Category: Pokémon

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Crocalor cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Crocalor leads at $145 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.

Crocalor appears on 7 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 2 Traditional Chinese printings, 3 Japanese, 1 Korean and 8 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Crocalor carries 7 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Crocalor #2307 (CBB5C) at $52. 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. Crocalor [Masterball] — CBB1C #405 — $26

6. Crocalor [Shiny] — CBB1C #406 — $36

5. Crocalor [Stamped] — CBB1C #407 — $37

4. Crocalor — CBB5C #2306 — $41

3. Crocalor — CBB5C #2303 — $43

2. Crocalor [Full Art] — CBB1C #408 — $45

1. Crocalor — CBB5C #2307 — $52

This line only yields 7 priced printings for Crocalor. Another 10 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.

3. Crocalor — Shiny Treasure ex #216 — $26

2. Crocalor — Shiny Treasure ex #31 — $37

1. Crocalor — Triplet Beat #79 — $40

This line only yields 3 priced printings for Crocalor. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

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

8. Crocalor — Paradox Rift #24 — $31

7. Crocalor [Reverse Holo] — Paradox Rift #24 — $31

6. Crocalor [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #36 — $31

5. Crocalor — Paldea Evolved #36 — $31

4. Crocalor [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #30 — $32

3. Crocalor — Surging Sparks #30 — $32

2. Crocalor — Promo #80 — $67

1. Crocalor — Paldea Evolved #202 — $145

This line only yields 8 priced printings for Crocalor.

Where Crocalor is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	7	7	$52
Japanese	3	3	$40
Korean	1	1	$45
English	8	8	$145
All 4 lines	19	19	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 7 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 64.5% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$181	64.5%
Ranked 5 – 10	3	$99	35.5%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	7	$280	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Crocalor #2307 — CBB5C #2307. $52, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Crocalor [Masterball] #405 — CBB1C #405. $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 Crocalor card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Crocalor #2307 carries the highest tracked value at $52. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Crocalor 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 Crocalor card leads the Japanese list?

Crocalor #79 from Triplet Beat at $40. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Crocalor card leads the English list?

Crocalor #202 from Paldea Evolved at $145.

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

Crocalor 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.

• Crocalor — Triple Beat #79 — $45

A further 2 Korean printings of Crocalor 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 ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Meowth, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the other Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Fuecoco, Quaxly and Quaxwell — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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 Quaxwell cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Quaxwell leads at $96 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.

Quaxwell appears on 8 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 2 Traditional Chinese printings, 3 Japanese, 1 Korean and 6 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Quaxwell carries 8 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Quaxwell #2407 (CBB5C) at $61. 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.

8. Quaxwell [Rotary] — CBB1C #604 — $36

7. Quaxwell [Shiny] — CBB1C #606 — $36

6. Quaxwell [Masterball] — CBB1C #605 — $37

5. Quaxwell — CBB5C #2403 — $39

4. Quaxwell — CBB5C #2406 — $40

3. Quaxwell [Stamped] — CBB1C #607 — $42

2. Quaxwell [Full Art] — CBB1C #608 — $45

1. Quaxwell — CBB5C #2407 — $61

This line only yields 8 priced printings for Quaxwell. 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.

3. Quaxwell — Shiny Treasure ex #42 — $25

2. Quaxwell — Triplet Beat #82 — $32

1. Quaxwell — Shiny Treasure ex #225 — $39

This line only yields 3 priced printings for Quaxwell. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

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

6. Quaxwell — Surging Sparks #51 — $30

5. Quaxwell — Paldea Evolved #51 — $30

4. Quaxwell [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #51 — $31

3. Quaxwell — Promo #83 — $31

2. Quaxwell [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #51 — $35

1. Quaxwell — Paldea Evolved #207 — $96

This line only yields 6 priced printings for Quaxwell.

Where Quaxwell is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	8	8	$61
Japanese	3	3	$39
Korean	1	1	$41
English	6	6	$96
All 4 lines	18	18	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 8 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 55.8% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$187	55.8%
Ranked 5 – 10	4	$148	44.2%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	8	$335	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Quaxwell #2407 — CBB5C #2407. $61, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Quaxwell [Rotary] #604 — CBB1C #604. $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 Quaxwell card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Quaxwell #2407 carries the highest tracked value at $61. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Quaxwell card leads the Japanese list?

Quaxwell #225 from Shiny Treasure ex at $39. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Quaxwell card leads the English list?

Quaxwell #207 from Paldea Evolved at $96.

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

Quaxwell 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.

• Quaxwell — Triple Beat #82 — $41

A further 2 Korean printings of Quaxwell 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 ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Meowth, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the other Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Fuecoco, Crocalor and Quaxly — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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 Blastoise cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and English lines. Blastoise [1st Edition] leads at $33,830 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.

Blastoise appears on 9 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 56 Japanese and 68 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and English lines.

Blastoise carries 9 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 Blastoise & Piplup GX #157 (CSM2aC) at $251. 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.

9. Blastoise EX — 151C #9 — $25

8. Blastoise — CSM2aC #8 — $39

7. Blastoise ex — 151C #176 — $46

6. Blastoise GX — CSM2aC #162 — $70

5. Blastoise & Piplup GX — CSM2aC #156 — $100

4. Radiant Blastoise — cs5.5C #15 — $100

3. Blastoise & Piplup GX — CSM2aC #3 — $107

2. Blastoise — cs5.5C #14 — $132

1. Blastoise & Piplup GX — CSM2aC #157 — $251

This line only yields 9 priced printings for Blastoise. 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.

