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Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Moltres cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Moltres [Reverse Holo] leads at $34,103 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.

Moltres appears on 4 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 52 Japanese, 4 Korean and 63 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Moltres carries 4 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 Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX #173 (CSM2cC) at $322. 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.

4. Team Rocket’s Moltres ex — csv10C #263 — $102

3. Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — CSM2cC #104 — $105

2. Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — CSM2cC #185 — $198

1. Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — CSM2cC #173 — $322

This line only yields 4 priced printings for Moltres. Another 6 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.

• Galarian Moltres V — CS3.5C #77 — $150

A further 2 Simplified Chinese printings of Moltres 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. Moltres — Mystery of the Fossils #146 — $1,268

9. Moltres [Series II] — Vending #146 — $1,274

8. Moltres — Web #43 — $1,359

7. Moltres ex — Flight of Legends #24 — $1,453

6. Moltres [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #19 — $1,500

5. Moltres [1st Edition] — Web #43 — $1,692

4. Moltres [All Nippon Airways] — Promo #146 — $1,714

3. Rocket’s Moltres EX [1st Edition] — Black Deck Kit #14 — $2,022

2. Moltres — Beat of the Frontier #98 — $2,080

1. Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Sky Legend #60 — $2,610

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.

• Blaine’s Moltres — Challenge from the Darkness #146 — $954
• Moltres [1st Edition] — Beat of the Frontier #98 — $945
• Moltres — Trainers Magazine #13/T — $888
• Moltres — Mysterious Mountains #19 — $767
• Moltres — Mysterious Mountains #18 — $702
• Rocket’s Moltres EX — Black Deck Kit #14 — $566
• Moltres ex [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #24 — $477
• Galarian Moltres V — Matchless Fighter #78 — $424
• Moltres [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #14 — $400
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Tag All Stars #226 — $386
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Sky Legend #66 — $290
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Sky Legend #59 — $209
• Moltres — Dream Shine Collection #5 — $178
• Moltres [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #18 — $170
• Team Rocket’s Moltres ex — Glory of Team Rocket #124 — $165
• Moltres [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #8 — $152
• Moltres [1st Edition] — Psycho Drive #9 — $146
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Sky Legend #35 — $98
• Moltres — Awakening Psychic King #8 — $98
• Moltres — Charizard Rayquaza #7 — $95
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Tag All Stars #102 — $94
• Moltres — Psycho Drive #9 — $93
• Galarian Moltres V — Start Deck 100 #422 — $89
• Galarian Moltres — VSTAR Universe #190 — $71
• Moltres — EX Battle Boost #14 — $70
• Moltres — Battle Master Terastal Charizard #4 — $70
• Moltres — 30th Celebration #105 — $70
• Galarian Moltres V — Matchless Fighter #77 — $57
• Team Rocket’s Moltres ex — Glory of Team Rocket #112 — $56
• Galarian Moltres V — VMAX Climax #242 — $44

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

The English list

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

10. Moltres [Cosmos Holo] — Next Destinies #14 — $2,325

9. Moltres [1st Edition] — Fossil #12 — $4,508

8. Moltres EX — Promo #31 — $5,000

7. Moltres — Majestic Dawn #10 — $5,278†

6. Blaine’s Moltres — Gym Heroes #1 — $5,638

5. Rocket’s Moltres [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #12 — $5,743

4. Rocket’s Moltres EX — Team Rocket Returns #100 — $8,845

3. Blaine’s Moltres [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #1 — $10,700

2. Moltres — Supreme Victors #149 — $28,170

1. Moltres [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #30 — $34,103

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.

• Moltres [1999-2000] — Fossil #27 — $2,200
• Rocket’s Moltres — Gym Heroes #12 — $1,638
• Moltres [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #21 — $1,381
• Moltres [1st Edition] — Fossil #27 — $973
• Moltres EX — Plasma Storm #14 — $827
• Moltres — Fossil #12 — $710
• Moltres [Corrected] — Promo #21 — $587
• Moltres [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #14 — $508
• Galarian Moltres V — Chilling Reign #177 — $458
• Moltres — Next Destinies #14 — $445
• Moltres — Skyridge #21 — $425
• Moltres — Legendary Collection #30 — $365
• Team Rocket’s Moltres ex [Stamped] — Destined Rivals #229 — $340
• Moltres — Team Up #19 — $310
• Moltres — Legendary Treasures #22 — $284
• Team Rocket’s Moltres ex — Destined Rivals #229 — $263
• Moltres — Fossil #27 — $225
• Moltres [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #36 — $214
• Moltres — Promo #21 — $210
• Moltres [Cracked Ice] — Lost Thunder #38 — $198
• Moltres [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #10 — $195
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Hidden Fates #66 — $164
• Moltres — Fates Collide #9 — $160
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Hidden Fates #44 — $159
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Hidden Fates #69 — $142
• Moltres [Stamped] — Team Up #19 — $127
• Moltres [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Treasures #22 — $125
• Moltres [Reverse Holo] — Fates Collide #9 — $118
• Moltres [Holo] — Brilliant Stars #21 — $96
• Galarian Moltres V — Brilliant Stars #183 — $95

And 9 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Moltres is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	4	4	$322
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$150
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$75
Japanese	52	52	$2,610
Korean	4	4	$69
English	63	63	$34,103
All 6 lines	125	125	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 4 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	4	$728	100.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	0	$0	0.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	4	$728	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX #173 — CSM2cC #173. $322, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX #173 — CSM2cC #173. $322, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Team Rocket’s Moltres Ex #263 — csv10C #263. $102. 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 Moltres card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX #173 carries the highest tracked value at $322. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Moltres card leads the Japanese list?

Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX #60 from Sky Legend at $2,610. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Moltres card leads the English list?

Moltres [Reverse Holo] #30 from Legendary Collection at $34,103.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (1 printings listed here) and Korean (4 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

Moltres is printed in more lines than the four listed above. Three more lines are kept here rather than dropped: the Traditional Chinese printings, 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.

Traditional Chinese printings (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)

1 printings

A separate line, and worth keeping separate: the Traditional Chinese cards printed for Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, China carry their own set codes (the F series) and their own print runs. The 2000 Traditional Chinese Base Set reaches back to a print that Simplified Chinese never had, and the 30th Celebration run is listed here because the two Chinese lines share it and the marketplace does not separate them.

• Moltres — 30th Celebration #105 — $75

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

Korean printings

4 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 Moltres ex — Glory Of Team Rocket #124 — $69
• Galarian Moltres — VSTAR Universe #190 — $64
• Team Rocket’s Moltres ex — Glory Of Team Rocket #112 — $36
• Moltres — VSTAR Universe #18 — $36

A further 11 Korean printings of Moltres 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 Moltres 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 Horsea cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Horsea [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,641 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.

Horsea appears on 6 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 24 Japanese, 1 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.

Horsea carries 6 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 Horsea #507 (CBB5C) at $66. 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.

