Category: Pokémon

A tile on this site carries a card count, a type and a ranking. Every one of those comes from a rule, and this page is where the rules are written down — what counts as a card, what is deliberately left out, and how a ranking is built when nobody has published one.

Collectors ask the same three questions in different words. Why does this site say Pikachu has 35 Simplified Chinese cards when another list shows more? Why is Nidoking shown as a Fighting card when every Pokédex calls it Poison? And why is a trainer ranked where it is, when no ranking of trainers exists to compare it against?

None of those are errors. They are the result of decisions applied the same way to every character, every printing and every price on the site. This page sets the decisions out in full, so that the numbers can be checked rather than trusted.

Quick answer

Every figure on CardSpicy is built from one source, PriceCharting, and read on one date, 27 September 2026. A card is counted once per printing, not once per illustration. Each language keeps its own count, so the same artwork can appear in all three. The type shown next to a name is the energy printed on the card, not the type the character has in the games. And every ranking on the site belongs to one grid only — there is no single score that orders characters, trainers and illustrators together.

Where the numbers come from

Card counts, prices and rankings are all built from PriceCharting, a public database that tracks Pokémon cards printing by printing and records both graded and ungraded sales. The figures behind this page were retrieved on 27 September 2026. Nothing is estimated, and no count is drawn from a set list we wrote ourselves: if a printing has no record there, it is not in our numbers.

Two consequences follow, and both are worth holding on to. First, our counts are counts of printings with a record, not printings that exist. A card that has never surfaced for sale can be missing from a character’s total, which is why a character with a large Chinese print run can still show a modest number. Second, every count moves. A character sitting on 12 can be on 14 after the next set, and the figure on a tile is a snapshot of one date, not a property of the character.

What counts as a card

Five rules decide whether a printing joins a character’s total. They are applied in the same order to all 214 characters on this site, in all three languages.

Rule	What it does
Sealed product is out	Booster packs, booster boxes, Elite Trainer Boxes, decks, bundles, cases and displays are excluded. Only single cards are counted, because a sealed box is a product rather than a character’s printing.
Chinese-only promos are out	The Simplified Chinese promo set and the 30th anniversary set are left out of all three language counts. They are kept in their own pages instead, so that a character’s number reflects the main print runs.
Form variants join their base species	Alolan, Galarian and Hisuian forms are counted with the character they are a form of. Alolan Raichu adds to Raichu, Galarian Articuno to Articuno, Hisuian Growlithe to Growlithe. A regional form is a different card but not a different character.
A card naming two characters counts twice	Tag-team and paired cards add to both characters’ totals. This is why the sum of the individual counts on a page can exceed the number of distinct printings: one card can sit in two totals at once.
The set number is stripped	Printings are matched to a character by name, with the set number, the variant tags and the card number removed first. A reverse holo and a standard print of the same card are one printing, not two.

The two Nidoran are the cleanest example of how literal this gets. Nidoran ♀ and Nidoran ♂ are separate characters with separate Pokédex numbers, 29 and 32, so they keep separate tiles and separate counts — even though most printed checklists treat them as a pair.

Three languages, three counts

Every character is counted three times: Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English. The three numbers describe the same character and are not comparable to each other in size, because the print runs behind them are not the same size. Simplified Chinese is the youngest of the three formats and has the fewest sets, so its counts run lowest across the board.

Character	Simplified Chinese	Japanese	English	Type
Eevee	43	59	125	Colorless
Pikachu	35	111	209	Lightning
Umbreon	33	40	71	Darkness
Charizard	19	86	152	Fire
Mew	13	48	61	Psychic
Rayquaza	8	53	81	Colorless

Across all 214 characters the site covers, the counts run to 1,662 Simplified Chinese printings, 4,900 Japanese and 9,571 English. The median character has 6 Chinese printings, 20 Japanese and 43 English. Only two characters — Baxcalibur and Kubfu — have no Simplified Chinese printing on record at all.

Why a card’s type is the energy, not the game type

The type shown after a character’s name is the energy the card is printed as in the trading card game. It is not the type the character has in the video games, and the two disagree more often than people expect.

Nidoking is the standard example. In the games it is Poison and Ground. On every card it has ever been printed as, it is a Fighting Pokémon, because that is the energy in the corner. Gengar is Ghost and Poison in the games and Psychic on its cards. Charizard is Fire in both, which is why it never comes up as a problem. The rule is simple enough to state: we read the card, not the Pokédex. This matters when you are searching for cards by type, because a search built on game types will miss the cards it is aiming at.

How the 151 are sorted into four groups

The 151 tiles of the original Pokédex are not in Pokédex order alone. Each character is placed in one of four groups according to how many of its printings carry a price on record, and the groups are shaded from deepest to lightest.

Group	Characters	Where it sits
Top 10	8	Ten or more priced printings
Top 5	22	Five to nine priced printings
Card guide	83	One to four priced printings
Checklist	38	No graded sale on record yet

Within each group the tiles are ordered by search heat — the average normalised Google search interest in the character over the same period. That is why a group leader is not always the most expensive character in the group, and why the grid as a whole reads as a demand ranking rather than a price ranking. The Pokédex number stays on every tile, so the grid still works as a lookup table when you already know what you are looking for.

How the trainer ranking is built

No published ranking of favourite Pokémon trainers covers all nine generations. That is not a gap we could fill by choosing a better source, so the trainer grid is built instead from two measures that can actually be read, weighted equally.

The first measure is money: the combined PriceCharting PSA 10 value of the character’s priced Simplified Chinese cards. The second is written attention: the byte length of the character’s article on the Chinese-language Pokémon wiki. Both were read on 27 September 2026. Each measure is converted to a percentile across the 94 qualifying characters before the two are averaged, so that one character’s outlier price cannot swamp the scale, and so that neither measure silently dominates.