• Blastoise ex — CSVL1C #121 — $257
• Blastoise ex — sv2A #202 — $242

A further 2 Simplified Chinese printings of Blastoise 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. Blastoise [1st Edition] — Plasma Gale #78 — $2,501

9. Blastoise — Miracle Crystal #49 — $2,575

8. Blastoise — Plasma Gale #78 — $2,726

7. Blastoise-Holo — Squirtle Deck #9 — $3,126

6. Blastoise [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #108 — $3,200

5. Dark Blastoise — Web #44 — $3,400

4. Dark Blastoise [1st Edition] — Web #44 — $3,550

3. Blastoise — Promo #13/P — $3,703

2. Blastoise — Expansion Pack #9 — $5,100

1. Blastoise [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #9 — $28,175

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Blastoise EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #92 — $2,250
• Dark Blastoise — Rocket Gang #9 — $2,237
• Blastoise [1st Edition] — Miracle Crystal #49 — $1,873
• Blastoise [Holo] — CD Promo #9 — $1,665
• Clair’s Blastoise — VS #46 — $1,425
• Blastoise [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #76 — $1,378
• Blastoise [1st Edition] — E-Starter Deck #20 — $1,125
• Blastoise — Shining Darkness #9 — $1,099
• Blastoise & Piplup GX — Remix Bout #70 — $813
• Blastoise EX [1st Edition] — Collection Y #61 — $808
• M Blastoise EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #93 — $765
• Blastoise EX — Collection Y #61 — $724
• Blastoise [CoroCoro Magazine] — Promo #1/PCG-P — $581
• Sid’s Blastoise — VS #10 — $566
• Blastoise — Battle Starter Decks #3 — $550
• Blastoise — Kyogre ex Starter Deck #5 — $450
• Blastoise [1st Edition] — Cold Flare #14 — $392
• Blastoise — Expedition Expansion Pack #108 — $362
• Blastoise EX — Collection Y #14 — $354
• Blastoise — Expedition Expansion Pack #76 — $250
• Blastoise & Piplup GX — Remix Bout #76 — $213
• Blastoise GX — Full Metal Wall #64 — $194
• Blastoise — 25th Anniversary Promo #3 — $168
• Blastoise & Piplup GX — Remix Bout #69 — $156
• M Blastoise EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #22 — $153
• Mega Blastoise EX — Collection Y #15 — $129
• Blastoise — Classic: Blastoise #3 — $128
• Blastoise & Piplup GX — Remix Bout #16 — $125
• Blastoise EX — Starter Pack #73 — $120
• Blastoise [Reverse Holo] — Tag All Stars #31 — $120

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. Blastoise — Base Set 2 #2 — $7,500

9. Blastoise [Trainer Deck B] — Base Set #2 — $8,515

8. Blastoise — Plasma Storm #137 — $11,300

7. Blastoise EX — XY #142 — $11,400†

6. Dark Blastoise [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #3 — $13,067

5. Blastoise — Expedition #4 — $14,072

4. Blastoise [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #2 — $14,100

3. Blastoise [Shadowless] — Base Set #2 — $20,250

2. Dark Blastoise [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #4 — $30,995

1. Blastoise [1st Edition] — Base Set #2 — $33,830

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.

• Blastoise — Base Set #2 — $6,871
• Blastoise — Platinum #2 — $6,154
• Blastoise — Crystal Guardians #2 — $5,726
• Blastoise [Holo] — POP Series 3 #1 — $5,361
• Blastoise [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #2 — $4,598
• Blastoise [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #4 — $3,921
• Blastoise [Reverse Holo] — Crystal Guardians #14 — $3,900
• Blastoise & Piplup GX — Cosmic Eclipse #215 — $2,988
• Blastoise EX [Holo 1st Edition] — 2004 Starter Deck #20 — $2,929
• Blastoise — Crystal Guardians #14 — $2,500
• Blastoise [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #36 — $2,070
• Dark Blastoise — Legendary Collection #4 — $2,000
• Blastoise [Cracked Ice] — Team Up #25 — $1,892
• Blastoise [Pre-Release] — Unleashed #13 — $1,525
• Blastoise [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #37 — $1,500
• Blastoise [Staff] — Crystal Guardians #14 — $1,475
• Blastoise [Prerelease Staff] — Unleashed #13 — $1,456
• Dark Blastoise — Team Rocket #3 — $1,400
• Blastoise — POP Series 3 #1 — $1,189
• Blastoise [National Championships] — Crystal Guardians #14 — $1,058
• Blastoise — Boundaries Crossed #31 — $1,021
• Blastoise — Secret Wonders #2 — $1,003
• Dark Blastoise [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #20 — $977
• Blastoise — Expedition #37 — $900
• Blastoise & Piplup GX — Cosmic Eclipse #38 — $815
• Blastoise [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Blast #16 — $795
• Dark Blastoise [Holo] — Legendary Collection #4 — $660
• M Blastoise EX — Generations #18 — $650
• Blastoise — Expedition #36 — $605
• Blastoise & Piplup GX — Cosmic Eclipse #214 — $592

And 18 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Blastoise is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	9	9	$251
Simplified Chinese — other printings	2	2	$257
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$81
Japanese	56	56	$28,175
English	68	68	$33,830
All 5 lines	136	136	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 9 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 67.9% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$590	67.9%
Ranked 5 – 10	5	$280	32.1%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	9	$870	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Blastoise & Piplup GX #157 — CSM2aC #157. $251, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Blastoise & Piplup GX #157 — CSM2aC #157. $251, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Blastoise EX #9 — 151C #9. $25. 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 Blastoise card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Blastoise & Piplup GX #157 carries the highest tracked value at $251. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Blastoise card leads the Japanese list?