6. Horsea — CBB5C #505 — $36

5. Horsea — 151C #116 — $37

4. Horsea — CBB5C #504 — $40

3. Horsea — CBB5C #503 — $42

2. Horsea — CBB5C #506 — $44

1. Horsea — CBB5C #507 — $66

This line only yields 6 priced printings for Horsea. Another 7 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. Horsea [1st Edition] — Reviving Legends #12 — $131

9. Horsea — Wind from the Sea #34 — $132

8. Horsea — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #22 — $135†

7. Horsea of the Seafoam Islands [Series III] — Vending #4 — $148

6. Misty’s Horsea — Hanada City Gym #116 — $152

5. Horsea — Mystery of the Fossils #116 — $163

4. Horsea — Gold, Silver, New World #116 — $166

3. Horsea [Series III] — Vending #116 — $357

2. Horsea [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #34 — $400

1. Horsea — Wind from the Sea #33 — $432†

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.

• Horsea [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #33 — $128
• Horsea [1st Edition] — Rulers of the Heavens #11 — $118
• Horsea — Rulers of the Heavens #11 — $115
• Horsea — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #40 — $103
• Horsea [Gym] — Promo #112/SV-P — $90
• Horsea — Night Wanderer #67 — $66
• Horsea — Spiral Force #10 — $61
• Horsea — Battle Rainbow #16 — $42
• Horsea — Holon Phantom #6 — $39
• Horsea — Night Wanderer #10 — $39
• Horsea — Ancient Roar #17 — $37
• Horsea — Reviving Legends #12 — $36
• Horsea [1st Edition] — Tidal Storm #9 — $36
• Horsea — VMAX Climax #24 — $36

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. Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Dragon #58 — $325

9. Horsea [1999-2000] — Fossil #49 — $375

8. Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #84 — $434

7. Misty’s Horsea [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #86 — $504

6. Horsea — Aquapolis #84 — $550

5. Horsea — Holon Phantoms #66 — $910†

4. Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #50 — $1,125

3. Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #31 — $1,727

2. Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #66 — $1,990

1. Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #58 — $3,641

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.

• Horsea [1st Edition] — Neo Genesis #62 — $319
• Horsea — Promo #137 — $230
• Horsea — Shrouded Fable #67 — $213
• Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #85 — $200
• Horsea [1st Edition] — Fossil #49 — $188
• Misty’s Horsea [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #87 — $170
• Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Dragon #33 — $165
• Misty’s Horsea — Gym Challenge #87 — $164
• Horsea — Aquapolis #85 — $150
• Misty’s Horsea — Gym Heroes #86 — $148
• Horsea — Burning Shadows #29 — $100
• Horsea — Team Rocket Returns #58 — $91
• Horsea — Dragon Frontiers #50 — $89
• Horsea — Fossil #49 — $83
• Horsea — Shrouded Fable #10 — $75
• Horsea [Cosmos Holo] — Shrouded Fable #10 — $72
• Horsea — McDonalds 2018 #3 — $72
• Horsea — Dragon #33 — $70
• Horsea — Dragon #58 — $70
• Horsea — Dragon Frontiers #31 — $67
• Horsea — Neo Genesis #62 — $62
• Horsea — Shining Fates #20 — $60
• Horsea — Paradox Rift #30 — $57
• Horsea — Legends Awakened #102 — $48
• Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #18 — $45
• Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Primal Clash #30 — $45
• Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Majesty #15 — $40
• Horsea [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Majesty #16 — $36
• Horsea — Plasma Freeze #18 — $36
• Horsea — Primal Clash #30 — $34

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

Where Horsea is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	6	6	$66
Japanese	24	24	$432
Korean	1	1	$55
English	51	51	$3,641
All 4 lines	82	82	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 6 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 72.4% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$191	72.4%
Ranked 5 – 10	2	$73	27.6%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	6	$265	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Horsea #507 — CBB5C #507. $66, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Horsea #505 — CBB5C #505. $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 Horsea card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Horsea #507 carries the highest tracked value at $66. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Horsea card leads the Japanese list?

Horsea #33 from Wind from the Sea at $432. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Horsea card leads the English list?

Horsea [Reverse Holo] #58 from Team Rocket Returns at $3,641.

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. 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

Horsea 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.

• Horsea — Night Wanderer #67 — $55

A further 5 Korean printings of Horsea 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 Horsea 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 five most valuable Pinsir cards printed in Simplified Chinese. Pinsir #307 leads at $61.24 as a PSA 10. Of 16 Pinsir cards in these sets, five carry a tracked PSA 10 value. Each set code ends in C, the marker of a Simplified Chinese print run.

Pinsir in the Chinese-only set codes is 5 products, with Gem Pack Vol. 4 alone printing 7 of the 16 cards. Pinsir #307 leads at $61.24 as a PSA 10, with every priced card inside a band $28 wide.

What makes the shape worth reading is where the cards sit. 7 of the 16 Pinsir cards come out of Gem Pack Vol. 4 as a run from #301 to #307, and that one line supplies 5 of the 5 ranked cards — 100 percent of the character’s graded value. Every ranked card comes from that same line, so the ranking is a ranking of one product’s treatments rather than of competing products.

How this list was built

Three rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to sit in a Chinese-only set. Every card below carries a set code ending in C — CBB4C, 151C, csv7C, CS4aC and csv10C. That trailing letter marks a Simplified Chinese print run, and it is the dependable way to tell a Chinese-only card from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese. Reading a Chinese set code from end to end covers the whole system.
• The card has to have a tracked PSA 10 value. 16 Pinsir cards exist across these sets and 5 have a PSA 10 price on record. The 11 that do not are Pinsir #127, Pinsir [Master Ball] #127 and 9 more — none of them has a graded sold record yet, and a card with no price cannot be ranked.
• The card has to be a Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope.

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

The five, ranked

1. Pinsir #307 — Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C) — $61.24

Raw $6.56 · grade 9 $19.18

The top card of the ranking and part of the Gem Pack Vol. 4 Pinsir group, which runs from #301 to #307. The raw-to-graded step here is 9.3 times.

2. Pinsir #306 — Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C) — $40.43

Raw $2.40 · grade 9 $13.06

Number 2 of 5 and a Gem Pack Vol. 4 card inside the #301 to #307 run. Its raw price of $2.40 multiplies 16.8 times into the graded value.

3. Pinsir #303 — Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C) — $39.27

Raw $1.99 · grade 9 $12.72

Sitting at 3 of 5 and one of the Pinsir prints that run from #301 to #307 in Gem Pack Vol. 4. The raw-to-graded step here is 19.7 times.

4. Pinsir #305 — Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C) — $35.83

Raw $1.25 · grade 9 $11.71

Ranked 4 of 5 and part of the Gem Pack Vol. 4 Pinsir group, which runs from #301 to #307. At $1.25 raw against $35.83 graded it multiplies 28.7 times.

5. Pinsir #304 — Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C) — $33.63

Raw $0.78 · grade 9 $11.07

Number 5 of 5, the lowest-priced entry and a Gem Pack Vol. 4 card inside the #301 to #307 run. Raw copies at $0.78 becoming $33.63 in a PSA 10 holder is a multiple of 43.1, the shape most set-checklist foils in this series have.

