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Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Espeon cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Espeon [Gold Star] leads at $64,180 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.

Espeon appears on 22 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 56 Japanese, 9 Korean and 62 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Espeon carries 22 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 Espeon VMAX #169 (CS4aC) at $244. 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.

10. Espeon [Rotary] — CBB2C #508 — $39

9. Espeon [Stars] — CBB2C #505 — $39

8. Espeon V — CBB2C #513 — $41

7. Espeon V — CS4aC #58 — $42

6. Espeon VMAX — CBB2C #514 — $50

5. Espeon & Deoxys GX — CSM2bC #166 — $77

4. Espeon & Deoxys GX — CSM2bC #35 — $87

3. Espeon V — CS4aC #146 — $131

2. Espeon ex — csv9.5C #232 — $153

1. Espeon VMAX — CS4aC #169 — $244

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.

• Espeon [Rotary] — CBB2C #507 — $39
• Espeon [Stars] — CBB2C #506 — $39
• Espeon — CBB2C #502 — $39
• Espeon [Masterball] — CBB2C #510 — $39
• Espeon V — CS4aC #145 — $37
• Espeon [Pokeball] — CBB2C #504 — $37
• Espeon [Pokeball] — CBB2C #503 — $36
• Espeon [Stamped] — CBB2C #511 — $36
• Espeon [Stamped] — CBB2C #512 — $34
• Espeon [Masterball] — CBB2C #509 — $34
• Espeon VMAX — CS4aC #59 — $21
• Espeon — CBB2C #501 — $16

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

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.

• Espeon GX — CSMYC #3 — $100
• Espeon VMAX — Start Deck 100 #173 — $45

A further 1 Simplified Chinese printings of Espeon 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. Espeon — Magma vs Aqua #40 — $1,810

9. Espeon — The Town on No Map #46 — $1,995

8. Espeon [1st Edition] — Holon Research #49 — $2,051

7. Espeon — Crossing the Ruins #196 — $2,074

6. Espeon [1st Edition] — Magma vs Aqua #40 — $2,099

5. Dark Espeon — Darkness and to Light #196 — $2,200

4. Espeon — Holon Research #49 — $2,353

3. Espeon [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #46 — $3,350

2. Espeon ex [1st Edition] — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #41 — $6,701

1. Espeon ex — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #41 — $9,140

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.

• Sabrina’s Espeon — VS #56 — $1,353
• Will’s Espeon — VS #76 — $1,100
• Espeon [1st Edition] — Reviving Legends #24 — $1,075
• Espeon — Promo #187/BW-P — $987
• Annie’s Espeon — Limited VS #007 — $964
• Espeon EX — Rage of the Broken Heavens #84 — $923
• Espeon — Neo Premium File #196 — $786
• Annie’s Espeon — Promo #7 — $749
• Espeon [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #45 — $748
• Espeon — Reviving Legends #24 — $744
• Espeon & Deoxys GX — Tag All Stars #177 — $735
• Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Reviving Legends #24 — $684
• Espeon GX — Collection Sun #68 — $592
• Espeon GX [League Yokohama] — Promo #124/SM-P — $570
• Espeon — Dawn Dash #163 — $500
• Espeon VMAX — Promo #189/S-P — $406
• Espeon — Spiral Force #24 — $359
• Espeon 4 — Gallade Half Deck #6 — $330
• Espeon V — Eevee Heroes #81 — $287
• Espeon & Deoxys GX — Tag All Stars #212 — $280
• Espeon GX — Collection Sun #62 — $270
• Espeon GX — GX Ultra Shiny #220 — $267
• Espeon EX — Best of XY #45 — $255
• Espeon & Deoxys GX — Tag All Stars #176 — $230
• Espeon — Dark Rush #33 — $220
• Espeon [Nagaba] — Promo #66/SV-P — $191
• Espeon — The Town on No Map #45 — $182
• Espeon EX — Rage of the Broken Heavens #35 — $172
• Espeon ex — Terastal Festival #211 — $132
• Espeon GX — Collection Sun #24 — $126

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

The English list

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

10. Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #18 — $4,987

9. Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #4 — $5,206

8. Espeon — Neo Discovery #1 — $7,643

7. Espeon — Call of Legends #4 — $9,999

6. Dark Espeon — Neo Destiny #4 — $11,969

5. Espeon — Undaunted #81 — $15,047

4. Espeon EX — Unseen Forces #102 — $22,380

3. Espeon [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #1 — $30,810

2. Dark Espeon [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #4 — $31,027

1. Espeon [Gold Star] — POP Series 5 #16 — $64,180

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.

• Espeon [National Championships] — Promo #48 — $4,237
• Espeon — Delta Species #4 — $3,914
• Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #11 — $3,600
• Espeon ex — World Championships 2007 #102 — $2,534
• Espeon EX — BREAKpoint #117 — $2,148
• Espeon [Box Topper] — Aquapolis #6 — $1,939
• Espeon [Holo] — Undaunted #2 — $1,875
• Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #16 — $1,569
• Espeon ex — World Championships 2006 #102 — $1,200
• Espeon ex — Prismatic Evolutions #155 — $1,041
• Espeon [Cosmos Holo] — Prismatic Evolutions #33 — $890
• Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #48 — $858
• Espeon [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #20 — $774
• Espeon — Undaunted #2 — $675
• Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #86 — $673
• Espeon VMAX — Fusion Strike #270 — $655
• Espeon & Deoxys GX — Unified Minds #72 — $653
• Espeon — Aquapolis #11 — $614
• Espeon — Neo Discovery #20 — $544
• Espeon & Deoxys GX — World Championships 2019 #72 — $543
• Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #4 — $482
• Espeon V — Evolving Skies #180 — $480
• Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #18 — $426
• Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #89 — $420
• Espeon [Cosmos Holo] — Lost Thunder #89 — $400
• Espeon [Cracked Ice Holo] — Undaunted #2 — $400
• Espeon [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #48 — $387
• Espeon EX — BREAKpoint #52 — $328
• Espeon — Sandstorm #16 — $325
• Espeon ex [Prize Pack] — Prismatic Evolutions #34 — $295

And 10 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Espeon is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	22	22	$244
Simplified Chinese — other printings	2	2	$100
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$242
Japanese	56	56	$9,140
Korean	9	9	$113
English	62	62	$64,180
All 6 lines	152	152	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 22 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 47.1% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$616	47.1%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$288	22.0%
Ranked 11 and below	12	$404	30.9%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	22	$1,308	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Espeon VMAX #169 — CS4aC #169. $244, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Espeon VMAX #169 — CS4aC #169. $244, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Espeon #501 — CBB2C #501. $16. 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 Espeon card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Espeon VMAX #169 carries the highest tracked value at $244. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Espeon card leads the Japanese list?

Espeon ex #41 from Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean at $9,140. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Espeon card leads the English list?

Espeon [Gold Star] #16 from POP Series 5 at $64,180.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (1 printings listed here) and Korean (9 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

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

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

1 printings

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

• Espeon — 30th Celebration #58 — $242

Korean printings

9 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.

• Espeon V — Eevee Heroes #81 — $113
• Espeon ex — Terastal Festival ex #211 — $100
• Espeon ex — Promo #142/SV-P — $48
• Espeon V — Eevee Heroes #35 — $47
• Espeon — Promo #107/S-P — $43
• Espeon V — Eevee Heroes #80 — $40
• Espeon ex — Terastal Festival ex #63 — $31
• Espeon — Terastal Festival ex #62 — $28
• Espeon VMAX — Start Deck 100 #173 — $20

A further 8 Korean printings of Espeon 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 cards in the family

Espeon is one of nine evolution forms, and each has its own ranking on this site: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Leafeon and Glaceon are published, and the rest of the family follows. For characters outside the Eevee line, Pikachu, Charizard and Psyduck are ranked separately. If you are looking at 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.

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

Sources

Sources and further reading

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

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

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Sylveon cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX leads at $4,100 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.

Sylveon appears on 28 Chinese-exclusive printings, 4 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 39 Japanese, 8 Korean and 39 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Sylveon carries 28 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, which is a deep run for one character. The head of the list is Sylveon Ex #234 (csv9.5C) at $700. 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.

10. Sylveon V — CS4aC #147 — $56

9. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — CSM2cC #72 — $57

8. Sylveon VMAX — CS4aC #69 — $60

7. Sylveon VMAX — CS4aC #161 — $75

6. Sylveon V — CS4aC #148 — $170

5. Sylveon — CBB2C #915 — $240

4. Sylveon VMAX — CS4aC #171 — $337

3. Sylveon ex — csv9.5C #233 — $360

2. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — CSM2cC #167 — $376

1. Sylveon ex — csv9.5C #234 — $700

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.

• Sylveon VMAX — CBB2C #914 — $50
• Sylveon [Stars] — CBB2C #906 — $50
• Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — CSM2cC #166 — $44
• Sylveon [Rotary] — CBB2C #908 — $43
• Sylveon V — CS4aC #68 — $43
• Sylveon [Stamped] — CBB2C #911 — $40
• Sylveon [Stars] — CBB2C #905 — $40
• Sylveon [Pokeball] — CBB2C #904 — $39
• Sylveon — CBB2C #902 — $39
• Sylveon [Rotary] — CBB2C #907 — $38
• Sylveon [Pokeball] — CBB2C #903 — $38
• Sylveon [Stamped] — CBB2C #912 — $37
• Sylveon V — CBB2C #913 — $36
• Sylveon — csv8C #87 — $35
• Sylveon [Masterball] — CBB2C #909 — $32
• Sylveon [Masterball] — CBB2C #910 — $32
• Sylveon — CBB2C #901 — $30
• Sylveon VMAX — CS4aC #170 — $29

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

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.

• Sylveon V [Elite 4 Finals] — Promo #199/SV-P — $1,874
• Sylveon GX — CSMYC #5 — $120
• Sylveon VMAX — Start Deck 100 #192 — $47
• Sylveon — CSM2.5C #35 — $46

A further 2 Simplified Chinese printings of Sylveon 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. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Night Unison #67 — $228

9. Sylveon ex — 30th Celebration #130 — $251

8. Sylveon V — Eevee Heroes #83 — $268

7. Sylveon #141/ XY-P — Promo #141/ — $390

6. Sylveon — Promo #91/XY-P — $401

5. Sylveon GX — GX Ultra Shiny #238 — $420

4. Sylveon EX — PokeKyun Collection #25 — $700

3. Sylveon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #93 — $1,273

2. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Night Unison #61 — $1,900

1. Sylveon EX — PokeKyun Collection #26 — $3,230

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.

• Sylveon [1st Edition] — Rising Fist #67 — $204
• Sylveon ex — Terastal Festival #212 — $187
• Sylveon [Nagaba] — Promo #70/SV-P — $183
• Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Night Unison #60 — $172
• Sylveon — Rising Fist #67 — $144
• Sylveon VMAX — VMAX Climax #232 — $143
• Sylveon GX — GX Battle Boost #73 — $125
• Sylveon V — VMAX Climax #231 — $112
• Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Night Unison #31 — $106
• Sylveon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #92 — $88
• Sylveon — Forbidden Light #61 — $82
• Sylveon V — Eevee Heroes #82 — $80
• Sylveon [Master Ball] — Terastal Festival #68 — $69
• Sylveon — Alter Genesis #64 — $65
• Sylveon — Go #35 — $49
• Sylveon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #41 — $49
• Sylveon — Terastal Festival #68 — $47
• Sylveon V — Start Deck 100 #191 — $45
• Sylveon VMAX — VMAX Climax #75 — $45
• Sylveon ex — Stellar Tera Starter Set Sylveon ex #5 — $45
• Sylveon V — Eevee Heroes #40 — $44
• Sylveon ex — Terastal Festival #69 — $44
• Sylveon — Night Wanderer #22 — $41
• Sylveon [Poke Ball] — Terastal Festival #68 — $41
• Sylveon V — VMAX Climax #74 — $38
• Sylveon — Marumiya #36 — $38
• Sylveon ex — 30th Celebration #59 — $37
• Sylveon VMAX — Start Deck 100 #192 — $33
• Sylveon ex — Start Deck 100 #299 — $20

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

The English list

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

10. Sylveon ex — 30th Celebration #153 — $371

9. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Unbroken Bonds #130 — $399

8. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Unbroken Bonds #204 — $402

7. Sylveon V — Evolving Skies #184 — $418

6. Sylveon GX — Guardians Rising #140 — $578

5. Sylveon VMAX — Evolving Skies #212 — $618

4. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Unbroken Bonds #225 — $638

3. Sylveon GX — Guardians Rising #158 — $1,150

2. Sylveon ex — Prismatic Evolutions #156 — $1,400

1. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — Unbroken Bonds #205 — $4,100

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.

