The most valuable Gengar card in the Chinese-only set codes is not a Gengar. Eighteen Gengar cards exist across those sets, seventeen of them carry a price, and the top of the ranking belongs to a card Gengar shares with Mimikyu.
What separates this list from the ones around it is where the money sits. The three CSM2bC prints of Gengar & Mimikyu GX take $1,149 between them — 42 percent of everything the character is worth, from a single tag-team line. The highest-priced solo Gengar, the commissioned art rare from Gem Pack Vol. 3, reaches $475, which is second place and 28 percent below the ceiling.
How this list was built
Three rules, applied in this order.
- The card has to sit in a Chinese-only set. Every card below carries a set code ending in C — CBB3C, 151C, CSM2bC, csv5C, CS4bC. That trailing letter marks a Simplified Chinese print run, and it is the dependable way to tell a Chinese-only card from a card that merely happens to be printed in Chinese. Reading a Chinese set code from end to end covers the whole system.
- The card has to have a tracked PSA 10 value. Eighteen Gengar cards exist across these sets and seventeen have a PSA 10 price on record. The one that does not is the Master Ball foil from Dark Crystal Blaze, a recent print that has no graded sold record yet, and a card with no price cannot be ranked.
- The card has to be a Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope.
One exclusion applies here as it does to every character ranking we publish. Promo printings of Gengar exist in Chinese and they are not on this list. Promo numbering is shared across the Chinese branches — the same promo number appears in Traditional Chinese product as well — so a promo number on its own cannot establish which branch a card came from. Everything below sits inside a numbered set whose code ends in C, which is unambiguous.
The ten, ranked
10. Gengar [Stamped] #306 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $66
Raw $3.99 · grade 9 $8.31
The stamped foil, and the highest card in the ordinary Vol. 3 ladder below the art rare. Its grade 9 record is $8.31, barely twice the raw price, so almost the whole step sits in the top grade: a raw copy at $3.99 becomes $66 in a PSA 10 holder, a multiple of 16.5.
9. Gengar [Stars] #303 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $70
Raw $4.24 · grade 9 $16.03
The stars-pattern foil, and the last card here below $70. Its raw price of $4.24 is the second highest among the seven Vol. 3 Gengar prints, behind only the $155.72 recorded for the art rare at number two — which is a reminder that inside one Gem Pack group the raw prices are not ordered the way the graded ones are.
8. Gengar #301 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $77
Raw $1.82 · grade 9 $8.59
The plainest card in the Vol. 3 group, and the second-lowest raw price of any Gengar card in the ranking at $1.82. In a holder it trades at $77 — 42.6 times its raw price, one of the two widest steps in this top ten.
7. Gengar VMAX #73 — CS4bC — $89
Raw $13.84 · grade 9 record not available
The only VMAX Gengar in the Chinese-only sets, and one of two cards here with no grade 9 figure on record. It is also the last card in the ranking under $100, with a 6.4-times step from raw to PSA 10 — the narrowest multiple in the list, because a $13.84 raw price already carries most of the $89.
6. Gengar & Mimikyu GX #33 — CSM2bC — $210
Raw $54.18 · grade 9 $97.00
The lowest-numbered of the three tag-team prints, and the first card here above $200. Its raw price of $54.18 is the third highest of any Gengar card, and its grade 9 record of $97.00 is the third highest in the whole ranking, behind only the two tag-team cards above it.
5. Gengar [Master Ball] #94 — Collect 151 (151C) — $250
Raw price not tracked · grade 9 $50.00
The Master Ball foil, and the only card in this ranking with no raw price on record at all. Its grade 9 figure of $50 is a fifth of its PSA 10 value, which makes this the one entry whose position rests entirely on graded sales. The set prints the same card number in three treatments, and two of them are in this top five.
4. Gengar [Reverse] #94 — Collect 151 (151C) — $260
Raw $5.00 · grade 9 $15.50
The reverse foil of the same Collect 151 card number as the entry below it — and it finishes above the Master Ball printing, at $260 against $250. Raw copies are tracked at $5.00, so a PSA 10 holder multiplies that fifty-two times, the widest step in this ranking. Two treatments of one card number, sitting fourth and fifth.