What the ranking shows

Pinsir splits into 2 bands across 5 priced cards, and the top band is where the ranking is decided.

Band	Cards	Combined PSA 10 value	Share of total
$61 — ranked 1	1	$61	29.1%
$34 – $40 — ranked 2 to 5	4	$149	70.9%
Every priced Pinsir card	5	$210	100%

Two further patterns run across the whole group.

The band is $28 wide. Between $61.24 at the top and $33.63 at the bottom, the whole ranked list sits inside a $28 window — narrow enough that assembling the entire run costs close to what the first card costs alone.

11 of the 16 cards have never traded enough to be priced. They are tracked in the catalogue but carry no PSA 10 value, so the ranking covers the priced part of the checklist rather than all of it.

Where Pinsir is printed

Product	Set code	Pinsir cards	With a PSA 10 value
Gem Pack Vol. 4	CBB4C	7	5
Collect 151	151C	3	0
Blade Awakening	csv7C	3	0
CS4aC	CS4aC	2	0
Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	1	0
Total		16	5

Gem Pack Vol. 4 supplies 7 of the 16 Pinsir cards and 100 percent of the $210 total, because the expensive cards are inside that line. Collect 151 prints Pinsir as one of the original 151, and those prints are priced generously relative to the Gem Pack foils. 11 of the 16 cards carry no price at all, so the checklist in the table above is longer than the ranking it supports. If the goal is the group rather than the single card, completing a Simplified Chinese set sets out what a full run involves.

If you want one card

• One card, no budget limit: Pinsir #307 from Gem Pack Vol. 4 at $61.24. It is the only Pinsir card in the language above $40.
• The second line: Pinsir #306 from Gem Pack Vol. 4 at $40.43, the second-highest Pinsir card in these sets and the next step down from the top.
• If you want the whole shelf: 3 of the 5 ranked cards sit at $39 or below, inside a few dollars of each other, so the lower rungs can be assembled in one go.

Frequently asked questions

How many Pinsir cards are there in Simplified Chinese?

16, across 5 products. 5 of the 16 carry a tracked PSA 10 value.

What is the most valuable Pinsir card in Simplified Chinese?

Pinsir #307 from Gem Pack Vol. 4, tracked at $61.24 as a PSA 10 and $6.56 raw. It is the only Pinsir card in these sets above $40, and it holds 29 percent of the character’s combined value.

Which product holds the expensive Pinsir cards?

Gem Pack Vol. 4. It supplies 5 of the 5 ranked cards and 100 percent of the combined value, so the rankings follow the product rather than the character.

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

Raw-to-graded multiples across the list run from 9.3 to 43.1, so on most cards the graded premium is real. Where the multiple is lowest, the raw price already carries most of the value. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a prediction about what any individual card will grade at.

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

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

Other character rankings

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

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

We do not hold a Pinsir 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 — Pokémon Chinese console listings, including Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C), Collect 151 (151C), Blade Awakening (csv7C), CS4aC, Chasing Glory Together (csv10C). PSA 10 values retrieved 25 September 2026.
2. PriceCharting — individual card pages for the Pinsir prints listed above, across 16 numbered cards.
3. CardSpicy — Gem Pack Vol. 1 to 6: what is in each volume, on group structure and treatment counts.
4. CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.

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

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.

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

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Slowpoke cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,057 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.

Slowpoke appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 48 Japanese, 10 Korean and 64 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Slowpoke carries 5 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 Slowpoke & Psyduck GX #159 (CSM2aC) at $267. 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.

5. Slowpoke — 151C #79 — $38

4. Slowpoke [Reverse] — 151C #79 — $55

3. Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — CSM2aC #4 — $130

2. Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — CSM2aC #158 — $131

1. Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — CSM2aC #159 — $267

This line only yields 5 priced printings for Slowpoke. Another 4 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.

• Slowpoke [FamilyMart Stamped] — Promo #238/SV-P — $190
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — CSM2.1C #48 — $114

A further 7 Simplified Chinese printings of Slowpoke 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. Slowpoke — Web #12 — $588

9. Slowpoke [1st Edition] — Web #12 — $660

8. Slowpoke [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #44 — $660†

7. Slowpoke [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #31 — $725

6. Slowpoke — Flight of Legends #44 — $898

5. Slowpoke — Gold, Silver, New World #79 — $960†

4. Slowpoke — Trainers Magazine #4/T — $1,050

3. Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Miracle Twins #96 — $1,143

2. Slowpoke — Promo #59/ADV-P — $1,414

1. Slowpoke — Promo #28/L-P — $2,680

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.

• Slowpoke — Mystery of the Fossils #79 — $551
• Slowpoke — Rocket Gang #79 — $521
• Sabrina’s Slowpoke — Challenge from the Darkness #079 — $495
• Slowpoke [1st Edition] — Holon Research #22 — $490
• Slowpoke — Wind from the Sea #31 — $420
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Miracle Twins #95 — $418
• Slowpoke — Starter Pack #23 — $348
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Miracle Twins #107 — $320
• Slowpoke [1st Edition] — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #40 — $298
• Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — HeartGold Collection #17 — $282
• Slowpoke — HeartGold Collection #17 — $248
• Slowpoke — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #40 — $225
• Slowpoke — Rage of the Broken Heavens #13 — $214
• Slowpoke — Dark Rush #16 — $205
• Slowpoke — Super-Burst Impact #24 — $197
• Slowpoke — Holon Research #22 — $191
• Galarian Slowpoke — Promo #172/S-P — $180
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Miracle Twins #11 — $163
• Slowpoke — Facing a New Trial #22 — $118
• Slowpoke — Snow Hazard #29 — $118
• Slowpoke — Islands Await You #23 — $112
• Slowpoke — Promo #253/SM-P — $111
• Slowpoke [Gym Promo] — Promo #70/M-P — $92
• Slowpoke — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #40 — $88
• Slowpoke — Full Metal Wall #11 — $88
• Slowpoke — Violet Ex #82 — $81
• Slowpoke — Stellar Miracle #38 — $71
• Slowpoke — Shiny Treasure ex #219 — $56
• Galarian Slowpoke — Start Deck 100 #164 — $49
• Slowpoke — Shiny Treasure ex #36 — $48

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. Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #108 — $838

9. Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #72 — $860

8. Slowpoke [20th Anniversary] — Generations #32 — $971

7. Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #54 — $1,140†

6. Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Unified Minds #239 — $1,184

5. Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Undaunted #66 — $1,330

4. Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #83 — $1,563

3. Psyduck & Slowpoke GX — Unified Minds #218 — $2,193

2. Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #93 — $2,732

1. Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #76 — $3,057

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.

