather than the card being worth less.
1. Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — csm2aC #159 — $267
Raw $136.46 · grade 9 $68.00
The most valuable Psyduck card in Simplified Chinese, and the only one to clear $250. It is also the clearest illustration of the problem with collecting Psyduck in this language: the top card is a tag team, the raw price is more than half the graded price, and the grade 9 record sits at roughly half of raw. Psyduck is on it, but Psyduck is not what the card is about.
The Psyduck that is worth more than every Psyduck card combined
The five cards above carry $608 between them. A single Pikachu art rare from the same Chinese line is tracked at more than twice that, and Psyduck is in the frame.
Collect 151’s Hope art rare — 151C 171/151 — shows Pikachu on sunlit grassland beside a sleeping Psyduck. It is in stock here, it is the second card in our Pikachu ranking, and it is tracked at $1,545 as a PSA 10. The four Collect 151 art rares were drawn by one illustrator, Oswaldo KATO, as a single commission — the four cards in their own right are covered elsewhere on this site.
That is the useful lesson for anyone who collects a character rather than a set. Psyduck is a popular Pokémon with a thin card presence in Chinese, and the two places where Psyduck is worth real money are both places where it appears alongside something else: a tag team with Slowpoke, and a sleeping cameo in somebody else’s art rare. If you are hunting Psyduck specifically, the top of your list is a card filed under Pikachu.
What the ranking shows
| Group | Cards | Combined PSA 10 value | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tag team with Slowpoke — csm2aC | 3 | $528 | 86.8% |
| Psyduck on its own — Collect 151 | 2 | $80 | 13.2% |
| Every priced Psyduck card | 5 | $608 | 100% |
Three of the five priced cards are the same tag team, and they account for 86.8% of the value. The two cards that are actually Psyduck — one plain, one reverse holo, both from Collect 151 — split $80 between them. Nothing else Psyduck appears on in the Chinese-only sets has traded enough to be priced at all, including the Misty’s Psyduck cards in the csv10C checklist.
Frequently asked questions
How many Psyduck cards are there in Simplified Chinese?
Ten, across three products: four in the csm2aC subset, three in Collect 151 (one of which exists in three treatments) and three in the csv10C checklist. Five of the ten carry a tracked PSA 10 value.
What is the most valuable Psyduck card in Simplified Chinese?
Slowpoke & Psyduck GX at csm2aC #159, tracked at $267 as a PSA 10 and $136 raw. It is the only Psyduck card in these sets above $250, and one of three printings of the same tag team in csm2aC.
Why are most Psyduck cards tag teams?
Because the Chinese line has not built a product around Psyduck on its own. Its appearances come through set checklists — csm2aC, Collect 151, csv10C — rather than through a commissioned card or a Gem Pack group. The tag team printings are the only ones that reached the sort of scarcity that puts a Chinese card above $100.
Does Psyduck appear on any card as a background character?
On one that matters: the Collect 151 Hope art rare, 151C 171/151, which shows Pikachu beside a sleeping Psyduck. That card is tracked at $1,545 as a PSA 10 — more than twice the combined value of every priced Psyduck card in these sets.
Do the Collect 151 Psyduck cards come in more than one treatment?
Yes. Number 54 in Collect 151 exists as a plain card, a reverse holo, and a Master Ball reverse holo. Only the first two have traded enough to have a price attached; the Master Ball version is tracked as unpriced. The series guide explains the two reverse holo patterns.
Other cards in the family
This is the third character guide in the series. Pikachu holds the top of the market, Charizard shows what happens to a famous character with no commissioned product, and the cross-Pokémon ranking covers the Chinese-exclusive cards as a group.
Sources
Sources and further reading
- PriceCharting — Pokémon Chinese console listings, including 151 Collect, csm2aC and csv10C. PSA 10 values retrieved 24 September 2026.
- PriceCharting — individual card pages for Slowpoke & Psyduck GX #4, #158, #159 (csm2aC), Psyduck #54 and Psyduck [Reverse] #54 and Psyduck [Master Ball] #54 (151 Collect).
- CardSpicy — Collect 151 in Simplified Chinese: the four Pikachu art rares, on the Hope art rare, the illustrator and the two reverse holo patterns.
- CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C.
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.