Category: Pokémon

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Volcarona cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Volcarona leads at $1,199 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Volcarona appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 3 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 20 Japanese, 7 Korean and 36 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Volcarona [1st Edition] #10 (Cruel Traitor) at $200. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Japanese list

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

10. Volcarona GX — Alter Genesis #96 — $60

9. Volcarona — Red Collection #12 — $66

8. Volcarona — Megalo Cannon #12 — $66

7. Volcarona — Dark Rush #15 — $71

6. Volcarona [1st Edition] — Megalo Cannon #12 — $73

5. Volcarona [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #17 — $86

4. Volcarona GX — Alter Genesis #109 — $97

3. Volcarona — Cruel Traitor #10 — $100

2. Volcarona — Bandit Ring #17 — $155

1. Volcarona [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #10 — $200

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.

• Volcarona V — Blue Sky Stream #15 — $55
• Volcarona — Black Bolt #104 — $55
• Volcarona [Master Ball] — Black Bolt #19 — $50
• Volcarona V — Blue Sky Stream #69 — $44
• Volcarona — Shining Legends #14 — $43
• Volcarona [Poke Ball] — Black Bolt #19 — $38
• Volcarona — Black Bolt #19 — $38
• Volcarona [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #18 — $34
• Volcarona GX — Alter Genesis #13 — $31
• Volcarona — Bandit Ring #18 — $31

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

The English list

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

10. Volcarona GX — Cosmic Eclipse #252 — $128

9. Volcarona — Plasma Blast #13 — $187

8. Volcarona — Ancient Origins #18 — $196

7. Volcarona — Ancient Origins #17 — $198

6. Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Ancient Origins #18 — $199

5. Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #15 — $245

4. Volcarona GX — Cosmic Eclipse #213 — $311

3. Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Dark Explorers #22 — $450

2. Volcarona — Dark Explorers #22 — $500

1. Volcarona — Black Bolt #100 — $1,199

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.

• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Noble Victories #21 — $91
• Volcarona [Master Ball] — Black Bolt #16 — $77
• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Blast #13 — $75
• Volcarona V — Evolving Skies #170 — $74
• Volcarona GX — Cosmic Eclipse #35 — $73
• Volcarona — Noble Victories #21 — $55
• Volcarona — Darkness Ablaze #30 — $51
• Volcarona — Obsidian Flames #41 — $50
• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #41 — $50
• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #25 — $50
• Volcarona V — Evolving Skies #21 — $43
• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Ancient Origins #17 — $42
• Volcarona — Steam Siege #15 — $40
• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Chilling Reign #24 — $32
• Volcarona — Shining Legends #13 — $32
• Volcarona — Crown Zenith #25 — $32
• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Crown Zenith #25 — $31
• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #29 — $31
• Volcarona [Reverse] — Black Bolt #16 — $31
• Volcarona — Chilling Reign #24 — $31
• Volcarona — Surging Sparks #25 — $30
• Volcarona — Journey Together #29 — $30
• Volcarona [Poke Ball] — Black Bolt #16 — $30
• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Shining Legends #13 — $30
• Volcarona — Black Bolt #16 — $29
• Volcarona [Reverse Holo] — Darkness Ablaze #30 — $20

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

Where Volcarona is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	20	20	$200
English	36	36	$1,199
All 2 lines	56	56	—

Every Volcarona card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Volcarona	Brilliant Fantasy	csv8C	37

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Volcarona card leads the Japanese list?

Volcarona [1st Edition] #10 from Cruel Traitor at $200. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Volcarona card leads the English list?

Volcarona #100 from Black Bolt at $1,199.

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

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

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

We do not hold a Volcarona 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 Tinkaton cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Tinkaton ex leads at $205 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Tinkaton appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 9 Japanese, 3 Korean and 15 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Tinkaton ex #93 (Clay Burst) at $98. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Tinkaton ex — CSV1C #155 — $202
• Tinkaton — sv4aF #96 — $44

A further 1 Simplified Chinese printings of Tinkaton 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.