• Psyduck & Slowpoke GX — Unified Minds #217 — $800
• Slowpoke [1st Edition] — Neo Genesis #73 — $743
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Unified Minds #35 — $735
• Slowpoke — Delta Species #83 — $603
• Slowpoke — Aquapolis #108 — $426
• Slowpoke [1st Edition] — Fossil #55 — $370
• Slowpoke — Undaunted #66 — $366
• Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Great Encounters #82 — $354
• Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — BREAKpoint #19 — $333
• Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #23 — $314
• Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #70 — $309
• Slowpoke [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #67 — $282
• Slowpoke — Team Rocket Returns #76 — $274
• Slowpoke — McDonalds 2018 #5 — $264
• Sabrina’s Slowpoke [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #95 — $221
• Slowpoke — Paldean Fates #116 — $202
• Slowpoke — Fossil #55 — $174
• Slowpoke [1999-2000] — Fossil #55 — $174
• Slowpoke — Neo Genesis #73 — $163
• Slowpoke — Prismatic Evolutions #18 — $154
• Slowpoke — Great Encounters #82 — $144
• Slowpoke [Master Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #18 — $140
• Slowpoke — Promo #183/SM-P — $133
• Slowpoke — Unseen Forces #72 — $126
• Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #42 — $106
• Slowpoke — Dark Explorers #23 — $99
• Slowpoke [Poke Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #18 — $89
• Slowpoke [Reverse] — Prismatic Evolutions #18 — $85
• Slowpoke — BREAKpoint #19 — $62
• Sabrina’s Slowpoke — Gym Heroes #95 — $56

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

Where Slowpoke is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	5	5	$267
Simplified Chinese — other printings	2	2	$190
Japanese	48	48	$2,680
English	64	64	$3,057
All 4 lines	119	119	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 5 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 93.9% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$583	93.9%
Ranked 5 – 10	1	$38	6.1%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	5	$621	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Slowpoke & Psyduck GX #159 — CSM2aC #159. $267, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Slowpoke & Psyduck GX #159 — CSM2aC #159. $267, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Slowpoke #79 — 151C #79. $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 Slowpoke card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Slowpoke & Psyduck GX #159 carries the highest tracked value at $267. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Slowpoke card leads the Japanese list?

Slowpoke #28/L-P from Promo at $2,680. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Slowpoke card leads the English list?

Slowpoke [Reverse Holo] #76 from Team Rocket Returns at $3,057.

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

Slowpoke is printed in more lines than the four 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 Slowpoke 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 Raichu cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Raichu [Daisuki Club 5,200 Pts.] leads at $45,173 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.

Raichu appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 5 further Simplified Chinese printings, 86 Japanese, 1 Korean and 117 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Raichu carries 5 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 Raichu & Alolan Raichu GX #168 (CSM2aC) at $199. 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.

5. Raichu — 151C #26 — $11†

4. Raichu & Alolan Raichu GX — CSM2aC #167 — $43

3. Raichu — 151C #155 — $51

2. Raichu & Alolan Raichu GX — CSM2aC #55 — $64

1. Raichu & Alolan Raichu GX — CSM2aC #168 — $199

This line only yields 5 priced printings for Raichu. 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. Raichu [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #113 — $1,729

9. Raichu — Bulbasaur Deck #3 — $1,913

8. Raichu ex [1st Edition] — Miracle of the Desert #23 — $2,354

7. Raichu ex — Miracle of the Desert #23 — $2,375

6. Raichu — Promo #114/DP-P — $2,400

5. Raichu — Expansion Pack #26 — $2,550

4. Dark Raichu — Crossing the Ruins #26 — $2,999

3. Shining Raichu — Darkness and to Light #26 — $11,054

2. Raichu [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #25 — $25,483

1. Raichu [Daisuki Club 5,200 Pts.] — Promo #44/L-P — $45,173

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.

• Raichu — Mystery of the Fossils #26 — $1,663
• Raichu LV.X [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #26 — $1,633
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #42 — $1,446
• Raichu [Series II] — Vending #26 — $1,412
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Split Earth #35 — $1,202
• Raichu — Holon Phantom #42 — $1,140
• Raichu & Alolan Raichu GX — GG End #57 — $1,125
• Raichu — Split Earth #35 — $1,054
• Raichu [1st Edition] — World Champions Pack #24 — $1,025
• Raichu LV.X — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #26 — $1,010
• Raichu — Expedition Expansion Pack #113 — $892
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Split Earth #34 — $829
• Raichu — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #25 — $739
• Raichu — Promo #58/ADV-P — $694
• Lt. Surge’s Raichu — Challenge from the Darkness #26 — $669
• Raichu — Flight of Legends #38 — $651
• Lt. Surge’s Raichu — VS #53 — $612
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #38 — $591
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #25 — $552
• Raichu — Battle Starter Decks #2 — $523
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #81 — $510
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Web #36 — $500
• Raichu — Advent of Arceus #32 — $492
• Jasmine’s Raichu — VS #27 — $481
• Raichu — Web #36 — $433
• Raichu — World Champions Pack #24 — $407
• Raichu — SoulSilver Collection #33 — $404
• Raichu — Awakening Legends #26 — $317
• Raichu — Pikachu Half Deck #5 — $316
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Hail Blizzard #24 — $316

And 31 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. Shining Raichu — Neo Destiny #111 — $6,144

9. Raichu LV. X — Stormfront #99 — $6,950

8. Dark Raichu [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #83 — $7,585

7. Raichu [1st Place League] — Burning Shadows #41 — $7,625

6. Raichu EX — Emerald #97 — $8,182

5. Dark Raichu [Holo] — Legendary Collection #7 — $8,775†

4. Raichu [Prerelease Staff] — Arceus #27 — $9,472

3. Shining Raichu [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #111 — $11,972

2. Dark Raichu [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #7 — $15,750

1. Raichu [1st Edition] — Base Set #14 — $20,227

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.

• Raichu EX — Sandstorm #98 — $5,904
• Dark Raichu — Team Rocket #83 — $5,748
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Fossil #14 — $5,389
• Raichu — Undaunted #83 — $4,894
• Raichu [Shadowless] — Base Set #14 — $3,801
• Raichu — Expedition #25 — $3,475
• Raichu — Base Set 2 #16 — $3,367
• Raichu — Base Set #14 — $3,164
• Raichu [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #25 — $3,050
• Raichu & Alolan Raichu GX — Unified Minds #221 — $2,947
• Lt. Surge’s Raichu [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #11 — $2,668
• Raichu [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #61 — $2,293
• Raichu [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #12 — $2,160
• Raichu [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #15 — $1,959
• Raichu — Fossil #14 — $1,746
• Raichu [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #51 — $1,600
• Lt. Surge’s Raichu — Gym Challenge #11 — $1,450
• Raichu [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #15 — $1,434
• Raichu EX [Holo 1st Edition] — Quick Construction Pack #2 — $1,325
• Raichu — Power Keepers #12 — $1,226
• Raichu — Stormfront #8 — $1,186
• Raichu [Holo] — Evolutions #36 — $1,102
• Raichu [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #27 — $1,085
• Raichu — Arceus #27 — $999
• Dark Raichu — Legendary Collection #7 — $937
• Raichu — Paldea Evolved #211 — $866
• Raichu [1st Edition] — Fossil #29 — $803
• Raichu [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #77 — $738
• Raichu — Holon Phantoms #15 — $701
• Raichu BREAK — BREAKthrough #50 — $666

And 70 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Raichu is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	5	5	$199
Japanese	86	86	$45,173
Korean	1	1	$85
English	117	117	$20,227
All 4 lines	209	209	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 5 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 97.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$357	97.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	1	$11	3.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	5	$368	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Raichu & Alolan Raichu GX #168 — CSM2aC #168. $199, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Raichu #26 — 151C #26. $11. 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 Raichu card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Raichu & Alolan Raichu GX #168 carries the highest tracked value at $199. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Raichu card leads the Japanese list?