Cards that name a trainer class rather than a person, and cards that name a team rather than a character, are excluded from this grid and appear in the items grid instead. Where a character’s cards have no graded value, the ungraded value is used; where neither exists, the card counts as unpriced and drops out of the money half of the calculation.

How the art cards, the items and the illustrators are ordered

The three grids below the trainer ranking each use a different measure, because each is answering a different question.

Grid	Included	Ordered by
Art Rare and Special Art Rare	186 cards — 59 Art Rare and 127 Special Art Rare, mixed in one grid	Price. The rarity is read off the card scan rather than out of a published card list.
Items, tools, stadiums and energy	86 cards — items, Pokémon Tools, stadiums, energy and role-named Supporters	Price. Trainers named as a person on a card are not repeated here.
The illustrators	110 portfolios, drawn from 214 illustrators with a Chinese credit across 1,612 credited cards	Depth of portfolio first, then the illustrator’s single most valuable card.

Because the art-card rarity is read from the scan rather than from a set list, that grid is not a complete census of every art card printed in Chinese. It is every art card that could be read and that carries a price. The same honesty applies to the illustrator grid: credits are read from the printed credit line on each Chinese card, matched against our illustrator roster, and the 110 shown are the strongest portfolios rather than every name that appears.

What is deliberately left out

Four things are excluded on purpose, and it is worth knowing which, because their absence is not an accident.

Sealed product, because a box is not a character’s printing. The Chinese-only promo and anniversary sets, because mixing them into a main-run count would make the three language totals describe different things. Card-game types, because the cards are what is being counted. And subjective judgement: no grid on this site is ordered by how well known we think a character is, because that is the one measure a reader cannot check.

Frequently asked questions

How does CardSpicy decide how many Simplified Chinese cards a Pokémon has?

Every count comes from PriceCharting, read on 27 September 2026. A printing is matched to a character by name with the set number and variant tags stripped, counted once, and added to the character’s Simplified Chinese total. Sealed product is excluded, and the Chinese-only promo and anniversary sets are left out of all three language counts.

Why is Nidoking a Fighting card when the games say Poison?

Because the type shown on this site is the energy printed on the card, not the type the character has in the video games. Nidoking is Poison and Ground in the games and has been printed as a Fighting Pokémon on every card it has. Gengar follows the same rule, Ghost and Poison in the games and Psychic on its cards.

Why does the Japanese or English count for a character differ so much from the Chinese one?

Because the three formats have different histories. Simplified Chinese launched in October 2022, while Japanese and English print runs go back to the 1990s, so the same character has had far more chances to be printed in the older formats. Across the 214 characters here, the totals run to 1,662 Simplified Chinese printings against 4,900 Japanese and 9,571 English.

How are the Pokémon trainers ranked if no ranking exists?

From two measures weighted equally. The combined PriceCharting PSA 10 value of the character’s priced Simplified Chinese cards, and the byte length of the character’s article on the Chinese-language Pokémon wiki. Each is converted to a percentile across the 94 qualifying characters before the two are averaged, so neither measure can dominate the result.

Are the numbers ever out of date?

Yes, and they are meant to be read as a snapshot. Every figure on the site was read on 27 September 2026 and is a count of printings with a sales record, not of printings that exist. A character’s count can change after any new set, and a card with no record on the read date joins the count once a sale appears.

Sources

Where the counts, prices and rankings in this article come from

• PriceCharting — printing-level card records and graded and ungraded sale values, retrieved 27 September 2026.
• Google Trends — normalised search interest, used for the ordering of characters within each group.
• wiki.52poke.com — the Chinese-language Pokémon wiki, used as the second measure in the trainer ranking.
• Card counts quoted in this article were read from our own catalogue on 29 September 2026 and are the same figures carried on the tiles of the Simplified Chinese index.

Related reading

If the counting rules matter to you, these are the pages they were written for: how Chinese cards differ from Japanese, the Simplified Chinese-exclusive card list, why the format is only four years old, and the set code guide.

Explore graded Simplified Chinese cards

Everything on this site is sold as a PSA 10 slab, and every price you see in the grids traces back to the rules above. If you would rather handle a card before it is graded, the card protection range covers sleeves, toploaders and storage — the matte premium sleeves and the 3×4 rigid toploader are the two most collectors start with.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Omastar cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines. Omastar [Masaki Promo] leads at $29,832 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Omastar appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 16 Japanese and 30 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines.

The head of the list is Omastar [Masaki Promo] #139 (Vending) at $29,832. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

10. Brock’s Omastar — VS #68 — $100

9. Omastar — Crossing the Ruins #139 — $108

8. Omastar — Holon Phantom #27 — $164

7. Omastar [1st Edition] — Split Earth #29 — $175

6. Omastar [1st Edition] — World Champions Pack #17 — $277

5. Omastar — Mystery of the Fossils #139 — $305

4. Omastar — Magma vs Aqua #24 — $306

3. Omastar [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #27 — $350

2. Omastar — Split Earth #29 — $358†

1. Omastar [Masaki Promo] — Vending #139 — $29,832†

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Omastar — Awakening Psychic King #16 — $100
• Omastar BREAK [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #17 — $76
• Omastar [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #16 — $49
• Omastar — Tag Bolt #57 — $40
• Omastar V — Paradigm Trigger #100 — $31
• Omastar V — Paradigm Trigger #18 — $17

And 7 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Omastar [1st Edition] — Fossil #40 — $258

9. Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #20 — $335

8. Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #19 — $372

7. Omastar — Legendary Collection #58 — $377

6. Dark Omastar [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #19 — $428

5. Omastar — Holon Phantoms #13 — $610

4. Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #23 — $935

3. Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #23 — $1,026

2. Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #58 — $1,647

1. Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #13 — $2,025

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Omastar — Fossil #40 — $246
• Omastar — Skyridge #23 — $152
• Omastar BREAK — Fates Collide #19 — $150
• Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #26 — $142
• Omastar [1999-2000] — Fossil #40 — $140
• Omastar — Legend Maker #23 — $130
• Omastar [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #43 — $128
• Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #23 — $127
• Dark Omastar — Neo Destiny #19 — $94
• Omastar — Arceus #23 — $90
• Omastar — Sandstorm #19 — $70
• Omastar — Power Keepers #20 — $70
• Omastar — Majestic Dawn #26 — $68
• Omastar — Neo Discovery #43 — $50
• Omastar V — Silver Tempest #174 — $43
• Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #76 — $38
• Omastar [Reverse Holo] — Fates Collide #18 — $37
• Omastar — Fates Collide #18 — $36
• Omastar V — Silver Tempest #35 — $32
• Omastar — Team Up #76 — $17

Where Omastar is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	16	16	$29,832
English	30	30	$2,025
All 2 lines	46	46	—

Every Omastar card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Omastar	Collect 151	151C	139
Omastar [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	139
Omastar [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	139

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Omastar the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Omastar card leads the Japanese list?

Omastar [Masaki Promo] #139 from Vending at $29,832. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Omastar card leads the English list?

Omastar [Reverse Holo] #13 from Holon Phantoms at $2,025.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. 2 of them were reduced as well.

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

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Omastar is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold an Omastar slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Seaking cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Seaking [Reverse Holo] leads at $1,175 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Seaking appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 8 Japanese, 6 Korean and 25 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Seaking #119 (Awakening Legends) at $204. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

8. Seaking [Master Ball] — Terastal Festival #29 — $28

7. Seaking — Terastal Festival #29 — $30

6. Seaking — Abyss Eye #13 — $37

5. Seaking [Poke Ball] — Terastal Festival #29 — $40

4. Seaking — The Town on No Map #23 — $57

3. Seaking [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #23 — $121

2. Seaking — Jungle #119 — $137

1. Seaking — Awakening Legends #119 — $204

This line only yields 8 priced printings for Seaking. Another 10 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Seaking [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #43 — $81

9. Misty’s Seaking [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #55 — $96

8. Seaking [Reverse] — Prismatic Evolutions #21 — $100

7. Seaking — Aquapolis #59 — $100

6. Seaking [Master Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #21 — $109

5. Seaking — Jungle #46 — $144

4. Seaking [1st Edition] — Neo Revelation #37 — $145

3. Seaking [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #59 — $174

2. Seaking [1st Edition] — Jungle #46 — $293

1. Seaking [Reverse Holo] — Deoxys #24 — $1,175

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Misty’s Seaking — Gym Heroes #55 — $75
• Seaking — Neo Revelation #37 — $57
• Seaking — Base Set 2 #60 — $50
• Seaking — Prismatic Evolutions #21 — $46
• Seaking — Deoxys #24 — $46
• Seaking [Reverse Holo] — BREAKthrough #28 — $40
• Seaking [Reverse Holo] — Pitch Black #14 — $38
• Seaking — BREAKthrough #28 — $33
• Seaking [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #49 — $32
• Seaking — Supreme Victors #43 — $32
• Seaking [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #45 — $31
• Seaking — Unbroken Bonds #49 — $31
• Seaking — Twilight Masquerade #45 — $31
• Seaking — Pitch Black #14 — $30
• Seaking [Poke Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #21 — $24

And 1 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Seaking is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	8	8	$204
English	25	25	$1,175
All 2 lines	33	33	—

Every Seaking card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Seaking	Brilliant Fantasy	csv8C	51
Seaking	CSM2aC	CSM2aC	23
Seaking	Collect 151	151C	119
Seaking [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	119
Seaking [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	119

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Seaking the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Seaking card leads the Japanese list?

Seaking #119 from Awakening Legends at $204. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Seaking card leads the English list?

Seaking [Reverse Holo] #24 from Deoxys at $1,175.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. None of them needed reducing on this page.

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

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Seaking is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Seaking slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Magmar cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Magmar [Reverse Holo] leads at $2,341 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Magmar appears on 4 Chinese-exclusive printings, 32 Japanese, 4 Korean and 55 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Magmar carries an English line wide enough that the top of it is decided by vintage printings rather than modern ones. The head of the list is Magmar [No Rarity] #126 (Expansion Pack) at $1,474. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

10. Magmar [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #35 — $159

9. Magmar — Mystery of the Fossils #126 — $168

8. Magmar EX — Torchic Starter Deck #001 — $184

7. Blaine’s Magmar — Challenge from the Darkness #126 — $192

6. Karen’s Magmar — VS #88 — $241

5. Magmar — Expedition Expansion Pack #35 — $284

4. Magmar [Series III] — Vending #126 — $328

3. Magmar — Expansion Pack #126 — $450

2. Magmar [1st Edition] — Mirage Forest #17 — $656

1. Magmar [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #126 — $1,474

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Magmar — Squirtle Deck #39 — $152
• Magmar — Mirage Forest #17 — $135
• Magmar EX [1st Edition] — Torchic Starter Deck #001 — $114
• Magmar — Gold, Silver, New World #126 — $108
• Magmar [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #20 — $107
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — VSTAR Universe #16 — $105
• Magmar — Rising Fist #10 — $97
• Magmar — Dragon Blade #7 — $74
• Magmar [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #13 — $71
• Magmar — VSTAR Universe #16 — $60
• Magmar — Classic: Charizard #6 — $50
• Magmar — Battle Starter Decks #3 — $50
• Magmar — GG End #2 — $48
• Magmar [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #10 — $42
• Magmar — Ultra Sun #15 — $42
• Magmar — Starter Pack #14 — $41
• Magmar — Star Birth #16 — $38
• Magmar — Storm Emeralda #12 — $37
• Magmar — Family #10 — $37
• Magmar [1st Edition] — Dragon Blade #7 — $32
• Magmar — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #17 — $31
• Magmar — Clash at the Summit #13 — $30

