Quaxly is the one Paldea starter line whose rankings do not follow the shape of its neighbours. Nine Quaxly cards exist in the Chinese-only sets and six carry a PSA 10 price, but its two strangest cards are a full art that finishes last and a stamped foil that finishes second at nearly double what the same slot records on the other five starters.
The stamped slot is the tell. Quaxly’s stamped foil at #507 is tracked at $73.00; the same treatment is $42.57 on Sprigatito, $42.57 on Fuecoco, $42.19 on Floragato, $39.20 on Crocalor and $42.78 on Quaxwell. Quaxly’s version is also the only stamped foil in the family whose grade 9 record approaches its PSA 10 value — $61.00 against $73.00, a ratio of 84 percent where its neighbours sit near 34 percent.
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 — CBB1C. 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. Nine Quaxly cards exist across these sets and six have a PSA 10 price on record. The three that do not are the base print at CBB1C #501, the Poké Ball foil at #502 and the stars pattern at #503 — 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 Quaxly 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
5. Quaxly [Rotary] #504 — Gem Pack Vol. 1 (CBB1C) — $36.7
Raw $1.38 · grade 9 $12.44
The rotary pattern and the lowest-priced card in this top five. Its raw price of $1.38 is the lowest of the six priced Quaxly cards, and it becomes $36.69 in a PSA 10 holder — a multiple of 26.6, the widest raw-to-grade step in the ranking. Its grade 9 record is 34 percent of the PSA 10 value, which is the normal shape for a set-checklist foil.
4. Quaxly [Shiny] #506 — Gem Pack Vol. 1 (CBB1C) — $36.9
Raw $1.65 · grade 9 $12.53
The shiny pattern, and the card between the rotary foil and the Master Ball foil in the value order. Twenty-five cents separates it from the rotary pattern below it and seventy-five cents from the Master Ball above it. All three sit inside a dollar of one another, which is what happens when a group’s foils are priced off the same small pool of graded sales rather than off any difference in the cards themselves.
3. Quaxly [Masterball] #505 — Gem Pack Vol. 1 (CBB1C) — $37.7
Raw $1.84 · grade 9 $12.81
The Master Ball foil, and the highest of the three cheap treatments in the group. Its raw price of $1.84 is unremarkable — fourth of the six priced cards — so almost all of its value sits in the top grade, where it is 20.5 times its raw price. The volume-by-volume guide sets out how a group like that is built.
2. Quaxly [Stamped] #507 — Gem Pack Vol. 1 (CBB1C) — $73
Raw $2.89 · grade 9 $61.00
The stamped foil, and the one card in this ranking that does not behave like the same slot on any other starter line. Its raw price of $2.89 is close to what the stamped foils of the other three Paldea starters record raw, but its PSA 10 value is $73.00 against $39 to $43 for those, and its grade 9 record of $61.00 is 84 percent of its PSA 10 value. That combination — a normal raw price, an elevated PSA 10 price and a middle grade that tracks the top one closely — is the shape of a card whose graded sales are almost all grade 9, with very few PSA 10 transactions to separate the two.
1. Quaxly [Horizons Full Art] #509 — Gem Pack Vol. 1 (CBB1C) — $115
Raw $22.32 · grade 9 $25.50
The horizons full art, the last number in the group, and the only Quaxly card in the language above $73. It holds 35 percent of the character’s total, the largest share the leading card takes on any of the six Paldea starter lines. Raw copies at $22.32 are the highest raw price of the six priced cards. We hold this card in PSA 10: the Vol. 1 Quaxly and Dot listing is here.
What the ranking shows
Quaxly has the fewest priced cards of any Paldea starter line. Six of its nine cards carry a price, and the two artwork slots sit at opposite ends of the list rather than together at the top.
| Band | Cards | Combined PSA 10 value | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $100 – $250 — ranked 1 | 1 | $115 | 34.9% |
| $70 – $100 — ranked 2 | 1 | $73 | 22.1% |
| $36 – $40 — ranked 3 to 5 | 3 | $111 | 33.7% |
| Under $36 — ranked 6 | 1 | $31 | 9.4% |
| Every priced Quaxly card | 6 | $331 | 100% |
Two further patterns run across the whole group.
The group prints nine consecutive numbers and three of them are unpriced. #501 to #509 is one Gem Pack Vol. 1 group — the base print, a Poké Ball foil, the stars pattern, the rotary pattern, the Master Ball foil, the shiny pattern, the stamped foil, the full art and the horizons full art at the top. The base print, the Poké Ball foil and the stars pattern have no graded sold record, so the priced list starts at the rotary pattern. Ranked by value the six priced cards come out #509, #507, #505, #506, #504, #508.
