Category: Pokémon

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Fearow cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Fearow [Reverse Holo] leads at $4,299 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Fearow appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 10 Japanese, 2 Korean and 28 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Fearow carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Fearow #22 (151C) at $34. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Fearow — 151C #22 — $34

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Fearow. Another 2 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Fearow — Mega Brave #53 — $36

9. Fearow — HeartGold Collection #48 — $74

8. Fearow — Jungle #22 — $145

7. Fearow — Promo #115/XY-P — $158

6. Fearow [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #92 — $170

5. Falkner’s Fearow — VS #2 — $218

4. Fearow [Series II] — Vending #22 — $360

3. Fearow — Expedition Expansion Pack #124 — $475

2. Fearow [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #124 — $514

1. Fearow — Expedition Expansion Pack #92 — $540

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. Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #45 — $390

9. Fearow [1st Edition] — Jungle #36 — $425

8. Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #11 — $500

7. Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #42 — $619

6. Fearow — Legendary Collection #42 — $873†

5. Fearow — Crystal Guardians #18 — $960†

4. Lt. Surge’s Fearow — Gym Heroes #7 — $2,212

3. Fearow — Expedition #11 — $2,282

2. Lt. Surge’s Fearow [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #7 — $4,228

1. Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #18 — $4,299

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.

• Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #37 — $166
• Fearow — Expedition #45 — $148
• Fearow — Sandstorm #37 — $108
• Fearow — Jungle #36 — $81
• Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #36 — $71
• Fearow — Base Set 2 #41 — $53
• Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #103 — $51
• Fearow — Unleashed #15 — $41
• Fearow — Majestic Dawn #36 — $39
• Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Battle Styles #112 — $38
• Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Phantom Forces #79 — $37
• Fearow — Phantom Forces #79 — $35
• Fearow — Battle Styles #112 — $34
• Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Roaring Skies #66 — $33
• Fearow — Roaring Skies #66 — $32
• Fearow [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #146 — $32
• Fearow — Unbroken Bonds #146 — $31
• Fearow — Mega Evolution #103 — $31

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

Where Fearow is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$34
Japanese	10	10	$540
English	28	28	$4,299
All 3 lines	39	39	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$34	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$34	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Fearow #22 — 151C #22. $34, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Fearow #22 — 151C #22. $34. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Fearow card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Fearow #22 carries the highest tracked value at $34. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Fearow cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Fearow card leads the Japanese list?

Fearow #92 from Expedition Expansion Pack at $540. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Fearow card leads the English list?

Fearow [Reverse Holo] #18 from Crystal Guardians at $4,299.

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

Fearow is printed in more lines than the three 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold a Fearow 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 Zubat cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Zubat [Reverse Holo] leads at $2,192 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Zubat appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 27 Japanese, 1 Korean and 54 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Zubat carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and 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 Zubat #41 (151C) at $38. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Zubat — 151C #41 — $38

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Zubat. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Zubat — SoulSilver Collection #34 — $119

9. Zubat — Awakening Legends #41 — $127

8. Zubat [1st Edition] — Split Earth #1 — $129

7. Zubat — Mystery of the Fossils #41 — $129

6. Zubat [1st Edition] — Split Earth #2 — $152

5. Zubat — Rocket Gang #41 — $165

4. Zubat — Best of XY #37 — $195

3. Zubat [Series 1] — Vending #41 — $446

2. Zubat — Split Earth #2 — $451

1. Zubat — Split Earth #1 — $456

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.

• Zubat — Holon Research #3 — $114
• Koga’s Zubat — Challenge from the Darkness #41 — $80
• Zubat [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #2 — $72
• Zubat — Undone Seal #1 — $68
• Zubat [1st Edition] — Holon Research #3 — $63
• Zubat [1st Edition] — Undone Seal #1 — $56
• Zubat — Premium Champion Pack #45 — $53
• Zubat — Start Deck 100 #249 — $45
• Zubat — Plasma Gale #27 — $44
• Team Rocket’s Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Mega Dream ex #99 — $39
• Team Rocket’s Zubat [Energy] — Mega Dream ex #99 — $39
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Dark Phantasma #41 — $38
• Zubat — Night Wanderer #27 — $37
• Zubat — Ninja Spinner #48 — $36
• Zubat — Dark Phantasma #41 — $36
• Zubat — Ancient Roar #44 — $36
• Team Rocket’s Zubat — Mega Dream ex #99 — $25

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. Zubat — Deoxys #83 — $224

9. Zubat [1st Edition] — Fossil #57 — $224

8. Zubat — Skyridge #117 — $243

7. Brock’s Zubat [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #24 — $244

6. Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #70 — $260

5. Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Legends #83 — $551

4. Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #117 — $656

3. Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #88 — $853

2. Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #82 — $1,083

1. Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Deoxys #83 — $2,192

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.