• Sylveon [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #155 — $364
• Sylveon GX — Guardians Rising #92a — $298
• Sylveon ex [Prize Pack] — Surging Sparks #86 — $262
• Sylveon [Master Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #40 — $225
• Sylveon [Reverse Holo] — Furious Fists #72 — $214
• Sylveon GX — Guardians Rising #92 — $211
• Sylveon [Cosmos Holo] — Prismatic Evolutions #40 — $206
• Sylveon VMAX — Evolving Skies #211 — $136
• Sylveon [Reverse Holo] — Forbidden Light #87 — $135
• Sylveon V — Evolving Skies #183 — $127
• Sylveon [Pokemon Day 2025] — Prismatic Evolutions #40 — $121
• Dark Sylveon V [Jumbo] — Promo #134 — $108
• Sylveon — Furious Fists #72 — $100
• Sylveon — Promo #172 — $100
• Sylveon VMAX — Evolving Skies #75 — $98
• Sylveon [Reverse Holo] — Shrouded Fable #22 — $97
• Sylveon — Forbidden Light #87 — $88
• Sylveon V — Evolving Skies #74 — $86
• Sylveon ex [Stamped] — Prismatic Evolutions #41 — $82
• Sylveon — Cosmic Eclipse #155 — $78
• Sylveon [Reverse Holo] — Go #35 — $75
• Sylveon ex — Prismatic Evolutions #41 — $70
• Sylveon — Prismatic Evolutions #40 — $60
• Sylveon [Holo] — Go #35 — $60
• Sylveon [Poke Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #40 — $53
• Sylveon ex — Surging Sparks #86 — $46
• Sylveon [Reverse] — Prismatic Evolutions #40 — $42
• Sylveon ex — 30th Celebration #71 — $41
• Sylveon — Shrouded Fable #22 — $34

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

Where Sylveon is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	28	28	$700
Simplified Chinese — other printings	4	4	$1,874
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	1	1	$214
Japanese	39	39	$3,230
Korean	8	8	$260
English	39	39	$4,100
All 6 lines	119	119	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 28 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 56.8% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$1,773	56.8%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$659	21.1%
Ranked 11 and below	18	$692	22.2%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	28	$3,124	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Sylveon Ex #234 — csv9.5C #234. $700, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Sylveon Ex #234 — csv9.5C #234. $700, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Sylveon VMAX #170 — CS4aC #170. $29. 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 Sylveon card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Sylveon Ex #234 carries the highest tracked value at $700. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Sylveon card leads the Japanese list?

Sylveon EX #26 from PokeKyun Collection at $3,230. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Sylveon card leads the English list?

Gardevoir & Sylveon GX #205 from Unbroken Bonds at $4,100.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (1 printings listed here) and Korean (8 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

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

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

1 printings

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

• Sylveon ex — 30th Celebration #130 — $214

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

Korean printings

8 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.

• Sylveon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #93 — $260
• Sylveon ex — Terastal Festival ex #212 — $150
• Sylveon ex — Terastal Festival ex #69 — $109
• Sylveon V — Eevee Heroes #83 — $97
• Sylveon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #92 — $57
• Sylveon V — Eevee Heroes #40 — $40
• Sylveon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #41 — $37
• Sylveon V — Eevee Heroes #82 — $32

A further 11 Korean printings of Sylveon 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 cards in the family

Sylveon is one of nine evolution forms, and each has its own ranking on this site: Eevee and Umbreon are published, and the rest of the family follows. For characters outside the Eevee line, Pikachu, Charizard and Psyduck are ranked separately. If you are looking at 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 Umbreon cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Umbreon EX leads at $78,319 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.

Umbreon appears on 28 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 2 Traditional Chinese printings, 65 Japanese, 14 Korean and 65 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Umbreon is the one Eeveelution that trades like a top-tier chase character rather than a fan favourite, and the Japanese printings are where that reputation was built. The head of the list is Umbreon VMAX #173 (CS4aC) at $1,326. 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.

10. Umbreon [Poke Ball] — csv4C #76 — $81‡

9. Umbreon V — CS4aC #151 — $116‡

8. Umbreon & Darkrai GX — CSM2cC #44 — $119

7. Umbreon VMAX — CS4aC #162 — $167‡

6. Umbreon & Darkrai GX — CSM2cC #157 — $272

5. Umbreon V — CS4aC #152 — $277

4. Umbreon & Darkrai GX — CSM2cC #158 — $400

3. Umbreon — CBB2C #615 — $626

2. Umbreon VMAX [25 Card Pack] — CS4aC #173 — $1,050‡

1. Umbreon VMAX — CS4aC #173 — $1,326

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.

• Umbreon [Stars] — CBB2C #606 — $78
• Umbreon V — CBB2C #613 — $75
• Umbreon VMAX — CS4aC #163 — $62
• Umbreon V — CS4aC #84 — $60
• Umbreon VMAX — CBB2C #614 — $57
• Umbreon VMAX — CS4aC #172 — $55
• Umbreon [Stamped] — CBB2C #612 — $55
• Umbreon [Stamped] — CBB2C #611 — $44
• Umbreon [Stars] — CBB2C #605 — $42
• Umbreon [Rotary] — CBB2C #608 — $41
• Umbreon [Rotary] — CBB2C #607 — $41
• Umbreon [Pokeball] — CBB2C #604 — $39
• Umbreon [Masterball] — CBB2C #609 — $39
• Umbreon — CBB2C #602 — $38
• Umbreon [Pokeball] — CBB2C #603 — $38
• Umbreon — CBB2C #601 — $38
• Umbreon [Masterball] — CBB2C #610 — $36
• Umbreon VMAX — CS4aC #85 — $27

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

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.

• Umbreon GX — CSM1bC #188 — $137
• Umbreon GX — CSMYC #4 — $122

A further 4 Simplified Chinese printings of Umbreon 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. Umbreon — Promo #188/BW-P — $4,709

9. Umbreon — Magma vs Aqua #62 — $5,026

8. Umbreon [Gym Promo] — Promo #140/XY-P — $5,799‡

7. Umbreon — Crossing the Ruins #197 — $6,519

6. Umbreon [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #68 — $7,087

5. Umbreon ex — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #91 — $9,201

4. Umbreon [1st Edition] — Split Earth #72 — $10,901

3. Umbreon ex [1st Edition] — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #91 — $11,100

2. Umbreon — Split Earth #72 — $13,900

1. Karen’s Umbreon — VS #91 — $15,000

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Umbreon — The Town on No Map #68 — $4,698
• Umbreon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #95 — $4,516
• Umbreon EX [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #82 — $4,304
• Umbreon EX — Awakening Psychic King #82 — $4,113
• Umbreon [McDonald’s Promo] — Promo #25/P — $3,698
• Umbreon [1st Edition] — Holon Research #69 — $3,588
• Umbreon [1st Edition] — Magma vs Aqua #62 — $3,551
• Umbreon — Split Earth #71 — $3,113
• Umbreon [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #67 — $2,825
• Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Reviving Legends #37 — $2,660
• Umbreon [1st Edition] — Split Earth #71 — $2,391
• Umbreon — Thunder Knuckle #31 — $2,249
• Umbreon & Darkrai GX — Tag All Stars #182 — $2,000
• Umbreon [1st Edition] — Reviving Legends #37 — $1,844
• Umbreon [1st Edition] — Thunder Knuckle #31 — $1,826
• Umbreon GX — Promo #125/SM-P — $1,777
• Umbreon — Reviving Legends #37 — $1,527
• Umbreon GX — Collection Moon #69 — $1,188
• Umbreon — Neo Premium File #197 — $1,038
• Umbreon — The Town on No Map #67 — $997
• Umbreon GX — GX Ultra Shiny #229 — $991
• Umbreon — Dark Rush #42 — $857
• Umbreon — Holon Research #69 — $750
• Umbreon — Promo #115/BW-P — $732
• Umbreon EX — Awakening Psychic King #42 — $623
• Umbreon ex — Terastal Festival #217 — $597
• Umbreon EX [1st Edition] — Awakening Psychic King #42 — $566
• Umbreon V — Eevee Heroes #85 — $512
• Umbreon & Darkrai GX — Tag All Stars #215 — $483
• Umbreon GX — Collection Moon #63 — $474

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

The English list

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

10. Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #32 — $8,985

9. Umbreon — Plasma Freeze #64 — $9,015‡

8. Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #22 — $11,801

7. Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #17 — $13,670

6. Umbreon — Call of Legends #22 — $14,634‡

5. Umbreon — Neo Discovery #13 — $22,000

4. Umbreon [Gold Star] — POP Series 5 #17 — $37,668‡

3. Umbreon [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #13 — $57,571

2. Umbreon — Undaunted #86 — $61,600

1. Umbreon EX — Unseen Forces #112 — $78,319‡

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.

• Umbreon — Delta Species #17 — $6,750
• Umbreon [Regional Staff] — Dark Explorers #60 — $6,000
• Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #24 — $5,659
• Umbreon ex — Prismatic Evolutions #161 — $5,500
• Umbreon [Holo] — Undaunted #10 — $5,226
• Umbreon [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #32 — $5,003
• Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #41 — $4,999
• Umbreon EX — Fates Collide #119 — $4,713
• Umbreon — Dark Explorers #60 — $4,650
• Umbreon [Regional] — Dark Explorers #60 — $4,500
• Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #32 — $4,412
• Umbreon VMAX — Evolving Skies #215 — $3,999
• Umbreon — Undaunted #10 — $3,851
• Umbreon — Skyridge #32 — $2,568
• Umbreon — McDonalds 2013 #9 — $2,399
• Umbreon EX — World Championships 2006 #112 — $1,974
• Umbreon — Lost Thunder #120 — $1,655
• Umbreon — Aquapolis #41 — $1,600
• Umbreon — Neo Discovery #32 — $1,371
• Umbreon EX — Fates Collide #55 — $1,347
• Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #61 — $1,300
• Umbreon V — Evolving Skies #189 — $1,021
• Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Lost Thunder #120 — $867
• Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #60 — $802
• Umbreon [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #64 — $795
• Umbreon — Sandstorm #24 — $645
• Umbreon & Darkrai GX — Unified Minds #125 — $592
• Umbreon [Cosmos Holo] — Prismatic Evolutions #59 — $550
• Umbreon [Master Ball] — Prismatic Evolutions #59 — $514
• Umbreon [GameStop] — Obsidian Flames #130 — $487

And 10 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Umbreon is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	28	28	$1,326
Simplified Chinese — other printings	2	2	$137
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	2	2	$570
Japanese	65	65	$15,000
Korean	14	14	$3,499
English	65	65	$78,319
All 6 lines	176	176	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 28 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 64.2% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$3,402	64.2%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$1,033	19.5%
Ranked 11 and below	18	$864	16.3%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	28	$5,299	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Umbreon VMAX #173 — CS4aC #173. $1,326, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Umbreon VMAX #173 — CS4aC #173. $1,326, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Umbreon VMAX #85 — CS4aC #85. $27. 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 Umbreon card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Umbreon VMAX #173 carries the highest tracked value at $1,326. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Umbreon card leads the Japanese list?

Karen’s Umbreon #91 from VS at $15,000. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Umbreon card leads the English list?

Umbreon EX #112 from Unseen Forces at $78,319.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (2 printings listed here) and Korean (14 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?

9 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

Umbreon 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)

2 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.

• Umbreon ex — Terastal Fest ex #217 — $570
• Umbreon — 30th Celebration #77 — $46

Korean printings

14 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.

• Umbreon [Eevee 2080 Toothbrush Set] — Promo #71/BW — $3,499
• Umbreon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #95 — $1,000
• Umbreon ex — Terastal Festival ex #217 — $382
• Umbreon — Dark Rush #42 — $242
• Umbreon V — Eevee Heroes #85 — $182
• Umbreon [Master Ball] — Terastal Festival ex #92 — $150
• Umbreon V — Eevee Heroes #84 — $106
• Umbreon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #94 — $100
• Umbreon ex — Promo #143/SV-P — $77
• Umbreon VMAX — Eevee Heroes #48 — $57
• Umbreon — Ruler of the Black Flame #70 — $37
• Umbreon V — Eevee Heroes #47 — $35
• Umbreon — Terastal Festival ex #92 — $25
• Umbreon ex — Terastal Festival ex #93 — $18

A further 9 Korean printings of Umbreon 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 cards in the family

Umbreon is one of nine evolution forms, and each has its own ranking on this site: Eevee and Sylveon are published, and the rest of the family follows. For characters outside the Eevee line, Pikachu, Charizard and Psyduck are ranked separately. If you are looking at 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 Eevee cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Eevee [Reverse Holo] leads at $24,999 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices. Simplified Chinese set codes end in C, the marker of a Chinese-exclusive print run.

Eevee appears on 30 Chinese-exclusive printings, 4 further Simplified Chinese printings, 2 Traditional Chinese printings, 128 Japanese, 6 Korean and 129 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Eevee is printed constantly because it has to feed eight evolutions, which makes its list long and its individual prices low. The head of the list is Radiant Eevee #92 (CS5aC) at $201. 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.

10. Eevee [Masterball] — CBB2C #109 — $52

9. Eevee V — CBB2C #113 — $55

8. Eevee & Snorlax GX — CSM2cC #103 — $62

7. Eevee GX — CSM2aC #177 — $70

6. Eevee GX — CSM2aC #120 — $90

5. Eevee — CBB4C #407 — $123

4. Eevee VMAX — CBB2C #114 — $166

3. Snorlax And Eevee GX — CSM2cC #171 — $174

2. Eevee — CBB2C #115 — $192

1. Radiant Eevee — CS5aC #92 — $201

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.

