Here are the top 5 Houndstone cards in Simplified Chinese, ranked by PSA 10 value.
Quick answer
CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the Houndstone cards of the Dragon Ball card games by recorded PSA 10 sale value rather than by asking price, and lists every Houndstone printing that has a tracked graded sale.
Houndstone has eleven cards in the Chinese-only sets and six of them carry a tracked PSA 10 value. All six come from Gem Pack Vol. 3, and together they add to $225.32. Every one of the six sits between $34.33 and $41.23, a top-to-bottom ratio of 1.20 to 1.
A spread that narrow is unusual. Among the character rankings this site has published so far that fill every place in their list, only two close tighter — Vulpix and Clefable. And the six prints agree with each other in a second way: sort them by raw price, by grade 9 or by PSA 10 value and the order comes out the same every time, card for card, with nothing swapped. A group whose tiering holds up whichever column you read is a group where the order is set by the cards rather than by the graders.
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 the set code CBB3C — Gem Pack Vol. 3. The trailing C 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. Eleven Houndstone cards exist in these sets and six have a PSA 10 price on record. The five that do not are listed at the end of this page. A card with no graded record 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 Houndstone 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 top 5, ranked
5. Houndstone #1701 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $36.09
Raw $1.34 · grade 9 $11.94
The plain print of the group, and its lowest-numbered card. Raw copies are tracked at $1.34 against $36.09 graded, a multiple of 26.9. It sits 19 cents below the card ranked fourth — the narrowest gap anywhere in this ranking — and $1.76 above the card ranked sixth.
4. Houndstone [Pokeball] #1702 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $36.28
Raw $1.40 · grade 9 $11.99
The Poké Ball foil, and the second print of the group. Raw copies are tracked at $1.40 and grade 9 at $11.99, a multiple of 25.9. It is 19 cents above the card ranked fifth and $1.60 below the card ranked third, so the two cards at the bottom of this list are separated by less than a fifth of the gap between the top two.
3. Houndstone ex #1707 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $37.88
Raw $1.76 · grade 9 $12.51
The last print of the group, and the only one in the set that carries an ex. Raw copies are tracked at $1.76 against $37.88 graded, a multiple of 21.5. Its grade 9 record of $12.51 is the third highest of the six priced cards. It is $1.63 below the card ranked second and $1.60 above the card ranked fourth.
2. Houndstone [Stamped] #1706 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $39.51
Raw $2.12 · grade 9 $13.01
The stamped foil, and the sixth print of the group. Its raw price of $2.12 is the second highest of the six priced cards, and the multiple from raw to graded is 18.6. It sits $1.72 below the card at number one and $1.63 above the card ranked third, in a ranking whose widest single step is the $1.76 from fifth to sixth.
1. Houndstone [Stars] #1703 — Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C) — $41.23
Raw $2.51 · grade 9 $13.58
The most valuable Houndstone card in Simplified Chinese, and the only one above $40. It also carries the highest raw price in the group, at $2.51, and the highest grade 9 record, at $13.58. From raw to PSA 10 the step is 16.4 times, the narrowest on this list. It holds 18.3 percent of the character against an even share of 16.7 percent.
What the ranking shows
Houndstone is one artwork and seven finishes, of which six carry a value.
| Band | Cards | Combined PSA 10 value | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $40 and above — ranked 1 | 1 | $41.23 | 18.3% |
| $36 to $40 — ranked 2 to 5 | 4 | $149.76 | 66.5% |
| $34 to $36 — ranked 6 | 1 | $34.33 | 15.2% |
| Every priced Houndstone card | 6 | $225.32 | 100% |
Two points run across the whole group.
Six prints inside $6.90, with a top-to-bottom ratio of 1.20 to 1. Among the character rankings this site has published so far that fill every place in their list, only two close tighter — Vulpix and Clefable. The reason is structural. Six of the seven Houndstone prints come from one Gem Pack group, and a group is a single artwork issued in a fixed set of finishes at the same rarity, so there is no rarity difference inside it to pull one print away from another. The volume-by-volume guide sets out how those groups are built.
Rank the group by raw price and you get the same order as ranking it by PSA 10 value — all six positions. The stars foil at #1703 is the most expensive raw card and the most valuable graded one; the Master Ball foil at #1705 is the least expensive on both counts; and the four prints between them line up in the same sequence either way. The step from raw to graded also climbs steadily down the list, from 16.4 times at the top to 34.7 at the bottom, rising at every position. When the two orderings agree and the multiples rise together, what the group is showing is a raw market and a graded market that price the same finish the same way. Our grading guide covers why a single result can land either side of a recorded average.