• Zubat [1st Edition] — Neo Revelation #59 — $150
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #118 — $143
• Koga’s Zubat [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #83 — $143
• Zubat [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #70 — $129
• Zubat — Fossil #57 — $128
• Brock’s Zubat [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #74 — $122
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #108 — $103
• Brock’s Zubat — Gym Heroes #74 — $85
• Zubat — Delta Species #88 — $85
• Zubat — Team Rocket Returns #82 — $84
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #133 — $80
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Storm #53 — $80
• Zubat — Mysterious Treasures #108 — $79
• Brock’s Zubat — Gym Heroes #24 — $66
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Storm #52 — $62
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Battle Styles #89 — $55
• Zubat — Skyridge #118 — $55
• Zubat — Unleashed #70 — $47
• Zubat — Hidden Legends #83 — $45
• Team Rocket’s Zubat — Destined Rivals #120 — $45
• Zubat — Plasma Storm #52 — $42
• Zubat — Team Rocket #70 — $39
• Koga’s Zubat — Gym Challenge #83 — $38
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Phantom Forces #31 — $37
• Zubat — Supreme Victors #133 — $37
• Zubat — Phantom Forces #31 — $36
• Zubat — Plasma Storm #53 — $35
• Zubat — Battle Styles #89 — $33
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #64 — $32
• Zubat [Reverse Holo] — Shrouded Fable #27 — $32

And 3 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Zubat is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$38
Japanese	27	27	$456
Korean	1	1	$40
English	54	54	$2,192
All 4 lines	83	83	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$38	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$38	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Zubat #41 — 151C #41. $38, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Zubat #41 — 151C #41. $38. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Zubat card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Zubat #41 carries the highest tracked value at $38. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Zubat cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Zubat card leads the Japanese list?

Zubat #1 from Split Earth at $456. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Zubat card leads the English list?

Zubat [Reverse Holo] #83 from Deoxys at $2,192.

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

Zubat 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.

• Team Rocket’s Zubat — Mega Dream ex #99 — $40

A further 7 Korean printings of Zubat 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold a Zubat 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 Pidgeot cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Pidgeot [1st Edition] leads at $7,500 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Pidgeot appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 30 Japanese, 3 Korean and 40 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Pidgeot carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and 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 Pidgeot ex #146 (csv4C) at $35. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Pidgeot ex — csv4C #146 — $35

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Pidgeot. Another 6 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Aaron’s Pidgeot [Movie VS Pack] — Promo #6 — $250

9. M Pidgeot EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #97 — $263

8. Pidgeot [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #60 — $365†

7. Pidgeot — Clash at the Summit #60 — $392†

6. Pidgeot — Promo #73/PCG-P — $500

5. Pidgeot — Holon Phantom #23 — $541

4. Pidgeot [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #23 — $690

3. Pidgeot [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #123 — $761

2. Pidgeot — Expedition Expansion Pack #123 — $810

1. Pidgeot — Jungle #18 — $884

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.

• Pidgeot EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #96 — $248
• Falkner’s Pidgeot — VS #1 — $232
• Pidgeot [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #91 — $218
• Pidgeot [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #64 — $200
• Pidgeot — Flight of Legends #64 — $120
• Pidgeot ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #136 — $74
• Pidgeot ex — Stellar Miracle Deck Build Box #9 — $57
• Pidgeot Spirit Link [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #81 — $55
• Pidgeot — Expedition Expansion Pack #91 — $52
• Pidgeot EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #62 — $48
• Pidgeot [1st Edition] — Wild Blaze #63 — $48
• Pidgeot ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #128 — $41
• Pidgeot ex — Battle Partners Deck Build Box #6 — $40
• Pidgeot ex — Shiny Treasure ex #139 — $38
• Pidgeot ex — Future Miraidon ex Starter Deck #14 — $37
• Pidgeot ex — Shiny Treasure ex #335 — $35
• M Pidgeot EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #63 — $34
• Pidgeot ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #89 — $28
• Pidgeot V — Lost Abyss #112 — $26
• Pidgeot V — Lost Abyss #82 — $22

And 5 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. Pidgeot [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #23 — $887

9. Pidgeot [No Symbol] — Jungle #8 — $1,440

8. Pidgeot — Jungle #8 — $1,813

7. Pidgeot [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #14 — $2,179

6. Pidgeot [Holo] — POP Series 2 #2 — $2,528

5. Pidgeot — Secret Wonders #35 — $3,650

4. Pidgeot [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #33 — $4,081

3. Pidgeot — Base Set 2 #14 — $4,416†

2. Pidgeot — Expedition #23 — $5,106

1. Pidgeot [1st Edition] — Jungle #8 — $7,500

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.

• Pidgeot — Holon Phantoms #14 — $788
• Pidgeot [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #59 — $704
• Pidgeot — Southern Islands #2 — $430
• Pidgeot [1st Edition] — Jungle #24 — $319
• Pidgeot [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #29 — $228
• Pidgeot [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #30 — $208
• Pidgeot — Expedition #59 — $200
• Pidgeot — Jungle #24 — $179
• Pidgeot ex — Obsidian Flames #225 — $162
• Pidgeot — Triumphant #29 — $157
• Pidgeot EX — Evolutions #104 — $134
• Pidgeot — Legendary Collection #33 — $132
• M Pidgeot EX — Evolutions #105 — $123
• Pidgeot [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #35 — $113
• Pidgeot — Call of Legends #30 — $100
• Pidgeot Spirit Link [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #81 — $100
• Pidgeot Spirit Link — Evolutions #81 — $86
• Pidgeot ex [Great Ball League – Top Prize] — Obsidian Flames #164 — $79
• Pidgeot ex — Paldean Fates #221 — $73
• Pidgeot — POP Series 2 #2 — $71
• M Pidgeot EX — Evolutions #65 — $67
• Pidgeot [Reverse Holo] — Flashfire #77 — $65
• Pidgeot V — Lost Origin #188 — $60
• Pidgeot EX — Evolutions #64 — $54
• Pidgeot ex — Obsidian Flames #217 — $49
• Pidgeot — Team Up #124 — $47
• Pidgeot — Flashfire #77 — $45
• Pidgeot [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #124 — $37
• Pidgeot ex — Obsidian Flames #164 — $36
• Pidgeot V — Lost Origin #137 — $30