Raichu [Daisuki Club 5,200 Pts.] #44/L-P from Promo at $45,173. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Raichu card leads the English list?

Raichu [1st Edition] #14 from Base Set at $20,227.

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. 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

Raichu 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.

• Raichu — Clay Burst #74 — $85

A further 11 Korean printings of Raichu 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.

Our own stock covers the other end of this line — the Pikachu PSA 10 (151C 171/151), the card Raichu 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 Alakazam cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Alakazam [Masaki Promo] leads at $41,936 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.

Alakazam appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 4 further Simplified Chinese printings, 48 Japanese, 2 Korean and 46 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Alakazam carries 5 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and a Japanese line that reaches back into the 1990s promo programmes. The head of the list is Alakazam ex #189 (151C) at $119. 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.

5. Alakazam EX — 151C #187 — $26

4. Alakazam EX — 151C #180 — $40

3. Alakazam EX — 151C #65 — $52

2. Alakazam — csv8C #75 — $54

1. Alakazam ex — 151C #189 — $119

This line only yields 5 priced printings for Alakazam. Another 1 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. Alakazam — Split Earth #43 — $1,476

9. Alakazam — Expansion Pack #65 — $1,823

8. Alakazam [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #116 — $1,853

7. Alakazam [1st Edition] — Split Earth #43 — $1,925

6. Alakazam EX — Awakening Psychic King #88 — $2,069

5. Alakazam EX [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #88 — $2,161

4. Alakazam [Gold Star 1st Edition] — Miracle Crystal #33 — $11,676

3. Alakazam [Gold Star] — Miracle Crystal #33 — $17,330

2. Alakazam [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #65 — $18,141

1. Alakazam [Masaki Promo] — Vending #65 — $41,936†

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.

• Alakazam LV.X [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #42 — $1,345
• Alakazam LV.X — Bonds to the End of Time #42 — $1,313
• Alakazam [1st Edition] — Split Earth #42 — $1,225
• Alakazam — Split Earth #42 — $862
• Dark Alakazam — Rocket Gang #65 — $858
• Alakazam — Promo #12/DPt-P — $796
• Dark Alakazam [1st Edition] — Web #37 — $760
• Sabrina’s Alakazam — Challenge from the Darkness #65 — $758
• Sabrina’s Alakazam-Holo — Yamabuki City Gym #65 — $732
• Alakazam — Expedition Expansion Pack #116 — $695
• Alakazam EX — Awakening Psychic King #80 — $423
• Mega Alakazam EX [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #81 — $378
• Alakazam EX [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #80 — $328
• Alakazam [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #84 — $304
• Mega Alakazam EX — Awakening Psychic King #24 — $232
• Alakazam EX — Awakening Psychic King #23 — $231
• Alakazam [1st Edition] — Bonds to the End of Time #41 — $162
• Alakazam Spirit Link [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #75 — $152
• Dark Alakazam — Web #37 — $124
• M Alakazam EX — Best of XY #41 — $121
• Alakazam Spirit Link — Best of XY #132 — $113
• Alakazam Spirit Link — Awakening Psychic King #75 — $107
• Alakazam EX [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #23 — $102
• Alakazam — Expedition Expansion Pack #84 — $76
• Alakazam — Bonds to the End of Time #41 — $73
• Alakazam V — Amazing Volt Tackle #105 — $63
• Alakazam ex — Shiny Treasure ex #326 — $61
• Radiant Alakazam — Incandescent Arcana #31 — $60
• Alakazam EX — Best of XY #40 — $58
• Alakazam — Terastal Festival #59 — $49

And 2 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. Alakazam — Base Set #1 — $2,553

9. Alakazam — Base Set 2 #1 — $3,360

8. Dark Alakazam [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #1 — $4,740

7. Sabrina’s Alakazam [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #16 — $5,425

6. Alakazam EX — Fates Collide #125 — $6,113

5. Alakazam — Expedition #1 — $10,000

4. Alakazam [Shadowless] — Base Set #1 — $11,659

3. Alakazam [Gold Star] — Crystal Guardians #99 — $13,100

2. Alakazam [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #1 — $14,655

1. Alakazam [1st Edition] — Base Set #1 — $17,086

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.

• Alakazam [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #2 — $2,549
• Dark Alakazam — Team Rocket #1 — $2,202
• Sabrina’s Alakazam — Gym Challenge #16 — $1,866
• Alakazam [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #33 — $1,822
• Alakazam LV.X — Rising Rivals #103 — $1,800
• Alakazam — Mysterious Treasures #2 — $1,683
• Alakazam [Box Topper] — Expedition #1 — $1,564
• Alakazam [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #1 — $1,550
• M Alakazam EX — Fates Collide #118 — $988
• Alakazam EX — Fates Collide #117 — $945
• Alakazam [Pokemon Center] — Promo #9 — $742
• Alakazam [Staff] — Promo #3 — $660
• Alakazam — Legendary Collection #1 — $568
• Dark Alakazam [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #18 — $558
• Alakazam [Stamped] — Promo #3 — $546
• Alakazam — Expedition #33 — $461
• Alakazam ex [Star Error] — Promo #50 — $350
• Alakazam — Skyridge #2 — $339
• Alakazam [Reverse Holo] — Mysterious Treasures #2 — $335
• M Alakazam EX — Fates Collide #26 — $265
• Alakazam [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #38 — $228
• Alakazam [Cosmos Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #82 — $215
• Alakazam EX — Fates Collide #25 — $205
• Alakazam — Twilight Masquerade #82 — $200
• Dark Alakazam — Team Rocket #18 — $200
• Alakazam — Promo #9 — $192
• Alakazam ex — Paldean Fates #215 — $175
• Alakazam — Rising Rivals #38 — $129
• Alakazam — Mega Evolution #56 — $116
• Alakazam [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #56 — $112

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

Where Alakazam is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	5	5	$119
Japanese	48	48	$41,936
Korean	2	2	$3,800
English	46	46	$17,086
All 4 lines	101	101	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 5 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 91.1% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$265	91.1%
Ranked 5 – 10	1	$26	8.9%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	5	$291	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Alakazam ex #189 — 151C #189. $119, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Alakazam EX #187 — 151C #187. $26. 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 Alakazam card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Alakazam ex #189 carries the highest tracked value at $119. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Alakazam card leads the Japanese list?

Alakazam [Masaki Promo] #65 from Vending at $41,936. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Alakazam card leads the English list?

Alakazam [1st Edition] #1 from Base Set at $17,086.

Why are the Korean (2 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

Alakazam 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

2 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.