Blastoise [No Rarity] #9 from Expansion Pack at $28,175. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Blastoise card leads the English list?

Blastoise [1st Edition] #2 from Base Set at $33,830.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (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

Blastoise is printed in more lines than the four listed above. Two more lines are kept here rather than dropped: the Traditional Chinese 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.

• Blastoise — 25th Anniversary #3 — $81

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 ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Meowth, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, the six Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Fuecoco, Crocalor, Quaxly and Quaxwell — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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 Quaxly cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Quaxly leads at $303 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.

Quaxly appears on 6 Chinese-exclusive printings, 5 further Simplified Chinese printings, 3 Traditional Chinese printings, 6 Japanese, 1 Korean and 13 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Quaxly carries 6 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Quaxly [Horizons Full Art] #509 (CBB1C) at $103. 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. Quaxly [Full Art] — CBB1C #508 — $31

5. Quaxly [Rotary] — CBB1C #504 — $37

4. Quaxly [Shiny] — CBB1C #506 — $37

3. Quaxly [Masterball] — CBB1C #505 — $38

2. Quaxly [Stamped] — CBB1C #507 — $73

1. Quaxly [Horizons Full Art] — CBB1C #509 — $103

This line only yields 6 priced printings for Quaxly. 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.

6. Quaxly — Shiny Treasure ex #41 — $10

5. Quaxly — Promo #215/SV-P — $22

4. Quaxly — Triplet Beat #81 — $34

3. Quaxly — Shiny Treasure ex #224 — $35

2. Quaxly — Paradise Dragona #13 — $35

1. Quaxly — Promo #19/M-P — $57

This line only yields 6 priced printings for Quaxly. Another 5 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

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

10. Quaxly — Paldea Evolved #49 — $31

9. Quaxly [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #49 — $32

8. Quaxly [Holo] — Paldea Evolved #50 — $36

7. Quaxly — Promo #3 — $37

6. Quaxly — Promo #82 — $44

5. Quaxly — McDonalds 2023 #3 — $59

4. Quaxly [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #50 — $66

3. Quaxly — Surging Sparks #50 — $76

2. Quaxly [Horizons] — Surging Sparks #50 — $88

1. Quaxly — Paldea Evolved #206 — $303

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.

• Quaxly — Trick or Trade 2024 #50 — $30
• Quaxly — Paldea Evolved #50 — $19
• Quaxly [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #50 — $17

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

Where Quaxly is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	6	6	$103
Japanese	6	6	$57
Korean	1	1	$30
English	13	13	$303
All 4 lines	26	26	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 6 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 78.7% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$251	78.7%
Ranked 5 – 10	2	$68	21.3%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	6	$318	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Quaxly [Horizons Full Art] #509 — CBB1C #509. $103, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Quaxly [Full Art] #508 — CBB1C #508. $31. 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 Quaxly card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Quaxly [Horizons Full Art] #509 carries the highest tracked value at $103. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Quaxly 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 Quaxly card leads the Japanese list?

Quaxly #19/M-P from Promo at $57. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Quaxly card leads the English list?

Quaxly #206 from Paldea Evolved at $303.

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

Quaxly 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.

• Quaxly — Triple Beat #81 — $30

A further 4 Korean printings of Quaxly 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 ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Meowth, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the other Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Fuecoco, Crocalor and Quaxwell — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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 Fuecoco cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Fuecoco leads at $354 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.

Fuecoco appears on 8 Chinese-exclusive printings, 5 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 11 Japanese, 1 Korean and 19 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Fuecoco carries 8 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Fuecoco [Horizons Full Art] #309 (CBB1C) at $97. 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.

8. Fuecoco [Shiny] — CBB1C #306 — $35

7. Fuecoco [Masterball] — CBB1C #305 — $37

6. Fuecoco — CBB1C #301 — $38

5. Fuecoco [Pokeball] — CBB1C #302 — $39

4. Fuecoco [Rotary] — CBB1C #304 — $40

3. Fuecoco [Stamped] — CBB1C #307 — $43

2. Fuecoco [Full Art] — CBB1C #308 — $76

1. Fuecoco [Horizons Full Art] — CBB1C #309 — $97

This line only yields 8 priced printings for Fuecoco. 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. Fuecoco — Super Electric Breaker #17 — $36

9. Fuecoco — Triplet Beat #17 — $36

8. Fuecoco — Triplet Beat #18 — $36

7. Fuecoco ex — 30th Celebration #9 — $37

6. Fuecoco — Promo #18/M-P — $45

5. Fuecoco — Triplet Beat #78 — $58

4. Fuecoco [Reverse Holo] — Shiny Treasure ex #30 — $60

3. Fuecoco — Shiny Treasure ex #215 — $64

2. Fuecoco ex — 30th Celebration #124 — $105

1. Fuecoco — Promo #214/SV-P — $115

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.