3. Gengar & Mimikyu GX #162 — CSM2bC — $277
Raw $88.00 · grade 9 $82.62
The lower-numbered of the two tag-team prints in this top three. Its raw copies are tracked at $88.00, already above its own grade 9 record of $82.62 — so the card’s money is in raw copies and in PSA 10 holders, and the middle grade carries none of the premium. It holds 10.2 percent of the character’s total.
2. Gengar #307 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $475
Raw $155.72 · grade 9 $152.50
The commissioned art rare of Gem Pack Vol. 3, and the highest solo Gengar card in the language. Raw copies at $155.72 are more than those of any other solo Gengar print, and grade 9 is tracked at $152.50 — below raw, as it is for the card at number one. The step from raw to PSA 10 is 3.1 times, so most of the $475 exists only in a holder.
1. Gengar & Mimikyu GX #163 — CSM2bC — $663
Raw $279.53 · grade 9 $252.85
The most valuable Gengar card in Simplified Chinese, and the only one above $500. It is a tag-team card: Gengar shares the artwork with Mimikyu, and the number next to it in the same set, #162, sits at third. Raw copies are tracked at $279.53, the highest raw price of any Gengar card here, and grade 9 at $252.85 is below raw — so on this card the ungraded copy carries the money. It holds 24.3 percent of the character’s total on its own, and the step from raw to PSA 10 is 2.4 times.
What the ranking shows
Gengar takes its value at the top and spreads very little through the middle. Five cards sit at $250 or above and eleven sit below $100, with only one card — the third tag-team print — between the two groups.
| Band | Cards | Combined PSA 10 value | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500 – $1,500 — ranked 1 | 1 | $663 | 24.3% |
| $250 – $500 — ranked 2 to 5 | 4 | $1,262 | 46.3% |
| $100 – $250 — ranked 6 | 1 | $210 | 7.7% |
| Under $100 — ranked 7 to 17 | 11 | $589 | 21.6% |
| Every priced Gengar card | 17 | $2,724 | 100% |
Two further patterns run across the whole group.
The $250 to $500 band holds four cards and 46.3 percent of the character — more than any other band. The top four together take 61.5 percent, and the top ten take 89.5 percent. Gengar is not a character whose value is spread across a long tail of two-dollar foils: six of his eighteen cards are Gem Pack Vol. 3 foils living between $31 and $77, and they contribute $329 between them — less than half of what the single card at number one is worth on its own.
The product that prints Gengar most is not the product that carries him. Gem Pack Vol. 3 supplies seven of the eighteen cards but $804 of the $2,724 total, or 29.5 percent. CSM2bC supplies three cards and $1,149 — 42.2 percent, the largest single share, from a line that spends nothing on breadth. Collect 151 adds three cards and $559, including the two treatments of #94 that finish fourth and fifth. The volume-by-volume guide sets out how the Gem Pack groups are built.
Where Gengar is printed
| Product | Set code | Gengar cards |
|---|---|---|
| Gem Pack Vol. 3 | CBB3C | 7 |
| Collect 151 | 151C | 3 |
| CSM2bC | CSM2bC | 3 |
| Dark Crystal Blaze | csv5C | 3 |
| CS4bC | CS4bC | 2 |
| Total | 18 |
The counts are cards, not artworks. Gem Pack prints every Pokémon in a volume as a group of seven treatments — a Poké Ball foil, a Master Ball foil, a rotary pattern, a stars pattern, a stamped foil and the art rare at the top of the group — which is why a single Gengar entry in Vol. 3 produces seven separate cards on a checklist. Gengar occupies exactly one full group there, running #301 to #307, and the art rare at #307 is the only commissioned artwork in this top ten.
Collect 151 is where Gengar’s three treatments of a single card number come from: the plain print, the reverse foil and the Master Ball foil, all at #94. Two of those three are in the top five, and the plain version is at eleventh. Gengar is one of the original 151 Pokémon, which is why the set prints him at all; the later-generation characters in this series have no Collect 151 entry. The four commissioned Collect 151 art rares are all Pikachu, so nothing Gengar has in that set is exclusive to the Chinese line.