Where Houndstone is printed
| Product | Set code | Houndstone cards | Priced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gem Pack Vol. 3 | CBB3C | 7 | 6 |
| Dark Crystal Blaze | csv5C | 3 | 0 |
| Reward Round | csv4C | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 11 | 6 |
The counts are cards, not artworks. Gem Pack Vol. 3 gives Houndstone one group running #1701 to #1707 — a plain print, a Poké Ball foil, a stars foil, a rotary foil, a Master Ball foil, a stamped foil and an ex. Six of the seven carry a graded price; the rotary foil at #1704 is the one that does not, which makes it the only treatment this character is missing a value for. The other four Houndstone cards in these sets are the three Dark Crystal Blaze printings of #58 and one card from Reward Round, and none of them has a tracked value.
Houndstone is a ninth-generation Paldea Pokémon, so — unlike Charizard and Pikachu — he has no Collect 151 entry, since that set covers only the original 151 characters. One Gem Pack group and four unpriced cards from two other products are the whole of his Chinese-only catalogue.
If you want one card
- One card, no budget limit: the stars foil from Gem Pack Vol. 3 at #1703, at $41.23. It is the highest tracked Houndstone card in the language, the only one above $40, and the highest raw price in the group.
- The card with the widest step: the Master Ball foil at #1705, at $34.33 graded and 99 cents raw — a multiple of 34.7. It is the least expensive Houndstone card with a tracked value.
- The middle of the group: the ex at #1707, at $37.88. It sits $3.35 below the top of the list and $3.55 above the floor, and it is the only ex in the character’s Chinese-only catalogue.
Frequently asked questions
Which Houndstone card is the most valuable in Simplified Chinese?
The stars foil from Gem Pack Vol. 3 — #1703 — carries the highest tracked PSA 10 value of any Houndstone card in the Chinese-only numbered sets, at $41.23. It is $1.72 above the second card, the only Houndstone card above $40, and the highest raw price in the group. Chinese promo printings sit outside that comparison, because their numbering is shared between the Chinese branches.
How many Houndstone cards are there in the Chinese-only sets?
Eleven, across three products: seven from Gem Pack Vol. 3, three from Dark Crystal Blaze and one from Reward Round. Six of the eleven carry a tracked PSA 10 value, and all six are Vol. 3 prints. The five that do not are the rotary foil at #1704 from Vol. 3, the three Dark Crystal Blaze printings of #58, and one card from Reward Round.
Why are all the Houndstone prices so close?
Because the character has one Gem Pack group and a group is one artwork issued as a fixed set of finishes at the same rarity. Nothing inside it is scarcer than anything else in it, so there is no mechanism to pull one print away from the rest. The result is $34.33 to $41.23 across the whole priced catalogue — a top-to-bottom ratio of 1.20 to 1, tighter than every character ranking published on this site so far that fills every place in its list, except two.
Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?
The step is modest at the top of this list and wide at the bottom, and it moves in one direction the whole way down. The stars foil at #1703 is tracked at $2.51 raw against $41.23 graded, a multiple of 16.4. The Master Ball foil at #1705 is tracked at 99 cents raw against $34.33 graded, a multiple of 34.7. The graded prices differ by $6.90; the raw prices differ by $1.52. A printed figure is an observation, not a forecast, and grading outcomes are never certain.
How does Houndstone compare with the other characters ranked here?
His six prints sit inside $6.90, a top-to-bottom ratio of 1.20 to 1, and the raw order and the graded order match at every one of the six positions. Among the rankings published on this site so far that fill every place in their list, only Vulpix and Clefable close tighter — two catalogues whose prices sit closer together than this one’s, with no card in either pulling clear of the group. For a wider view of the 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.
Other character rankings
Each character ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Gengar, Psyduck, Mew, Snorlax, Venusaur, Blastoise, Zapdos, Alakazam and Chansey, plus the nine forms of the Eevee family — Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. Smaller catalogues in the same price band as this one include Floragato, Clefable, Magneton, Crocalor and Quaxwell.
Sources
Sources and further reading
- PriceCharting — Pokémon Chinese console listings, including Gem Pack Vol. 3 (CBB3C). PSA 10 values retrieved 27 September 2026.
- PriceCharting — individual card pages for Houndstone #1701, [Pokeball] #1702, [Stars] #1703, [Masterball] #1705, [Stamped] #1706 and Houndstone ex #1707 (Gem Pack Vol. 3).
- 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.
- CardSpicy — Is it worth grading your Pokémon cards?, on why a single result can differ from a recorded average.
- CardSpicy — The Simplified Chinese price ladder, which sorts the same catalogue into bands.
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.
Where to go next
- The CardSpicy card index — every card we track, with its PSA 10 population and market history (195 cards).
- The illustrator index — every artist behind those cards, card by card (110 artists).