Sylveon is the only character in the Eevee family whose number one and number four are consecutive numbers from a single set: thirty cards exist in the Chinese-only sets, twenty-eight of them priced, and both the top and the fourth place belong to Grand Terastal Gathering.
The rest of the ranking is older. Eight of Sylveon’s ten most valuable Chinese cards come from three products — CS4aC, which carries the V and VMAX tiers; Gem Pack Vol. 2, which prints the character fifteen times over; and CSM2cC, which holds both tag team printings. This is the ranked ten, with the PSA 10 value of each and what a raw copy costs beside it.
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 — CSV9.5C, CBB2C, CS4aC, CSM2cC. 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. Thirty Sylveon cards exist across these sets and twenty-eight of them have a PSA 10 price on record. The two that do not are recent enough that graded copies have not changed hands 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 Sylveon 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. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — CSM2cC #72 — $57
Raw $19.81 · grade 9 $25.48
The lower of two Gardevoir and Sylveon tag team printings in CSM2cC, and the tenth card here at $57. Sylveon shares this card with a Psychic-type, which makes it one of only two places in this top ten where the character is not the sole subject.
9. Sylveon V — CS4aC #147 — $58
Raw $14.38 · grade 9 $33.62
The lower of two Sylveon V cards in CS4aC. Grade 9 sits at more than twice the raw price here, at $33.62 against $14.38, so the mid grade already carries most of the premium on this card — twenty-four dollars separate grade 9 from a PSA 10.
8. Sylveon VMAX — CS4aC #69 — $60
Raw $3.99 · grade 9 $15.99
A four-dollar raw card and a sixty-dollar PSA 10: fifteen times the price for the top grade. Of the four CS4aC printings in this top ten, this is the one where the ungraded card costs the least and the grade is doing the most work.
7. Sylveon VMAX — CS4aC #161 — $75
Raw $38.69 · grade 9 $20.50
The higher of the two VMAX printings in CS4aC, at $75 against $60. Raw is tracked above grade 9 on this card, at $38.69 against $20.50 — that happens where a particular grade band has thin sales records, and it is not a statement that the card is worth less in a holder.
6. Sylveon V — CS4aC #148 — $170
Raw $78.00 · grade 9 $70.00
The stronger Sylveon V in CS4aC, and nearly three times the price of #147. Raw and grade 9 sit almost level here, at $78.00 and $70.00, which puts the entire step from $170 down to grade 9 on the top grade alone.
5. Sylveon — Gem Pack Vol. 2 (CBB2C) #915 — $291
Raw $62.19 · grade 9 $75.58 · in stock
The art rare of the Vol. 2 Sylveon group and the top of a fifteen-card ladder that starts at $30. It is the only Gem Pack card in this top ten, and the only Sylveon card on this list that is neither a V-series print nor a tag team. In stock here.
4. Sylveon ex — Grand Terastal Gathering (CSV9.5C) #233 — $360
Raw $60.63 · grade 9 $82.39
The first half of the pair. #233 is a Sylveon ex from Grand Terastal Gathering, nearly six times its raw price in a PSA 10 holder, and it finishes fourth — three dollars behind the card above it.
3. Sylveon VMAX — CS4aC #171 — $363
Raw $238.64 · grade 9 $191.25
The strongest Sylveon VMAX in the language, and the highest card here that is not an ex or a tag team. Raw is tracked above grade 9, at $238.64 against $191.25, and the raw figure is one of the highest of any Sylveon card — the ungraded version of this card already changes hands at a serious price.
2. Gardevoir & Sylveon GX — CSM2cC #167 — $400
Raw $265.43 · grade 9 $281.00
The stronger of the two tag team printings, and worth seven times the #72 below it. Raw and grade 9 sit within sixteen dollars of each other at $265.43 and $281.00, so on this card the two grade bands below a PSA 10 are effectively one price.
1. Sylveon ex — Grand Terastal Gathering (CSV9.5C) #234 — $758
Raw $299.01 · grade 9 $400.00 · in stock
The most valuable Sylveon in the Chinese-only sets, at nearly twice the card ranked second. It holds 23.1% of the value of every priced Sylveon card on its own, and it is the higher of the two Sylveon ex printings in this top ten. Two and a half times its raw price in a holder, and in stock here.
What the ranking shows
Sylveon’s value is spread rather than stacked. The two cards above $400 hold just over a third of the total, and the character’s combined figure is 61% of Umbreon‘s — despite the two characters having exactly the same number of priced cards, twenty-eight each.
| Band | Cards | Combined PSA 10 value | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $400 and above — ranked 1 to 2 | 2 | $1,158 | 35.2% |
| $150 – $400 — ranked 3 to 6 | 4 | $1,184 | 36.1% |
| $50 – $150 — ranked 7 to 12 | 6 | $350 | 10.6% |
| Under $50 — ranked 13 to 28 | 16 | $593 | 18.0% |
| Every priced Sylveon card | 28 | $3,284 | 100% |
Two further patterns run across the whole group.