• Eevee [Reverse] — 151C #133 — $52
• Eevee [Masterball] — CBB2C #110 — $48
• Eevee — csv7C #157 — $46
• Eevee [Stamped] — CBB2C #111 — $43
• Eevee — CBB4C #406 — $43
• Eevee [Stars] — CBB2C #105 — $40
• Eevee — CBB4C #405 — $39
• Eevee [Stamped] — CBB2C #112 — $39
• Eevee — CBB4C #404 — $39
• Eevee — CBB2C #101 — $39
• Eevee [Stars] — CBB2C #106 — $39
• Eevee [Rotary] — CBB2C #107 — $39
• Eevee — CBB4C #401 — $39
• Eevee [Rotary] — CBB2C #108 — $38
• Eevee [Pokeball] — CBB2C #104 — $37
• Eevee [Pokeball] — CBB2C #103 — $37
• Eevee — CBB2C #102 — $36
• Eevee — 151C #133 — $35
• Eevee — CBB4C #402 — $22
• Eevee — CBB4C #403 — $15

And 13 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

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.

• Eevee GX — CSMYC #8 — $154
• Eevee & Snorlax GX — CSM2.1C #54 — $149
• Eevee [5th Anniversary Stamped] — Promo #171/SV-P — $99
• Eevee GX — CSMYC #7 — $28

A further 6 Simplified Chinese printings of Eevee 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. Poncho-Wearing Eevee — Promo #143/SM-P — $2,600

9. Poncho-Wearing Eevee — Promo #140/SM-P — $2,650

8. Poncho-Wearing Eevee — Promo #142/SM-P — $2,784

7. Poncho-Wearing Eevee — Promo #138/SM-P — $3,050

6. Poncho-Wearing Eevee — Promo #139/SM-P — $3,100

5. Poncho-Wearing Eevee — Promo #144/SM-P — $3,966

4. Poncho-Wearing Eevee — Promo #137/SM-P — $5,301

3. Poncho-Wearing Eevee — Promo #141/SM-P — $5,600

2. Eevee [Munch: A Retrospective] — Promo #287/SM-P — $5,984

1. Eevee [500 Pt. Fan Club] — Promo #133 — $13,000

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Eevee — Promo #189/BW-P — $2,300
• Eevee — Promo #63/DP-P — $1,486
• Eevee [Series 1] — Vending #133 — $1,293
• Eevee [7-11 Holo] — Promo #235/BW-P — $1,186
• Eevee — Promo #67/DP-P — $1,104
• Eevee GX — Tag All Stars #188 — $1,038
• Eevee — Rocket Gang #133 — $830
• Eevee — Meiji Promo #111/PCG-P — $710
• Eevee GX — Tag All Stars #219 — $700
• Eevee — Split Earth #65 — $688
• Eevee — Jungle #133 — $661
• Eevee — Collection Pack #11 — $655
• Eevee DPBP#157 [1st Edition] — Moonlit Pursuit #157 — $630
• Eevee — Promo #247/SM-P — $619
• Eevee [1st Edition] — Split Earth #65 — $615
• Eevee — The Town on No Map #58 — $609
• Eevee & Snorlax GX — Promo #297/SM-P — $606
• Eevee [Holo 1st Edition] — Shiny Collection #14 — $588
• Eevee [1st Edition] — Dawn Dash #157 — $527
• Eevee — Neo Premium File #133 — $503
• Eevee — Crossing the Ruins #133 — $450
• Eevee [1st Edition] — Holon Research #73 — $428
• Eevee — Promo #399/SM-P — $414
• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Reviving Legends #58 — $404
• Eevee — Start Deck 100 #755 — $392
• Eevee & Snorlax GX — Tag Bolt #115 — $361
• Eevee — Eevee ex Starter Set #20 — $350
• Eevee [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #58 — $330
• Eevee — Amazing Volt Tackle #83 — $324
• Eevee — Promo #295/SM-P — $319

And 78 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. Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #69 — $2,323

9. Eevee [City Championship Staff] — Dark Explorers #84 — $2,590

8. Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Delta Species #68 — $2,686

7. Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #83 — $2,902†

6. Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #84 — $3,750

5. Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #54 — $4,475

4. Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #55 — $4,700

3. Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #63 — $5,021

2. Eevee — Promo #11 — $6,045

1. Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #74 — $24,999

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #75 — $1,899
• Eevee [Jr Stamp Rally] — Promo #11 — $1,757
• Eevee — McDonalds 2018 #11 — $1,494
• Eevee & Snorlax GX — Team Up #191 — $1,398
• Eevee — World Championships 2006 #69 — $1,101
• Eevee — Dark Explorers #84 — $938
• Eevee & Snorlax GX — Team Up #171 — $842
• Eevee & Snorlax GX — Team Up #120 — $740
• Eevee [Pokemon Center] — Promo #173 — $730
• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #56 — $661
• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #63 — $605
• Eevee — McDonalds 2016 #12 — $603
• Eevee — Skyridge #54 — $600
• Eevee [1st Edition] — Jungle #51 — $585
• Lt. Surge’s Eevee [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #51 — $567
• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Undaunted #47 — $538
• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Majestic Dawn #62 — $510
• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Ancient Origins #63 — $500
• Eevee [Build-A-Bear] — Promo #63 — $500
• Eevee [1st Edition] — Neo Discovery #38 — $500
• Eevee ex — Prismatic Evolutions #167 — $490
• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Evolving Skies #125 — $486
• Eevee on the Ball — Promo #2 — $439
• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Rising Rivals #59 — $415
• Eevee — Promo #200 — $405
• Eevee — Aquapolis #75 — $400
• Eevee — Plasma Freeze #90 — $360
• Eevee — Ultra Prism #105 — $351
• Eevee — Undaunted #47 — $337
• Eevee [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #49 — $333

And 79 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Eevee is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	30	30	$201
Simplified Chinese — other printings	4	4	$154
Japanese	128	128	$13,000
Korean	6	6	$843
English	129	129	$24,999
All 5 lines	297	297	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 30 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 37.6% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$733	37.6%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$452	23.2%
Ranked 11 and below	20	$763	39.2%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	30	$1,949	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Radiant Eevee #92 — CS5aC #92. $201, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Radiant Eevee #92 — CS5aC #92. $201, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Eevee #403 — CBB4C #403. $15. 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 Eevee card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Radiant Eevee #92 carries the highest tracked value at $201. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Eevee card leads the Japanese list?

Eevee [500 Pt. Fan Club] #133 from Promo at $13,000. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Eevee card leads the English list?

Eevee [Reverse Holo] #74 from Legendary Collection at $24,999.

Why are the 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. 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

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

Korean printings

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.

• Eevee & Snorlax Tag Team GX — Promo #140/SM-P — $843
• Eevee ex — Terastal Festival ex #223 — $85
• Eevee — Crimson Haze #78 — $84
• Eevee ex — Terastal Festival ex #224 — $67
• Eevee — Eevee Heroes #58 — $35
• Eevee ex — Terastal Festival ex #126 — $25

A further 20 Korean printings of Eevee 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 cards in the family

Eevee is one of nine evolution forms, and each has its own ranking on this site: Umbreon and Sylveon are published, and the rest of the family follows. For characters outside the Eevee line, Pikachu, Charizard and Psyduck are ranked separately. If you are looking at the whole 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.

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 Psyduck cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Psyduck [Reverse Holo] leads at $28,034 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.

Psyduck appears on 6 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 40 Japanese, 3 Korean and 64 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Psyduck carries 6 numbered Chinese-exclusive printings, and an English line wide enough that the top of it is decided by vintage printings rather than modern ones. The head of the list is Slowpoke & Psyduck GX #159 (CSM2aC) at $267. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

• The card has to be a numbered Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope across every line on this page.
• The Chinese list is restricted to Chinese-exclusive numbering. Every card in the first list carries a set code ending in C — 151C, CBB1C, CBB5C, CSM2aC, CSV9C. That trailing letter is the dependable way to tell a Simplified Chinese print run from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese.
• The card has to carry a tracked market value. Cards with no graded sold record yet are named at the end of each language section rather than ranked, because there is nothing to rank them on.
• Prices are PSA 10 market values, and how each one was arrived at is marked. Every figure comes from PriceCharting. Where a PSA 10 copy has actually sold in the last six months, that figure is the median of those sales and the card’s position rests on real trades. Where it has not, the top-grade number is a model output: those cards are marked ‡, or † if the model figure ran so far past what the card’s own lower grades support that the ranking caps it. The raw and grade 9 prices are printed under every card so the traded level is always visible.

The Simplified Chinese list — Chinese-exclusive sets

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

6. Psyduck — 151C #54 — $39

5. Psyduck [Reverse] — 151C #54 — $42

4. Misty’s Psyduck — csv10C #45 — $59

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

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

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

This line only yields 6 priced printings for Psyduck. Another 4 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — CSM2.1C #48 — $114

A further 1 Simplified Chinese printings of Psyduck 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. Sabrina’s Psyduck — Challenge from the Darkness #54 — $817

9. Psyduck [1st Edition] — Silver Deck Kit #1 — $842

8. Psyduck — Clash at the Summit #15 — $850

7. Psyduck — Promo #167/BW-P — $960

6. Psyduck [1st Edition] — Holon Phantom #18 — $984†

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

4. Psyduck [1st Edition] — The Town on No Map #20 — $2,153

3. Psyduck — The Town on No Map #20 — $2,220†

2. Psyduck [Natta Wake Vol. 2] — Promo #54 — $8,364

1. Psyduck — Promo #286/SM-P — $11,955

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Psyduck — Trainer Battle Decks #1 — $760
• Psyduck — Mystery of the Fossils #54 — $732
• Psyduck — Silver Deck Kit #1 — $648
• Psyduck — Rocket Gang #54 — $610
• Psyduck [1st Edition] — Clash at the Summit #15 — $521
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Miracle Twins #95 — $418
• Psyduck — Holon Phantom #18 — $408
• Psyduck [1st Edition] — Miracle of the Desert #14 — $359
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Miracle Twins #107 — $320
• Psyduck — Miracle of the Desert #14 — $307
• Psyduck — Collection Sun #12 — $302
• Psyduck — Family #13 — $183
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Miracle Twins #11 — $163
• Misty’s Psyduck — Heat Wave Arena #22 — $144
• Psyduck — Cold Flare #15 — $142
• Psyduck — Detective Pikachu #9 — $126
• Psyduck — Start Deck 100 #76 — $124
• Psyduck [Gym] — Promo #262/SV-P — $113
• Misty’s Psyduck — Heat Wave Arena #71 — $108
• Psyduck — Remix Bout #17 — $98
• Psyduck [1st Edition] — Cold Flare #15 — $96
• Psyduck — Tag Bolt #24 — $92
• Psyduck — Detective Pikachu #10 — $77
• Psyduck — Space Juggler #16 — $73
• Psyduck — Mega Dream ex #199 — $62
• Psyduck [Ball] — Mega Dream ex #32 — $50
• Psyduck — Mega Dream ex #32 — $50
• Psyduck [Energy] — Mega Dream ex #32 — $48
• Psyduck — Jet-Black Spirit #9 — $48
• Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Start Deck 100 #76 — $44

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

9. Psyduck — Holon Phantoms #81 — $2,370†

8. Psyduck — Aquapolis #104 — $3,157

7. Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #73 — $3,550

6. Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #70 — $4,082

5. Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #87 — $4,440

4. Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #88 — $4,623

3. Misty’s Psyduck [W Stamp] — Gym Heroes #54 — $5,151†

2. Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #81 — $7,928

1. Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #104 — $28,034

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Triumphant #74 — $1,695
• Misty’s Psyduck [1st Edition] — Gym Heroes #54 — $1,514
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Unified Minds #239 — $1,184
• Psyduck — Legendary Collection #88 — $1,162
• Psyduck [1st Edition] — Fossil #53 — $1,135
• Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Team Up #26 — $978
• Psyduck — Promo #20 — $851
• Psyduck — Team Rocket Returns #70 — $849
• Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #100 — $848
• Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #33 — $826
• Psyduck [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #79 — $817
• Psyduck & Slowpoke GX — Unified Minds #217 — $800
• Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Boundaries Crossed #32 — $750
• Slowpoke & Psyduck GX — Unified Minds #35 — $735
• Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — BREAKpoint #16 — $700
• Misty’s Psyduck [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #90 — $680
• Sabrina’s Psyduck [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #99 — $635
• Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Cosmic Eclipse #40 — $530
• Psyduck — Neo Destiny #79 — $510
• Psyduck [Cosmos Holo] — Promo #7 — $474
• Psyduck — Sandstorm #73 — $460
• Misty’s Psyduck — Gym Challenge #90 — $450
• Psyduck — Fossil #53 — $431
• Psyduck — Platinum #87 — $423
• Psyduck [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #65 — $386
• Sabrina’s Psyduck — Gym Challenge #99 — $357
• Psyduck [1999-2000] — Fossil #53 — $355
• Psyduck — Evolving Skies #24 — $348
• Psyduck [Reverse Holo] — Hidden Fates #11 — $345
• Misty’s Psyduck — Destined Rivals #193 — $313

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

Where Psyduck is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	6	6	$267
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$114
Japanese	40	40	$11,955
Korean	3	3	$100
English	64	64	$28,034
All 5 lines	114	114	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 6 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 88.0% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$587	88.0%
Ranked 5 – 10	2	$80	12.0%
Ranked 11 and below	0	$0	0.0%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	6	$668	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

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

One card, a few hundred dollars:

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

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Psyduck #54 — 151C #54. $39. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

The Psyduck that is worth more than every Psyduck card combined

The five cards above carry $608 between them. A single Pikachu art rare from the same Chinese line is tracked at more than twice that, and Psyduck is in the frame.