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

Where Pidgeot is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$35
Japanese	30	30	$884
Korean	3	3	$126
English	40	40	$7,500
All 4 lines	74	74	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$35	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$35	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Pidgeot ex #146 — csv4C #146. $35, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Pidgeot ex #146 — csv4C #146. $35. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Pidgeot card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Pidgeot ex #146 carries the highest tracked value at $35. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Pidgeot cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Pidgeot card leads the Japanese list?

Pidgeot #18 from Jungle at $884. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Pidgeot card leads the English list?

Pidgeot [1st Edition] #8 from Jungle at $7,500.

Why are the Korean (3 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. 3 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

Pidgeot 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

3 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.

• Pidgeot ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #136 — $126
• Pidgeot ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #128 — $30
• Pidgeot ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #89 — $29

A further 3 Korean printings of Pidgeot 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold a Pidgeot 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 Electabuzz cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Lt. Surge’s Electabuzz leads at $10,000 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Electabuzz appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 24 Japanese, 5 Korean and 56 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Electabuzz carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and 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 Electabuzz #125 (151C) at $35. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Electabuzz — 151C #125 — $35

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Electabuzz. Another 6 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Electabuzz — Gold, Silver, New World #125 — $192

9. Electabuzz [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #38 — $228†

8. Electabuzz — Bulbasaur Deck #26 — $307

7. Electabuzz — Clash at the Summit #29 — $349

6. Jasmine’s Electabuzz — VS #29 — $376

5. Electabuzz — Promo #125 — $405

4. Electabuzz [Series II] — Vending #125 — $733

3. Electabuzz — Promo #69/L-P — $884

2. Electabuzz — Expansion Pack #125 — $924†

1. Lt. Surge’s Electabuzz — Promo #125 — $10,000

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.

• Electabuzz — Expedition Expansion Pack #38 — $70
• Electabuzz [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #29 — $69
• Electabuzz [1st Edition] — Cold Flare #20 — $65
• Electabuzz — Cold Flare #20 — $62
• Electabuzz [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #27 — $45
• Electabuzz — Ultra Moon #15 — $42
• Electabuzz [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #39 — $41
• Electabuzz — Storm Emeralda #22 — $39
• Electabuzz — Stellar Miracle #28 — $36
• Electabuzz — VSTAR Universe #34 — $35
• Electabuzz — Heat Wave Arena #34 — $34
• Electabuzz — Rising Fist #27 — $30
• Electabuzz — Facing a New Trial #19 — $30
• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — VSTAR Universe #34 — $18

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. Electabuzz — Sandstorm #35 — $651

9. Lt. Surge’s Electabuzz — Gym Heroes #6 — $890

8. Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #29 — $1,045

7. Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #76 — $1,075

6. Electabuzz — Best of Game #1 — $1,375

5. Electabuzz — Dragon Frontiers #29 — $1,553†

4. Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #22 — $1,860

3. Lt. Surge’s Electabuzz [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #6 — $1,945

2. Electabuzz [1st Edition] — Base Set #20 — $2,149

1. Electabuzz [Winner] — Best of Game #1 — $2,500

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.

• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #35 — $442
• Electabuzz — Platinum #128 — $379
• Electabuzz [Shadowless] — Base Set #20 — $362
• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Furious Fists #29 — $355
• Lt. Surge’s Electabuzz [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #27 — $350
• Electabuzz — Promo #2 — $326
• Electabuzz — Promo #46 — $305
• Electabuzz [1st Edition] — Neo Genesis #33 — $275
• Electabuzz — Expedition #76 — $255
• Electabuzz — Rebel Clash #58 — $255
• Electabuzz [1999-2000] — Base Set #20 — $253
• Electabuzz — Base Set #20 — $232
• Electabuzz [Toys R Us] — Evolutions #41 — $212
• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #33 — $188
• Lt. Surge’s Electabuzz — Gym Heroes #27 — $136
• Electabuzz — Base Set 2 #24 — $133
• Electabuzz — Neo Genesis #33 — $111
• Electabuzz — Burning Shadows #42 — $100
• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Stellar Crown #46 — $79
• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #87 — $79
• Electabuzz — Unseen Forces #22 — $75
• Electabuzz — Evolutions #41 — $56
• Electabuzz — Triumphant #33 — $56
• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #41 — $55
• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #53 — $52
• Electabuzz — Secret Wonders #87 — $50
• Electabuzz — Boundaries Crossed #53 — $43
• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Temporal Forces #53 — $41
• Electabuzz — Furious Fists #29 — $36
• Electabuzz [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #71 — $36

And 5 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Electabuzz is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$35
Japanese	24	24	$10,000
English	56	56	$2,500
All 3 lines	81	81	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$35	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$35	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Electabuzz #125 — 151C #125. $35, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Electabuzz #125 — 151C #125. $35. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Electabuzz card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Electabuzz #125 carries the highest tracked value at $35. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Electabuzz cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Electabuzz card leads the Japanese list?