And 8 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Magmar — Brilliant Stars #19 — $228

9. Blaine’s Magmar — Gym Heroes #37 — $229

8. Magmar [Shadowless] — Base Set #36 — $242

7. Magmar — Journey Together #20 — $249

6. Magmar [1st Edition] — Neo Genesis #40 — $251

5. Blaine’s Magmar [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #37 — $382

4. Magmar [1st Edition] — Fossil #39 — $450

3. Magmar [1st Edition] — Base Set #36 — $1,016

2. Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #44 — $1,721

1. Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #21 — $2,341

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Magmar — Base Set #36 — $199
• Magmar — Promo #44 — $191
• Magmar — Team Rocket Returns #44 — $154
• Magmar — Expedition #86 — $152
• Magmar [1999-2000] — Base Set #36 — $120
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #54 — $115
• Magmar — Fossil #39 — $113
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #42 — $110
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #20 — $109
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #52 — $106
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #86 — $105
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #65 — $101
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Generations #16 — $100
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #62 — $100
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #93 — $88
• Magmar [1999-2000] — Fossil #39 — $87
• Magmar — Generations #16 — $80
• Magmar — Legend Maker #21 — $79
• Magmar — Neo Genesis #40 — $75
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #10 — $66
• Magmar — Mysterious Treasures #54 — $62
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Ultra Prism #18 — $59
• Magmar [Reverse Holo] — Dragons Exalted #20 — $59
• Magmar — Secret Wonders #93 — $57
• Magmar — McDonalds 2019 #3 — $54
• Magmar — TCG Classic: Charizard Deck #6 — $54
• Magmar — Supreme Victors #65 — $53
• Magmar — Base Set 2 #51 — $46
• Magmar — Evolutions #20 — $44
• Magmar — Dragons Exalted #20 — $41

Where Magmar is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	32	32	$1,474
English	55	55	$2,341
All 2 lines	87	87	—

Every Magmar card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Magmar	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	25
Magmar	Collect 151	151C	126
Magmar [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	126
Magmar [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	126

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Magmar the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Magmar card leads the Japanese list?

Magmar [No Rarity] #126 from Expansion Pack at $1,474. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Magmar card leads the English list?

Magmar [Reverse Holo] #21 from Legend Maker at $2,341.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. None of them needed reducing on this page.

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

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Magmar is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Magmar slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Rhydon cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines. Brock’s Rhydon [1st Edition] leads at $3,025 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Rhydon appears on 4 Chinese-exclusive printings, 13 Japanese and 27 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines.

The head of the list is Rhydon #55 (Split Earth) at $1,100. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

10. Rhydon [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #53 — $46

9. Rhydon — Collection Y #32 — $64

8. Rhydon — Split Earth #54 — $159

7. Team Magma’s Rhydon [1st Edition] — Magma vs Aqua #53 — $190

6. Rhydon [1st Edition] — Split Earth #54 — $227

5. Chuck’s Rhydon — VS #35 — $328

4. Rhydon — Jungle #112 — $410

3. Rhydon [1st Edition] — Split Earth #55 — $602

2. Rhydon [Series III] — Vending #112 — $1,077

1. Rhydon — Split Earth #55 — $1,100

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Rhydon — Battle Region #38 — $36
• Rhydon — Double Blaze #49 — $34
• Rhydon [1st Edition] — Gaia Volcano #30 — $30

And 14 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Rhydon — Skyridge #29 — $160

9. Rhydon — Legendary Collection #35 — $171

8. Rhydon — Jungle #45 — $175

7. Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #46 — $390

6. Rhydon [1st Edition] — Jungle #45 — $550

5. Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #29 — $847

4. Brock’s Rhydon — Gym Heroes #2 — $1,239

3. Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Emerald #19 — $1,336

2. Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #35 — $1,902

1. Brock’s Rhydon [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #2 — $3,025

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Rhydon — Hidden Legends #46 — $87
• Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #80 — $83
• Rhydon — Supreme Victors #80 — $47
• Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — XY #61 — $43
• Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #94 — $37
• Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #75 — $36
• Rhydon — Lost Origin #90 — $36
• Rhydon — XY #61 — $35
• Rhydon — Unbroken Bonds #94 — $35
• Rhydon — Emerald #19 — $34
• Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #66 — $32
• Rhydon — Burning Shadows #66 — $31
• Rhydon — Stellar Crown #75 — $31
• Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #90 — $31
• Rhydon [Reverse Holo] — Stellar Crown #75 — $30
• Rhydon — Primal Clash #75 — $29
• Rhydon — Base Set 2 #59 — $24

And 2 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Rhydon is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	13	13	$1,100
English	27	27	$3,025
All 2 lines	40	40	—

Every Rhydon card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Rhydon	Brilliant Fantasy	csv8C	102
Rhydon	Collect 151	151C	112
Rhydon [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	112
Rhydon [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	112

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Rhydon the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Rhydon card leads the Japanese list?

Rhydon #55 from Split Earth at $1,100. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Rhydon card leads the English list?

Brock’s Rhydon [1st Edition] #2 from Gym Heroes at $3,025.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. None of them needed reducing on this page.

