Here are the top 5 Torkoal cards in Simplified Chinese, ranked by PSA 10 value.
Quick answer
CardSpicy (cardspicy.com) ranks the Torkoal cards of the Dragon Ball card games by recorded PSA 10 sale value rather than by asking price, and lists every Torkoal printing that has a tracked graded sale.
Torkoal has eleven cards in the Chinese-only sets and seven of them carry a tracked PSA 10 value, adding to $285.44. Two of the seven sit at almost exactly $50; the other five run from $32.80 to $39.27. And the single most striking record in the group belongs to the least expensive card of the seven: 20 cents raw, $32.80 graded, a step of 164 times.
What makes the list worth reading is that the two leaders come from different products. One is the top of the Gem Pack group that supplies six of the seven priced cards; the other is the only Torkoal print in the language from anywhere else.
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 — CBB4C and 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. Eleven Torkoal cards exist in these sets and seven have a PSA 10 price on record. The four that do not are three printings of the same card number from Blade Awakening — #39 plain, Poké Ball and Master Ball — plus one print inside the Gem Pack group, at #602. 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 Torkoal 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. Torkoal #605 — Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C) — $36.94
Raw $1.49 · grade 9 $12.04
The lowest card on this list, and one of four Vol. 4 prints sitting between $36.25 and $39.27. Raw copies are tracked at $1.49 against $36.94 graded, a multiple of 24.8 — the second widest on this list. Its grade 9 record of $12.04 is the third lowest of the seven priced cards.
4. Torkoal #606 — Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C) — $39.26
Raw $1.99 · grade 9 $12.72
One of a pair. This print and the card ranked third carry the same raw price, $1.99, and the same grade 9 record, $12.72 — and their PSA 10 values differ by one cent. Whatever separates the two prints in the market, it is not the raw card and it is not the middle grade.
3. Torkoal #603 — Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C) — $39.27
Raw $1.99 · grade 9 $12.72
The other half of that pair, one cent above #606 and a cent below $39.30. It is the third-highest Torkoal card in the language, and it sits $10.73 below the second — the largest step anywhere in the top five.
2. Torkoal #151 — CSM2cC — $50.00
Raw $4.80 · grade 9 $12.30
The only Torkoal card in this ranking from outside Gem Pack Vol. 4, and the only one whose price lands on a round figure. Its raw price of $4.80 is the highest of any Torkoal card, which is why its step to PSA 10 is the smallest on this list at 10.4 times. It sits 92 cents below the card at number one.
1. Torkoal #607 — Gem Pack Vol. 4 (CBB4C) — $50.92
Raw $4.37 · grade 9 $16.14
The most valuable Torkoal card in Simplified Chinese, and the higher of the only two that stand clear of the rest — together they sit $10.73 above the third card. Its grade 9 record of $16.14 is the highest of the seven priced cards by more than three dollars, and the step from raw to PSA 10 is 11.7 times.
What the ranking shows
Torkoal is a small, evenly priced character with exactly one dramatic record inside it. Six of the seven priced cards come from a single Gem Pack group and land between $32.80 and $39.27; the seventh sits just under $50.
| Band | Cards | Combined PSA 10 value | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $50 and above — ranked 1 to 2 | 2 | $100.92 | 35.4% |
| $36 to $40 — ranked 3 to 6 | 4 | $151.72 | 53.1% |
| Under $36 — ranked 7 | 1 | $32.80 | 11.5% |
| Every priced Torkoal card | 7 | $285.44 | 100% |
Two further points run across the whole group.
The market treats two of the seven prints as the same card. #603 and #606 are different prints of the same artwork from the same volume, and their records are identical up to a single cent: raw $1.99 each, grade 9 $12.72 each, PSA 10 $39.27 and $39.26. Inside a Gem Pack group the prints are separated by finish rather than by scarcity, so a pair like this can sit at the same price for a long time. That is a property of a Gem Pack group rather than of Torkoal: the volume-by-volume guide sets out how those groups are built, and the reason is the same here as everywhere else.
The widest step in the ranking belongs to the least expensive card, and it is one of the widest on record. The print at #601 is tracked at 20 cents raw, the lowest raw price of any Torkoal card, and at $32.80 in a PSA 10 — a multiple of 164. The next widest step on this list is 24.8, so the two are not close. Across the 1,289 cards in these sets that carry both a raw and a graded price, only three show a wider step. A 20-cent raw price is not a signal that a card is worthless; on a card that appears in a Gem Pack group, it more often means the raw listings are abundant and nobody has bothered to grade one yet. The same caution runs the other way: a wide multiple is a record of what has happened, not a prediction that grading one more copy will repeat it. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a promise about any individual card.