• Fuecoco — Shiny Treasure ex #30 — $16

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. Fuecoco [Holo] — Paldea Evolved #34 — $38

9. Fuecoco ex — 30th Celebration #15 — $38

8. Fuecoco — Promo #2 — $42

7. Fuecoco — Paradox Rift #23 — $45

6. Fuecoco — Promo #192 — $56

5. Fuecoco — Surging Sparks #29 — $68

4. Fuecoco [Horizons] — Surging Sparks #29 — $72

3. Fuecoco — Trick or Trade 2024 #23 — $100

2. Fuecoco ex — 30th Celebration #147 — $139

1. Fuecoco — Paldea Evolved #201 — $354

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.

• Fuecoco — McDonalds 2023 #2 — $35
• Fuecoco — Promo #79 — $35
• Fuecoco [Reverse Holo] — Paradox Rift #23 — $33
• Fuecoco [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #34 — $32
• Fuecoco [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #35 — $32
• Fuecoco — Paldea Evolved #34 — $31
• Fuecoco [Horizons Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #29 — $18
• Fuecoco [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #29 — $18
• Fuecoco — Paldea Evolved #35 — $13

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

Where Fuecoco is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	8	8	$97
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$105
Japanese	11	11	$115
Korean	1	1	$28
English	19	19	$354
All 5 lines	40	40	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 8 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 63.1% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$256	63.1%
Ranked 5 – 10	4	$149	36.9%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	8	$405	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Fuecoco [Horizons Full Art] #309 — CBB1C #309. $97, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Fuecoco [Shiny] #306 — CBB1C #306. $35. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Fuecoco card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Fuecoco [Horizons Full Art] #309 carries the highest tracked value at $97. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Fuecoco card leads the Japanese list?

Fuecoco #214/SV-P from Promo at $115. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Fuecoco card leads the English list?

Fuecoco #201 from Paldea Evolved at $354.

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. 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

Fuecoco 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.

• Fuecoco ex — 30th Celebration #124 — $105

A further 3 Traditional Chinese printings of Fuecoco 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.

• Fuecoco — Triple Beat #78 — $28

A further 6 Korean printings of Fuecoco 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 ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Meowth, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the other Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Crocalor, Quaxly and Quaxwell — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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 Meowth cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Meowth [Corocoro Glossy] leads at $10,964 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.

Meowth appears on 9 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 4 Traditional Chinese printings, 67 Japanese, 6 Korean and 92 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Meowth carries 9 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 Meowth #207 (CBB3C) at $170. 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.

9. Meowth — csv8C #162 — $35

8. Meowth [Rotary] — CBB3C #204 — $37

7. Meowth [Pokeball] — CBB3C #202 — $37

6. Meowth [Stars] — CBB3C #203 — $37

5. Meowth — CBB3C #201 — $38

4. Meowth — 151C #52 — $38

3. Meowth [Masterball] — CBB3C #205 — $38

2. Meowth [Stamped] — CBB3C #206 — $46

1. Meowth — CBB3C #207 — $170

This line only yields 9 priced printings for Meowth. Another 3 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.

• Team Rocket’s Meowth [Collector’s Set Stamped] — Promo #219/SV-P — $100

A further 4 Simplified Chinese printings of Meowth 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. Meowth M — Movie Commemoration Random #17 — $869

9. Meowth — Promo #62/ADV-P — $956

8. Meowth — Expedition Expansion Pack #29 — $1,141

7. Meowth — Red Collection #72 — $1,566

6. Meowth — Promo #29/ADV-P — $1,575

5. Rocket’s Meowth — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #59 — $1,610

4. Rocket’s Meowth [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #59 — $1,692

3. Meowth — CD Promo #52 — $3,938

2. Meowth [Game Boy Promo] — Promo #52 — $4,950

1. Meowth [Corocoro Glossy] — Promo #52 — $10,964

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.

• Meowth [1st Edition] — Split Earth #62 — $843
• Team Rocket’s Meowth — Web #39 — $778
• Meowth — Split Earth #62 — $737
• Meowth — Holon Phantom #38 — $708
• Team Rocket’s Meowth [1st Edition] — Web #39 — $616
• Meowth [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #38 — $572
• Meowth [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #29 — $500
• Meowth — Bandit Ring #61 — $479
• Meowth — Rocket Gang #52 — $473
• Meowth — Jungle #52 — $441
• Giovanni’s Meowth — Challenge from the Darkness #52 — $408
• Meowth [Hail Blizzard] — Promo #105/BW-P — $406
• Meowth — Bulbasaur Deck #16 — $338
• Meowth [1st Edition] — Holon Research #59 — $333
• Meowth — Cruel Traitor #44 — $319
• Meowth [Reverse Holo] — SoulSilver Collection #53 — $306
• Meowth — Ash vs Rocket Deck Kit #13 — $250
• Meowth [1st Edition] — Web #39 — $190
• Alolan Meowth — Promo #32/SMP-P — $180
• Meowth [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #44 — $152
• Giovanni’s Meowth [Lv 17] — Challenge from the Darkness #52 — $140
• Meowth — Holon Research #59 — $127
• Meowth — SoulSilver Collection #53 — $120
• Meowth — Starter Pack #42 — $120
• Meowth [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #61 — $102
• Meowth — Double Blaze #67 — $101
• Team Rocket’s Meowth — Promo #259/SV-P — $100
• Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Tag All Stars #105 — $98
• Meowth — Promo #192/SV-P — $97
• Meowth — Tag All Stars #105 — $97

And 21 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. Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #53 — $1,199

9. Meowth — Promo #13 — $1,338

8. Meowth — Delta Species #77 — $2,059

7. Meowth [Gold Border] — Jungle #56 — $2,380

6. Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #77 — $2,768

5. Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #121 — $4,712

4. Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #78 — $5,037

3. Rocket’s Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #46 — $5,048

2. Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Legends Awakened #106 — $8,000

1. Meowth — Promo #10 — $9,250

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.