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

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Rhydon is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Rhydon slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Seadra cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Misty’s Seadra [1st Edition] leads at $2,751 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Seadra appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 10 Japanese, 3 Korean and 44 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Seadra carries an English line wide enough that the top of it is decided by vintage printings rather than modern ones. The head of the list is Seadra [Series III] #117 (Vending) at $532. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

10. Seadra [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #23 — $46

9. Seadra [1st Edition] — Tidal Storm #10 — $52

8. Seadra — Spiral Force #11 — $63

7. Seadra — Reviving Legends #13 — $66

6. Seadra [1st Edition] — Reviving Legends #13 — $86

5. Seadra — Gold, Silver, New World #117 — $116

4. Seadra — Wind from the Sea #35 — $125

3. Seadra [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #35 — $130

2. Seadra — Mystery of the Fossils #117 — $288†

1. Seadra [Series III] — Vending #117 — $532

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Seadra [1st Edition] — Neo Genesis #48 — $195

9. Seadra [1st Edition] — Fossil #42 — $284

8. Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #37 — $485

7. Misty’s Seadra — Gym Heroes #9 — $575

6. Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #52 — $800

5. Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #22 — $982

4. Misty’s Seadra [Pre-Release] — Gym Heroes #9 — $1,216

3. Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #48 — $1,289

2. Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #63 — $2,148

1. Misty’s Seadra [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #9 — $2,751

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #58 — $189
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Dragon #40 — $180
• Seadra — Dragon Frontiers #22 — $160
• Seadra — Legendary Collection #63 — $156
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Dragon #39 — $148
• Seadra [Cosmos Holo] — Shrouded Fable #11 — $118
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #40 — $115
• Seadra — Fossil #42 — $103
• Seadra — Holon Phantoms #52 — $100
• Seadra — Team Rocket Returns #48 — $96
• Seadra — Neo Genesis #48 — $90
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #70 — $73
• Seadra — Shrouded Fable #11 — $72
• Seadra — Dragon Frontiers #37 — $70
• Seadra — Unleashed #40 — $60
• Seadra — Aquapolis #58 — $60
• Seadra — Legends Awakened #70 — $60
• Seadra — Dragon #40 — $51
• Seadra — Dragon #39 — $51
• Seadra — Plasma Freeze #19 — $43
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #19 — $43
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Majesty #17 — $39
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #31 — $36
• Seadra — Primal Clash #31 — $34
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #30 — $33
• Seadra — Burning Shadows #30 — $32
• Seadra — Dragon Majesty #17 — $32
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Battle Styles #32 — $31
• Seadra — Battle Styles #32 — $31
• Seadra [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #36 — $31

And 2 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Seadra is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	10	10	$532
English	44	44	$2,751
All 2 lines	54	54	—

Every Seadra card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Seadra	Brilliant Fantasy	csv8C	48
Seadra [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	117
Seadra	Collect 151	151C	117
Seadra [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	117
Seadra	cs3bC	cs3bC	30

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Seadra the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Seadra card leads the Japanese list?

Seadra [Series III] #117 from Vending at $532. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Seadra card leads the English list?

Misty’s Seadra [1st Edition] #9 from Gym Heroes at $2,751.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. 1 of them were reduced as well.

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

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Seadra is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Seadra slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Goldeen cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Goldeen [Reverse Holo] leads at $822 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Goldeen appears on 6 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 11 Japanese, 1 Korean and 30 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Goldeen #118 (Jungle) at $186. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

Other Simplified Chinese printings

These are the other Simplified Chinese printings: promos, the reprint sets and the gift-box runs. They sit outside the ranked Chinese-exclusive list because their numbering does not identify a Chinese-only print.

• Goldeen — Promo #65/SV-P — $36

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

10. Goldeen — Abyss Eye #84 — $27

9. Goldeen [Poke Ball] — Terastal Festival #28 — $30

8. Goldeen [Master Ball] — Terastal Festival #28 — $30

7. Goldeen — Abyss Eye #12 — $35

6. Goldeen — Expedition Expansion Pack #11 — $40

5. Goldeen — Awakening Legends #118 — $55

4. Goldeen — The Town on No Map #22 — $58

3. Goldeen [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #11 — $108

2. Goldeen [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #22 — $140

1. Goldeen — Jungle #118 — $186

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Goldeen — Terastal Festival #28 — $26

And 11 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Misty’s Goldeen — Gym Heroes #85 — $90

9. Goldeen [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #107 — $103

8. Misty’s Goldeen [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #30 — $108

7. Goldeen [1st Edition] — Neo Revelation #45 — $114

6. Goldeen [Master Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #20 — $132

5. Misty’s Goldeen [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #85 — $132

4. Goldeen [1st Edition] — Jungle #53 — $169

3. Goldeen [Reverse Holo] — Deoxys #61 — $180

2. Goldeen [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #111 — $547

1. Goldeen [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #78 — $822

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Goldeen — Jungle #53 — $89
• Goldeen — Expedition #111 — $76
• Goldeen — Neo Revelation #45 — $76
• Goldeen — Base Set 2 #76 — $75
• Goldeen — Supreme Victors #107 — $57
• Misty’s Goldeen — Gym Heroes #30 — $51
• Goldeen [Reverse] — Prismatic Evolutions #20 — $48
• Goldeen — Aquapolis #78 — $47
• Goldeen [Reverse Holo] — BREAKthrough #27 — $38
• Goldeen [Reverse Holo] — Pitch Black #13 — $38
• Goldeen — Deoxys #61 — $35
• Goldeen — Pitch Black #87 — $35
• Goldeen — BREAKthrough #27 — $34
• Goldeen — Prismatic Evolutions #20 — $32
• Goldeen — Unbroken Bonds #48 — $31
• Goldeen [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #44 — $31
• Goldeen — Twilight Masquerade #44 — $31
• Goldeen — Pitch Black #13 — $30
• Goldeen [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #48 — $22
• Goldeen [Poke Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #20 — $20

And 1 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Goldeen is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$36
Japanese	11	11	$186
Korean	1	1	$53
English	30	30	$822
All 4 lines	43	43	—

Every Goldeen card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Goldeen	Brilliant Fantasy	csv8C	50
Goldeen [Poke Ball]	Brilliant Fantasy	csv8C	50
Goldeen	CSM2aC	CSM2aC	22
Goldeen	Collect 151	151C	118
Goldeen [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	118
Goldeen [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	118

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Goldeen the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Goldeen card leads the Japanese list?