• Alakazam [1st Edition] — Base Set #1 — $3,800
• Alakazam — Mega Symphonia #71 — $50

A further 5 Korean printings of Alakazam 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 Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable, Crocalor, Cubone, Fuecoco, Growlithe.

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 Alakazam 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 Charmander cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Charmander [No Rarity] leads at $8,999 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.

Charmander appears on 6 Chinese-exclusive printings, 5 further Simplified Chinese printings, 52 Japanese, 5 Korean and 86 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Charmander carries 6 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 Charmander [Master Ball] #4 (151C) at $135. 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.

6. Charmander [Poke Ball] — csv5C #14 — $37

5. Charmander — 151C #4 — $39

4. Charmander — csv5C #14 — $41

3. Charmander — 151C #152 — $44

2. Charmander [Reverse] — 151C #4 — $45

1. Charmander [Master Ball] — 151C #4 — $135

This line only yields 6 priced printings for Charmander. Another 1 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.

• Charmander [Toys R Us] — Promo #242/SV-P — $181
• Charmander — Promo #98/SV-P — $113
• Charmander — Promo #2/30th-P — $67
• Charmander — sv4aF #210 — $49
• Charmander — Promo #67/SV-P — $12

A further 6 Simplified Chinese printings of Charmander 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. Charmander — Promo #165/BW-P — $556

9. Charmander [1st Edition] — World Champions Pack #6 — $560

8. Charmander [1st Edition] — E-Starter Deck #9 — $695

7. Charmander [1st Edition] — E-Starter Deck #10 — $772

6. Charmander — Expansion Pack #4 — $815

5. Charmander [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #90 — $1,000

4. Charmander — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #90 — $1,112

3. Charmander [Series 1] — Vending #4 — $1,856

2. Charmander — E-Starter Deck #10 — $2,458

1. Charmander [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #4 — $8,999

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.

• Charmander — Rocket Gang #4 — $514
• Charmander — E-Starter Deck #9 — $436
• Charmander — Promo #112/SM-P — $363
• Charmander — Miracle Crystal #11 — $337
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — EX Battle Boost #9 — $335
• Blaine’s Charmander [Lv. 18] — Challenge from the Darkness #4 — $331
• Blaine’s Charmander — Challenge from the Darkness #4 — $318
• Charmander [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #9 — $282
• Charmander [1st Edition] — Miracle Crystal #11 — $280
• Charmander — PokeKyun Collection #3 — $222
• Charmander — SVG Special Set #51 — $202
• Charmander [1st Edition] — Advent of Arceus #15 — $202
• Charmander — World Champions Pack #6 — $153
• Charmander [1st Edition] — Freeze Bolt #10 — $151
• Charmander — Promo #60/SM-P — $130
• Charmander — Freeze Bolt #10 — $124
• Charmander — GX Ultra Shiny #166 — $118
• Charmander [1st Edition] — Groudon Constructed Starter Deck #4 — $100
• Charmander — Tag Bolt #11 — $93
• Charmander — Promo #112/S-P — $92
• Charmander — EX Battle Boost #9 — $85
• Charmander — Advent of Arceus #15 — $84
• Charmander — Classic: Charizard #1 — $82
• Charmander — Family #7 — $74
• Charmander — Tag Bolt #10 — $71
• Charmander — Go #8 — $71
• Charmander [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #9 — $70
• Charmander — Promo #289/S-P — $68
• Charmander — Dragon Storm #1 — $67
• Charmander — Detective Pikachu #5 — $64

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

The English list

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

10. Charmander [1st Edition] — Base Set #46 — $3,050

9. Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #70 — $3,442

8. Charmander — Dragon #98 — $3,669

7. Ditto Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #61 — $3,815

6. Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #48 — $4,399

5. Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #48 — $4,551†

4. Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #49 — $4,656

3. Charmander [Stamped] — Power Keepers #48 — $5,100

2. Charmander [Toys R Us] — Evolutions #9 — $5,200

1. Charmander [Pokemon Center] — Promo #44 — $5,625

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.

• Ditto Charmander — Delta Species #61 — $2,325
• Charmander [City Championships] — Dragon #98 — $2,203
• Charmander — Stormfront #101 — $1,804
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #97 — $1,741
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #98 — $1,289
• Charmander — Legendary Treasures #17 — $1,260
• Charmander — Expedition #98 — $828
• Charmander — POP Series 5 #10 — $630
• Blaine’s Charmander [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #60 — $618
• Charmander — Promo #44 — $582
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #59 — $564
• Charmander — Expedition #97 — $550
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #82 — $521
• Charmander [Shadowless] — Base Set #46 — $515
• Charmander — Crystal Guardians #49 — $500
• Charmander — Power Keepers #48 — $465
• Charmander [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #50 — $430
• Blaine’s Charmander [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #61 — $425
• Charmander [Energy] — Ascended Heroes #20 — $405
• Charmander [Ball] — Ascended Heroes #20 — $360
• Charmander — Base Set #46 — $358
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #18 — $338
• Charmander — Secret Wonders #82 — $330
• Charmander [1999-2000] — Base Set #46 — $305
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #9 — $285
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #12 — $250
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Majesty #1 — $243
• Charmander [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Treasures #17 — $225
• Charmander — Paldean Fates #109 — $220
• Charmander — Ascended Heroes #20 — $217

And 32 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Charmander is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	6	6	$135
Simplified Chinese — other printings	5	5	$181
Japanese	52	52	$8,999
English	86	86	$5,625
All 4 lines	149	149	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 6 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 77.6% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$265	77.6%
Ranked 5 – 10	2	$77	22.4%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	6	$342	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Charmander [Master Ball] #4 — 151C #4. $135, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Charmander [Poke Ball] #14 — csv5C #14. $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 Charmander card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Charmander [Master Ball] #4 carries the highest tracked value at $135. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Charmander card leads the Japanese list?

Charmander [No Rarity] #4 from Expansion Pack at $8,999. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Charmander card leads the English list?

Charmander [Pokemon Center] #44 from Promo at $5,625.

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

Charmander is printed in more lines than the four 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, Clefable, Crocalor, Cubone, Fuecoco, Growlithe.

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 Charmander 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 Lickitung cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Lickitung [Reverse Holo] leads at $2,497 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.

Lickitung appears on 6 Chinese-exclusive printings, 18 Japanese, 1 Korean and 34 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Lickitung carries 6 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Lickitung #207 (CBB4C) at $72. 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.

6. Lickitung — CBB4C #205 — $36

5. Lickitung — CBB4C #204 — $39

4. Lickitung — CBB4C #206 — $39

3. Lickitung — CBB4C #203 — $39

2. Lickitung — 151C #108 — $41

1. Lickitung — CBB4C #207 — $72

This line only yields 6 priced printings for Lickitung. Another 7 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. Lickitung — Rising Fist #73 — $81

9. Lickitung [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #61 — $88

8. Lickitung [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #63 — $110

7. Lickitung — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #31 — $129

6. Lickitung — Southern Islands #108 — $145

5. Lickitung — Wind from the Sea #63 — $183

4. Lickitung — Flight of Legends #68 — $220

3. Whitney’s Lickitung — VS #17 — $323

2. Lickitung — Jungle #108 — $371

1. Lickitung [Series 1] — Vending #108 — $1,528

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.

