What a tracked Pokemon card is actually worth
Of the 26,043 individually-catalogued, priced English Pokemon cards we track across 213 sets and 1,025 Pokemon (excluding sealed products and oversized / World Championship reprints), the raw, ungraded market reference breaks down as:
- Under $5
- 69.1%
- 18,007 cards
- $5 – $25
- 16.7%
- 4,358 cards
- $25 – $100
- 9.1%
- 2,368 cards
- $100 or more
- 5%
- 1,310 cards
Median raw market reference: $1.05 USD. In other words, most Pokemon cards - even catalogued, tracked ones - are worth only a few dollars raw; the headline chase cards are a thin slice at the top.
Catalogue snapshot: . Raw references only, ungraded. These reference prices are TCGplayer market prices synced daily via TCGCSV for 24,904 cards, and the PokemonPriceTracker market price our catalogue was last synced with for 1,139 cards. Methodology.
Market rankings & snapshots
Numerical summaries of the catalogue and of live listings. These move as the catalogue and the listings move.
Most Valuable Cards →
The highest raw, ungraded market references across every set we track.
Catalogue references as of 31 Oct 2026, 20:21 UTC
Most-Listed Cards →
Cards with the most active eBay listings we're tracking right now.
Live listing counts
Card Value Distribution →
How card values are spread across the catalogue, from the long tail of low-value cards to the top end.
Catalogue snapshot 31 Oct 2026
Research & historical studies
Bounded, dated analyses. Each is a fixed snapshot of the window it names - not a description of today's market.
How Much Shipping Adds to a Listing →
A dated snapshot of retained fixed-price listings that charge for shipping: what the charge adds as a share of item price per marketplace, and how often the cheapest item price was not the cheapest delivered total in the groups assessed.
Observed 22 September 2026 · method revision 2 · figures fixed at publication
30-Day Reference-Price Changes →
A dated study of 150 sampled product records: how many moved, and why a product summary differs from its individual condition and printing variants.
Study period 12 August - 11 September 2026 · figures fixed at publication
Related tools & browsing
Live deal and catalogue destinations, not research articles.