Collect 151’s Hope art rare — 151C 171/151 — shows Pikachu on sunlit grassland beside a sleeping Psyduck. It is in stock here, it is the second card in our Pikachu ranking, and it is tracked at $1,545 as a PSA 10. The four Collect 151 art rares were drawn by one illustrator, Oswaldo KATO, as a single commission — the four cards in their own right are covered elsewhere on this site.

That is the useful lesson for anyone who collects a character rather than a set. Psyduck is a popular Pokémon with a thin card presence in Chinese, and the two places where Psyduck is worth real money are both places where it appears alongside something else: a tag team with Slowpoke, and a sleeping cameo in somebody else’s art rare. If you are hunting Psyduck specifically, the top of your list is a card filed under Pikachu.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Psyduck card in Simplified Chinese?

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

How many Psyduck 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 Psyduck card leads the Japanese list?

Psyduck #286/SM-P from Promo at $11,955. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Psyduck card leads the English list?

Psyduck [Reverse Holo] #104 from Aquapolis at $28,034.

Why are the Korean (3 printings listed here) not in a top ten?

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

0 of the thirty ranked cards carry a mark. A double dagger (‡) means no PSA 10 copy of that card has sold in the last six months, so the graded price is a model output rather than a traded one. A single dagger (†) means the same thing, taken further: the model figure ran past the ceiling the card’s own lower grades support, so the ranking uses the capped number instead. 4 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

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

Korean printings

3 printings

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

• Psyduck — Mega Dream ex #199 — $100
• Misty’s Psyduck — Heat Wave Arena #71 — $98
• Misty’s Psyduck — Heat Wave Arena #22 — $46

A further 5 Korean printings of Psyduck 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 cards in the family

This is the third character guide in the series. Pikachu holds the top of the market, Charizard shows what happens to a famous character with no commissioned product, and the cross-Pokémon ranking covers the Chinese-exclusive cards as a group.

Sources

Sources and further reading

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 Charizard cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Charizard [1st Edition] leads at $334,790 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.

Charizard appears on 17 Chinese-exclusive printings, 18 further Simplified Chinese printings, 3 Traditional Chinese printings, 143 Japanese, 16 Korean and 143 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Charizard is the character the English market measures every other card against, and the Japanese line reached that conclusion two decades earlier. The head of the list is Charizard V #152 (CS5aC) at $495. 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.

10. Charizard VSTAR — CS5aC #5 — $82†

9. Charizard ex — 151C #175 — $87

8. Charizard ex — csv5C #162 — $87

7. Radiant Charizard — cs5.5C #7 — $94

6. Charizard — CS5aC #3 — $129

5. Reshiram & Charizard GX — CSM2cC #153 — $137‡

4. Reshiram & Charizard GX — CSM2cC #183 — $161

3. Charizard V — CS5aC #132 — $182

2. Charizard ex — csv5C #155 — $222

1. Charizard V — CS5aC #152 — $495

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.

• Charizard GX — CSM2cC #5 — $75
• Charizard V — CS5aC #131 — $67
• Charizard V — CS5aC #4 — $66
• Reshiram & Charizard GX — CSM2cC #1 — $59
• Charizard ex — csv5C #145 — $58
• Charizard ex — csv5C #75 — $52
• Charizard EX — 151C #6 — $37

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

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.

• Charizard GX — AC1a #170 — $420
• Charizard GX — CSM2.1C #47 — $415
• Charizard — Promo #76/S-P — $400
• Charizard VMAX — Promo #80/S-P — $210
• Charizard VSTAR — Promo #143/S-P — $195
• Charizard VMAX — CS2aC #134 — $189
• Charizard & Braixen GX — CSM2.5C #65 — $185
• Charizard & Braixen GX — CSM2.5C #84 — $181
• Charizard [Reverse Holo] — CS2aC #29 — $180
• Charizard V — CS2aC #30 — $160
• Charizard V — CS2aC #133 — $136
• Charizard & Braixen GX — CSM2.5C #64 — $124

And 6 further printings below those, down to $54.

A further 12 Simplified Chinese printings of Charizard 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. Charizard [1st Edition] — Plasma Gale #77 — $14,570

9. Charizard — Promo #14/P — $16,500

8. Charizard — Plasma Gale #77 — $16,642

7. Poncho-Wearing Pikachu Charizard — Promo #208/XY-P — $18,386

6. Charizard — Expansion Pack #6 — $23,987

5. Shining Charizard — Darkness and to Light #6 — $31,111

4. Charizard [Gold Star 1st Edition] — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #52 — $34,923‡

3. Charizard [1st Edition] — Mysterious Mountains #89 — $51,570

2. Charizard — Mysterious Mountains #89 — $55,000

1. Charizard [Gold Star] — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #52 — $72,994‡

Ranks 11 and beyond

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

• Mega Charizard Y ex — Start Deck 100 #766 — $13,505
• Charizard EX — Promo #276/XY-P — $10,350
• Dark Charizard — Web #42 — $9,601
• Dark Charizard [1st Edition] — Web #42 — $8,894
• Charizard Battle [Prism] — Meiji Promo #23 — $7,170
• Charizard VMAX — Promo #104/S-P — $6,706
• Charizard & Others [Prism] — Meiji Promo #34 — $6,265
• Charizard — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #92 — $5,914
• Charizard [1st Edition] — Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky #92 — $5,600
• Charizard [1st Edition] — Miracle Crystal #32 — $5,463
• Charizard [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #103 — $5,461
• Charizard VS Lugia — Meiji Promo #13 — $5,000
• Charizard G LV. X — Charizard Half Deck #2 — $4,294
• Charizard EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #90 — $4,236
• Charizard GX — Battle Rainbow #58 — $4,038
• Charizard VS Lugia — Meiji Promo #15 — $4,000
• Lance’s Charizard — VS #97 — $3,968
• Charizard — World Champions Pack #8 — $3,950
• Dark Charizard — Rocket Gang #6 — $3,850
• Charizard — CD Promo #6 — $3,775
• M Charizard EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #91 — $3,757
• Charizard — Miracle Crystal #32 — $3,750
• Charizard LV.X — Charizard G Half Deck #2 — $3,550
• Blaine’s Charizard — Challenge from the Darkness #6 — $3,400
• Charizard [1st Edition] — World Champions Pack #8 — $3,250
• Mega Charizard EX [1st Edition] — Wild Blaze #89 — $3,249
• Charizard [1st Edition] — E-Starter Deck #12 — $2,834
• Mega Charizard X ex — Inferno X #116 — $2,500
• Charizard EX [1st Edition] — Wild Blaze #81 — $2,488
• Charizard — Neo Premium File #6 — $2,319

And 88 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. Charizard G LV. X — Supreme Victors #143 — $26,537

9. Charizard [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #6 — $26,927

8. Charizard [Shadowless] — Base Set #4 — $30,100‡

7. Shining Charizard [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #107 — $53,010

6. Charizard [Gold Star] — Dragon Frontiers #100 — $83,927‡

5. Charizard — Expedition #6 — $85,484‡

4. Charizard — Plasma Storm #136 — $85,881

3. Charizard — Skyridge #146 — $118,282

2. Charizard [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #3 — $120,550

1. Charizard [1st Edition] — Base Set #4 — $334,790

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.

• Charizard [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #6 — $25,239
• Dark Charizard [1st Edition] — Team Rocket #4 — $21,692
• Charizard [1999-2000] — Base Set #4 — $21,169
• Shining Charizard — Neo Destiny #107 — $21,166
• Charizard — Secret Wonders #3 — $19,359
• Charizard — Dragon #100 — $18,350
• Blaine’s Charizard [1st Edition] — Gym Challenge #2 — $18,138
• Charizard [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #146 — $16,100
• Charizard G [Reverse Holo] — Supreme Victors #20 — $15,370
• Charizard [Ultra Premium Collection] — Celebrations #4 — $15,083
• Charizard — Crystal Guardians #4 — $14,126
• Charizard — Stormfront #103 — $12,500
• Charizard — Base Set #4 — $12,275
• M Charizard EX — Flashfire #108 — $11,770
• Charizard [Prerelease Staff] — Evolutions #11 — $10,842
• Charizard — Power Keepers #6 — $10,821
• Dark Charizard — Team Rocket #4 — $10,661
• Charizard [Cracked Ice] — Arceus #1 — $10,000
• Charizard [Cosmos Holo] — Legendary Treasures #19 — $9,999
• Charizard [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #3 — $9,551
• M Charizard EX — Flashfire #107 — $8,641
• Charizard — Base Set 2 #4 — $8,616
• Charizard EX — Flashfire #100 — $8,600
• Charizard [Box Topper] — Skyridge #9 — $8,350
• Charizard #2/PCG-P [Japanese Battle Spring] — Promo #2/PCG-P — $8,194
• Charizard [Holo] — Legendary Collection #3 — $7,837
• Charizard — Arceus #1 — $7,450
• Charizard EX [Holo 1st Edition] — 2004 Starter Deck #12 — $7,405
• Charizard EX [Holo] — 2004 Starter Deck #12 — $7,152
• Charizard GX — Burning Shadows #150 — $6,900

And 102 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Charizard is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	17	17	$495
Simplified Chinese — other printings	18	18	$420
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	3	3	$965
Japanese	143	143	$72,994
Korean	16	16	$1,005
English	143	143	$334,790
All 6 lines	340	340	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 17 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 50.7% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$1,060	50.7%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$616	29.5%
Ranked 11 and below	7	$414	19.8%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	17	$2,091	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Charizard V #152 — CS5aC #152. $495, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Charizard V #152 — CS5aC #152. $495, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Charizard EX #6 — 151C #6. $37. It is not the card anyone photographs, but it is the same Pokémon from the same line.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Charizard card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Charizard V #152 carries the highest tracked value at $495. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Charizard card leads the Japanese list?

Charizard [Gold Star] #52 from Offense and Defense of the Furthest Ends at $72,994. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Charizard card leads the English list?

Charizard [1st Edition] #4 from Base Set at $334,790.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (3 printings listed here) and Korean (16 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?

7 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

Charizard 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)

3 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.

• Charizard — 25th Anniversary promo #1 — $965
• Mega Charizard X ex — m2F #110 — $882
• Charizard — 30th Celebration #137 — $634

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

Korean printings

16 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 Charizard X ex — Inferno X #116 — $1,005
• Charizard ex — Shiny Treasure #349 — $738
• Charizard — 30th Celebration #137 — $736
• Mega Charizard X ex — Inferno X #110 — $721
• Charizard VSTAR — VSTAR Universe #212 — $376
• Charizard V — VSTAR Universe #211 — $236
• Charizard ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #134 — $222
• Charizard ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #139 — $177
• Mega Charizard X ex — Inferno X #94 — $105
• Mega Charizard X ex — Mega Dream ex #223 — $87
• Radiant Charizard — VSTAR Universe #15 — $68
• Charizard ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #125 — $56
• Charizard ex — Ruler of the Black Flame #66 — $52
• Charizard V — VSTAR Universe #13 — $47
• Mega Charizard X ex — Inferno X #13 — $46
• Charizard VSTAR — VSTAR Universe #14 — $34

A further 3 Korean printings of Charizard 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 cards in the family

This is the second character guide in the series. Pikachu carries the top of the market; the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon rather than within one; and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands if you would rather see the whole spread at once. For why the Chinese branch exists at all, start here.

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 Pikachu cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Pikachu [Reverse Holo] leads at $224,209 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.

Pikachu appears on 29 Chinese-exclusive printings, 34 further Simplified Chinese printings, 39 Traditional Chinese printings, 364 Japanese, 25 Korean and 275 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Pikachu is the most-printed character in the TCG by a wide margin, and the Chinese line is no exception — it holds more numbered Chinese-exclusive slots than any other character we catalogue. The head of the list is Pikachu #172 (151C) at $2,894. 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.

10. Pikachu & Zekrom GX — CSM2aC #54 — $239‡

9. Pikachu — CSM2aC #153 — $270

8. Pikachu ex — CSV9C #245 — $273

7. Pikachu & Zekrom GX — CSM2aC #166 — $453

6. Captain Pikachu — CBB5C #107 — $560

5. Captain Pikachu — CBB1C #709 — $666

4. Pikachu — 151C #170 — $998

3. Pikachu — 151C #173 — $1,075

2. Pikachu — 151C #171 — $1,358

1. Pikachu — 151C #172 — $2,894

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.

• Pikachu [Master Ball] — 151C #25 — $200
• Pikachu & Zekrom GX — CSM2aC #186 — $165
• Captain Pikachu [Stars] — CBB1C #703 — $130
• Pikachu & Zekrom GX — CSM2aC #165 — $127
• Pikachu [Full Art] — CBB1C #708 — $107
• Captain Pikachu [Stamped] — CBB1C #707 — $97
• Captain Pikachu [Rotary] — CBB1C #704 — $84
• Pikachu [Shiny] — CBB1C #706 — $77
• Captain Pikachu [Masterball] — CBB1C #705 — $68
• Pikachu — CBB5C #106 — $68
• Pikachu — 151C #25 — $65
• Pikachu — CBB5C #102 — $55
• Pikachu [Reverse] — 151C #25 — $51
• Captain Pikachu — CBB1C #701 — $50
• Pikachu — CBB5C #104 — $48
• Pikachu — CBB5C #103 — $46
• Pikachu — CBB5C #101 — $40
• Captain Pikachu [Pokeball] — CBB1C #702 — $33
• Pikachu — CBB5C #105 — $15

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

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.