• Lickitung — Cyber Judge #82 — $60
• Lickitung [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #73 — $60
• Lickitung — Sky Legend #36 — $59
• Lickitung — Ultra Sun #46 — $51
• Lickitung — Night Unison #41 — $40
• Lickitung — Detective Pikachu #22 — $39
• Lickitung — Clash at the Summit #61 — $37
• Lickitung — Cyber Judge #53 — $36

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. Lickitung — Temporal Forces #180 — $166

9. Brock’s Lickitung — Gym Heroes #41 — $173

8. Lickitung — Platinum #80 — $178

7. Lickitung — Dragon Frontiers #19 — $187

6. Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #19 — $242

5. Lickitung — Southern Islands #16 — $378

4. Lickitung [1st Edition] — Jungle #38 — $389

3. Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #80 — $421

2. Lickitung — Aquapolis #90 — $448

1. Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #90 — $2,497

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.

• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #39 — $162
• Lickitung — Jungle #38 — $125
• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Battle Styles #113 — $99
• Lickitung — Detective Pikachu #16 — $99
• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #66 — $85
• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #91 — $78
• Lickitung — Base Set 2 #48 — $75
• Brock’s Lickitung [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #41 — $61
• Lickitung — Secret Wonders #91 — $48
• Lickitung — Triumphant #66 — $48
• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Furious Fists #78 — $45
• Lickitung — Majestic Dawn #39 — $43
• Lickitung — Battle Styles #113 — $40
• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #138 — $40
• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Ultra Prism #102 — $38
• Lickitung — Furious Fists #78 — $37
• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #152 — $34
• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Temporal Forces #124 — $33
• Lickitung — Unbroken Bonds #152 — $32
• Lickitung — Unified Minds #161 — $31
• Lickitung — Temporal Forces #124 — $31
• Lickitung — Lost Origin #138 — $25
• Lickitung [Reverse Holo] — Unified Minds #161 — $20
• Lickitung — Ultra Prism #102 — $20

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

Where Lickitung is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	6	6	$72
Japanese	18	18	$1,528
Korean	1	1	$55
English	34	34	$2,497
All 4 lines	59	59	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 6 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 71.8% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$192	71.8%
Ranked 5 – 10	2	$75	28.2%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	6	$267	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Lickitung #207 — CBB4C #207. $72, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Lickitung #205 — CBB4C #205. $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 Lickitung card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Lickitung #207 carries the highest tracked value at $72. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Lickitung card leads the Japanese list?

Lickitung [Series 1] #108 from Vending at $1,528. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Lickitung card leads the English list?

Lickitung [Reverse Holo] #90 from Aquapolis at $2,497.

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

Lickitung 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.

• Lickitung — Cyber Judge #82 — $55

A further 1 Korean printings of Lickitung 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 Lickitung 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 Articuno cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Articuno [Reverse Holo] leads at $16,234 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.

Articuno appears on 5 Chinese-exclusive printings, 8 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 66 Japanese, 1 Korean and 62 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Articuno carries 5 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and a Japanese line that reaches back into the 1990s promo programmes. The head of the list is Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX #173 (CSM2cC) at $322. 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.

5. Articuno — 151C #144 — $33

4. Galarian Articuno V — cs3bC #135 — $75

3. Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — CSM2cC #104 — $105

2. Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — CSM2cC #185 — $198

1. Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — CSM2cC #173 — $322

This line only yields 5 priced printings for Articuno. Another 8 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. Articuno [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #31 — $1,725

9. Articuno EX [1st Edition] — Plasma Gale #72 — $1,900

8. Rocket’s Articuno EX [Holo] — Silver Deck Kit #10 — $1,913

7. Articuno [1st Edition] — Web #45 — $1,927

6. Articuno EX — Plasma Gale #72 — $1,931

5. Articuno — Mysterious Mountains #31 — $2,105

4. Articuno ex [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #36 — $2,156

3. Articuno [All Nippon Airways] — Promo #144 — $2,373

2. Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Sky Legend #60 — $2,610

1. Articuno — Beat of the Frontier #99 — $4,605

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.

• Articuno — Mystery of the Fossils #144 — $1,676
• Articuno ex — Flight of Legends #36 — $1,470
• Articuno — Web #45 — $1,442
• Rocket’s Articuno EX [Holo 1st Edition] — Silver Deck Kit #10 — $1,384
• Articuno [1st Edition] — Beat of the Frontier #99 — $1,172
• Articuno [Series II] — Vending #144 — $1,075
• Articuno — Trainers Magazine #14/T — $900
• Pryce’s Articuno — VS #42 — $570
• Articuno — Starter Pack #17 — $545
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Tag All Stars #226 — $386
• Articuno [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #30 — $305
• Articuno EX [1st Edition] — Plasma Gale #16 — $300
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Sky Legend #66 — $290
• Articuno GX — Champion Road #78 — $274
• Articuno EX — Plasma Gale #16 — $250
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Sky Legend #59 — $209
• Articuno [Reverse Holo] — EX Battle Boost #24 — $200
• Articuno — Mysterious Mountains #30 — $199
• Articuno — Promo #278/SM-P — $183
• Articuno — Emerald Break #16 — $177
• Articuno — Premium Champion Pack #23 — $177
• Articuno — Best of XY #17 — $166
• Articuno [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #24 — $141
• Articuno [1st Edition] — Emerald Break #16 — $126
• Articuno GX — GX Ultra Shiny #214 — $126
• Articuno [1st Edition] — Psycho Drive #14 — $116
• Galarian Articuno V — Matchless Fighter #74 — $103
• Articuno — Psycho Drive #14 — $102
• Articuno — EX Battle Boost #24 — $100
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Sky Legend #35 — $98

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

The English list

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

10. Articuno EX — Plasma Storm #25 — $1,200

9. Articuno [Reverse Holo] — Roaring Skies #17 — $1,340†

8. Articuno — Generations #25 — $1,912

7. Articuno — Fossil #2 — $2,470

6. Articuno EX — Promo #32 — $3,300

5. Articuno EX — Plasma Storm #132 — $6,150

4. Rocket’s Articuno EX — Team Rocket Returns #96 — $7,159

3. Articuno [1st Edition] — Fossil #2 — $11,710

2. Articuno — Supreme Victors #148 — $14,944

1. Articuno [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #2 — $16,234

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.