9. Tinkaton — Future Flash #37 — $36

8. Tinkaton — Triplet Beat #43 — $36

7. Tinkaton — Mega Brave #50 — $37

6. Tinkaton — Shiny Treasure ex #96 — $37

5. Tinkaton ex — Clay Burst #35 — $37

4. Tinkaton ex — Clay Burst #87 — $39

3. Tinkaton — Shiny Treasure ex #273 — $47

2. Tinkaton [Gym Promo] — Promo #114/SV-P — $70

1. Tinkaton ex — Clay Burst #93 — $98

This line only yields 9 priced printings for Tinkaton. Another 2 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

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

10. Tinkaton [Holo] — Paldea Evolved #105 — $43

9. Tinkaton [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #105 — $59

8. Tinkaton — Promo #140 — $75

7. Tinkaton [Stamped] — Paldea Evolved #105 — $98†

6. Tinkaton ex — Paldea Evolved #240 — $98

5. Tinkaton — Paldean Fates #167 — $100

4. Tinkaton — Paldea Evolved #105 — $106

3. Tinkaton [Cosmos Holo] — Paldea Evolved #105 — $144

2. Tinkaton [GameStop] — Paldea Evolved #105 — $200

1. Tinkaton ex — Paldea Evolved #262 — $205

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.

• Tinkaton [Reverse Holo] — Paradox Rift #85 — $32
• Tinkaton [Reverse Holo] — Mega Evolution #98 — $31
• Tinkaton — Mega Evolution #98 — $30
• Tinkaton — Paradox Rift #85 — $30
• Tinkaton ex — Promo #31 — $20

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

Where Tinkaton is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — other printings	2	2	$202
Japanese	9	9	$98
Korean	3	3	$183
English	15	15	$205
All 4 lines	29	29	—

Every Tinkaton card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Tinkaton	True Mystery	csv6C	64

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Tinkaton card leads the Japanese list?

Tinkaton ex #93 from Clay Burst at $98. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Tinkaton card leads the English list?

Tinkaton ex #262 from Paldea Evolved at $205.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

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

Korean printings

3 printings

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

• Tinkaton ex — Clay Burst #93 — $183
• Tinkaton ex — Clay Burst #87 — $45
• Tinkaton ex — Clay Burst #35 — $40

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

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

We do not hold a Tinkaton 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 Skeledirge cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Skeledirge ex [Jumbo] leads at $400 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Skeledirge appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 4 Traditional Chinese printings, 7 Japanese, 2 Korean and 10 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Skeledirge ex #97 (Triplet Beat) at $75. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Skeledirge EX — CSV2C #153 — $22

A further 5 Simplified Chinese printings of Skeledirge 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.

7. Skeledirge ex — Triplet Beat #20 — $24

6. Skeledirge ex — Triplet Beat #87 — $28

5. Skeledirge ex — Shiny Treasure ex #32 — $28

4. Skeledirge ex — Shiny Treasure ex #324 — $30

3. Skeledirge ex — Triplet Beat #102 — $30

2. Skeledirge — Super Electric Breaker #19 — $35

1. Skeledirge ex — Triplet Beat #97 — $75

This line only yields 7 priced printings for Skeledirge. Another 3 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

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

10. Skeledirge ex [Holo] — Paradox Rift #137 — $25

9. Skeledirge — Surging Sparks #31 — $38

8. Skeledirge ex — Promo #34 — $43

7. Skeledirge ex — Paldea Evolved #37 — $48

6. Skeledirge [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #31 — $55

5. Skeledirge ex — Paldea Evolved #272 — $62

4. Skeledirge ex — Paldea Evolved #233 — $70

3. Skeledirge ex — Promo #81 — $79

2. Skeledirge ex — Paldea Evolved #258 — $99

1. Skeledirge ex [Jumbo] — Promo #81 — $400

Where Skeledirge is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$22
Japanese	7	7	$75
Korean	2	2	$107
English	10	10	$400
All 4 lines	20	20	—

Every Skeledirge card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Skeledirge	CSV9C	CSV9C	32

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Skeledirge card leads the Japanese list?