• Pikachu — Promo #153/SV-P — $2,925
• Detective Pikachu — Promo #50 — $464
• Pikachu — Promo #90/SV-P — $393
• Taipei Pikachu — Promo #57/SV-P — $362
• Pikachu — Promo #57/SV-P — $332
• Pikachu & Zekrom GX [5th Anniversary Stamped] — Promo #157/SV-P — $300
• Pikachu [2026 Pizza Hong Kong] — Promo #54 — $281
• Pikachu [Lunar New Year] — Promo #81/S-P — $272
• Pikachu — Promo #66/S-P — $270
• Pikachu — Promo #37/SM-P — $263
• Pikachu — Promo #210/S-P — $255
• Pikachu — Promo #45/S-P — $230

And 22 further printings below those, down to $100.

A further 15 Simplified Chinese printings of Pikachu 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. Poncho-Wearing Pikachu Charizard — Promo #208/XY-P — $18,386

9. Pikachu [Autumn Battle Road Stamped] — Promo #113/PCG-P — $21,500‡

8. Pikachu 20th Anniversary Festa — Promo #279/XY-P — $22,983

7. Poncho-Wearing Pikachu — Promo #207/XY-P — $23,825

6. Mario Pikachu — Promo #294/XY-P — $32,275

5. Pikachu [CoroCoro Non-Glossy] — Promo #25 — $36,000†

4. Pikachu [Gold Star] — 2005 Gift Box #1 — $37,300

3. Birthday Pikachu [Natta Wake] — Promo #25 — $38,100

2. Pikachu [Battle Festa Event Organizer] — Promo #175/XY-P — $38,670‡

1. Pikachu [CoroCoro] — Promo #25 — $52,536‡

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.

• Poncho-Wearing Pikachu — Promo #231/XY-P — $17,900
• Luigi Pikachu — Promo #296/XY-P — $17,007
• Poncho-Wearing Pikachu — Promo #230/XY-P — $15,600
• Pikachu — Promo #229/BW-P — $15,099
• Pikachu — Promo #288/SM-P — $15,000
• Pikachu [Toyota] — Promo #25 — $13,840
• Pretend Team Skull Pikachu — Promo #13/SM-P — $13,700
• Pretend Gyarados Pikachu — Promo #151/XY-P — $13,407
• Pokepark’s Pikachu — PokePark Forest #4 — $12,413
• Pretend Magikarp Pikachu — Promo #150/XY-P — $12,112
• Pikachu [Classroom Prize] — Promo #151/BW-P — $11,500
• Pikachu — Melee Pokemon Scramble #7 — $10,595
• Pikachu [Autumn Battle Road] — Promo #113/PCG-P — $9,468
• Pikachu [Battle Festa] — Promo #90/XY-P — $9,400
• Mario Pikachu — Promo #293/XY-P — $9,322
• Poncho-Wearing Pikachu — Promo #274/XY-P — $8,923
• Pikachu [Daisuki Club] — Promo #16/DPT-P — $8,653
• Pikachu EX [1st Edition] — 20th Anniversary #94 — $8,525
• Pikachu [Mega Tokyo’s] — Promo #204/XY-P — $7,531
• Pikachu Birthday [White Star 2nd Anniversary] — Promo #25 — $7,501
• Ooyama’s Pikachu [Series III] — Vending #25 — $7,350
• Pikachu — Promo #153/PCG-P — $7,269
• Pikachu [Pokemon Center Fukuoka] — Promo #102/DP-P — $7,199
• Pikachu [No Rarity] — Expansion Pack #25 — $7,150
• Luigi Pikachu — Promo #295/XY-P — $6,968
• Poncho-Wearing Pikachu [Pokemon Center Mega Battle] — Promo #275/XY-P — $6,485
• Surfing Pikachu [Mt. Fuji] — Promo #25 — $5,851
• Flying Pikachu — Promo #25 — $5,807
• PokePark’s Pikachu — Promo #43/PCG-P — $5,804
• Pikachu — Promo #24/ADV-P — $5,700

And 325 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. Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — Skyridge #84 — $11,551

9. Pikachu — Legend Maker #93 — $12,405

8. Pikachu & Zekrom GX — 25th Anniversary Creatures Deck #2018 — $14,473

7. Birthday Pikachu — Promo #24 — $15,500

6. Pikachu [1st Edition Red Cheeks] — Base Set #58 — $24,940

5. Flying Pikachu — Rising Rivals #113 — $27,434†

4. Pikachu — Rumble #7 — $32,243‡

3. Pikachu — Poke Card Creator #5 — $35,132‡

2. Pikachu [Gold Star] — Holon Phantoms #104 — $65,793‡

1. Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Collection #86 — $224,209

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.

• Pikachu [Holo] — POP Series 5 #12 — $11,520
• Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #79 — $10,776
• Pikachu [Ultra Premium Collection] — Celebrations #58 — $9,754
• Pikachu [Holo] — Promo #35 — $8,304
• Pikachu [E3 Red Cheeks] — Base Set #58 — $8,226
• Pikachu [Pokemon Day] — POP Series 9 #15 — $8,173
• Pikachu [Top Deck Magazine Jumbo] — Promo #58 — $7,620
• Pikachu — McDonalds 2018 #4 — $7,454
• Flying Pikachu [ANA Plane on Left] — Promo #25 — $7,190
• Pikachu [PokeTour 1999] — Base Set #58 — $7,175
• Pikachu [1st Edition] — Base Set #58 — $5,601
• Pikachu [Holo] — Promo #12 — $5,300
• Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — Power Keepers #57 — $5,000
• Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — Holon Phantoms #78 — $4,999
• Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #124 — $4,759
• Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — Sandstorm #72 — $4,500
• Pikachu [Journey Across America] — Promo #12 — $4,144
• Pikachu — Rising Rivals #112 — $3,299
• Pikachu [Shadowless Red Cheeks] — Base Set #58 — $3,178
• Pikachu — Promo #26 — $3,150
• Surfing Pikachu — Rising Rivals #114 — $3,045
• Pikachu [Jumbo] — Celebrations #58 — $2,850
• Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — Emerald #60 — $2,784
• Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat — Promo #85 — $2,526
• Pikachu V [Prize Pack] — Vivid Voltage #43 — $2,500
• Pikachu — POP Series 5 #13 — $2,470
• Pikachu — Supreme Victors #120 — $2,390
• Pikachu [Cosmos Holo] — Shining Legends #28 — $2,384
• Pikachu [Pokemon Center Stamp] — Promo #27 — $2,320
• Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — XY #42 — $2,311

And 242 further printings below those, which carry no tracked value at all.

Where Pikachu is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — exclusive sets	29	29	$2,894
Simplified Chinese — other printings	34	34	$2,925
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, China / Hong Kong, China)	39	39	$6,083
Japanese	364	364	$52,536
Korean	25	25	$727
English	275	275	$224,209
All 6 lines	766	766	—

What the ranking shows

On the Chinese-exclusive line, 29 cards carry a tracked value. The four at the top hold 61.3% of it.

Band	Cards	Combined value	Share of total
Ranked 1 – 4	4	$6,325	61.3%
Ranked 5 – 10	6	$2,461	23.9%
Ranked 11 and below	19	$1,526	14.8%
Every priced Chinese-exclusive card	29	$10,311	100%

If you want one card

One card, no budget limit:

Pikachu #172 — 151C #172. $2,894, and it is the card most lists for this character name first.

One card, a few hundred dollars:

Pikachu #171 — 151C #171. $1,358, which is the strongest card on the page that is still reachable without a vintage budget.

One card, under two hundred dollars:

Pikachu #105 — CBB5C #105. $15. 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 Pikachu card in Simplified Chinese?

Among the Chinese-exclusive numbered sets, Pikachu #172 carries the highest tracked value at $2,894. Promos and other non-C numbered printings sit outside that comparison.

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

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

Which Pikachu card leads the Japanese list?

Pikachu [CoroCoro] #25 from Promo at $52,536. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Pikachu card leads the English list?

Pikachu [Reverse Holo] #86 from Legendary Collection at $224,209.

Why are the Traditional Chinese (39 printings listed here) and Korean (25 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?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

Pikachu 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)

39 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.

• Pikachu [1st Edition] — Base Set #58 — $6,083
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #31 — $1,220
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #30 — $971
• Pikachu ex — 30th Celebration #127 — $289
• Pikachu ex — 30th Celebration #126 — $249
• Pikachu — 25th Anniversary #7 — $242
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #136 — $174
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #17 — $147
• Surfing Pikachu VMAX — 25th Anniversary #22 — $100
• Pikachu — 25th Anniversary #1 — $81
• Pikachu [Reverse Holo] — 25th Anniversary #1 — $76
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #44 — $51
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #20 — $50
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #36 — $50
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #26 — $46
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #34 — $46
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #21 — $46
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #22 — $46
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #23 — $46
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #28 — $46

And 19 further printings below those, down to $44.

A further 3 Traditional Chinese printings of Pikachu sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

Korean printings

25 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.

• Pikachu — Promo #134/SM-P — $727
• Pikachu ex — 30th Celebration #126 — $660
• Swallowed Up Pikachu — Promo #120/S-P — $478
• Pikachu — 30th Celebration #136 — $476
• Pikachu — 25th Anniversary #1 — $438
• Pikachu — Promo #135/SM-P — $425
• Detective Pikachu — Promo #51/SV-P — $392
• Ash’s Pikachu GX — Ash vs Rocket Deck Kit #5 — $375
• Pikachu ex — Electric Breaker #132 — $373
• Pikachu ex — Mega Dream ex #234 — $275
• Pikachu — Promo #183/S-P — $219
• Ash’s Pikachu — Promo #41/SM-P — $174
• Pikachu ex — Electric Breaker #136 — $139
• Pikachu — Promo #203/S-P — $107
• Pikachu ex — Terastal Festival ex #236 — $106
• Pikachu — Promo #75/S-P — $105
• Pikachu — Eevee Heroes #26 — $102
• Pikachu VMAX — Promo #142/S-P — $96
• Pikachu ex — Electric Breaker #122 — $71
• Pikachu — Promo #159/S-P — $68

And 5 further printings below those, down to $33.

A further 64 Korean printings of Pikachu 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.

The one place those lines already meet a single card is the 2010 Pikachu World Collection: nine Pikachu cards in nine languages — English, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Polish and Portuguese — and the usual entry point for collectors who want one card from every language the game was printed in.

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 cards in the family

Pikachu is one entry in a wider series on Chinese cards. If you are looking at the whole 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 background on why this branch exists at all, start here, and for the differences against the Japanese line, this comparison.

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) sells the cards and the gift cards, and the safest version of a card gift is often the choice rather than the card: a card is an identity, not a category, and the person receiving it already has an opinion about language, set, artwork and grade.

A card gift goes wrong because a card is an identity, not a category: the person receiving it already has an opinion about language, set, artwork and grade. The safest gift is therefore often the choice rather than the card — and if the date is fixed, the date decides more than the card does.

A Pokémon card is one of the harder presents in the hobby to get right, and it is worth understanding why before buying anything. It is not that cards are expensive — plenty are not. It is that a card is not a category you can shop inside. It is a single, specific object, and the person receiving it already has an opinion about which one they want.

This is a short guide to the four decisions that decide whether a card gift lands: which of the three shapes of gift you are actually giving, whether the date is fixed, whether it is graded, and what it looks like when it comes out of the envelope.

A card is an identity, not a category

When you decide to buy someone “a Charizard”, you have not made a decision yet. You have named a subject that exists across more than twenty-five years of products in at least three languages, at several rarities, in multiple artworks, graded and ungraded, from sets that a collector will recognise on sight and care about deeply. Every one of those variables is a separate opinion, and none of them is written down anywhere you can check.

That is the whole problem with card gifting, and it is the reason so many well-intentioned card presents end up in a drawer. The gift was thoughtful. It was also the wrong Charizard — wrong language, or wrong set, or raw when everything else in their binder is graded. Nothing about that is recoverable, because graded cards are generally final sale in this hobby, on our side and almost everywhere else.

The practical conclusion is counter-intuitive: the safest card gift is usually not the card they want. It is the choice. Everything below is about when to hand over the object and when to hand over the decision.

The three shapes of a card gift

Almost every card present is one of three things, and each one is correct in a different situation. The mistake is usually not picking the wrong card — it is picking the wrong shape for how much you know.

Shape	What you are giving	It works when	Where it goes wrong
The card	One specific object, named exactly — set, language, and grade included.	You know the exact card they have been looking for, and you know they do not already own it.	The moment any of that is guesswork. A raw card where they collect graded ones, or a Japanese printing for someone collecting Simplified Chinese, cannot be corrected afterwards.
The theme	A small, closed group of cards that belong together by design — usually two to eight cards with a printed cast.	You know roughly what they collect, but not which card is missing.	Requires that the recipient collects by theme rather than by character. A theme is a shape, and not everyone wants one.
The choice	The spending power itself, so the recipient makes the pick.	You know they collect, and nothing else.	Reads as impersonal if the relationship expects a wrapped object. It is a good gift between collectors and a strange one from a grandparent.