• Articuno — Majestic Dawn #1 — $1,075
• Articuno [1st Edition] — Fossil #17 — $910
• Articuno — Legendary Collection #2 — $699
• Articuno [1999-2000] — Fossil #17 — $522
• Articuno — Legendary Treasures #32 — $500
• Articuno — Promo #48 — $490
• Articuno — Skyridge #4 — $439
• Articuno [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #4 — $427
• Articuno [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #1 — $415
• Articuno [Cracked Ice] — Roaring Skies #16 — $406
• Articuno — Roaring Skies #17 — $396
• Articuno [Corrected] — Promo #22 — $389
• Articuno GX — Celestial Storm #171 — $365
• Articuno GX — Celestial Storm #154 — $337
• Articuno — Next Destinies #27 — $332
• Articuno [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #16 — $291
• Articuno — Roaring Skies #16 — $281
• Articuno — Promo #22 — $244
• Galarian Articuno V — Chilling Reign #170 — $220
• Articuno — Supreme Victors #16 — $218
• Articuno — Journey Together #161 — $214
• Articuno GX — Celestial Storm #31 — $200
• Articuno — Fossil #17 — $172
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Hidden Fates #66 — $164
• Articuno [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #27 — $160
• Articuno — Team Up #32 — $160
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Hidden Fates #44 — $159
• Articuno [Holiday Calendar] — Journey Together #32 — $155
• Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX — Hidden Fates #69 — $142
• Team Rocket’s Articuno — Destined Rivals #51 — $119

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

Where Articuno is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	5	5	$322
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$61
Japanese	66	66	$4,605
Korean	1	1	$48
English	62	62	$16,234
All 5 lines	135	135	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 5 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 95.5% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$701	95.5%
Ranked 5 – 10	1	$33	4.5%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	5	$734	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX #173 — CSM2cC #173. $322, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX #173 — CSM2cC #173. $322, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Articuno #144 — 151C #144. $33. 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 Articuno card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX #173 carries the highest tracked value at $322. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Articuno card leads the Japanese list?

Articuno #99 from Beat of the Frontier at $4,605. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Articuno card leads the English list?

Articuno [Reverse Holo] #2 from Legendary Collection at $16,234.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (1 printings listed here) and 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

Articuno is printed in more lines than the three listed above. Three more lines are kept here rather than dropped: the Traditional Chinese printings, 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.

Traditional Chinese printings (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)

1 printings

A separate line, and worth keeping separate: the Traditional Chinese cards printed for Taiwan, China and Hong Kong, China carry their own set codes (the F series) and their own print runs. The 2000 Traditional Chinese Base Set reaches back to a print that Simplified Chinese never had, and the 30th Celebration run is listed here because the two Chinese lines share it and the marketplace does not separate them.

• Articuno — 30th Celebration #107 — $61

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

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.

• Articuno — Battle Partners #102 — $48

A further 14 Korean printings of Articuno 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, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable, Crocalor, Cubone, Fuecoco, Growlithe.

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 Articuno 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 Clefable cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Clefable leads at $8,540 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.

Clefable appears on 7 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 Traditional Chinese printings, 23 Japanese, 3 Korean and 48 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Clefable carries 7 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 Clefable [Stars] #103 (CBB3C) at $40. 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.

7. Clefable [Pokeball] — CBB3C #102 — $34

6. Clefable — CBB3C #101 — $34

5. Clefable [Masterball] — CBB3C #105 — $35

4. Clefable [Rotary] — CBB3C #104 — $37

3. Clefable ex — CBB3C #107 — $37

2. Clefable [Stamped] — CBB3C #106 — $40

1. Clefable [Stars] — CBB3C #103 — $40

This line only yields 7 priced printings for Clefable. 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. Clefable — Family #30 — $59

9. Clefable [1st Edition] — Plasma Gale #52 — $120

8. Clefable — Expedition Expansion Pack #125 — $185

7. Clefable — HeartGold Collection #51 — $197

6. Whitney’s Clefable — VS #14 — $260

5. Clefable [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #93 — $272

4. Clefable ex [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #66 — $744

3. Clefable — Jungle #36 — $750

2. Clefable ex — Flight of Legends #66 — $983

1. Clefable [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #125 — $1,028

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.

• Mega Clefable ex — Nihil Zero #112 — $56
• Clefable — Rising Fist #66 — $51
• Clefable — Expedition Expansion Pack #93 — $50
• Clefable — Classic: Charizard #14 — $44
• Clefable — Islands Await You #36 — $42
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Dark Phantasma #20 — $39
• Mega Clefable ex — Nihil Zero #30 — $38
• Clefable — Mask of Change #46 — $37
• Clefable — Shiny Star V #66 — $33
• Mega Clefable ex — Nihil Zero #96 — $32
• Clefable — Legendary Heartbeat #24 — $22
• Clefable [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #66 — $16
• Clefable — Dark Phantasma #20 — $15

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 Clefable — Gym Heroes #3 — $1,100

9. Clefable [No Symbol] — Jungle #1 — $1,321

8. Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #41 — $1,356

7. Clefable — Base Set 2 #5 — $1,966

6. Clefable — Jungle #1 — $2,166

5. Erika’s Clefable [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #3 — $2,213

4. Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #36 — $2,400†

3. Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #7 — $2,905

2. Clefable [1st Edition] — Jungle #1 — $4,336

1. Clefable — Expedition #7 — $8,540

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.

• Clefable — Call of Legends #1 — $478
• Clefable [1st Edition] — Jungle #17 — $447
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #89 — $420
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Furious Fists #71 — $270
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #1 — $169
• Clefable — Expedition #41 — $152
• Clefable — Unseen Forces #36 — $135
• Clefable — Furious Fists #71 — $132
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Storm #98 — $126
• Clefable — Jungle #17 — $119
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Vivid Voltage #64 — $118
• Mega Clefable ex — Perfect Order #119 — $88
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #40 — $83
• Clefable — Plasma Storm #98 — $60
• Clefable — TCG Classic: Charizard Deck #14 — $55
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #79 — $55
• Mega Clefable ex — Perfect Order #103 — $49
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — BREAKpoint #82 — $47
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Generations #51 — $46
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Unbroken Bonds #133 — $42
• Clefable — BREAKpoint #82 — $40
• Clefable — Generations #51 — $37
• Clefable [Energy] — Ascended Heroes #75 — $37
• Clefable — Unbroken Bonds #133 — $36
• Clefable — Guardians Rising #89 — $35
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #63 — $33
• Clefable — Ascended Heroes #75 — $33
• Clefable [Reverse Holo] — Brilliant Stars #54 — $32
• Clefable — Twilight Masquerade #79 — $32
• Clefable — Lost Origin #63 — $32

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

Where Clefable is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	7	7	$40
Japanese	23	23	$1,028
Korean	3	3	$168
English	48	48	$8,540
All 4 lines	81	81	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 7 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 59.6% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$154	59.6%
Ranked 5 – 10	3	$104	40.4%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	7	$258	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Clefable [Stars] #103 — CBB3C #103. $40, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Clefable [Pokeball] #102 — CBB3C #102. $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 Clefable card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Clefable [Stars] #103 carries the highest tracked value at $40. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Clefable card leads the Japanese list?

Clefable [1st Edition] #125 from Expedition Expansion Pack at $1,028. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Clefable card leads the English list?

Clefable #7 from Expedition at $8,540.

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. 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

Clefable 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.

• Mega Clefable ex — Nihil Zero #112 — $168
• Mega Clefable ex — Nihil Zero #96 — $50
• Mega Clefable ex — Nihil Zero #30 — $39

A further 1 Korean printings of Clefable 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, Crocalor, Cubone, Fuecoco, Growlithe.

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 Clefable 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.