Skeledirge ex #97 from Triplet Beat at $75. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Skeledirge card leads the English list?

Skeledirge Ex [Jumbo] #81 from Promo at $400.

Why are the Korean (2 printings listed here) not in a top ten?

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

Korean printings

2 printings

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

• Skeledirge ex — Triple Beat #97 — $107
• Skeledirge ex — Triple Beat #20 — $23

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

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

Our own stock covers the other end of this line — the Crocalor PSA 10 (CBB5C 23/07), the card Skeledirge evolves from. Our Simplified Chinese slabs are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

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

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

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Quaquaval cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Quaquaval ex [Jumbo] leads at $102 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

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

The head of the list is Quaquaval ex #98 (Triplet Beat) at $40. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Japanese list

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

6. Quaquaval — Triplet Beat #30 — $20

5. Quaquaval ex — Shiny Treasure ex #43 — $22

4. Quaquaval — Triplet Beat #88 — $27

3. Quaquaval ex — Triplet Beat #103 — $35

2. Quaquaval ex — Shiny Treasure ex #325 — $35

1. Quaquaval ex — Triplet Beat #98 — $40

This line only yields 6 priced printings for Quaquaval. Another 3 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

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

9. Quaquaval ex — Paldea Evolved #52 — $14

8. Quaquaval — Surging Sparks #52 — $30

7. Quaquaval [Reverse Holo] — Surging Sparks #52 — $31

6. Quaquaval ex — Paldea Evolved #235 — $42

5. Quaquaval ex — Promo #35 — $46

4. Quaquaval ex — Promo #84 — $52

3. Quaquaval ex — Paldea Evolved #273 — $67

2. Quaquaval ex — Paldea Evolved #260 — $80

1. Quaquaval ex [Jumbo] — Promo #84 — $102

This line only yields 9 priced printings for Quaquaval. Another 2 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

Where Quaquaval is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	6	6	$40
Korean	1	1	$51
English	9	9	$102
All 3 lines	16	16	—

Every Quaquaval card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Quaquaval	CSV9C	CSV9C	50

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Quaquaval card leads the Japanese list?

Quaquaval ex #98 from Triplet Beat at $40. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Quaquaval card leads the English list?

Quaquaval Ex [Jumbo] #84 from Promo at $102.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

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

Korean printings

1 printings

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

• Quaquaval ex — Triple Beat #98 — $51

A further 4 Korean printings of Quaquaval sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

Our own stock covers the other end of this line — the Quaxwell PSA 10 (CBB5C 24/07), the card Quaquaval evolves from. Our Simplified Chinese slabs are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

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

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

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Corviknight cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Corviknight V leads at $90 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Corviknight appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 11 Japanese, 4 Korean and 12 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Corviknight VMAX #56 (Rapid Strike Master) at $61. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Japanese list

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

10. Corviknight VMAX — VMAX Climax #116 — $28

9. Hop’s Corviknight — Battle Partners #68 — $36

8. Corviknight V — Rapid Strike Master #55 — $37

7. Corviknight — Shiny Star V #132 — $37

6. Corviknight VMAX — VMAX Climax #249 — $50

5. Corviknight V — Rapid Strike Master #78 — $51

4. Corviknight VMAX — Rapid Strike Master #85 — $52

3. Corviknight V — VMAX Climax #115 — $52

2. Corviknight V — VMAX Climax #248 — $55

1. Corviknight VMAX — Rapid Strike Master #56 — $61

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.