Goldeen #118 from Jungle at $186. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Goldeen card leads the English list?

Goldeen [Reverse Holo] #78 from Aquapolis at $822.

Why are the Korean (1 printings listed here) not in a top ten?

Because a top ten should be a market, not a category. Those lines are thin enough that a ranked list would be an artefact of how few copies have sold rather than a statement about what the cards are worth, so they are listed in full instead of ranked — you will find both of them folded away at the foot of this page. The Traditional Chinese cards are also a genuinely separate line — printed for Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, China under their own set codes — and the Korean line had only two sets before 2010.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. None of them needed reducing on this page.

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

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Goldeen is printed in more lines than the three listed above. Two more lines are kept here rather than dropped: the Korean printings and the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Korean printings

1 printings

Korean is the smallest line of the six, and the one with the strangest history. Only two Korean-language sets existed before 2010 — a 2000 Base Set reprint and a 2003 ADV set — before the TCG became a permanent fixture in South Korea with Start of an Adventure that year; from 2011 onward the Korean sets have mirrored the Japanese ones. The Base Set holos, printed in Korean exactly once, are what most collectors mean when they say Korean.

• Goldeen — Abyss Eye #84 — $53

A further 5 Korean printings of Goldeen sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Goldeen slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Weezing cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Weezing leads at $2,878 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Weezing appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 30 Japanese, 6 Korean and 47 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Weezing carries an English line wide enough that the top of it is decided by vintage printings rather than modern ones. The head of the list is Weezing [1st Edition] #101 (Expedition Expansion Pack) at $646. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

10. Weezing [1st Edition] — Plasma Gale #31 — $176

9. Weezing — Clash of the Blue Sky #4 — $188

8. Weezing — Mystery of the Fossils #110 — $197

7. Koga’s Weezing — Challenge from the Darkness #110 — $237

6. Janine’s Weezing — VS #64 — $333

5. Weezing [Series III] — Vending #110 — $335

4. Dark Weezing — Rocket Gang #110 — $363

3. Dark Weezing [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #15 — $390

2. Dark Weezing — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #15 — $495

1. Weezing [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #101 — $646

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Dark Weezing [1st Edition] — Web #21 — $176
• Weezing — Expedition Expansion Pack #101 — $167
• Weezing [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #69 — $166
• Weezing — Plasma Gale #31 — $102
• Weezing — HeartGold Collection #36 — $95
• Weezing [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #45 — $87
• Weezing — Sky Legend #28 — $80
• Dark Weezing — Web #21 — $80
• Weezing — Dream League #22 — $57
• Weezing [1st Edition] — Holon Research #6 — $49
• Weezing — Expedition Expansion Pack #69 — $49
• Weezing [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #26 — $49
• Weezing — Promo #240/XY-P — $44
• Team Rocket’s Weezing — Glory of Team Rocket #105 — $41
• Team Rocket’s Weezing — Glory of Team Rocket #70 — $36
• Galarian Weezing — Jet-Black Spirit #46 — $36
• Weezing — Battle Partners #57 — $36
• Galarian Weezing — Shiny Star V #276 — $32
• Galarian Weezing — Shiny Star V #105 — $27
• Weezing — Double Blaze #35 — $12

And 6 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Weezing [1st Edition] — Fossil #45 — $305

9. Weezing — Plasma Storm #58 — $375

8. Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #33 — $405

7. Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #70 — $657

6. Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #31 — $750†

5. Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #32 — $778

4. Dark Weezing [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #14 — $879

3. Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Deoxys #51 — $1,641

2. Dark Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #42 — $2,074

1. Weezing — Expedition #32 — $2,878

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Dark Weezing — Team Rocket #14 — $250
• Dark Weezing [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #31 — $239
• Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #29 — $189
• Weezing — Deoxys #51 — $152
• Weezing — Call of Legends #38 — $150
• Koga’s Weezing [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #50 — $139
• Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #38 — $137
• Weezing — Delta Species #33 — $130
• Dark Weezing — Team Rocket #31 — $125
• Weezing — Expedition #70 — $124
• Team Rocket’s Weezing — Destined Rivals #199 — $120
• Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Storm #58 — $100
• Galarian Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Shining Fates #42 — $99
• Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #87 — $99
• Weezing — Fossil #45 — $90
• Weezing — Great Encounters #31 — $82
• Dark Weezing — Team Rocket Returns #42 — $77
• Team Rocket’s Weezing — Destined Rivals #126 — $75
• Weezing — Hidden Fates #29 — $64
• Galarian Weezing [Holo] — Shining Fates #42 — $55
• Koga’s Weezing — Gym Challenge #50 — $44
• Weezing — Rising Rivals #87 — $38
• Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #74 — $38
• Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Fates Collide #28 — $37
• Weezing — Unbroken Bonds #74 — $35
• Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #77 — $34
• Weezing — Cosmic Eclipse #77 — $33
• Galarian Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Rebel Clash #113 — $33
• Weezing — Fates Collide #28 — $33
• Team Rocket’s Weezing [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #126 — $32

And 2 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Weezing is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	30	30	$646
English	47	47	$2,878
All 2 lines	77	77	—

Every Weezing card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Team Rocket’s Weezing	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	134
Team Rocket’s Weezing [Pokeball]	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	134
Weezing	Collect 151	151C	110
Weezing [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	110
Weezing [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	110

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Weezing the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Weezing card leads the Japanese list?