• Meowth — Noble Victories #102 — $1,003
• Meowth [Toys R Us] — Generations #53 — $939
• Meowth — Skyridge #78 — $901
• Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #125 — $700
• Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #80 — $630
• Meowth — Generations #53 — $535
• Giovanni’s Meowth [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #43 — $500
• Rocket’s Meowth — Team Rocket Returns #46 — $415
• Giovanni’s Meowth [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #74 — $406
• Meowth — Legendary Collection #53 — $395
• Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #114 — $390
• Meowth [20th Anniversary Stamp] — Generations #53 — $390
• Meowth [1st Edition] — Jungle #56 — $370
• Giovanni’s Meowth — Gym Challenge #43 — $298
• Meowth — Expedition #121 — $296
• Meowth — POP Series 5 #11 — $284
• Team Rocket’s Meowth — Promo #18 — $271
• Meowth — Base Set 2 #80 — $270
• Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #71 — $269
• Meowth ex — Perfect Order #121 — $260
• Meowth — McDonalds 2016 #11 — $249
• Team Rocket’s Meowth — Destined Rivals #203 — $220
• Meowth [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #62 — $219
• Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Generations #53 — $200
• Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Shrouded Fable #48 — $180
• Meowth — Jungle #56 — $173
• Meowth — Phantasmal Flames #106 — $130
• Meowth — Legends Awakened #106 — $126
• Meowth — 30th Celebration #144 — $121
• Meowth [Reverse Holo] — Burning Shadows #101 — $120

And 37 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Meowth is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	9	9	$170
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$100
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	4	4	$516
Japanese	67	67	$10,964
Korean	6	6	$243
English	92	92	$9,250
All 6 lines	179	179	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 9 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 61.4% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$292	61.4%
Ranked 5 – 10	5	$184	38.6%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	9	$476	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Meowth #207 — CBB3C #207. $170, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Meowth #162 — csv8C #162. $35. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Meowth card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Meowth #207 carries the highest tracked value at $170. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Meowth card leads the Japanese list?

Meowth [Corocoro Glossy] #52 from Promo at $10,964. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Meowth card leads the English list?

Meowth #10 from Promo at $9,250.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (4 printings listed here) and Korean (6 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

Meowth 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)

4 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.

• Meowth ex — m3 #114 — $516
• Alolan Meowth — 30th Celebration #115 — $99
• Meowth — 30th Celebration #120 — $72
• Galarian Meowth — 30th Celebration #117 — $59

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

Korean printings

6 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.

• Meowth ex — Nihil Zero #114 — $243
• Meowth ex — Nihil Zero #100 — $74
• Meowth — Night Wanderer #48 — $47
• Team Rocket’s Meowth — Glory Of Team Rocket #109 — $45
• Meowth ex — Nihil Zero #61 — $40
• Meowth — Eevee Heroes #55 — $36

A further 15 Korean printings of Meowth 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 ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Fuecoco, Crocalor, Quaxly and Quaxwell — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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 Chandelure cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Chandelure leads at $1,584 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.

Chandelure appears on 8 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 32 Japanese, 2 Korean and 43 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Chandelure carries 8 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 Chandelure #1107 (CBB3C) at $83. 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.

8. Chandelure VMAX — CS4bC #158 — $20

7. Chandelure [Pokeball] — CBB3C #1102 — $33

6. Chandelure [Stars] — CBB3C #1103 — $36

5. Chandelure [Masterball] — CBB3C #1105 — $38

4. Chandelure — CBB3C #1101 — $39

3. Chandelure [Stamped] — CBB3C #1106 — $39

2. Chandelure [Rotary] — CBB3C #1104 — $39

1. Chandelure — CBB3C #1107 — $83

This line only yields 8 priced printings for Chandelure. 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. Chandelure — Red Collection #36 — $76

9. Chandelure [1st Edition] — Hail Blizzard #14 — $85

8. Chandelure — Fever-Burst Fighter #27 — $89

7. Chandelure — Hail Blizzard #14 — $93

6. Chandelure [1st Edition] — Fever-Burst Fighter #27 — $100

5. Mega Chandelure ex — Abyss Eye #97 — $104

4. Chandelure EX [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #61 — $122

3. Chandelure EX — EX Battle Boost #61 — $125

2. Chandelure — Spiral Force #9 — $150

1. Chandelure — Hail Blizzard #57 — $1,584†

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.