• Corviknight — Shiny Star V #288 — $24

And 10 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. Corviknight [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #148 — $31

9. Corviknight — Fusion Strike #190 — $31

8. Hop’s Corviknight — Journey Together #108 — $31

7. Hop’s Corviknight [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #108 — $32

6. Corviknight [Reverse Holo] — Fusion Strike #190 — $32

5. Corviknight VMAX — Battle Styles #110 — $44

4. Corviknight — Darkness Ablaze #156 — $49

3. Corviknight V — Battle Styles #109 — $60

2. Corviknight VMAX — Battle Styles #171 — $79

1. Corviknight V — Battle Styles #156 — $90

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.

• Corviknight — Paldea Evolved #148 — $31
• Corviknight [Reverse Holo] — Darkness Ablaze #156 — $23

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

Where Corviknight is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	11	11	$61
English	12	12	$90
All 2 lines	23	23	—

Every Corviknight card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Hop’s Corviknight	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	160

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Corviknight card leads the Japanese list?

Corviknight VMAX #56 from Rapid Strike Master at $61. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Corviknight card leads the English list?

Corviknight V #156 from Battle Styles at $90.

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

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

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

We do not hold a Corviknight 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 Ampharos cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Ampharos [1st Edition] leads at $25,000 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Ampharos appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 46 Japanese, 1 Korean and 56 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

Ampharos carries an English line wide enough that the top of it is decided by vintage printings rather than modern ones. The head of the list is Ampharos ex [1st Edition] #25 (Rulers of the Heavens) at $2,075. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Japanese list

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

10. Dark Ampharos — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #39 — $660

9. Ampharos — Awakening Legends #181 — $750

8. Mega Ampharos EX — Bandit Ring #86 — $837

7. Ampharos — HeartGold Collection #34 — $1,017

6. Ampharos [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #115 — $1,116

5. Ampharos — Wind from the Sea #49 — $1,249

4. Ampharos [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #49 — $1,326

3. Ampharos ex — Rulers of the Heavens #25 — $1,715

2. Ampharos [Reverse Holofoil] — HeartGold Collection #34 — $1,850

1. Ampharos ex [1st Edition] — Rulers of the Heavens #25 — $2,075

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.

• Ampharos [1st Edition] — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #37 — $650
• Lance’s Ampharos — VS #101 — $627
• Mega Ampharos EX [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #86 — $555
• Jasmine’s Ampharos — VS #31 — $521
• Dark Ampharos — Darkness and to Light #181 — $473
• Ampharos — Promo #269/XY-P — $405
• Ampharos — Gold, Silver, New World #181 — $388
• Dark Ampharos [1st Edition] — Rocket Gang Strikes Back #39 — $385
• Ampharos EX — Bandit Ring #85 — $320
• Ampharos — Offense and Defense (PCG7) #51 — $320
• Ampharos — Promo #134/BW-P — $270
• Ampharos EX [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #85 — $245
• Ampharos — Expedition Expansion Pack #115 — $215
• Ampharos — Dragon Blast #21 — $212
• Ampharos [1st Edition] — Wind from the Sea #48 — $200
• Ampharos [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #19 — $179
• Ampharos — Cruel Traitor #19 — $175
• Ampharos [1st Edition] — Expedition Expansion Pack #83 — $175
• Ampharos — Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean #37 — $159
• Ampharos [1st Edition] — Dragon Blast #21 — $156
• Ampharos — HeartGold Collection #33 — $150
• Ampharos GX — Dark Order #59 — $138
• Ampharos — Wind from the Sea #48 — $132
• Ampharos Spirit Link [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #74 — $130
• Mega Ampharos EX — Bandit Ring #28 — $106
• Ampharos GX — Dark Order #53 — $101
• Mega Ampharos EX [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #28 — $90
• Ampharos EX [1st Edition] — Bandit Ring #27 — $67
• Ampharos EX — Bandit Ring #27 — $62
• Ampharos V — Legendary Heartbeat #14 — $59

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

The English list

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

10. Ampharos — Secret Wonders #1 — $2,025

9. Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #2 — $2,106

8. Dark Ampharos — Neo Destiny #1 — $2,500

7. Ampharos [1st Edition] — Neo Genesis #1 — $2,537

6. Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Platinum #1 — $2,672†

5. Ampharos EX — Dragon #89 — $4,386

4. Dark Ampharos [1st Edition] — Neo Destiny #1 — $4,690

3. Dark Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Team Rocket Returns #2 — $7,000

2. Ampharos — Expedition #2 — $20,348†

1. Ampharos [1st Edition] — Neo Revelation #1 — $25,000

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.

• Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Expedition #34 — $2,000
• Ampharos — Unseen Forces #1 — $1,942
• Dark Ampharos — Team Rocket Returns #2 — $1,752
• Ampharos EX — Ancient Origins #87 — $1,732
• Ampharos [Holo] — POP Series 7 #1 — $1,718
• Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Frontiers #1 — $1,594
• Ampharos — Dragon Frontiers #1 — $1,493
• Ampharos — Neo Revelation #1 — $1,455
• Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Call of Legends #23 — $1,272
• Ampharos — Neo Genesis #1 — $1,000
• M Ampharos EX — Ancient Origins #88 — $875
• Ampharos — POP Series 7 #1 — $665
• Ampharos — Promo #75 — $590
• Ampharos — Steam Siege #40 — $455
• Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Unseen Forces #1 — $450
• Ampharos — Platinum #1 — $441
• Ampharos — Dragons Exalted #40 — $354
• Ampharos — Expedition #34 — $310
• Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Secret Wonders #1 — $271
• Ampharos GX — Team Up #185 — $271
• Ampharos — Aquapolis #1 — $260
• Ampharos — Call of Legends #23 — $251
• Ampharos GX — Team Up #163 — $247
• Ampharos EX — Ancient Origins #27 — $234
• Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Aquapolis #1 — $216
• Ampharos Spirit Link [Reverse Holo] — Ancient Origins #70 — $175
• Ampharos ex — Promo #16 — $160
• M Ampharos EX — Ancient Origins #28 — $154
• Ampharos [Reverse Holo] — Dragons Exalted #40 — $114
• Ampharos Spirit Link — Ancient Origins #70 — $114

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

Where Ampharos is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	46	46	$2,075
Korean	1	1	$52
English	56	56	$25,000
All 3 lines	103	103	—

Every Ampharos card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Team Rocket’s Ampharos	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	72

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Ampharos card leads the Japanese list?

Ampharos ex [1st Edition] #25 from Rulers of the Heavens at $2,075. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Ampharos card leads the English list?

Ampharos [1st Edition] #1 from Neo Revelation at $25,000.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

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

Korean printings

1 printings

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

• Ampharos — Ninja Spinner #88 — $52

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

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

We do not hold an Ampharos 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 Alcremie cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines. Alcremie leads at $60 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Alcremie appears on 1 Chinese-exclusive printings, 2 further Simplified Chinese printings, 12 Japanese and 14 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Japanese and English lines.

The head of the list is Alcremie #48 (Rebel Clash) at $47. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Japanese list

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

10. Alcremie — VMAX Climax #201 — $25

9. Alcremie VMAX — Legendary Heartbeat #86 — $26

8. Alcremie V — Legendary Heartbeat #79 — $31

7. Alcremie V — Legendary Heartbeat #31 — $32

6. Alcremie — Shiny Star V #257 — $33

5. Alcremie — Stellar Miracle #44 — $36

4. Alcremie — Amazing Volt Tackle #52 — $37

3. Alcremie — VMAX Climax #81 — $37

2. Alcremie ex — Starter Deck Generations #60 — $44

1. Alcremie — Rebel Clash #48 — $47

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.