Weezing [1st Edition] #101 from Expedition Expansion Pack at $646. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Weezing card leads the English list?

Weezing #32 from Expedition at $2,878.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. 1 of them were reduced as well.

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

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Weezing is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Weezing slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Koffing cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Koffing leads at $1,025 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Koffing appears on 4 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 29 Japanese, 6 Korean and 51 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Koffing carries an English line wide enough that the top of it is decided by vintage printings rather than modern ones. The head of the list is Koffing #4 (E-Card Sample) at $1,025. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

10. Koffing [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #4 — $150

9. Koffing [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #1 — $152

8. Koffing — Dream League #56 — $162

7. Koffing — Expedition Expansion Pack #1 — $174

6. Koffing — Rocket Gang #109 — $200

5. Koffing — Expansion Pack #109 — $305

4. Koffing — Bulbasaur Deck #39 — $349

3. Koffing [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #109 — $632

2. Koffing [Series II] — Vending #109 — $850

1. Koffing — E-Card Sample #4 — $1,025

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Koffing — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #4 — $136
• Koffing [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #44 — $136
• Koga’s Koffing — Challenge from the Darkness #109 — $132
• Koffing — Holon Research #5 — $121
• Koffing — Intro Pack Neo #10 — $109
• Koffing [1st Edition] — Plasma Gale #30 — $87
• Koffing — Bonds to the End of Time #44 — $81
• Koffing — HeartGold Collection #35 — $78
• Koffing — Clash of the Blue Sky #3 — $67
• Koffing — Shiny Star V #275 — $65
• Koffing — Plasma Gale #30 — $51
• Koffing [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #25 — $51
• Koffing [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #48 — $46
• Koffing — Double Blaze #34 — $43
• Koffing — Sky Legend #27 — $39
• Koffing — Dream League #21 — $39
• Koffing — Shiny Star V #104 — $37
• Koffing — Battle Partners #56 — $36
• Team Rocket’s Koffing — Glory of Team Rocket #69 — $27

And 7 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Koga’s Koffing — Gym Challenge #48 — $249

9. Koffing — Rising Rivals #68 — $288

8. Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #61 — $291

7. Koffing [Shadowless] — Base Set #51 — $338

6. Koffing — Cosmic Eclipse #76 — $339†

5. Koffing — Cosmic Eclipse #243 — $383

4. Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #114 — $482

3. Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #72 — $611

2. Koffing [1st Edition] — Base Set #51 — $621

1. Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Deoxys #62 — $766

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #60 — $238
• Koga’s Koffing [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #48 — $202
• Koffing — Delta Species #72 — $164
• Koga’s Koffing [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #79 — $152
• Koffing — Base Set #51 — $137
• Koffing — Expedition #114 — $126
• Koffing [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #58 — $123
• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #74 — $120
• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #50 — $100
• Koffing [1999-2000] — Base Set #51 — $97
• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #68 — $97
• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Storm #57 — $89
• Koffing — Deoxys #62 — $78
• Team Rocket’s Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #125 — $77
• Koffing — Team Rocket Returns #61 — $71
• Team Rocket’s Koffing — Destined Rivals #125 — $70
• Koffing — Chilling Reign #94 — $63
• Koffing — Team Rocket #58 — $59
• Koga’s Koffing — Gym Challenge #79 — $57
• Koffing — Great Encounters #74 — $55
• Koffing — Evolutions #50 — $50
• Koffing — Shining Fates #41 — $50
• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Storm #56 — $46
• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #91 — $46
• Koffing — Call of Legends #60 — $44
• Koffing — Plasma Storm #56 — $41
• Koffing — Plasma Storm #57 — $41
• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #28 — $39
• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Fates Collide #27 — $38
• Koffing [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #73 — $33

Where Koffing is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	29	29	$1,025
English	51	51	$766
All 2 lines	80	80	—

Every Koffing card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Team Rocket’s Koffing	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	133
Koffing	Collect 151	151C	109
Koffing [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	109
Koffing [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	109

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Koffing the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Koffing card leads the Japanese list?

Koffing #4 from E-Card Sample at $1,025. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Koffing card leads the English list?

Koffing [Reverse Holo] #62 from Deoxys at $766.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. 1 of them were reduced as well.

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

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Koffing is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Koffing slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Kingler cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Kingler [Reverse Holo] leads at $5,690 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Kingler appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 12 Japanese, 2 Korean and 17 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Kingler [1st Edition] #111 (Expedition Expansion Pack) at $434. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Japanese list

Japanese is the original language of the TCG, so this list reaches further back than either of the other two — into the 1996 promos, the Gold Star era and the modern art rares alike.

10. Kingler VMAX — Start Deck 100 #81 — $61

9. Kingler [1st Edition] — Phantom Gate #14 — $107

8. Kingler — Flight of Legends #33 — $140

7. Kingler — Expedition Expansion Pack #111 — $178

6. Kingler — Mystery of the Fossils #99 — $188

5. Kingler [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #79 — $194

4. Kingler — Expedition Expansion Pack #79 — $368

3. Kingler [Series III] — Vending #99 — $374

2. Kingler — Miracle Crystal #17 — $408†

1. Kingler [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #111 — $434

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Kingler V — Start Deck 100 #80 — $40
• Kingler — Double Blaze #27 — $32

And 4 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

The English list

English is the widest printing line of the six, which is why its top ten is the most expensive and the most contested.