The theme option is the one most people miss, and it is the one that solves the identification problem without giving up the object. A theme is defined by the cards themselves rather than by taste, so you can verify it. The four Pokémon Horizons trainer pairs spread across Gem Pack Vol. 1 and Vol. 5 are a good example — eight cards with a printed cast, in which the pairing is written into the card’s title. The reasoning behind that kind of set is worth reading before you commit, because the same article explains the trap: a theme is priced by its most expensive card, not by how many cards are in it, and one of those eight is most of the total.

If the date is fixed, the date decides more than the card does

Before choosing anything, answer one question: does this gift have to be in someone’s hands on a particular day? If yes, that eliminates more of the catalogue than most buyers expect, because a large part of what we sell is sourced to order rather than held in stock.

What you are buying	How it ships	Safe when the date is fixed?
A PSA 10 slab	Sourced to order. Dispatched within 15 business days of your order, and usually within 7 to 14.	Only with a wide margin. Order weeks ahead, or choose something in stock.
A sealed booster box or gift box	In stock, dispatched within 2 business days after payment confirmation (excluding weekends and holidays).	Yes.
Sleeves and rigid holders	In stock, dispatched within 2 business days after payment confirmation (excluding weekends and holidays).	Yes.
A digital gift card	Delivered by email.	Yes, and it is the only option that does not depend on a parcel moving.

The 15-business-day window is not a hedge — it is how sourcing works, and the mechanics are set out in Pre-order dispatch: the 15-business-day window. What matters here is the gift implication, which is easy to miss: a sourced card is a wonderful present in November and a bad one on the 20th of December. If you are buying for a fixed date, buy something that is already in stock, or buy the gift card and let them choose.

The one variable you cannot fix later: condition

Of everything a collector cares about, condition is the only one that cannot be changed after the fact. A wrong artwork can be traded. A card in the wrong language can be sold. A card with a soft corner, a surface scratch, or a print line is simply that card, forever, and the recipient will see it every time they open the binder.

This is why graded is the better shape for a gift, and it is not really about the number. A grade is a third party’s assessment of condition, made and recorded before the card reaches either of you. An ungraded card’s condition is an argument, and you are handing that argument to someone else to have on your behalf. For a present, that is the wrong thing to give.

There is a second, quieter advantage: a graded card is verifiable. Every slab carries a certification number that can be checked against the grader’s own record, which means the recipient can confirm what they received. Our own pages lean on this heavily — it is the reason we can say with confidence that a grade describes the card rather than the case, and the reason a slab in the post is a low-risk gift in a way that a raw card is not. It is also the shape most of our Simplified Chinese-exclusive catalogue takes, so if you are buying a specific artwork, there is usually a graded option and a lower-priced entry point to check the format against before you commit to something expensive.

Language is a category, not a detail

One last thing to check before buying, and it costs nothing: which language does the recipient collect? A collector of Simplified Chinese cards and a collector of Japanese cards are collecting two different sets of objects, and the same artwork in two languages does not satisfy either of them. If you are unsure which of the three main branch languages you are looking at, the differences are worth five minutes before you spend anything.

What it should feel like in their hands

The physical presentation of a card gift is inexpensive and disproportionately effective, and it is also where a specific mistake is easy to make.

A card that arrives loose in a padded envelope reads as an afterthought regardless of what it cost. A card that arrives in a fresh sleeve and then a rigid holder reads as deliberate, and the two items together come to under ten dollars:

Layer	What it does	Sizes	Price
Penny sleeve	Acid-free, PVC-free clear polypropylene. Sits against the card face and folds instead of creasing.	Six sizes from 35 PT to 360 PT · 100 per pack	$4.99
Rigid holder	Rigid 3″ × 4″ acrylic-style holder with anti-UV casting and protective film on both faces. This is the layer that stops a bend.	Eight options from 35 PT to 360 PT	$4.99

Pick the PT that matches the card’s thickness — 1 PT is 0.0254 mm, so a standard raw card takes 35 PT. And note the one thing that catches people out: neither of these fits a graded slab. A PSA, BGS or CGC slab is a different size and needs a holder made for it, so if the gift is graded, buy the slab holder rather than a toploader. Getting that wrong is a small, avoidable disappointment on the day.

The sealed option: letting the recipient do the choosing

There is a fourth answer that is often better than any of the three shapes above, and it is the one to reach for when you know the person collects but not what they collect. A sealed product contains the choice rather than making it. The recipient opens it, and whatever is inside is theirs by their own hand.

Product	Price	Packs	What else is in the box
30th Celebration Booster Box	$89.99	20	Nothing else — 20 packs, 120 cards, and no filler.
30th Celebration Charizard Figure Gift Box	$324.99	15	A Charizard figure modelled on the classic card illustration, plus a jumbo Charizard card at roughly 13.3 × 18.7 cm.
30th Celebration Futuristic Box	$319.99	None	Two Pikachu ex promos, two coins, twelve damage-counter dice, poison and burn markers, a 64-sleeve set, a deck box, a display frame and a rubber playmat.

Two honest notes about this table. The first is that “packs per dollar” is a misleading way to compare them: the Booster Box is the only one of the three that is nothing but packs, which is what makes its per-pack figure meaningful and the other two’s meaningless. The gift box costs more because of the object in it, not because of the cards. The full comparison, including whether a box is worth opening at all, is in whether to open a sealed box.

The second is that a gift box is a gift twice — once when it is handed over and once when it is opened. If you want the present to last longer than the moment it is unwrapped, a sealed box does that in a way a single card does not.

Budgets, without pretending there is a correct one

Card gifts work at every scale, but they work differently at each one, and the useful thing is to know what each level actually buys. Prices here are current and change with the market.

Around	What it buys	The honest caveat
$5	A pack of 100 sleeves, or a rigid holder.	Excellent for a collector with raw cards. Useless — literally the wrong size — for a collector who only has graded slabs.
$25	A digital gift card, delivered by email, with no expiry and redeemable against any product in the store.	Correct when you do not know their specifics. It is also a gift with no object in it, which some occasions require.
$66–$100	A single Simplified Chinese-exclusive Illustration Rare at PSA 10 from a recent Gem Pack volume. All six Pokémon Horizons starter cards sit inside this band.	You are choosing an artwork for them. Read the language note above first.
$90	A sealed 30th Celebration Booster Box — 20 packs.	The pulls are random. You are buying the experience of opening it, not a known outcome, and that is both the point and the risk.
$300+	A 30th Celebration gift box, or one of the higher-tier exclusive slabs.	At this level the identification problem is real. Buy graded, and confirm the exact card before paying.

None of these tiers is a recommendation, and there is no correct amount to spend on a present. The only rule that holds across all of them is the one from the top of this page: at every price, the gift fails for the same reason — not because it cost too little, but because it was the wrong specific object, in the wrong language, in the wrong condition, on the wrong day.

Frequently asked questions

What should I buy someone who collects Pokémon cards?

It depends on how much you know about their collection. If you know the exact card they want, buy that card graded. If you know roughly what they collect, buy a small closed theme — a group of cards that belong together by design, so you do not have to guess which single card is missing. If you know only that they collect, buy a gift card or a sealed product and let them make the choice.

Is a gift card a good present for a card collector?

It is the correct present in one specific situation and an awkward one in another. It is correct when you do not know their collecting specifics, because a card is a specific object rather than a category and the wrong one cannot be returned. It is awkward when the occasion expects a wrapped object. Our gift card is delivered by email, has no expiry, and can be redeemed against any product in the store.

Should a card gift be graded or ungraded?

Graded, for a present. Condition is the only thing about a card that cannot be changed afterwards, and an ungraded card’s condition is an opinion you are handing to someone else to hold on your behalf. A graded card also carries a certification number that the recipient can verify independently, which makes it a more certain gift than a raw card.

How far ahead should I order a card as a gift?

We source PSA 10 slabs to order, and dispatch them within 15 business days of your order — usually within 5 to 10 business days. If the gift has a fixed date, order several weeks ahead or choose something that is already in stock. Sealed boxes and protectors are held in stock and dispatched within 2 business days after payment confirmation (excluding weekends and holidays).

Do toploaders fit a graded slab?

No. Our rigid holders are 3″ × 4″ and sized for standard raw trading cards, and the sleeve sizes we list are for raw cards as well — neither is made for a PSA, BGS or CGC slab, which is a different size and needs a holder made for it. If your gift is graded, buy the slab holder rather than a toploader.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. CardSpicy — Policies. The gift card terms used above (non-refundable and non-returnable), and the final-sale rule that makes a wrong card gift unrecoverable once dispatched. cardspicy.com/policies/
2. CardSpicy — CardSpicy $25 Gift Card. The specification quoted in this article: $25.00 USD, delivered by email, no expiry, redeemable against any product in the store. cardspicy.com/product/cardspicy-gift-card-25/
3. CardSpicy — Pre-Order Dispatch: The 15-Business-Day Window, Explained. Why sourced slabs dispatch within 15 business days and usually within 7 to 14, and what happens if we cannot source a card. cardspicy.com/pre-order-dispatch-explained/
4. CardSpicy — PSA Slab Care: How the Case Fails Before the Card Does. Why a grade describes the card rather than the holder, which is the basis for recommending graded over ungraded as a gift. cardspicy.com/psa-slab-care/
5. CardSpicy — One Pokémon Per Trainer: Collecting With a Theme. The theme method used in the second shape of gift, and the arithmetic that shows why a theme is priced by its most expensive card. cardspicy.com/one-pokemon-per-trainer/
6. CardSpicy — Chinese vs Japanese Pokémon Cards. The three Simplified Chinese tiers and how the branch languages differ, for checking which language the recipient collects. cardspicy.com/chinese-vs-japanese-pokemon-cards/
7. CardSpicy — Should You Open a Sealed Booster Box, or Keep It Sealed? The sealed-product comparison used in the box table, including what is actually inside each 30th Celebration product. cardspicy.com/open-booster-box-or-keep-sealed/
8. CardSpicy — Protectors: Card Protectors. The two protection layers described above, with their size tables and current prices. cardspicy.com/product-category/protectors/card-protectors/
9. PSA — Certification verification. The public record a buyer can check a slab’s certification number against, and the source we point to from our own graded-card listings.

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) stocks the volumes this theme comes from. Gem Pack Vol. 1 and Vol. 5 each print four Illustration Rares that place a named human beside the Pokémon and write that person into the card’s text — one closed theme of eight cards across two volumes.

Simplified Chinese Gem Pack Vol. 1 (CBB1C, January 2025) and Vol. 5 (CBB5C, April 2026) print one closed theme of eight cards: four Illustration Rares per volume that put a named human beside the Pokémon and write that person into the card title, with the same four people returning in the second volume.

Two collectors can spend the same money on the same cards and end up in completely different places. One has a shelf full of things. The other has a collection. The difference is almost never knowledge, and it is surprisingly rarely budget — it is whether the thing they started has an edge.

This is not a glossary entry and it is not advice about which card to buy. It is a question about shape. “I collect Pokémon cards” is not a theme. It is a category, and a category has no last card — every release adds to it, so the project can only ever be behind. A theme is different. It has a cast, a size, and a point at which you are finished. The smaller and more specific that cast is, the faster you arrive at the part of collecting that is actually pleasant: owning the thing, rather than hunting it.

The Simplified Chinese Gem Pack line contains one of the cleanest examples of a deliberately closed theme in the modern TCG, and it is easy to walk past, because the eight cards involved do not sit in one set. They are spread across two volumes released in January 2025 and April 2026, and the second volume changes the Pokémon without changing the people.

The theme is printed on the card

In Gem Pack Vol. 1 (CBB1C, released 17 January 2025) four of the set’s Illustration Rares put a human being on the card alongside the Pokémon — and then put the human’s name into the card’s title. The card is not called Sprigatito. It is called Sprigatito & Liko.

That is a stranger design decision than it sounds. A trainer card and a Pokémon card are normally two different objects. Here they are one object, and the pairing is not something you have to know before you look. The card states its own membership in the theme.

Vol. 5 (CBB5C, released 24 April 2026) returns to the same four people with the same four partners, one stage further along. The four Illustration Rares in Vol. 5 are the same cast as Vol. 1 — Friede with Captain Pikachu, and Liko, Roy and Dot with their starters — except the starters have evolved once. Sprigatito is now Floragato. Fuecoco is now Crocalor. Quaxly is now Quaxwell. Each card still carries both names.

Trainer	Card	Printed identifier	Our price (PSA 10)
Liko	Sprigatito & Liko	CBB1C 01 09/09	$97.49
Liko	Floragato & Liko	CBB5C 22 07/07	$80.34
Roy	Fuecoco & Roy	CBB1C 03 09/09	$99.85
Roy	Crocalor & Roy	CBB5C 23 07/07	$66.21
Dot	Quaxly & Dot	CBB1C 05 09/09	$95.95
Dot	Quaxwell & Dot	CBB5C 24 07/07	$66.97
Friede	Captain Pikachu & Friede	CBB1C 07 09/09	$653.14
Friede	Captain Pikachu & Friede	CBB5C 01 07/07	$614.16

Eight cards. Four people. Two stages. That is the entire theme, and the membership list is printed on the objects themselves. Somewhere in a hobby of more than twenty thousand cards, this is one of the few collections you can define without consulting a wiki.