Every card here is worth more in a PSA 10 than raw or in a grade 9. That holds across all twenty-eight priced Sylveon cards without exception. The median raw-to-PSA-10 multiple is 12.80, roughly in line with Umbreon’s 12.55 and well below Eevee‘s 18.3 — the upper half of this list is made of cards whose raw copies are already expensive.
The top four come from three different products. Grand Terastal Gathering supplies two of them, CS4aC one and CSM2cC one, which is unusual: most characters in the Chinese line have their top four inside one or two sets. It means there is no single product to buy if what you want is Sylveon’s high end.
Where Sylveon is printed
| Product | Set code | Sylveon cards |
|---|---|---|
| Gem Pack Vol. 2 | CBB2C | 15 |
| CS4aC | CS4aC | 8 |
| CSM2cC subset | CSM2cC | 3 |
| Grand Terastal Gathering | CSV9.5C | 3 |
| CSV8C | CSV8C | 1 |
| Total | 30 |
The counts are cards, not artworks. Gem Pack prints each Pokémon in a group as a ladder of treatments — a Poké Ball foil, a Master Ball foil, a stars pattern, a stamped version, and so on, up to the art rare at the top — so a single Sylveon group can contribute fifteen separate cards to that total while only one of them is a chase.
If you want one card
- One card, no budget limit: Sylveon ex from Grand Terastal Gathering, #234, at $758. It is the highest tracked Sylveon in the language and one of only two Sylveon cards above $400.
- One card, a few hundred dollars: the Gem Pack Vol. 2 art rare, CBB2C 915, at $291. It is the top treatment of the group that supplies half of Sylveon’s cards, and it is in stock here.
- The pair: #233 and #234 together. They are consecutive numbers in the same set, they hold 34.0% of Sylveon’s total value between them, and they are two of the three Sylveon cards that set prints.
Frequently asked questions
Which Sylveon card is the most valuable in Simplified Chinese?
Sylveon ex from Grand Terastal Gathering — #234 — carries the highest tracked PSA 10 value among Sylveon cards in Chinese-only numbered sets, at $758. Chinese promo printings sit outside that comparison, because their numbering is shared between the Chinese branches.
Are these cards Simplified Chinese exclusives?
No. Every card on this list is printed under a Chinese-only set code, but the Pokémon and the card design also appeared in other languages. “Chinese-only” describes the print run, not the artwork. Sylveon is not among the four commissioned Collect 151 art rares — those four are Pikachu — so nothing in this ranking is exclusive to the Chinese line.
Why are Sylveon ex #233 and #234 both so valuable?
They are consecutive numbers in Grand Terastal Gathering, one Chinese-only set, and they are the two Sylveon ex printings in it. #234 is the higher of the two at $758 against $360, and both carry raw prices well above the character’s median — $299 and $61 respectively — which indicates demand for the ungraded cards rather than only for graded ones. Between them they hold 34.0% of Sylveon’s total value.
Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?
On this list, every card is worth more in a PSA 10 than raw or in a grade 9, and the median raw-to-PSA-10 multiple across the twenty-seven priced Sylveon cards with a raw comparison is 12.80. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a prediction about what any individual card will grade at.
How does Sylveon compare with the rest of the Eevee family?
Sylveon’s combined $3,284 sits between Umbreon at $5,382 and Eevee at $1,987, and it reaches that total with the same twenty-eight priced cards Umbreon has. Umbreon is the concentrated one, Eevee the least expensive, and Sylveon sits between them with its value spread across a wide band of mid-priced cards.
Other cards in the family
Sylveon is one of nine evolution forms, and each has its own ranking on this site: Eevee and Umbreon are published, and the rest of the family follows. For characters outside the Eevee line, Pikachu, Charizard and Psyduck are ranked separately. If you are looking at 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 Grand Terastal Gathering (CSV9.5C), CS4aC, Gem Pack Vol. 2 (CBB2C), CSM2cC and CSV8C. PSA 10 values retrieved 25 September 2026.
- PriceCharting — individual card pages for Sylveon ex #233, #234 (CSV9.5C); Sylveon V #147, #148 and Sylveon VMAX #69, #161, #171 (CS4aC); Sylveon #915 (Gem Pack Vol. 2); Gardevoir & Sylveon GX #72, #167 (CSM2cC).
- CardSpicy — Gem Pack Vol. 1 to 6: what is in each volume, on group and treatment structure.
- 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.