Lt. Surge’s Electabuzz #125 from Promo at $10,000. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Electabuzz card leads the English list?

Electabuzz [Winner] #1 from Best of Game at $2,500.

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. 3 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

Electabuzz is printed in more lines than the three 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold an Electabuzz 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 Ekans cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Ekans [Reverse Holo] leads at $970 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Ekans appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 10 Japanese, 3 Korean and 31 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Ekans carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Ekans #23 (151C) at $36. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Ekans — 151C #23 — $36

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Ekans. Another 6 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Team Rocket’s Ekans — Glory of Team Rocket #56 — $34

9. Ekans — Sky Legend #25 — $40

8. Koga’s Ekans — Challenge from the Darkness #23 — $69

7. Ekans [1st Edition] — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #7 — $74

6. Ekans — Magma vs Aqua #1 — $92

5. Ekans — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #7 — $102

4. Ekans [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #4 — $127

3. Ekans — Mystery of the Fossils #23 — $166

2. Ekans — Expedition Expansion Pack #4 — $188

1. Ekans — Rocket Gang #23 — $188

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 Ekans [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #77 — $143

9. Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #64 — $162

8. Ekans [1st Edition] — Fossil #46 — $187

7. Ekans [1999-2000] — Fossil #46 — $228

6. Ekans — Hidden Fates #26 — $228

5. Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #108 — $375

4. Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #47 — $379

3. Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #66 — $460

2. Ekans — Team Rocket Returns #55 — $812†

1. Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #55 — $970

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.

• Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #26 — $136
• Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #25 — $135
• Ekans [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #56 — $111
• Ekans — Dragon Frontiers #47 — $102
• Ekans — Expedition #108 — $97
• Ekans — Sandstorm #64 — $87
• Ekans — Team Rocket #56 — $71
• Ekans — Fossil #46 — $68
• Ekans — Great Encounters #66 — $53
• Ekans [Reverse Holo] — XY #47 — $46
• Koga’s Ekans — Gym Challenge #77 — $44
• Ekans — XY #47 — $34
• Ekans — Shining Legends #36 — $33
• Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Shining Legends #36 — $32
• Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #62 — $32
• Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Temporal Forces #100 — $32
• Team Rocket’s Ekans [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #112 — $32
• Ekans — Temporal Forces #100 — $31
• Ekans — Unbroken Bonds #62 — $31
• Ekans — Hidden Fates #25 — $31
• Team Rocket’s Ekans — Destined Rivals #112 — $31

Where Ekans is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$36
Japanese	10	10	$188
English	31	31	$970
All 3 lines	42	42	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$36	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$36	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Ekans #23 — 151C #23. $36, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Ekans #23 — 151C #23. $36. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Ekans card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Ekans #23 carries the highest tracked value at $36. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Ekans cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Ekans card leads the Japanese list?

Ekans #23 from Rocket Gang at $188. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Ekans card leads the English list?

Ekans [Reverse Holo] #55 from Team Rocket Returns at $970.

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

Ekans is printed in more lines than the three 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold an Ekans 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 Marowak cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Dark Marowak [Holo] leads at $2,051 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Marowak appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 27 Japanese, 3 Korean and 38 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Marowak carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Marowak #105 (151C) at $36. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Marowak — 151C #105 — $36

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Marowak. Another 4 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Alolan Marowak [Reverse Holo] — GX Ultra Shiny #40 — $255

9. Marowak — Flight of Legends #63 — $275

8. Marowak — Holon Research #58 — $306

7. Dark Marowak [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #52 — $329

6. Marowak — Jungle #105 — $338

5. Marowak [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #63 — $494

4. Morty’s Marowak — VS #23 — $510

3. Dark Marowak — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #52 — $519

2. Marowak [1st Edition] — Holon Research #58 — $600

1. Marowak [Series II] — Vending #105 — $676

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.

• Marowak [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #51 — $254
• Alolan Marowak GX — Promo #252 — $200
• Marowak — Clash at the Summit #47 — $183
• Alolan Marowak — GG End #13 — $151
• Marowak [1st Edition] — Dragon Blade #25 — $150
• Marowak [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #47 — $108
• Marowak BREAK [1st Edition] — Red Flash #36 — $102
• Marowak — Red Flash #35 — $100
• Alolan Marowak — Awakened Heroes #6 — $100
• Alolan Marowak — Forbidden Light #10 — $72
• Marowak — Premium Champion Pack #69 — $61
• Marowak [1st Edition] — Red Flash #35 — $58
• Alolan Marowak — GX Ultra Shiny #40 — $56
• Marowak — The Town on No Map #51 — $52
• Marowak BREAK — Red Flash #36 — $50
• Marowak — Double Blaze #46 — $48
• Marowak — Stellar Miracle #49 — $37

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. Dark Marowak — Team Rocket Returns #7 — $205

9. Alolan Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #64 — $281†

8. Marowak [1st Edition] — Jungle #39 — $325

7. Marowak [2nd Place League] — BREAKthrough #78 — $380

6. Marowak BREAK — BREAKthrough #79 — $406

5. Marowak — Delta Species #10 — $794

4. Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #10 — $1,729

3. Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #54 — $1,775

2. Dark Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #7 — $1,798

1. Dark Marowak [Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #7 — $2,051

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.

• Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #44 — $181
• Marowak — Base Set 2 #52 — $170
• Marowak — Aquapolis #54 — $148
• Alolan Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Crimson Invasion #12 — $135
• Alolan Marowak — Crimson Invasion #12 — $126
• Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #63 — $105
• Marowak — BREAKthrough #78 — $102
• Marowak [Reverse Holo] — BREAKthrough #78 — $102
• Marowak — Jungle #39 — $100
• Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Dragons Exalted #61 — $71
• Marowak — Legends Awakened #63 — $58
• Marowak — Dragons Exalted #61 — $55
• Marowak — Triumphant #44 — $49
• Alolan Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Unified Minds #75 — $42
• Alolan Marowak — Team Up #64 — $41
• Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Fates Collide #37 — $36
• Alolan Marowak — Unified Minds #75 — $36
• Marowak — Fates Collide #37 — $36
• Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #91 — $35
• Alolan Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Forbidden Light #12 — $34
• Marowak — Unbroken Bonds #91 — $34
• Alolan Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #57 — $32
• Marowak — Stellar Crown #73 — $32
• Marowak — Battle Styles #70 — $32
• Alolan Marowak — Journey Together #57 — $31
• Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Battle Styles #70 — $28
• Marowak [Reverse Holo] — Stellar Crown #73 — $27
• Alolan Marowak — Forbidden Light #12 — $25

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

Where Marowak is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$36
Japanese	27	27	$676
English	38	38	$2,051
All 3 lines	66	66	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$36	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$36	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Marowak #105 — 151C #105. $36, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Marowak #105 — 151C #105. $36. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Marowak card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Marowak #105 carries the highest tracked value at $36. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Marowak cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Marowak card leads the Japanese list?

Marowak [Series II] #105 from Vending at $676. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Marowak card leads the English list?

Dark Marowak [Holo] #7 from Team Rocket Returns at $2,051.

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

Marowak is printed in more lines than the three 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

Our own stock covers the other end of this line — the Cubone PSA 10 (CBB3C 04/07), the card Marowak evolves from. Our Simplified Chinese slabs 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 Wartortle cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines. Wartortle [1st Edition] leads at $9,157 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Wartortle appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 24 Japanese and 37 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines.

Wartortle carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Wartortle #8 (151C) at $36. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Wartortle — 151C #8 — $36

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Wartortle. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Dark Wartortle [1st Edition] — Web #24 — $404

9. Wartortle — Squirtle Deck #8 — $430

8. Wartortle — Cold Flare #13 — $444†

7. Wartortle — Expansion Pack #8 — $512

6. Wartortle — Southern Islands #8 — $570

5. Wartortle — Squirtle Deck #10 — $605

4. Wartortle [1st Edition] — Web #9 — $644

3. Wartortle — Trainers Magazine #12/T — $652

2. Wartortle — Squirtle Deck #3 — $653

1. Wartortle [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #8 — $2,029

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.

• Wartortle [1st Edition] — E-Starter Deck #19 — $387
• Dark Wartortle — Rocket Gang #8 — $252
• Wartortle — Web #9 — $248
• Wartortle — Kyogre ex Starter Deck #4 — $149
• Dark Wartortle — Web #24 — $143
• Wartortle — Miracle Crystal #19 — $85
• Wartortle — Battle Starter Decks #2 — $70
• Wartortle — Classic: Blastoise #2 — $50
• Wartortle — Tag Bolt #22 — $48
• Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Tag All Stars #30 — $42
• Wartortle [1st Edition] — Cold Flare #13 — $41
• Wartortle — Full Metal Wall #9 — $41
• Wartortle — Tag All Stars #30 — $37
• Wartortle — Go #16 — $22

And 3 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. Wartortle [Shadowless] — Base Set #42 — $449

9. Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #65 — $500

8. Wartortle — Southern Islands #15 — $702

7. Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #42 — $1,176

6. Wartortle [Trainer Deck B] — Base Set #42 — $1,190

5. Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #43 — $1,580

4. Wartortle [W Stamp] — Base Set 2 #63 — $2,059

3. Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #92 — $2,129

2. Dark Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #39 — $5,898

1. Wartortle [1st Edition] — Base Set #42 — $9,157

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 Wartortle [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #46 — $340
• Wartortle — Crystal Guardians #43 — $328
• Wartortle — Expedition #92 — $305
• Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Unleashed #42 — $275
• Wartortle — Base Set #42 — $263
• Wartortle [1999-2000] — Base Set #42 — $231
• Dark Wartortle — Team Rocket #46 — $171
• Wartortle — Platinum #65 — $145
• Wartortle — Crystal Guardians #42 — $136
• Wartortle — Base Set 2 #63 — $122
• Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #30 — $122
• Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #75 — $114
• Dark Wartortle — Legendary Collection #39 — $110
• Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #24 — $104
• Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Blast #15 — $102
• Wartortle — Team Up #24 — $90
• Wartortle [1st Edition] — 2004 Starter Deck #19 — $85
• Wartortle — Secret Wonders #75 — $81
• Wartortle — Unbroken Bonds #34 — $77
• Wartortle — TCG Classic: Blastoise Deck #2 — $76
• Wartortle — Unleashed #42 — $76
• Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Go #16 — $54
• Wartortle — 2004 Starter Deck #19 — $53
• Wartortle — Plasma Blast #15 — $51
• Wartortle [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #34 — $49
• Wartortle — Boundaries Crossed #30 — $44
• Wartortle — Go #16 — $28