The two artwork slots are at opposite ends of the list. The full art at #508 is tracked at $31.00 and finishes sixth of six, while the horizons full art at #509 is tracked at $115.25 and finishes first — a 3.7-fold spread between the two artwork cards of the same group, where the same pair is 1.6-fold apart on Sprigatito and 1.3-fold apart on Fuecoco. Quaxly’s full art is also the only full art on the six Paldea starter lines that is the lowest-priced card in its own ranking rather than one of the two most valuable.
Where Quaxly is printed
| Product | Set code | Quaxly cards |
|---|---|---|
| Gem Pack Vol. 1 | CBB1C | 9 |
| Total | 9 |
Gem Pack Vol. 1 is the only product that prints Quaxly in these sets, and it supplies all nine cards and all $331 of the priced total. Quaxly is a Paldea starter, which is why there is no Collect 151 entry: that set prints only the original 151 Pokémon. Unlike the middle and final evolutions of the same starter line, Quaxly is not reprinted in Vol. 5 — the second volume carries the evolved form instead.
The Vol. 1 artwork is printed as a pairing with a trainer, and collecting a character through its trainer pairings covers that angle. If the goal is the group rather than the single card, completing a Simplified Chinese set sets out what a full Vol. 1 run involves.
If you want one card
- One card, no budget limit: the horizons full art at #509, at $115. It is the only Quaxly card in the language above $73 and the highest-numbered card in the group. The Vol. 1 Quaxly and Dot listing is here.
- The stamped foil: #507, at $73. It is the second most valuable card in the ranking and the one card here whose price does not match the same slot on the other starter lines.
- The lowest-priced entry onto this list: the full art at #508, at $31 — the only Quaxly print under $36 and the only full art in the family that ranks last.
- If you want the whole group: the three cheap treatments at #504, #505 and #506 all sit inside a dollar of one another, so the bottom of the ladder can be assembled in one go for barely more than one graded submission.
Frequently asked questions
How many Quaxly cards are there in Simplified Chinese?
Nine, all of them in the Gem Pack Vol. 1 group. The character appears in no other product in these sets. Six of the nine carry a tracked PSA 10 value.
What is the most valuable Quaxly card in Simplified Chinese?
The horizons full art of Gem Pack Vol. 1 at #509, tracked at $115 as a PSA 10 and $22.32 raw. It is the only Quaxly card in these sets above $73, and it takes 35 percent of the character’s combined value — the largest share a leading card takes on any of the six Paldea starter lines.
Why does the Quaxly stamped foil cost so much more than the same card on other starters?
The stamped treatment is printed for every Pokémon in the group, and on Sprigatito, Fuecoco, Floragato, Crocalor and Quaxwell the stamped foil lands between $39 and $43. Quaxly’s version is tracked at $73 with a grade 9 record of $61 — 84 percent of the PSA 10 value, where the other five sit near 34 percent. A middle grade that tracks the top grade that closely means the graded sales for this specific card are concentrated in grade 9, and there are too few PSA 10 sales to price the top grade lower than that.
Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?
On the cheaper treatments, yes: raw prices sit between $1.38 and $1.84 while graded values run from $36 to $38, multiples of 20 to 27. The stamped foil at #507 narrows to 25.3 times and the horizons full art at #509 to 5.2 times, because their raw prices already carry most of the premium. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a prediction about what any individual card will grade at.
Why is the Quaxly full art cheaper than the other starter full arts?
Because its graded sales are thinner than the horizons full art one number above it, and the two are the same layout slot on different numbers. On Sprigatito and Fuecoco the pair sit within 1.3 to 1.6 times of each other and both rank in the top two; on Quaxly the cheaper one is 3.7 times below its partner and ranks last. It is the same group layout, priced off two very different pools of graded transactions.
Other character rankings
Each character ranked here has its own page: Pikachu, Charizard, Psyduck, Ponyta, Meowth, Chandelure, Gengar, Ceruledge, Captain Pikachu, Cubone, Applin, Blastoise, the other Paldea starter lines — Sprigatito, Floragato, Fuecoco, Crocalor and Quaxwell — and the nine forms of the Eevee family: Eevee, Umbreon, Sylveon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, Jolteon, Vaporeon and Flareon. 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. 1 (CBB1C). PSA 10 values retrieved 25 September 2026.
- PriceCharting — individual card pages for Quaxly [Rotary] #504, [Masterball] #505, [Shiny] #506, [Stamped] #507, [Full Art] #508 and [Horizons Full Art] #509 (Gem Pack Vol. 1).
- CardSpicy — Gem Pack Vol. 1 to 6: what is in each volume, on group depth 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.