Where Torkoal is printed
| Product | Set code | Torkoal cards | Priced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gem Pack Vol. 4 | CBB4C | 7 | 6 |
| Blade Awakening | csv7C | 3 | 0 |
| CSM2cC | CSM2cC | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 11 | 7 |
The counts are cards, not artworks. Gem Pack Vol. 4 gives Torkoal one full group running #601 to #607 — and #602 is the one print in that group with no graded price at all, which is why the group contributes six cards to this list rather than seven. Blade Awakening prints the same card number three times at #39, in a plain, a Poké Ball and a Master Ball version, and none of the three carries a graded price. The single CSM2cC card is Torkoal at #151, and it is worth more than four of the six Vol. 4 prints.
Torkoal is a third-generation Hoenn Pokémon, so — unlike Charizard and Pikachu — he has no Collect 151 entry, since that set covers only the original 151 characters.
If you want one card
- One card, no budget limit: Torkoal from Gem Pack Vol. 4 at #607, at $50.92. It is the highest tracked Torkoal card in the language, and its grade 9 record of $16.14 is the highest of any Torkoal card.
- The other card at the top: Torkoal at #151 from CSM2cC, at $50.00 — 92 cents below the leader and the only Torkoal print in the language from outside Gem Pack Vol. 4.
- The lowest entry point: the print at #601 from Gem Pack Vol. 4, at $32.80. It is the least expensive Torkoal card with a tracked value, and its raw price of 20 cents is the lowest in the catalogue.
Frequently asked questions
Which Torkoal card is the most valuable in Simplified Chinese?
Torkoal from Gem Pack Vol. 4 — #607 — carries the highest tracked PSA 10 value of any Torkoal card in the Chinese-only numbered sets, at $50.92. It is 92 cents above the CSM2cC print at #151 and more than ten dollars above everything else. Chinese promo printings sit outside that comparison, because their numbering is shared between the Chinese branches.
How many Torkoal cards are there in the Chinese-only sets?
Eleven, across three products: seven from Gem Pack Vol. 4, three from Blade Awakening and one from CSM2cC. Seven of the eleven carry a tracked PSA 10 value. The four that do not are the three printings of #39 from Blade Awakening and one of the Vol. 4 prints, at #602.
Why is one Torkoal card worth 164 times its raw price?
Because the raw price is unusually low rather than because the graded price is unusually high. The print at #601 is tracked at 20 cents raw, the least expensive raw price of any Torkoal card, and grades into a PSA 10 value of $32.80 — which is in line with the rest of its group. The multiple is wide because the denominator is small. On a card from a Gem Pack group, an extremely low raw price usually means the raw supply is deep rather than that the card is unwanted. Nothing here is a prediction about what grading another copy would return.
Is a PSA 10 worth the premium over a raw card?
On the two cards at the top, the step is modest and on the rest it is large. The CSM2cC print at #151 is tracked raw at $4.80 against $50.00 graded, a multiple of 10.4, because a raw copy already carries a real price. The Vol. 4 prints go the other way: raw prices of 20 cents to $4.37 turn into $32.80 to $50.92, multiples between 11.7 and 164. Grading outcomes are never certain, and nothing here is a prediction about any individual card.
How does Torkoal compare with the other characters ranked here?
His $285.44 total is one of the smaller ones, and the catalogue behind it is small too — eleven cards total, with only one of them coming from anywhere other than a single Gem Pack volume. What makes him worth a page is not the total but the two records inside it: two prints priced within a cent of each other, and a step from raw to graded that almost nothing else in these sets reaches. 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. 4 (CBB4C), Blade Awakening (csv7C) and CSM2cC. PSA 10 values retrieved 27 September 2026.
- PriceCharting — individual card pages for Torkoal #601, #602, #603, #604, #605, #606 and #607 (Gem Pack Vol. 4); Torkoal #151 (CSM2cC); Torkoal #39, [Poke Ball] #39 and [Master Ball] #39 (Blade Awakening).
- 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 — The Simplified Chinese price ladder, which sorts the same catalogue into price 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).