• Chandelure [1st Edition] — Phantom Gate #42 — $75
• Chandelure — Fairy Rise #23 — $66
• Chandelure — Premium Champion Pack #59 — $65
• Chandelure — Phantom Gate #42 — $63
• Chandelure [Master Ball] — Black Bolt #17 — $60
• Chandelure — 30th Celebration #112 — $53
• Chandelure — GX Battle Boost #17 — $47
• Chandelure — Alolan Moonlight #5 — $44
• Mega Chandelure ex — Abyss Eye #113 — $44
• Mega Chandelure ex — Abyss Eye #36 — $43
• Chandelure — Black Bolt #102 — $43
• Chandelure VMAX — Fusion Arts #116 — $42
• Chandelure V — Fusion Arts #14 — $41
• Chandelure — Mask of Change #21 — $41
• Chandelure — GG End #7 — $41
• Chandelure [Poke Ball] — Black Bolt #17 — $40
• Chandelure — Black Bolt #17 — $39
• Chandelure VMAX — Fusion Arts #15 — $37
• Chandelure — 30th Celebration #62 — $36
• Chandelure — Battle Region #69 — $35
• Chandelure V — Fusion Arts #102 — $34
• Chandelure — Battle Region #14 — $16

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. Chandelure — Noble Victories #60 — $164

9. Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #50 — $180

8. Chandelure — Steam Siege #50 — $183

7. Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Noble Victories #60 — $233

6. Chandelure — Next Destinies #20 — $294

5. Chandelure — White Flare #103 — $312

4. Chandelure — Plasma Freeze #16 — $325

3. Mega Chandelure ex — Pitch Black #115 — $346

2. Chandelure — Phantom Forces #43 — $350

1. Chandelure — Next Destinies #101 — $1,401

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.

• Chandelure EX — Legendary Treasures #77 — $129
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Next Destinies #20 — $120
• Chandelure VMAX — Fusion Strike #265 — $115
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #16 — $110
• Chandelure VMAX — Fusion Strike #40 — $90
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #38 — $82
• Chandelure [Master Ball] — White Flare #18 — $80
• Mega Chandelure ex — Pitch Black #99 — $74
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Phantom Forces #43 — $65
• Chandelure — 30th Celebration #137 — $57
• Chandelure — Rebel Clash #33 — $53
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Unified Minds #30 — $48
• Chandelure V — Fusion Strike #247 — $47
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #103 — $45
• Chandelure — Trick or Trade 2024 #38 — $44
• Chandelure [Holo] — Trick or Trade 2023 #26 — $43
• Chandelure — Unified Minds #30 — $40
• Chandelure V — Fusion Strike #39 — $40
• Mega Chandelure ex — Pitch Black #38 — $38
• Chandelure — White Flare #18 — $38
• Chandelure [Reverse] — White Flare #18 — $37
• Chandelure — Guardians Rising #13 — $35
• Chandelure [Poke Ball] — White Flare #18 — $35
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Guardians Rising #13 — $35
• Chandelure — 30th Celebration #75 — $33
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Rebel Clash #33 — $33
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Lost Origin #26 — $32
• Chandelure [Holo] — Trick or Trade 2022 #33 — $32
• Chandelure — Lost Origin #26 — $32
• Chandelure [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #38 — $32

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

Where Chandelure is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	8	8	$83
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$49
Japanese	32	32	$1,584
Korean	2	2	$164
English	43	43	$1,401
All 5 lines	86	86	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 8 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 60.9% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$200	60.9%
Ranked 5 – 10	4	$128	39.1%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	8	$329	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Chandelure #1107 — CBB3C #1107. $83, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Chandelure VMAX #158 — CS4bC #158. $20. 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 Chandelure card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Chandelure #1107 carries the highest tracked value at $83. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Chandelure card leads the Japanese list?

Chandelure #57 from Hail Blizzard at $1,584. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Chandelure card leads the English list?

Chandelure #101 from Next Destinies at $1,401.

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

Chandelure 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.

• Chandelure — 30th Celebration #112 — $49

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

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.

• Mega Chandelure ex — Abyss Eye #113 — $164
• Mega Chandelure ex — Abyss Eye #97 — $68

A further 8 Korean printings of Chandelure 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 ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Meowth, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Fuecoco, Crocalor, Quaxly and Quaxwell — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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 Sprigatito cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Sprigatito leads at $343 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.

Sprigatito appears on 8 Chinese-exclusive printings, 5 further Simplified Chinese printings, 2 Traditional Chinese printings, 12 Japanese, 1 Korean and 16 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Sprigatito carries 8 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Sprigatito [Horizons Full Art] #109 (CBB1C) at $130. 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.

8. Sprigatito [Pokeball] — CBB1C #102 — $36

7. Sprigatito — CBB1C #101 — $37

6. Sprigatito [Masterball] — CBB1C #105 — $38

5. Sprigatito [Rotary] — CBB1C #104 — $38

4. Sprigatito [Shiny] — CBB1C #106 — $40

3. Sprigatito [Stamped] — CBB1C #107 — $40

2. Sprigatito [Full Art] — CBB1C #108 — $80

1. Sprigatito [Horizons Full Art] — CBB1C #109 — $130

This line only yields 8 priced printings for Sprigatito. Another 2 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The Japanese list

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

10. Sprigatito — Battle Partners #10 — $35

9. Sprigatito — Triplet Beat #5 — $36

8. Sprigatito — Triplet Beat #4 — $36

7. Sprigatito — Shiny Treasure ex #12 — $36

6. Sprigatito — Promo #17/M-P — $39

5. Sprigatito ex — Start Deck 100 #68 — $41

4. Sprigatito — Start Deck 100 #65 — $41

3. Sprigatito — Triplet Beat #75 — $55

2. Sprigatito — Shiny Treasure ex #201 — $73

1. Sprigatito ex — Start Deck 100 #757 — $81

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.