CSM2bC is the one product here that prints Gengar alongside another Pokémon rather than on his own. It gives him three cards, and all three are in the top six.
If you want one card
- One card, no budget limit: Gengar & Mimikyu GX from CSM2bC at #163, at $663. It is the highest tracked Gengar card in the language, and over half of that price sits in the raw card rather than in a holder.
- The highest solo Gengar: the Gem Pack Vol. 3 art rare at #307, at $475. It is the only commissioned Gengar artwork among the eighteen cards in these sets, it is the card we hold in PSA 10 — the Vol. 3 Gengar listing is here — and its group is a seven-card ladder rather than a single print.
- The widest grading step in the top ten: the Collect 151 reverse foil #94 at $260. Raw copies are tracked at five dollars, so this is the one card in the ranking where the holder is doing almost all of the work.
Frequently asked questions
Which Gengar card is the most valuable in Simplified Chinese?
Gengar & Mimikyu GX from CSM2bC — #163 — carries the highest tracked PSA 10 value among Gengar cards in Chinese-only numbered sets, at $663. It is the only Gengar card in the language above $500. Chinese promo printings sit outside that comparison, because their numbering is shared between the Chinese branches.
Are these cards Simplified Chinese exclusives?
One of them is, and the rest are not. The Gem Pack Vol. 3 art rare at number two is a commissioned artwork that has only been released in the Chinese print run, and it is the only card in this top ten in that position. Everything else on the list — the Collect 151 prints, the CSM2bC tag-team cards, the ordinary Vol. 3 foils — uses artwork that also exists outside the Chinese line. “Chinese-only” describes the print run, not every artwork inside it, and the commissioned-artwork side of that distinction is worth reading separately.
Why does a tag-team card top the list?
Because the ranking follows tracked PSA 10 values, and the tag-team line is where the highest ones sit. Gengar & Mimikyu GX is tracked at $663 at #163 and $277 at #162, against $475 for the highest solo Gengar; two cards from one line therefore hold first and third. Raw prices point the same way — $279.53 for #163 against $155.72 for the highest-priced solo Gengar — so the ordering is not an artefact of grading.
Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?
On the lower half of this list, clearly yes: the Vol. 3 base foil at #301 starts raw at $1.82 and trades for $77 graded, a multiple of 42.6, and the reverse foil at number four multiplies fifty-two times. At the top it narrows sharply — the card at number one multiplies 2.4 times and the art rare at number two multiplies 3.1 — because both already carry high raw prices. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a prediction about what any individual card will grade at.
How does Gengar compare with the other characters ranked here?
His $2,724 combined total and his $663 top card both sit behind only Pikachu, Umbreon and Sylveon among the character rankings published on this site. He is ahead of Charizard on total value despite having the same number of cards, because all five of his top cards sit at $250 or above and only one Charizard card reaches that level.
Other character rankings
Each character ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, and the nine forms of the Eevee family — Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. Ceruledge and Floragato are ranked separately. For the whole market rather than one character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, and the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands.
Sources
Sources and further reading
- PriceCharting — Pokémon Chinese console listings, including Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C), Collect 151 (151C), CSM2bC, Dark Crystal Blaze (csv5C) and CS4bC. PSA 10 values retrieved 25 September 2026.
- PriceCharting — individual card pages for Gengar & Mimikyu GX #163, #162 and #33 (CSM2bC); Gengar #307, #301, #303, #306, #305, #304, #302 (Gem Pack Vol. 3); Gengar [Reverse] #94, [Master Ball] #94 and #94 (Collect 151); Gengar VMAX #73 and Gengar V #72 (CS4bC).
- CardSpicy — Gem Pack Vol. 1 to 6: what is in each volume, on group structure and treatment counts.
- CardSpicy — How to read a Simplified Chinese Pokémon set code, on the trailing C and the secret-rare numbering convention.
Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the dates cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.