Across the Simplified Chinese sets Horsea is 5 products, with Gem Pack Vol. 5 alone printing 7 of the 13 cards. The top card is Horsea #507 at $64.95, with every priced card inside a band $29 wide.
What makes the shape worth reading is where the cards sit. 7 of the 13 Horsea cards come out of Gem Pack Vol. 5 as a run from #501 to #507, and that one line supplies 5 of the 5 ranked cards — 100 percent of the character’s graded value. Every ranked card comes from that same line, so the ranking is a ranking of one product’s treatments rather than of competing products.
How this list was built
Three rules, applied in this order.
- The card has to sit in a Chinese-only set. Every card below carries a set code ending in C — CBB5C, 151C, csv6C, csv8C and cs3bC. 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. 13 Horsea cards exist across these sets and 5 have a PSA 10 price on record. The 8 that do not are Horsea #116, Horsea [Master Ball] #116 and 6 more — none of them has a graded sold record yet, and a card with no price cannot be ranked.
- The card has to be a Pokémon card. Sealed product, trainer cards and energy are out of scope.
One exclusion applies here as it does to every character ranking we publish. Promo printings of Horsea exist in Chinese and they are not on this list. Promo numbering is shared across the Chinese branches — the same promo number appears in Traditional Chinese product as well — so a promo number on its own cannot establish which branch a card came from. Everything below sits inside a numbered set whose code ends in C, which is unambiguous.
The five, ranked
1. Horsea #507 — Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C) — $64.95
Raw $7.30 · grade 9 $19.75
First on the list and one of the Horsea prints that run from #501 to #507 in Gem Pack Vol. 5. Its raw price of $7.30 multiplies 8.9 times into the graded value.
2. Horsea #506 — Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C) — $44.33
Raw $3 · grade 9 $14
Ranked 2 of 5 and part of the Gem Pack Vol. 5 Horsea group, which runs from #501 to #507. The raw-to-graded step here is 14.8 times.
3. Horsea #503 — Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C) — $41.63
Raw $2.43 · grade 9 $13.24
Number 3 of 5 and a Gem Pack Vol. 5 card inside the #501 to #507 run. Its raw price of $2.43 multiplies 17.1 times into the graded value.
4. Horsea #504 — Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C) — $40
Raw $2.09 · grade 9 $12.78
Sitting at 4 of 5 and one of the Horsea prints that run from #501 to #507 in Gem Pack Vol. 5. The raw-to-graded step here is 19.1 times.
5. Horsea #505 — Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C) — $36.37
Raw $1.33 · grade 9 $11.77
The last card on the list and part of the Gem Pack Vol. 5 Horsea group, which runs from #501 to #507. At $1.33 raw against $36.37 graded it multiplies 27.3 times.
What the ranking shows
Horsea splits into 2 bands across 5 priced cards, and the top band is where the ranking is decided.
| Band | Cards | Combined PSA 10 value | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $65 — ranked 1 | 1 | $65 | 28.6% |
| $36 – $44 — ranked 2 to 5 | 4 | $162 | 71.4% |
| Every priced Horsea card | 5 | $227 | 100% |
Two further patterns run across the whole group.
The band is $29 wide. Between $64.95 at the top and $36.37 at the bottom, the whole ranked list sits inside a $29 window — narrow enough that assembling the entire run costs close to what the first card costs alone.
8 of the 13 cards have never traded enough to be priced. They are tracked in the catalogue but carry no PSA 10 value, so the ranking covers the priced part of the checklist rather than all of it.
Where Horsea is printed
| Product | Set code | Horsea cards | With a PSA 10 value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gem Pack Vol. 5 | CBB5C | 7 | 5 |
| Collect 151 | 151C | 3 | 0 |
| True Mystery | csv6C | 1 | 0 |
| Brilliant Fantasy | csv8C | 1 | 0 |
| cs3bC | cs3bC | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 13 | 5 |
Gem Pack Vol. 5 supplies 7 of the 13 Horsea cards and 100 percent of the $227 total, because the expensive cards are inside that line. Collect 151 prints Horsea as one of the original 151, and those prints are priced generously relative to the Gem Pack foils. 8 of the 13 cards carry no price at all, so the checklist in the table above is longer than the ranking it supports. If the goal is the group rather than the single card, completing a Simplified Chinese set sets out what a full run involves.
If you want one card
- One card, no budget limit: Horsea #507 from Gem Pack Vol. 5 at $64.95. It is the highest-priced Horsea card in these sets.
- The second line: Horsea #506 from Gem Pack Vol. 5 at $44.33, the second-highest Horsea card in these sets and the next step down from the top.
- If you want the whole run: the 5 ranked cards come to $227 together, which is close to the cost of the top card alone.
Frequently asked questions
How many Horsea cards are there in Simplified Chinese?
13, across 5 products. 5 of the 13 carry a tracked PSA 10 value.
What is the most valuable Horsea card in Simplified Chinese?
Horsea #507 from Gem Pack Vol. 5, tracked at $64.95 as a PSA 10 and $7.30 raw. It is the only Horsea card in these sets above $44, and it holds 29 percent of the character’s combined value.
Which product holds the expensive Horsea cards?
Gem Pack Vol. 5. It supplies 5 of the 5 ranked cards and 100 percent of the combined value, so the rankings follow the product rather than the character.
Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?
Raw-to-graded multiples across the list run from 8.9 to 27.3, so on most cards the graded premium is real. Where the multiple is lowest, the raw price already carries most of the value. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a prediction about what any individual card will grade at.
Do the Collect 151 prints come in more than one treatment?
Yes. A number in Collect 151 exists as a plain card, a reverse holo and a Master Ball reverse holo. Only the plain print usually trades enough to have a price attached. The series guide explains the two reverse holo patterns.
Other character rankings
Each character with a full five or ten-card ranking has its own page: Ceruledge, Charizard, Eevee, Espeon, Flareon, Floragato, Gengar, Glaceon, Jolteon, Leafeon, Mew, Pikachu, Sylveon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, and among the shorter runs Alakazam, Applin, Articuno, Blastoise, Captain Pikachu, Chandelure, Chansey, Charmander, Clefable, Crocalor, Cubone, Fuecoco.
Beyond the single character, the ten most popular Chinese-exclusive cards ranks across Pokémon, the price ladder sorts the same catalogue into bands, and the collector’s index lists every Pokémon that appears in the Chinese-only sets with its card count, priced count and top value.
Sources
Sources and further reading
- PriceCharting — Pokémon Chinese console listings, including Gem Pack Vol. 5 (CBB5C), Collect 151 (151C), True Mystery (csv6C), Brilliant Fantasy (csv8C), cs3bC. PSA 10 values retrieved 25 September 2026.
- PriceCharting — individual card pages for the Horsea prints listed above, across 13 numbered cards.
- 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.