{ "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/most-expensive-pokemon-cards", "slug": "most-expensive-pokemon-cards", "title": "The Most Expensive Pokémon Cards Right Now", "summary": "The dearest raw card in our tape asks $4,500. The dearest graded one sells for $30,895. Across the top 25 of each list, exactly one card appears on both.", "section": "Analysis", "published": "2026-09-22", "readMinutes": 7, "publisher": "moonstone", "findings": [ { "value": "$4,500.00", "measures": "dearest raw ask in the English catalogue", "basis": "two cards are tied at it" }, { "value": "$30,895.00", "measures": "highest steady PSA 10 sold median", "basis": "Gengar EX, 11 verified sales" }, { "value": "1", "measures": "card on both top-25 lists", "basis": "Shining Charizard, Neo Destiny" }, { "value": "0.21%", "measures": "of priced English cards asking $1,000 or more", "basis": "45 of 21,661" } ], "tables": [ { "title": "The twelve dearest raw English asks, September 22, 2026", "columns": [ "Card", "Set", "Ask" ], "rows": [ { "Card": "[Lugia](/card/ecard2-149)", "Set": "[Aquapolis](/set/aquapolis)", "Ask": "$4,500.00" }, { "Card": "[Torchic ☆](/card/ex7-108)", "Set": "Team Rocket Returns", "Ask": "$4,500.00" }, { "Card": "[Latias & Latios GX](/card/sm9-170)", "Set": "[SM - Team Up](/set/sm%20-%20team%20up)", "Ask": "$3,910.42" }, { "Card": "[Mew ☆ δ](/card/ex15-101)", "Set": "Dragon Frontiers", "Ask": "$3,500.00" }, { "Card": "[Lugia ex](/card/ex10-105)", "Set": "Unseen Forces", "Ask": "$2,500.00" }, { "Card": "[Rocket’s Mewtwo](/card/bog-8)", "Set": "Best of Game", "Ask": "$2,400.00" }, { "Card": "[Treecko ☆](/card/ex7-109)", "Set": "Team Rocket Returns", "Ask": "$2,400.00" }, { "Card": "[Umbreon VMAX](/card/swsh7-215)", "Set": "[SWSH07: Evolving Skies](/set/swsh07%3A%20evolving%20skies)", "Ask": "$2,283.14" }, { "Card": "[Gengar & Mimikyu GX](/card/sm9-165)", "Set": "[SM - Team Up](/set/sm%20-%20team%20up)", "Ask": "$1,940.59" }, { "Card": "[Pikachu Star](/card/ex13-104)", "Set": "Holon Phantoms", "Ask": "$1,899.99" }, { "Card": "[Lucky Stadium](/card/basep-41)", "Set": "Wizards Black Star Promos", "Ask": "$1,700.00" }, { "Card": "[Latias ☆](/card/ex8-105)", "Set": "Deoxys", "Ask": "$1,650.00" } ] }, { "title": "The twelve highest steady PSA 10 sold medians, September 22, 2026", "columns": [ "Card", "Set", "PSA 10 median", "Verified sales", "Raw ask" ], "rows": [ { "Card": "[Gengar EX](/card/xy4-114)", "Set": "[XY - Phantom Forces](/set/xy%20-%20phantom%20forces)", "PSA 10 median": "$30,895.00", "Verified sales": "11", "Raw ask": "$768.15" }, { "Card": "[Shining Charizard](/card/neo4-107)", "Set": "[Neo Destiny](/set/neo%20destiny)", "PSA 10 median": "$23,900.00", "Verified sales": "11", "Raw ask": "$1,495.00" }, { "Card": "[Blaine's Charizard](/card/gym2-2)", "Set": "[Gym Challenge](/set/gym%20challenge)", "PSA 10 median": "$23,275.50", "Verified sales": "10", "Raw ask": "$599.34" }, { "Card": "[Charizard G](/card/pl3-143)", "Set": "[Supreme Victors](/set/supreme%20victors)", "PSA 10 median": "$20,003.00", "Verified sales": "14", "Raw ask": "$450.72" }, { "Card": "[Suicune ☆](/card/ex10-115)", "Set": "Unseen Forces", "PSA 10 median": "$18,450.50", "Verified sales": "15", "Raw ask": "$1,100.00" }, { "Card": "[Mewtwo δ](/card/ex11-12)", "Set": "Delta Species", "PSA 10 median": "$18,074.99", "Verified sales": "17", "Raw ask": "$746.84" }, { "Card": "[Rayquaza ex δ](/card/ex15-97)", "Set": "Dragon Frontiers", "PSA 10 median": "$15,377.40", "Verified sales": "10", "Raw ask": "$287.33" }, { "Card": "[Rocket's Entei ex](/card/ex7-97)", "Set": "Team Rocket Returns", "PSA 10 median": "$15,175.00", "Verified sales": "11", "Raw ask": "$503.99" }, { "Card": "[Entei ☆](/card/ex10-113)", "Set": "Unseen Forces", "PSA 10 median": "$15,012.50", "Verified sales": "20", "Raw ask": "$1,067.00" }, { "Card": "[Shining Mewtwo](/card/neo4-109)", "Set": "[Neo Destiny](/set/neo%20destiny)", "PSA 10 median": "$14,275.00", "Verified sales": "20", "Raw ask": "$940.00" }, { "Card": "[Armored Mewtwo](/card/smp-SM228)", "Set": "SM Black Star Promos", "PSA 10 median": "$12,300.00", "Verified sales": "18", "Raw ask": "$309.30" }, { "Card": "[M Rayquaza EX](/card/xy7-98)", "Set": "[XY - Ancient Origins](/set/xy%20-%20ancient%20origins)", "PSA 10 median": "$12,075.00", "Verified sales": "88", "Raw ask": "$1,092.54" } ] } ], "charts": [], "sections": [ "The most expensive cards to buy", "The most expensive cards to sell", "The two lists are not the same list", "What a 10 typically adds, and to what" ], "method": [ "Population: 21,661 English printings holding a TCGplayer product id and a recorded price. Raw asks are the most recent daily market price recorded per product in our price_history table, dated September 22, 2026 for all but six of the 21,661, whose last reading is a few days older, and are listing prices rather than completed sales. Graded figures are medians of verified completed sales from our graded_snapshots table read on September 22, 2026. The graded list is restricted to printings whose PSA 10 median rests on at least ten verified sales and whose median stayed within ten percent of itself across every day we recorded it; 4,694 English printings carry a PSA 10 median at all, 2,973 of those rest on ten or more sales, and 1,314 clear both bars. Of those 1,314, 173 carry a median of $1,000 or more, 45 of $5,000 or more, 16 of $10,000 or more and 4 of $20,000 or more. Medians use the upper-middle value on even samples. Sets with no recorded price series on this site are named in plain text rather than linked. Japanese-language printings are excluded. Nothing here is financial advice." ], "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file." }