• Alcremie VMAX — Legendary Heartbeat #32 — $24
• Alcremie — Shiny Star V #82 — $19

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. Alcremie — Vivid Voltage #81 — $32

9. Alcremie — Rebel Clash #87 — $34

8. Alcremie [Reverse Holo] — Phantasmal Flames #44 — $40

7. Alcremie ex — Journey Together #75 — $40

6. Alcremie VMAX — Shining Fates #73 — $41

5. Alcremie [Reverse Holo] — Stellar Crown #65 — $52

4. Alcremie V — Shining Fates #64 — $58

3. Alcremie [Reverse Holo] — Vivid Voltage #81 — $58

2. Alcremie ex [Stamped] — Journey Together #75 — $60

1. Alcremie — Brilliant Stars #71 — $60

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.

• Alcremie [Reverse Holo] — Brilliant Stars #71 — $32
• Alcremie — Stellar Crown #65 — $32
• Alcremie — Phantasmal Flames #44 — $31
• Alcremie [Reverse Holo] — Rebel Clash #87 — $25

Where Alcremie is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	12	12	$47
English	14	14	$60
All 2 lines	26	26	—

Every Alcremie card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Alcremie	Brilliant Fantasy	csv8C	91

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Alcremie card leads the Japanese list?

Alcremie #48 from Rebel Clash at $47. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Alcremie card leads the English list?

Alcremie #71 from Brilliant Stars at $60.

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

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

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

We do not hold an Alcremie 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 Meowscarada cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Meowscarada ex [Jumbo] leads at $373 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Meowscarada appears on 2 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 further Simplified Chinese printings, 4 Traditional Chinese printings, 8 Japanese, 1 Korean and 9 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Meowscarada #96 (Triplet Beat) at $83. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the Chinese lines come first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

Other Simplified Chinese printings

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

• Meowscarada ex — CSVL1C #112 — $55

A further 4 Simplified Chinese printings of Meowscarada 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.

8. Meowscarada ex — Shiny Treasure ex #14 — $27

7. Meowscarada — Triplet Beat #86 — $30

6. Meowscarada — svAM #6 — $34

5. Meowscarada — Battle Partners #12 — $36

4. Meowscarada ex — Shiny Treasure ex #321 — $44

3. Meowscarada ex — Triplet Beat #7 — $46

2. Meowscarada ex — Triplet Beat #101 — $55

1. Meowscarada — Triplet Beat #96 — $83

This line only yields 8 priced printings for Meowscarada. Another 3 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

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

9. Meowscarada [Reverse Holo] — Journey Together #18 — $32

8. Meowscarada — Journey Together #18 — $34

7. Meowscarada ex — Paldea Evolved #15 — $42

6. Meowscarada ex — Promo #33 — $62

5. Meowscarada ex — Promo #78 — $73

4. Meowscarada ex — Paldea Evolved #271 — $74

3. Meowscarada ex — Paldea Evolved #231 — $75

2. Meowscarada ex — Paldea Evolved #256 — $100

1. Meowscarada ex [Jumbo] — Promo #78 — $373

This line only yields 9 priced printings for Meowscarada. Another 2 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

Where Meowscarada is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Simplified Chinese — other printings	1	1	$55
Japanese	8	8	$83
Korean	1	1	$51
English	9	9	$373
All 4 lines	19	19	—

Every Meowscarada card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Meowscarada	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	17
Meowscarada [Holo]	Chasing Glory Together	csv10C	17

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Meowscarada card leads the Japanese list?

Meowscarada #96 from Triplet Beat at $83. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Meowscarada card leads the English list?

Meowscarada Ex [Jumbo] #78 from Promo at $373.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

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

Korean printings

1 printings

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

• Meowscarada — Triple Beat #96 — $51

A further 4 Korean printings of Meowscarada sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

Our own stock covers the other end of this line — the Floragato PSA 10 (CBB5C 22/07), the card Meowscarada evolves from. Our Simplified Chinese slabs are listed in the PSA 10 collection.