The printed identifier tells you where each card sits

Every Gem Pack card carries a three-part code, and the last two parts are not a set number. CBB1C 07 09/09 reads as: set CBB1C, group 07, treatment 09/09. The group is a species slot — group 07 is the Pikachu slot in Vol. 1 — and the fraction is which treatment of that species you are holding, out of how many that species received in the volume.

This matters more than it looks, because in every volume of the line the four Horizons cards sit at the last treatment of their group. In Vol. 1 that is 09/09. In Vol. 2 the equivalent cards sit at 15/15. In Vol. 5 it is 07/07. The fraction is not a running set number and it is not a print run — it is a position, and the Horizons illustrations occupy the top of it.

So when someone lists a Gem Pack card for sale without saying which treatment it is, the code answers the question that the photograph cannot. A plain holo of the same species in the same group exists, and it is a different card.

Why two volumes make one theme rather than two sets

It is worth being precise about what Vol. 1 and Vol. 5 have in common, because the two products are not built the same way. Vol. 1 ships 15 packs to a box; Vol. 5 ships 18. The two volumes differ in total size as well, and neither figure tells you anything about the other.

What they share is the cast, and the cast is the part that matters for a theme. Vol. 1 gives you the beginning of a journey and Vol. 5 gives you the same four travellers further along it. For a collector, that produces an unusual property: the theme has a built-in sense of sequence. It is not eight interchangeable cards of one character. It reads left to right.

Friede is the exception, and the exception is instructive. Captain Pikachu is not an evolution line — he is a Pikachu, a particular one, with a name. So Friede’s pair does not progress between the volumes in the same way; it appears twice, in two different scenes. The theme’s internal logic is “one trainer, one partner, two moments”, and for three of the four pairs the second moment is an evolution, while for the fourth it is simply a second moment. That asymmetry is the kind of detail that makes a small theme interesting rather than merely small.

The number that decides whether you finish

Here is where a theme stops being an idea and becomes a budget problem. Looking at the eight cards as a group, the obvious figure is the total. The figure that actually predicts whether the collection gets completed is a different one.

Trainer	The pair	Cost of both cards	Share of the theme
Dot	Quaxly & Dot + Quaxwell & Dot	$162.92	9.2%
Roy	Fuecoco & Roy + Crocalor & Roy	$166.06	9.4%
Liko	Sprigatito & Liko + Floragato & Liko	$177.83	10.0%
Friede	Captain Pikachu & Friede (both volumes)	$1,267.30	71.4%
All eight	—	$1,774.11	100%

Three of the four pairs cost between $162 and $178, and they cost about the same as each other. The fourth costs $1,267.30 — more than seven times the others combined. Roughly seventy-one percent of this theme’s total price is one trainer.

This is the single most useful thing to understand about theme collecting, and it generalises well beyond Gem Pack. A theme is not priced by how many cards are in it. It is priced by its most expensive card. Eight cards sounds like a small, achievable project. Seven of those eight cards are individually affordable, and that fact is completely irrelevant, because the eighth is not optional — a theme with a hole in it is not a smaller theme, it is an unfinished one.

So the question to ask before starting is not “what does the whole list cost”. It is “which single card is the gate, and can I pay what it costs”. For the Horizons pairs the answer is Captain Pikachu, and it is worth understanding why rather than resenting it. The card is the one non-evolving member of the cast, it appears in the volume that has been out longest, and it sits at the top treatment of its group in both volumes. Nothing about that is an accident of the market. It is the structure of the theme expressing itself in price.

A theme with no last card: the Eeveelutions

The opposite case is worth looking at, because it is the trap most collectors fall into first. The Eevee family is one of the most natural themes in Pokémon — it is a family with a printed membership list, and it appears repeatedly in the Simplified Chinese line. Our catalogue currently lists four members of it, all from Gem Pack Vol. 2 (CBB2C):

Card	Printed identifier	Our price (PSA 10)
Eevee	CBB2C 01 15/15	$192.94
Umbreon	CBB2C 06 15/15	$591.93
Leafeon	CBB2C 07 15/15	$209.89
Sylveon	CBB2C 09 15/15	$233.54

Four of nine family members. And here is the structural problem with calling this a theme: the Eevee family is defined by a rule — “everything in Eevee’s evolutionary line” — rather than by a printed list. A rule-based theme is open. It can be expanded by a future set, and in this particular case the expansions are the expensive part: Umbreon, the rarest of the four we list, is already $591.93 against Eevee’s $192.94, and the members we do not list are the ones that would have to be sourced from other products entirely.

None of this makes the Eeveelutions a bad thing to collect. It makes them an open theme, and open themes have a specific failure mode: they do not end, so they cannot be finished, so progress never produces the feeling of completion that motivated the project. If you enjoy the chase more than the shelf, that is a feature. If you want the shelf, it is the thing that will quietly end your interest in the hobby.

The other kind of theme — the one you read, not the one that is printed

There is a second kind of theme, and it is the reason the Horizons pairs are worth studying as a design rather than just as a purchase. Some themes are printed on the card. Others exist only if you know the story.

Ceruledge sits in Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C 15 07/07). In the animation, Ceruledge is Amethio’s partner. The card does not say so. It is titled Ceruledge, and the illustration is the Pokémon. The pairing is real, it is official, and it is entirely invisible on the card itself.

The same is true of Umbreon in Vol. 2, which is Spinel’s partner. The Vol. 2 card is part of a connected scene drawn across four cards, and there is no trainer in it at all. If you were collecting “Pokémon Horizons partner pairs”, both Ceruledge and Umbreon would qualify by the story — and neither would be recognised by a checklist, because no checklist records a relationship that never appears on a card face.

That distinction has a practical consequence. A printed theme can be verified card by card, shared unambiguously with other collectors, and completed without a source of authority beyond the cards. A read theme depends on the collector’s knowledge, and two people applying the same rule will disagree about its edges — is Friede’s Charizard part of the cast? Is it the same theme if the card belongs to a villain? Neither answer is wrong, which is exactly the problem.

Both kinds are worth having. The printed kind is the one that guarantees you finish. It is also the harder kind to find, because it requires a card designer to have made the cast explicit — which is a specific, and quite unusual, decision.

Three questions that predict whether you will finish

Applied to any candidate theme, the same three tests separate the ones that get completed from the ones that get abandoned in a drawer, and none of them is about how much the collector knows.

Test	The question	What a bad answer looks like
1. Is the membership printed, or is it a rule?	Does the theme have a fixed, named cast you can list and stop, or is it defined by a condition that future cards can satisfy?	“All Eeveelutions.” “Every Gengar.” “Cards by this illustrator.” These are rules. Each one grows, and each new release either extends the theme or makes your set incomplete.
2. What does the single most expensive card cost, as a share of the whole?	Not the total — the gate. Find the one card the theme cannot be finished without, and measure it against the sum of everything else.	A gate that is most of the budget. You are not collecting a theme at that point; you are saving for one card and calling the rest of the list an intention.
3. How many sellers does the list require?	If the eight cards come from four sellers on three continents, postage and customs are part of the price of the theme, and each additional seller is another chance for the project to stall.	A member list that cannot be sourced in a small number of transactions. Distance is not romantic here; it is just an extra fixed cost per card.

The Horizons pair theme passes all three. The cast is printed on the cards. The gate is a known card with a published price, and if that price is out of reach you can find that out in one afternoon instead of over two years. And the list is eight cards that a single seller who grades to order can assemble in one conversation.

If the answer is one trainer

The most common useful conclusion is not “I will collect all eight” but “I want one of these pairs”. That is a good outcome, and it changes what you should buy first.

Going by the current numbers, the three starter pairs are within about fifteen dollars of each other in total — Dot at $162.92, Roy at $166.06, Liko at $177.83 — so the choice between them is a choice about the artwork and the character, not about value. There is no financial argument for one over the others at that spread. Pick the pair you want to look at.

The Friede pair is a genuinely different proposition at $1,267.30, and it is worth saying plainly what it is: two cards, held to the same standard as the rest, and priced by scarcity rather than by anything about how they look. If it is out of budget, that is not a verdict on your collection. It is the first test above doing its job, which is to tell you in advance rather than halfway through.

If you are buying a pair to start with, two smaller habits pay for themselves. First, buy the cheaper card of the two first — every one of these pairs is a base form in Vol. 1 and an evolved form in Vol. 5, and holding one tells you whether you actually want the other on the shelf, which a photograph does not. Second, buy graded from the start. A theme is a set of objects you are keeping, and an ungraded card in the middle of a graded run is a permanent question mark about that card’s condition — one that costs more to close later than it would have cost to avoid. Our own reasoning about why a grade describes the card and not the case is set out in PSA slab care, and it is relevant here for a boring reason: you are going to own these cards for years.

If you would rather see the whole line before choosing, the volume-by-volume breakdown is in Gem Pack Vol. 1 to 6, and the full 42-card Simplified Chinese-exclusive list with printed codes and rarity tiers is in the exclusive card list. Both are worth reading before you commit to a theme, because both will show you candidates you had not considered — which is the correct order of operations. Choose the shape first, then the cards.

Frequently asked questions

What does “one Pokémon per trainer” mean?

It describes a set of cards where a single trainer and a single partner Pokémon appear together, with both names printed in the card’s title. Gem Pack Vol. 1 and Vol. 5 each contain four such Illustration Rares — Friede with Captain Pikachu, and Liko, Roy and Dot with their starters — for eight cards in total across the two volumes.

Which Gem Pack volumes have the Pokémon Horizons trainer pairs?

Two. Gem Pack Vol. 1 (CBB1C, 2025) has the four pairs with the starters in their base forms, and Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C, 2026) returns to the same four trainers with Floragato, Crocalor, Quaxwell and Captain Pikachu. The eight cards together are the complete theme.

Is an Eeveelution collection a theme?

It is a theme, but it is an open one. The Eevee family is defined by a rule rather than by a printed list, so it can be extended by any future release, and the family has nine members while our catalogue currently lists four from Gem Pack Vol. 2. A rule-based theme is harder to finish than a printed one for structural reasons, not for reasons of effort.

Do the Vol. 1 and Vol. 5 trainer cards use the same artwork?

No. They are different illustrations by different artists, and the Pokémon are at different evolutionary stages — Sprigatito in Vol. 1 against Floragato in Vol. 5, and so on. Captain Pikachu appears in both volumes, but as two separate scenes rather than as a progression.

Can you source a specific Gem Pack card that is not in the catalogue?

Yes. We source and grade to order, so a card does not have to be listed for us to find it. Give us the card name, the volume and the printed identifier — for example CBB5C 24 07/07 — and we will confirm a price and a lead time before you pay anything. Pre-order items are dispatched within 15 business days of order confirmation, and most ship in 5 to 10 business days.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. The Pokémon Company — Pokémon Horizons: The Series official character pages. The partner pairings used throughout: Liko & Sprigatito, Roy & Fuecoco, Friede & Captain Pikachu, Dot & Quaxly, and, for the read-theme section, Amethio & Ceruledge and Spinel & Umbreon.
2. The Pokémon Company International — press release confirming Liko and Roy with their partner Pokémon Sprigatito and Fuecoco respectively, and Friede with Captain Pikachu.
3. Level Up Games — Horizons Gem Pack Vol. 5 Booster Box (S-Chinese). Source for the Vol. 5 release date of 24 April 2026, the 18-packs-per-box configuration, the four exclusive Illustration Rares, and the statement that Vol. 5 follows Vol. 1 with the middle evolutions Floragato, Crocalor and Quaxwell alongside Liko, Roy and Dot.
4. Nostic Cards — Gem Pack Volume 5 Boosterpack. Confirms the Vol. 5 cast (Captain Pikachu & Friede, Floragato & Liko, Crocalor & Roy, Quaxwell & Dot), the all-foil four-cards-per-pack format, and that the four Illustration Rares are the set’s headline cards.
5. CPOP — Gem Pack Vol. 1 (CBB1C) Booster Box. Source for the Vol. 1 release date of 17 January 2025, the 15-packs-per-box configuration, and the pull list showing the Horizons cards at their group’s final treatment — Captain Pikachu 07 09/09, Sprigatito 01 09/09, Fuecoco 03 09/09, Quaxly 05 09/09.
6. MyGamesBase — (Simplified Chinese) Pokémon — Gem Pack Vol. 1 Booster Pack. Independent confirmation of the same four identifiers for Vol. 1, together with the rarity markers attached to each treatment.
7. KrystalKollectz — Gem Pack Vol. 1 Card List. Source for the treatment numbering within a species group, showing the Pikachu slot running 01/09 through 09/09 with the exclusive Illustration Rare at the top of the run.
8. CardSpicy — Gem Pack Vol. 1 to 6: What Is in Each Volume. The volume-by-volume set codes, and our explanation of how Gem Pack numbering is organised by species group rather than by a single running number. cardspicy.com/gem-pack-pokemon-volumes/
9. CardSpicy — How Many Simplified Chinese-Exclusive Pokémon Cards Are There? The 42-card list with printed codes, sets, rarities and illustrators, and the rarity distribution used in the tier discussions. cardspicy.com/simplified-chinese-exclusive-card-list/
10. CardSpicy — our own product listings. All prices in this article are the current PSA 10 graded prices shown on our listings on the date of publication, and change with the market. cardspicy.com/product-category/psa10/psa10-exclusive/

On a Simplified Chinese Pokémon card, UR means Ultra Rare: the gold-etched card at the end of the numbered checklist, printed in full-face gold foil and numbered above the printed size of its set. Four of the 42 cards in our Chinese Exclusive category are gold Ultra Rares, and they are the least expensive cards in that lineup.