10. Kingler — Great Encounters #20 — $87

9. Kingler — Expedition #50 — $100

8. Kingler — Crystal Guardians #22 — $113

7. Kingler [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #50 — $130

6. Kingler [1999-2000] — Fossil #38 — $300

5. Kingler [1st Edition] — Fossil #38 — $300

4. Kingler [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #20 — $416

3. Kingler [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #15 — $784

2. Kingler — Expedition #15 — $2,619

1. Kingler [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #22 — $5,690

Ranks 11 and beyond

These carry a tracked value but sit outside the ten above. They are listed rather than written up, because at this level the numbers are close enough that a paragraph each would repeat itself.

• Kingler — Fossil #38 — $84
• Kingler V — Brilliant Stars #28 — $58
• Kingler VMAX — Brilliant Stars #29 — $56
• Kingler [Reverse Holo] — Phantom Forces #14 — $48
• Kingler — Phantom Forces #14 — $36
• Kingler [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #47 — $36
• Kingler — Unbroken Bonds #47 — $34

And 1 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Kingler is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	12	12	$434
English	17	17	$5,690
All 2 lines	29	29	—

Every Kingler card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Kingler [Master Ball]	Collect 151	151C	99
Kingler	Collect 151	151C	99
Kingler [Reverse]	Collect 151	151C	99

What a checklist without prices tells you

A price needs a trade. Every value in this catalogue comes from a recorded sale of a graded copy. Where no copy has sold in a grade, there is nothing to record, and the card stays unpriced however many are in circulation. For a character like Kingler the prints are ordinary set-checklist cards — the base print, a reverse holo, foil patterns — and the graded market for them has never separated from the raw one.

It does not mean the cards are worthless. It means nobody has paid to grade them in enough numbers to create a price. That changes if the character returns to a game or an anime storyline; the prints already exist and the cards are not going anywhere. The price ladder shows what the ranked end of the catalogue looks like by comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Which Kingler card leads the Japanese list?

Kingler [1st Edition] #111 from Expedition Expansion Pack at $434. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Kingler card leads the English list?

Kingler [Reverse Holo] #22 from Crystal Guardians at $5,690.

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. 1 of them were reduced as well.

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

It depends entirely on the card. On cheap modern printings the raw-to-graded multiple runs into double figures, which makes grading look like free money until you count the fee and the risk of the card coming back a nine. On the four-figure cards the multiple narrows, because the raw copy already carries most of the premium.

The other printing lines

Kingler is printed in more lines than the two listed above. One line is kept here rather than dropped: the European languages we cannot price. None of them carries a market we can rank honestly, and each one below says why. They are folded because the ranked lists above should stay readable — open any of them to see that line in full.

Other-language printings — French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

not ranked here

The Pokémon Trading Card Game has been printed in more languages than any one page usually admits. The Pokémon Company’s own figures put it at sixteen languages across its history and thirteen in current release: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, European and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, both Chinese lines, Thai and Indonesian. Dutch, Polish and Russian runs existed earlier and have since stopped.

Not one of the European lines is listed or ranked on this page, and the reason sits with the price source rather than with the cards. Every figure on this page comes from PriceCharting, whose Pokémon catalogue runs to 803 set listings: 395 Japanese, 94 Chinese, 59 Korean and the remaining 255 English. There is no French, German, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese listing in it at all, so those lines have no sold record to rank on and no honest number to print.

That does not make those cards uncollected. German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Base Set printings are genuine late-1990s products with their own collectors, and Portuguese cards were printed for Portugal first and for Brazil later. They simply trade in far thinner markets than the English and Japanese lines, and the sold records that exist are too scattered to rank a list from.

If we ever have a source for those languages that we would put our name to, that line will appear here with the same treatment as the others — a ranked ten, traded and modelled figures marked separately, and the raw and grade 9 prices printed underneath.

More Pokémon

This page is one entry in a catalogue that covers every Pokémon in the line. The first 151 are all here, and beyond them the collection continues.

If you are looking at the whole Chinese market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and how many Chinese-exclusive cards exist sets out the full count. For the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison sets them out, and where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards compares the four buying routes.

Where to buy these cards

CardSpicy sells the cards in this guide as PSA 10 (Gem Mint) slabs only — no raw cards, and no grades below PSA 10. An in-stock listing states the PSA certification number and shows the exact slab photographed; the rest of the range is sourced to order.

• Chinese Exclusive cards — the full range, in stock and sourced to order.
• All PSA 10 graded cards.
• Where to buy Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards — the four buying routes compared, and how to check a card before you pay.

Where to go next

Each character with a graded market has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable. The Chinese versus Japanese comparison explains what the branch difference means for a collector, and the collector’s index lists the whole catalogue.

We do not hold a Kingler slab in Simplified Chinese — the character is outside our current stock. The cards we do hold are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. PriceCharting — individual card pages for every card on this list, including the complete grade ladder from Ungraded to PSA 10, and the recorded marketplace and auction sales underneath them. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — console listings for the Chinese-exclusive sets (151C, CBB1C to CBB6C, CSM2aC, CSM2bC, CSM2cC, CS3aC to CS5.5C, CSV4C to CSV10C), the Japanese line and the English line.
3. PSA population report — graded populations quoted for the individual cards in this article, including the gem-mint share.
4. The Pokémon Company — “Pokémon in Figures”, for the sixteen languages the TCG has been printed in and the number of cards produced, the figures quoted in the other-language note at the foot of this page.
5. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
6. CardSpicy — the card library, for the character rankings and the printed-product counts this page is built from.

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.