• Sprigatito ex — Battle Academy #2 — $33
• Sprigatito — Promo #213/SV-P — $7

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

The English list

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

10. Sprigatito [Holo] — Paldea Evolved #13 — $38

9. Sprigatito [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #13 — $40

8. Sprigatito ex — Promo #87 — $41

7. Sprigatito ex — Ascended Heroes #251 — $59

6. Sprigatito — Promo #76 — $59

5. Sprigatito — Paldea Evolved #12 — $69

4. Sprigatito — Promo #191 — $72

3. Sprigatito [Holo] — Promo #1 — $78

2. Sprigatito [Horizons] — Paldea Evolved #12 — $106

1. Sprigatito — Paldea Evolved #196 — $343

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.

• Sprigatito — Trick or Trade 2024 #12 — $32
• Sprigatito — Paldea Evolved #13 — $31
• Sprigatito — Journey Together #16 — $31
• Sprigatito [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #12 — $27
• Sprigatito [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #16 — $23
• Sprigatito [Holo] — McDonalds 2023 #1 — $22

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

Where Sprigatito is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	8	8	$130
Japanese	12	12	$81
Korean	1	1	$79
English	16	16	$343
All 4 lines	37	37	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 8 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 66.1% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$290	66.1%
Ranked 5 – 10	4	$149	33.9%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	8	$439	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Sprigatito [Horizons Full Art] #109 — CBB1C #109. $130, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Sprigatito [Pokeball] #102 — CBB1C #102. $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 Sprigatito card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Sprigatito [Horizons Full Art] #109 carries the highest tracked value at $130. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Sprigatito card leads the Japanese list?

Sprigatito ex #757 from Start Deck 100 Battle Collection at $81. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Sprigatito card leads the English list?

Sprigatito #196 from Paldea Evolved at $343.

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

Sprigatito 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.

• Sprigatito — Triple Beat #75 — $79

A further 4 Korean printings of Sprigatito 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 ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Meowth, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the other Paldea starter lines — Floragato, Fuecoco, Crocalor, Quaxly and Quaxwell — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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 Ponyta cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Ponyta [Reverse Holo] leads at $3,480 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.

Ponyta appears on 8 Chinese-exclusive printings, 33 Japanese, 3 Korean and 50 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Ponyta carries 8 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 Ponyta #107 (CBB4C) at $402. 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.

8. Ponyta — 151C #77 — $36

7. Ponyta — CBB4C #105 — $37

6. Ponyta — CBB4C #102 — $38

5. Ponyta — CBB4C #103 — $39

4. Ponyta — CBB4C #104 — $39

3. Ponyta — CBB4C #101 — $40

2. Ponyta — CBB4C #106 — $45

1. Ponyta — CBB4C #107 — $402

This line only yields 8 priced printings for Ponyta. 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. Ponyta [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #7 — $183

9. Ponyta — Expedition Expansion Pack #7 — $196

8. Ponyta [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #24 — $206

7. Ponyta [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #10 — $210

6. Ponyta [Series III] — Vending #77 — $282

5. Ponyta — Expansion Pack #77 — $290

4. Ponyta — Rocket Gang #77 — $340

3. Ponyta [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #77 — $541

2. Ponyta — Advent of Arceus #19 — $566

1. Ponyta [1st Edition] — Advent of Arceus #19 — $1,247

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 Ponyta — Challenge from the Darkness #77 — $174
• Ponyta — Advent of Arceus #18 — $162
• Ponyta — Clash at the Summit #10 — $150
• Ponyta [1st Edition] — Flight of Legends #22 — $123
• Ponyta [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #19 — $120
• Ponyta — Start Deck 100 #87 — $110
• Ponyta — Flight of Legends #22 — $99
• Ponyta [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #13 — $98
• Ponyta [1st Edition] — Arceus LV.X Deck #6 — $87
• Ponyta [1st Edition] — Advent of Arceus #18 — $84
• Ponyta — Wild Blaze #12 — $75
• Ponyta — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #13 — $72
• Ponyta [1st Edition] — Wild Blaze #12 — $71
• Ponyta — Starter Pack #12 — $64
• Ponyta — Heat Wave Arena #13 — $37
• Ponyta — Paradigm Trigger #10 — $36
• Ponyta — Classic: Charizard #4 — $36
• Ponyta — Wind from the Sea #24 — $35
• Ponyta — Space Juggler #11 — $35
• Ponyta [1st Edition] — Fever-Burst Fighter #6 — $34
• Galarian Ponyta — Promo #25/S-P — $30
• Galarian Ponyta — Shiny Star V #246 — $29
• Galarian Ponyta — Shiny Star V #67 — $25

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. Ponyta — Expedition #126 — $191

9. Ponyta [Shadowless] — Base Set #60 — $199

8. Ponyta — Triumphant #72 — $253

7. Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #46 — $269

6. Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #78 — $270

5. Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #126 — $293

4. Ponyta — Evolutions #19 — $301

3. Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #102 — $417

2. Ponyta [1st Edition] — Base Set #60 — $619

1. Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #87 — $3,480

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.