And 3 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Wartortle is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$36
Japanese	24	24	$2,029
English	37	37	$9,157
All 3 lines	62	62	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$36	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$36	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Wartortle #8 — 151C #8. $36, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Wartortle #8 — 151C #8. $36. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Wartortle card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Wartortle #8 carries the highest tracked value at $36. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Wartortle cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Wartortle card leads the Japanese list?

Wartortle [No Rarity] #8 from Expansion Pack at $2,029. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Wartortle card leads the English list?

Wartortle [1st Edition] #42 from Base Set at $9,157.

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

Wartortle is printed in more lines than the three 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

Our own stock covers the other end of this line — Blastoise VMAX PSA 10 (cs3bC 160/122) and Radiant Blastoise PSA 10 (cs5.5C 015/066), the two Blastoise slabs we hold and the form Wartortle evolves into. Our Simplified Chinese slabs 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 Tangela cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Tangela [Reverse Holo] leads at $2,176 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Tangela appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 27 Japanese, 3 Korean and 51 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Tangela carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and 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 Tangela #114 (151C) at $36. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Tangela — 151C #114 — $36

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Tangela. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Tangela [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #15 — $120

9. Tangela — Mirage Forest #6 — $129

8. Tangela — Wind from the Sea #15 — $142

7. Erika’s Tangela — Start Deck 100 #743 — $160

6. Tangela [1st Edition] — Web #5 — $180

5. Tangela — Flight of Legends #18 — $186†

4. Koga’s Tangela — Challenge from the Darkness #114 — $204

3. Tangela — Expansion Pack #114 — $290

2. Tangela [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #114 — $318

1. Tangela [Series II] — Vending #114 — $443

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.

• Tangela [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #1 — $100
• Tangela — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #1 — $96
• Tangela [1st Edition] — Advent of Arceus #2 — $82
• Tangela — Web #5 — $66
• Tangela — Cold Flare #1 — $65
• Tangela [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #8 — $65
• Tangela — Starter Pack #8 — $60
• Tangela — Cruel Traitor #1 — $50
• Tangela [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #1 — $50
• Tangela — Gaia Volcano #1 — $46
• Tangela [1st Edition] — Gaia Volcano #1 — $41
• Tangela — Remix Bout #2 — $39
• Tangela — Full Metal Wall #5 — $39
• Tangela — Mega Symphonia #1 — $37
• Tangela — Paradigm Trigger #4 — $36
• Tangela — Darkness that Consumes Light #4 — $30
• Tangela — Lost Link #3 — $14

And 12 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. Erika’s Tangela — Ascended Heroes #7 — $126

9. Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #87 — $134

8. Tangela [Shadowless] — Base Set #66 — $140

7. Koga’s Tangela — Gym Challenge #81 — $158

6. Koga’s Tangela [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #81 — $181

5. Tangela — Base Set 2 #96 — $300

4. Tangela — Aquapolis #112 — $390

3. Tangela [1st Edition] — Base Set #66 — $428

2. Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #44 — $754

1. Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #112 — $2,176

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.

• Erika’s Tangela [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #79 — $126
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #77 — $112
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #72 — $108
• Tangela — Base Set #66 — $100
• Erika’s Tangela — Ascended Heroes #218 — $99
• Erika’s Tangela — Gym Heroes #79 — $97
• Tangela — Mega Evolution #6 — $96
• Tangela [1999-2000] — Base Set #66 — $88
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #8 — $82
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #6 — $81
• Tangela — Evolutions #8 — $60
• Tangela — Steam Siege #1 — $60
• Tangela — Generations #8 — $55
• Tangela — Great Encounters #87 — $53
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Stormfront #78 — $52
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #5 — $47
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #1 — $42
• Tangela — Call of Legends #72 — $40
• Tangela — Arceus #77 — $40
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Treasures #1 — $40
• Tangela — Stormfront #78 — $40
• Tangela — Boundaries Crossed #5 — $38
• Tangela — Lost Thunder #1 — $38
• Tangela — Legendary Treasures #1 — $37
• Tangela — Arceus #76 — $37
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #4 — $36
• Tangela [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #7 — $34
• Tangela — Primal Clash #4 — $34
• Tangela — Legend Maker #44 — $34
• Erika’s Tangela [Energy] — Ascended Heroes #7 — $33

And 5 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Tangela is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$36
Japanese	27	27	$443
English	51	51	$2,176
All 3 lines	79	79	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$36	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$36	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Tangela #114 — 151C #114. $36, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Tangela #114 — 151C #114. $36. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Tangela card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Tangela #114 carries the highest tracked value at $36. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Tangela cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Tangela card leads the Japanese list?