If you collect English cards, the letters UR mean one specific thing. On a Simplified Chinese card they mean something else entirely — and the difference is not cosmetic. It is the difference between a silver-bordered full-art card and a card printed entirely in gold, and it is the reason a Chinese UR will look wrong to you the first time you see one.

This store lists four gold Ultra Rares inside its Chinese Exclusive lineup. They are the loudest-looking cards in the category and, measured against the rest of it, the least expensive. That combination is not a coincidence, and it is not a warning sign — it follows directly from what the letters and the gold finish actually describe.

Quick answer

On a Simplified Chinese Pokémon card, UR stands for Ultra Rare, and in the current Chinese print line the Ultra Rare slot is the gold-etched card at the end of the numbered checklist. It is printed with a full-face gold foil treatment, it is numbered above the printed size of its set, and it is the last card in the set’s numeric order rather than one of the numbered cards. CardSpicy lists four gold Ultra Rares in its Chinese Exclusive category, each graded PSA 10.

The Chinese-language rarity guides describe it the same way: UR is the tier above SR, the card face is gold, and in the Chinese line only some Pokémon cards, Energy cards and Item cards are issued in a UR version — which is why collectors in Chinese simply call it 金卡, the gold card.

UR is not the English “Ultra Rare”

This is the trap, and it is worth stating plainly, because the two lines reuse the same two letters for two different products.

In the English-language line, a card marked Ultra Rare is a full-art Pokémon ex or Supporter — silver-bordered, with the artwork running past the frame and the card’s ordinary text underneath. The English line uses a different name for the gold card: it calls it Hyper Rare, marked with three gold stars. A rarity guide that maps the two conventions records exactly that, and adds the warning that the English “Ultra Rare” is not the same as the letters UR you see on a Japanese or Chinese card.

So a gold card that an English-speaking collector would call a Hyper Rare is, on a Simplified Chinese card, printed UR. And a card our listings mark SAR is what the English line calls a Special Illustration Rare. The letters are not a translation of each other; they are two separate naming systems for the same set of finishes.

Finish you are looking at	Letters on a Chinese card	Name used in the English line
Full-art Pokémon ex or Supporter	SR	Ultra Rare
Special illustration	SAR	Special Illustration Rare
Gold-etched, whole card in gold foil	UR	Hyper Rare
Rainbow-etched (Sword & Shield era)	HR	Rainbow Rare

The fourth row is why Blastoise VMAX and Venusaur VMAX are marked HR in this lineup while the four gold cards are marked UR. HR belongs to the earlier era of the game and to a different finish. The two letters are not ranked against each other; they belong to different print generations.

What “gold” describes on the card

The treatment covers the whole card. The border, the name bar, the HP area, the text box background and the frame are all rendered in gold foil with an etched texture, so the artwork sits inside a gold field rather than being the subject of the card. That is the opposite of how an Illustration Rare or a Special Art Rare is built, where the picture is the entire point of the print.

Two practical consequences follow. First, a gold card is identifiable from across a table — you do not need to read the letters to know what you are holding. Second, it reads as a treatment rather than as an illustration, and that distinction turns out to drive the price, which we get to below.

Gold cards have been the highest-numbered cards in their sets since the Black & White era of the game. They are always numbered past the end of the checklist, and they are always alternate versions of a card that already exists in the numbered part of the set — not a new card introduced by the gold slot.

Decoding csv4C 162/129 UR

Take Gholdengo ex from Reward Round. Its printed identifier is csv4C 162/129 UR, and every part of that string is doing work.

Part	What it is
csv4C	The set code — the fourth main set of the Chinese Scarlet & Violet line.
162	The card’s position in the checklist.
129	The printed size of the numbered set.
UR	The rarity letter code, printed on the card where the rarity mark goes.

The numerator is larger than the denominator, and that is the single most useful thing to check. A card numbered above the printed size of its set is a secret card: it sits past the end of the numbered checklist rather than inside it. 162/129 is not an error and not a misprint — it is the standard way a set marks a card that was added after the numbered list ran out.

That fraction is also the part of the identifier that cannot be faked by reprinting. Our guide to reading Chinese set codes covers the full grammar, including the Gem Pack cards, which use a group-and-variant structure instead of a fraction.

The four gold URs in this lineup

Four of the 42 cards in Chinese Exclusive are Ultra Rare (gold). Each one is a gold treatment of a card that exists elsewhere in its own set at an ordinary rarity.

Card	Set	Printed code	Illustrator	Year	Our listing
Gholdengo ex	Reward Round	csv4C 162/129 UR	5ban Graphics	2025	$175
Defiance Band	Dark Crystal Blaze	csv5C 164/129 UR	inose yukie	2025	$127
Battle VIP Pass	Radiant Energy	cs5.1C 023/004 UR	Toyste Beach	2024	$120
Pal Pad	True Mystery	csv6C 163/128 UR	Studio Bora Inc.	2025	$110

Three separate numbering shapes appear in that table, and it is worth reading them apart. Gholdengo ex and Defiance Band are both numbered against a 129-card set, Pal Pad against a 128-card set, and Battle VIP Pass against a four-card product. Do not read “past the end” as a fixed gap — the meaningful part is that the numerator exceeds the denominator in every case, and the size of the denominator tells you how large the comparison is.

Defiance Band is a good example of how ordinary the underlying card is. The same artwork by the same illustrator appears in the English release as an Uncommon Trainer card, numbered 169/198, worth a few cents raw. In the Chinese line it is csv5C 164/129 UR, a gold card, and the reason it is priced in the hundreds is the print run and the treatment rather than the card.

Why three of the four are Item cards

Only one of the four gold URs is a Pokémon. Gholdengo ex is a Pokémon ex; the other three are Trainer cards — Defiance Band is a Pokémon Tool, and Pal Pad and Battle VIP Pass are Items. There is a structural reason for that split rather than a preference.

The gold slot is filled from the cards already in the set, so whatever the set contains is what can be issued in gold. The Chinese rarity guides put it directly: only some Pokémon cards, Energy cards and Item cards are issued in a UR version in this line. A rarity reference for the English equivalent is more specific still — it records that Hyper Rares can be alternate versions of any card in their set except Supporter Trainer cards.

That is why you will find a gold Item far more often than you might expect. The slot is not reserved for the most popular character in the set; it is filled from the eligible cards, and Items and Tools are always eligible. It also explains why the four gold cards in this lineup sit at lower price points than the illustration-driven cards around them — the subject is often a Trainer card whose ordinary print is common, and the market for a gold version of a common Item is narrower than the market for an illustrated character card.

What a gold UR actually costs

This is the part that surprises people, so it is worth showing with the numbers from this category rather than describing it in the abstract.

Rarity group in Chinese Exclusive	Cards	Average listing price	Range
Illustration Rare	23	$534	$66 – $3,027
Special Art Rare	9	$407	$89 – $904
Hyper Rare	2	$235	$180 – $290
Ultra Rare (gold)	4	$133	$110 – $175

The gold URs have the highest-sounding rarity name in the category and the lowest average price. They also have by far the tightest band: the whole group sits inside a 1.6-times spread, while the Illustration Rares run from $66 to over $3,000 — driven, in that case, by four event-distributed Pikachu from Collect 151 that occupy the top of the range.

The reason is the one flagged earlier: scarcity is not the same thing as demand. Gold cards are genuinely hard to pull — published pull-rate estimates put a gold card at roughly one in every 15 to 25 packs, and inside a 30-pack box the single high-rarity hit that every box contains lands on a UR only about one time in ten, with SR and SAR taking the rest. So the supply is low. But because the treatment is applied to the set’s existing cards and frequently lands on an Item or a Tool rather than a headline character, the pool of buyers competing for one is smaller than the pool chasing a well-loved illustration.

What the gold treatment does establish is a floor rather than a ceiling. A gold Item is still an Item, and the card you are buying is the print run and the grade rather than the picture — which is a perfectly good reason to collect it, as long as you are buying it for that reason.

How to describe a gold UR accurately

Because the two naming systems collide, gold cards attract more than their share of loose descriptions. Three phrasings are worth getting right, whether you are writing a listing, an Instagram caption or an insurance schedule.

Describe the treatment and the line. “Chinese-exclusive gold UR version” is accurate and specific: it names the finish and the product line. It is what the card is.

Do not describe it as a brand-new illustration. The gold slot is an alternate treatment of a card that already exists in the set. For the Item and Tool cards in particular the artwork is not unique to the Chinese line — the same illustration appears in other releases. Calling it new art invites a correction.

Do not claim the card was never printed in Japanese or English. Some of these prints are specific to the Chinese line; others share a card and an artwork with another market and differ only in the finish. The distinction is not visible from the gold alone, and an absolute claim is the easiest thing for a buyer to check and disprove with a single search. Say what you can evidence — the treatment, the line, the set code and the grade — and stop there.

What to check before you buy one

Four checks, in order.

Match the code to the slab. PSA prints the set and card number on the label, so a gold UR listing should show a code that matches the card in the holder. If the label reads a number that is not past the end of the set, you are looking at the ordinary print of that card, not the UR.

Confirm which print you are buying. Pal Pad and Defiance Band both exist as ordinary cards. The gold version and the ordinary version have the same name and the same text, and only the number and the finish tell them apart.

Look at the grade and the holder. Gold foil shows surface wear more clearly than a flat finish, and a high-gloss gold card photographed under a direct light hides nothing. If the card is graded, the holder itself becomes part of the condition question — scuffs, edge dulling and label fading are all separate from the card’s grade, and our note on keeping PSA slabs clean covers what actually damages a holder and what is only cosmetic.

Protect it properly if it is raw. A gold card in a binder page carries more risk than a matte card, because the finish is the thing you are paying for and the thing that shows a new scratch. A penny sleeve followed by a rigid 3″ × 4″ toploader is the minimum, and it applies to graded and raw cards alike.

Frequently asked questions

What does UR mean on a Simplified Chinese Pokémon card?

UR stands for Ultra Rare. On a current Simplified Chinese card it is the gold-etched print that sits at the end of the numbered checklist, past the printed size of the set. Chinese collectors call it 金卡 — the gold card.

Is a Chinese UR the same as an English Ultra Rare?

No. The English line uses Ultra Rare for full-art Pokémon ex and Supporter cards, which the Chinese line letters as SR. The gold card that the Chinese line letters as UR is what the English line calls a Hyper Rare. The two systems reuse the same two letters for different finishes.

Is a gold UR stronger than the normal version of the same card?

No. The gold slot holds an alternate version of a card that already exists in the numbered part of the set, so the card text is the same as the ordinary print. What differs is the finish, the position past the end of the checklist, and the print run.

Why is the card number higher than the set total, like 162/129?

Because a card numbered above the printed size of its set is a secret card. The numerator is the card’s position and the denominator is the size of the numbered set, so a numerator past the denominator is the standard marker for a card added after the numbered list ends. It applies to gold URs and to Special Art Rares alike.

Can a gold UR be a Supporter card?

Not in the sets we list. The four gold URs here are three Trainer cards — a Pokémon Tool and two Items — and one Pokémon ex. A rarity reference for the English equivalent records that the gold rarity can be an alternate version of any card in its set except Supporter Trainer cards, which matches what we see in the Chinese line.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. Bulbapedia — Rarity. The definition of Ultra Rare, the bolded-letter rarity convention used by Japanese releases from Black Collection and White Collection onwards, and the secret-card convention of numbering a card above the printed size of its set.
2. Bulbapedia — Defiance Band (Scarlet & Violet 169). Confirms the card is a Trainer card of the Pokémon Tool subtype, illustrated by inose yukie, and numbered 169/198 in the English release.
3. Dittobase — Pokémon TCG Rarities Explained. The three-gold-star Hyper Rare, described as the equivalent of the Japanese UR symbol and explicitly distinguished from the English Ultra Rare rarity; also the note that Hyper Rares can be alternate versions of any card in their set besides Supporter Trainer cards.
4. CardHome — 宝可梦卡牌稀有度. The Chinese-language rarity ladder (S, SR, HR, SSR, UR) and the statement that UR — 究极稀有 — is the gold card, that only some Pokémon, Energy and Item cards are issued in a UR version in the Chinese release, and that it is therefore known as 金卡.
5. Pokex — Gold Pokemon Cards. Gold cards as secret rares numbered above the set count, their presence at the highest numbers of every set since the Black & White era, and published pull-rate estimates of roughly one gold card per 15 to 25 packs.
6. ASOVENTURE — 寶可夢卡稀有度完全解說. UR as the gold tier of the Japanese and Chinese printings, and the observation that gold Energy and gold Item cards are less popular than gold Pokémon yet still priced on their scarcity.
7. CardSpicy — the four listings cited above and the Chinese Exclusive category, which carry the printed set codes, illustrators and listing prices used in the tables on this page. Cross-references: how to read a Chinese set code and the full 42-card list.