• Ponyta — Aquapolis #102 — $172
• Blaine’s Ponyta [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #63 — $157
• Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Stormfront #71 — $146
• Ponyta — Base Set #60 — $140
• Ponyta — Silver Tempest #21 — $139
• Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Arceus #72 — $125
• Ponyta [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #64 — $113
• Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #72 — $112
• Blaine’s Ponyta [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #64 — $106
• Ponyta [Toys R Us] — Generations #14 — $105
• Ponyta — Steam Siege #16 — $98
• Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Evolutions #19 — $97
• Ponyta — Delta Species #78 — $83
• Ponyta [1999-2000] — Base Set #60 — $74
• Ponyta — Team Rocket #64 — $69
• Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Stellar Crown #19 — $68
• Ponyta — Stormfront #71 — $62
• Ponyta — Legendary Collection #87 — $62
• Ponyta — Destined Rivals #29 — $60
• Ponyta — Arceus #46 — $58
• Ponyta — Generations #14 — $56
• Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Generations #14 — $51
• Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Flashfire #14 — $49
• Ponyta — Arceus #72 — $46
• Ponyta — Team Up #17 — $45
• Blaine’s Ponyta — Gym Heroes #63 — $44
• Blaine’s Ponyta — Gym Challenge #64 — $42
• Ponyta — Flashfire #14 — $39
• Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #16 — $37
• Ponyta [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #17 — $35

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

Where Ponyta is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	8	8	$402
Japanese	33	33	$1,247
English	50	50	$3,480
All 3 lines	91	91	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 8 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 77.8% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$526	77.8%
Ranked 5 – 10	4	$150	22.2%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	8	$676	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Ponyta #107 — CBB4C #107. $402, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Ponyta #107 — CBB4C #107. $402, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Ponyta #77 — 151C #77. $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 Ponyta card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Ponyta #107 carries the highest tracked value at $402. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Ponyta card leads the Japanese list?

Ponyta [1st Edition] #19 from Advent of Arceus at $1,247. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Ponyta card leads the English list?

Ponyta [Reverse Holo] #87 from Legendary Collection at $3,480.

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

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

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Other character rankings

Each character ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Meowth, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Fuecoco, Crocalor, Quaxly and Quaxwell — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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 Applin cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Applin leads at $547 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.

Applin appears on 7 Chinese-exclusive printings, 11 Japanese, 1 Korean and 21 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Applin carries 7 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings. The head of the list is Applin #1907 (CBB6C) at $547. 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. Applin — CBB5C #2005 — $35

6. Applin — CBB5C #2007 — $36

5. Applin — csv8C #23 — $37

4. Applin — CBB5C #2003 — $37

3. Applin — CBB5C #2006 — $39

2. Applin — CBB5C #2004 — $39

1. Applin — CBB6C #1907 — $547

This line only yields 7 priced printings for Applin. Another 12 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. Applin — Shiny Star V #211 — $26

9. Applin [Master Ball] — Terastal Festival #8 — $28

8. Applin — Crimson Haze #77 — $34

7. Applin — Mask of Change #11 — $35

6. Applin — Stellar Miracle #10 — $35

5. Applin — Heat Wave Arena #9 — $36

4. Applin — Paradise Dragona #45 — $37

3. Applin — VMAX Climax #12 — $37

2. Applin — Shiny Star V #17 — $39

1. Applin [Poke Ball] — Terastal Festival #8 — $39

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.

• Applin — Terastal Festival #8 — $25

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. Applin — Rebel Clash #20 — $32

9. Applin [Reverse Holo] — Destined Rivals #16 — $32

8. Applin [Reverse Holo] — Stellar Crown #12 — $32

7. Applin [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #126 — $33

6. Applin [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #138 — $33

5. Applin [Reverse Holo] — Twilight Masquerade #17 — $33

4. Applin [Poke Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #9 — $38

3. Applin — Destined Rivals #16 — $60

2. Applin [Master Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #9 — $95

1. Applin — Twilight Masquerade #185 — $100

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Applin [Reverse Holo] — Rebel Clash #20 — $32
• Applin — Surging Sparks #138 — $32
• Applin — Rebel Clash #21 — $31
• Applin — Twilight Masquerade #17 — $31
• Applin — Evolving Skies #17 — $31
• Applin [Reverse Holo] — Evolving Skies #17 — $31
• Applin — Stellar Crown #12 — $31
• Applin — Prismatic Evolutions #9 — $31
• Applin [Reverse Holo] — Rebel Clash #21 — $15
• Applin — Twilight Masquerade #126 — $12
• Applin [Reverse] — Prismatic Evolutions #9 — $10

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

Where Applin is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	7	7	$547
Japanese	11	11	$39
Korean	1	1	$44
English	21	21	$100
All 4 lines	40	40	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 7 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 86.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$661	86.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	3	$108	14.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	7	$769	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Applin #1907 — CBB6C #1907. $547, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Applin #1907 — CBB6C #1907. $547, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Applin #2005 — CBB5C #2005. $35. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Applin card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Applin #1907 carries the highest tracked value at $547. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

How many Applin 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 Applin card leads the Japanese list?

Applin [Poke Ball] #8 from Terastal Festival at $39. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Applin card leads the English list?

Applin #185 from Twilight Masquerade at $100.

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

Applin 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.

• Applin — Crimson Haze #77 — $44

A further 7 Korean printings of Applin 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 ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Gengar, Ceruledge, Floragato, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, and the nine forms of the Eevee family — Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.

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.