Tangela [Series II] #114 from Vending at $443. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Tangela card leads the English list?

Tangela [Reverse Holo] #112 from Aquapolis at $2,176.

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

Tangela is printed in more lines than the three 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold a Tangela 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 Aerodactyl cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Aerodactyl [Prerelease 1st Edition] leads at $6,359 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Aerodactyl appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 29 Japanese, 1 Korean and 42 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Aerodactyl carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and 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 Aerodactyl #142 (151C) at $37. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Aerodactyl — 151C #142 — $37

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Aerodactyl. Another 2 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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.

• Aerodactyl V — CS6bC #142 — $127

A further 1 Simplified Chinese printings of Aerodactyl sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

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. Aerodactyl — Split Earth #59 — $335

9. Aerodactyl [1st Edition] — Split Earth #59 — $351

8. Alto Mare’s Aerodactyl — Limited VS #009 — $402

7. Aerodactyl — Mirage Forest #60 — $441

6. Aerodactyl [1st Edition] — Mirage Forest #60 — $624

5. Aerodactyl — Mystery of the Fossils #142 — $650

4. Aerodactyl [Series II] — Vending #142 — $784

3. Aerodactyl ex [1st Edition] — Magma vs Aqua #55 — $875

2. Lance’s Aerodactyl — VS #99 — $920

1. Aerodactyl — Awakening Legends #142 — $1,286

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.

• Aerodactyl — Advent of Arceus #51 — $265
• Aerodactyl V — Lost Abyss #106 — $199
• Aerodactyl — Holon Phantom #9 — $170
• Aerodactyl [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #9 — $152
• Aerodactyl GL — Bonds to the End of Time #49 — $140
• Aerodactyl GL [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #49 — $140
• Aerodactyl EX — Promo #182/XY-P — $112
• Aerodactyl GX — Miracle Twins #110 — $93
• Aerodactyl — Dark Rush #39 — $92
• Aerodactyl — Awakening Psychic King #56 — $82
• Aerodactyl — Tag Bolt #76 — $76
• Aerodactyl [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #56 — $71
• Aerodactyl VSTAR — Lost Abyss #118 — $70
• Aerodactyl [1st Edition] — Advent of Arceus #51 — $54
• Aerodactyl GX — Miracle Twins #100 — $53
• Aerodactyl V — Lost Abyss #105 — $49
• Aerodactyl GX — Miracle Twins #45 — $43
• Aerodactyl V — Lost Abyss #56 — $40
• Aerodactyl VSTAR — Lost Abyss #57 — $35

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. Aerodactyl V — Lost Origin #180 — $575

9. Aerodactyl — Fossil #1 — $1,262

8. Aerodactyl — Legend Maker #1 — $1,405

7. Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #1 — $1,425

6. Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Legend Maker #1 — $1,548

5. Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #35 — $1,950

4. Aerodactyl EX — Sandstorm #94 — $4,019

3. Aerodactyl [1st Edition] — Fossil #1 — $5,304

2. Aerodactyl [Prerelease 1st Edition Cosmos] — Fossil #1 — $6,300†

1. Aerodactyl [Prerelease 1st Edition] — Fossil #1 — $6,359

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.

• Aerodactyl — Holon Phantoms #35 — $538
• Aerodactyl [1st Edition] — Fossil #16 — $500
• Aerodactyl — Skyridge #1 — $427
• Aerodactyl [1st Edition] — Neo Revelation #15 — $420
• Aerodactyl [1999-2000] — Fossil #16 — $395
• Aerodactyl — Danone Pokemon Stadium #26 — $250
• Aerodactyl GX — Unified Minds #244 — $194
• Aerodactyl — Fossil #16 — $179
• Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #15 — $173
• M Aerodactyl EX [Jumbo] — Promo #99 — $172
• Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #13 — $159
• Aerodactyl GX — Unified Minds #224 — $158
• Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #53 — $152
• Aerodactyl GL [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #55 — $150
• Aerodactyl — Majestic Dawn #15 — $150
• Aerodactyl — Neo Revelation #15 — $127
• Aerodactyl GX — Unified Minds #106 — $122
• Aerodactyl VSTAR — Lost Origin #199 — $96
• Aerodactyl — Arceus #13 — $79
• Aerodactyl — Dark Explorers #53 — $71
• Aerodactyl V — Lost Origin #179 — $69
• Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Fates Collide #76 — $58
• Old Amber Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Fates Collide #106 — $55
• Aerodactyl VSTAR — Lost Origin #93 — $50
• Aerodactyl GL — Rising Rivals #55 — $47
• Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #130 — $44
• Aerodactyl — Fates Collide #76 — $39
• Old Amber Aerodactyl — Dark Explorers #97 — $38
• Old Amber Aerodactyl [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #97 — $38
• Aerodactyl V — Lost Origin #92 — $36

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

Where Aerodactyl is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$37
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$127
Japanese	29	29	$1,286
Korean	1	1	$94
English	42	42	$6,359
All 5 lines	74	74	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$37	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$37	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Aerodactyl #142 — 151C #142. $37, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Aerodactyl #142 — 151C #142. $37. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Aerodactyl card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Aerodactyl #142 carries the highest tracked value at $37. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Aerodactyl cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Aerodactyl card leads the Japanese list?