Sources

Sources and further reading

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

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

Quick answer

CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the most valuable Kingambit cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Kingambit leads at $122 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

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

The head of the list is Kingambit #89 (Scarlet Ex) at $49. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Japanese list

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

7. Kingambit — Scarlet Ex #58 — $33

6. Kingambit — Mega Dream ex #118 — $35

5. Kingambit — Shiny Treasure ex #124 — $35

4. Kingambit [Ball] — Mega Dream ex #118 — $40

3. Kingambit [Energy] — Mega Dream ex #118 — $41

2. Kingambit — Shiny Treasure ex #294 — $48

1. Kingambit — Scarlet Ex #89 — $49

This line only yields 7 priced printings for Kingambit. Another 3 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

The English list

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

7. Kingambit [Reverse Holo] — Obsidian Flames #150 — $30

6. Kingambit — Obsidian Flames #150 — $30

5. Kingambit [Energy] — Ascended Heroes #148 — $31

4. Kingambit [Ball] — Ascended Heroes #148 — $31

3. Kingambit — Ascended Heroes #148 — $31

2. Kingambit — Paldean Fates #187 — $80

1. Kingambit — Promo #130 — $122

This line only yields 7 priced printings for Kingambit. Another 1 numbered printings in this line carry no graded sold record yet and are therefore not ranked.

Where Kingambit is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	7	7	$49
Korean	1	1	$39
English	7	7	$122
All 3 lines	15	15	—

Every Kingambit card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Kingambit	Dark Crystal Blaze	csv5C	98
Kingambit [Master Ball]	Dark Crystal Blaze	csv5C	98
Kingambit [Poke Ball]	Dark Crystal Blaze	csv5C	98

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Kingambit card leads the Japanese list?

Kingambit #89 from Scarlet Ex at $49. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Kingambit card leads the English list?

Kingambit #130 from Promo at $122.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

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

Korean printings

1 printings

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

• Kingambit — Scarlet Ex #89 — $39

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

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

We do not hold a Kingambit 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 Hydreigon cards printed in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines. Hydreigon leads at $2,152 as a PSA 10, and the rankings use tracked PSA 10 sales rather than raw prices.

Hydreigon appears on 3 Chinese-exclusive printings, 1 Traditional Chinese printings, 29 Japanese, 3 Korean and 38 English numbered Pokémon cards, and this page covers every language the character was printed in — Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English lines.

The head of the list is Hydreigon #57 (Psycho Drive) at $2,152. Everything below is arranged by what each card actually trades for, so the page reads the same way whoever is reading it — the most-traded line comes first, and only the numbers change.

How this list was built

Four rules, applied in this order.

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

The Japanese list

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

10. Hydreigon — Thunder Knuckle #36 — $144

9. Hydreigon [1st Edition] — Dragon Blast #42 — $152

8. Hydreigon — Red Collection #52 — $165

7. Hydreigon — EX Battle Boost #83 — $170

6. Hydreigon [1st Edition] — EX Battle Boost #83 — $197

5. Hydreigon EX — Emerald Break #84 — $255

4. Hydreigon — Hydreigon Half Deck #9 — $337

3. Hydreigon EX [1st Edition] — Emerald Break #84 — $476

2. Hydreigon [1st Edition] — Psycho Drive #57 — $1,206

1. Hydreigon — Psycho Drive #57 — $2,152

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.

• Hydreigon BREAK [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #43 — $120
• Hydreigon [1st Edition] — Phantom Gate #65 — $102
• Hydreigon — GX Ultra Shiny #73 — $100
• Hydreigon BREAK — Cruel Traitor #43 — $90
• Hydreigon ex — White Flare #171 — $84
• Hydreigon — Dragon Blast #42 — $82
• Hydreigon [1st Edition] — Thunder Knuckle #36 — $81
• Hydreigon — Ultradimensional Beasts #32 — $74
• Hydreigon EX — Emerald Break #50 — $70
• Hydreigon EX — Best of XY #99 — $68
• Hydreigon [1st Edition] — Cruel Traitor #42 — $57
• Hydreigon ex — Super Electric Breaker #133 — $55
• Hydreigon EX [1st Edition] — Emerald Break #50 — $51
• Hydreigon ex — Super Electric Breaker #72 — $32
• Hydreigon ex — Super Electric Breaker #124 — $31
• Hydreigon ex — White Flare #163 — $29
• Hydreigon — Phantom Gate #65 — $28
• Hydreigon — Cruel Traitor #42 — $18
• Hydreigon — Triplet Beat #59 — $16