Aerodactyl #142 from Awakening Legends at $1,286. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Aerodactyl card leads the English list?

Aerodactyl [Prerelease 1st Edition] #1 from Fossil at $6,359.

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. 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

Aerodactyl is printed in more lines than the four 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.

• Aerodactyl V — Lost Abyss #106 — $94

A further 7 Korean printings of Aerodactyl 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold an Aerodactyl 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 Sandshrew cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,372 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Sandshrew appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 22 Japanese, 5 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.

Sandshrew carries 1 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and 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 Sandshrew #27 (151C) at $37. 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 Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• 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 Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

Every card here sits in a set whose code ends in C — the Simplified Chinese numbering line. Promos and 30th Celebration are excluded, because their numbering is shared across the Chinese branches rather than being Chinese-exclusive.

1. Sandshrew — 151C #27 — $37

This line only yields 1 priced printings for Sandshrew. Another 3 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

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. Sandshrew — Miracle of the Desert #33 — $116

9. Sandshrew — Holon Research #51 — $116

8. Sandshrew — Split Earth #49 — $125

7. Alolan Sandshrew — Facing a New Trial #11 — $150

6. Sandshrew — Blue Shock #31 — $150

5. Sandshrew [1st Edition] — Split Earth #49 — $229

4. Sandshrew — Expansion Pack #27 — $301

3. Sandshrew — Beat of the Frontier #52 — $305

2. Sandshrew [Series II] — Vending #27 — $662

1. Sandshrew [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #27 — $1,052

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.

• Sandshrew [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #45 — $95
• Sandshrew [1st Edition] — Blue Shock #31 — $88
• Sandshrew — SoulSilver Collection #45 — $81
• Alolan Sandshrew — Ultra Moon #1 — $80
• Alolan Sandshrew — Islands Await You #10 — $47
• Sandshrew — Cold Flare #31 — $42
• Alolan Sandshrew — Alter Genesis #51 — $41
• Sandshrew — Classic: Venusaur #8 — $39
• Sandshrew — Mega Brave #20 — $38
• Sandshrew — Blue Sky Stream #34 — $38
• Sandshrew — Storm Emeralda #35 — $37
• Sandshrew [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #52 — $19

And 9 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. Sandshrew — Skyridge #92 — $313

9. Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #96 — $345

8. Brock’s Sandshrew [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #72 — $392

7. Sandshrew [Trainer Deck A] — Base Set #62 — $400

6. Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #75 — $539

5. Sandshrew [1st Edition] — Base Set #62 — $580

4. Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #82 — $1,372

3. Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #92 — $1,458

2. Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #74 — $1,593

1. Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #91 — $3,372

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.

• Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #68 — $280
• Sandshrew [Shadowless] — Base Set #62 — $248
• Sandshrew [1999-2000] — Base Set #62 — $199
• Sandshrew — Base Set #62 — $183
• Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #124 — $164
• Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #54 — $151
• Sandshrew — Delta Species #82 — $148
• Sandshrew — Danone Stadium Tip #5 — $147
• Brock’s Sandshrew [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #71 — $142
• Sandshrew — Sandstorm #75 — $134
• Sandshrew — Evolutions #54 — $108
• Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #78 — $86
• Sandshrew — Team Rocket Returns #74 — $80
• Sandshrew — Legendary Collection #91 — $75
• Sandshrew — Mega Evolution #68 — $73
• Brock’s Sandshrew — Gym Heroes #72 — $72
• Brock’s Sandshrew — Gym Heroes #71 — $68
• Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #97 — $67
• Alolan Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Ultra Prism #28 — $60
• Sandshrew — Base Set 2 #91 — $58
• Sandshrew — Mysterious Treasures #96 — $57
• Sandshrew — Supreme Victors #124 — $51
• Alolan Sandshrew — McDonalds 2019 #4 — $50
• Alolan Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #19 — $43
• Sandshrew — Boundaries Crossed #78 — $42
• Alolan Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #137 — $36
• Sandshrew — TCG Classic: Venusaur Deck #8 — $36
• Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — BREAKthrough #75 — $35
• Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #83 — $35
• Sandshrew — Fusion Strike #131 — $34

And 3 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Sandshrew is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	1	1	$37
Japanese	22	22	$1,052
English	47	47	$3,372
All 3 lines	70	70	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 1 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 100.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	1	$37	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	1	$37	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Sandshrew #27 — 151C #27. $37, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Sandshrew #27 — 151C #27. $37. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Sandshrew card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Sandshrew #27 carries the highest tracked value at $37. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Sandshrew cards exist in the Chinese-exclusive sets?

1 of the numbered Chinese-exclusive printings for this character carry a tracked market value in our catalogue.

Which Sandshrew card leads the Japanese list?

Sandshrew [No Rarity] #27 from Expansion Pack at $1,052. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Sandshrew card leads the English list?

Sandshrew [Reverse Holo] #91 from Legendary Collection at $3,372.

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

Sandshrew is printed in more lines than the three 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.

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold a Sandshrew 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.