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

The English list

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

10. Hydreigon BREAK — Steam Siege #87 — $171

9. Hydreigon ex — White Flare #169 — $196

8. Hydreigon [Cosmos Holo] — Paldea Evolved #140 — $200

7. Hydreigon — Phantom Forces #74 — $215

6. Hydreigon EX — Roaring Skies #103 — $239

5. Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Steam Siege #86 — $647

4. Hydreigon — Dragons Exalted #97 — $1,036

3. Hydreigon — Noble Victories #79 — $1,075

2. Hydreigon — Legendary Treasures #99 — $1,138†

1. Hydreigon — Next Destinies #103 — $1,355

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.

• Hydreigon ex — Surging Sparks #240 — $115
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Legendary Treasures #99 — $108
• Hydreigon — Plasma Freeze #78 — $107
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Noble Victories #79 — $104
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Plasma Freeze #78 — $93
• Hydreigon EX — Roaring Skies #62 — $75
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Dragons Exalted #98 — $66
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Dragons Exalted #97 — $64
• Hydreigon [Thank You] — Darkness Ablaze #110 — $59
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Phantom Forces #74 — $57
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Crimson Invasion #62 — $52
• Hydreigon ex — Surging Sparks #223 — $50
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Darkness Ablaze #110 — $45
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Dragon Majesty #33 — $44
• Hydreigon [Holo] — Steam Siege #86 — $42
• Hydreigon ex — White Flare #161 — $41
• Hydreigon — Dragons Exalted #98 — $41
• Hydreigon ex — Surging Sparks #119 — $40
• Hydreigon [Holo] — Evolving Skies #115 — $37
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Evolving Skies #115 — $34
• Hydreigon — Dragon Majesty #33 — $33
• Hydreigon — McDonalds 2024 #10 — $33
• Hydreigon ex — White Flare #67 — $33
• Hydreigon — 30th Celebration #99 — $33
• Hydreigon — Paldea Evolved #140 — $31
• Hydreigon — Darkness Ablaze #110 — $30
• Hydreigon [Reverse Holo] — Paldea Evolved #140 — $24
• Hydreigon — Crimson Invasion #62 — $19

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

Where Hydreigon is printed, across the languages

Printing line	Cards	With a tracked value	Highest
Japanese	29	29	$2,152
Korean	3	3	$160
English	38	38	$1,355
All 3 lines	70	70	—

Every Hydreigon card in the Chinese-only sets

Card	Product	Set code	Number
Hydreigon Ex	CSV9C	CSV9C	119
Hydreigon Ex	CSV9C	CSV9C	226
Hydreigon Ex	CSV9C	CSV9C	248

What a checklist without prices tells you

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

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Hydreigon card leads the Japanese list?

Hydreigon #57 from Psycho Drive at $2,152. Japanese is the original printing line, so its top of the list reaches back further than either Chinese or English.

Which Hydreigon card leads the English list?

Hydreigon #103 from Next Destinies at $1,355.

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

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

What do the marks next to some prices mean?

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

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

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

The other printing lines

Hydreigon is printed in more lines than the two 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.

• Hydreigon ex — White Flare #171 — $160
• Hydreigon ex — Electric Breaker #133 — $52
• Hydreigon ex — Electric Breaker #72 — $26

A further 4 Korean printings of Hydreigon sit in our catalogue without a tracked value. No graded sale of any of them has been recorded.

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

not ranked here

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

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

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

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

More Pokémon

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

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

Where to buy these cards

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

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

Where to go next

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

We do not hold a Hydreigon 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.