Magikarp & Wailord GX Alt Art 161/181 · Team Up

Beating the market, or just riding it?

Not enough trading to say

It trades too rarely, or has too little recent price history, for a 2-month comparison with the market to mean anything.

Describes the last 2 months, not what happens next. Not investment advice.

Is this card interesting right now?

Above average - 60 out of 100

It ranks above 60% of the cards we track. The score describes the conditions around the card today - how sellers are pricing it, how it is trending, how steadily it trades. Its weights were tuned on how cards moved over the following 60 days, so a high score is a tendency across many cards, not a forecast for this one - and it says nothing about whether you will enjoy owning the card.

Why is it interesting?

Tight listings and climbing this month

Asking prices are clustered tightly together, which is the mark of an orderly market. It has done better than the rest of the market over the past month. Working against it: asking prices sit above recent sales, but by less than on most cards - so relative to the rest of the market, sellers here are less firm.

Is it becoming more popular?

Mixed

Compared with the Pokemon market as a whole, so a rising tide does not count as popularity. In this market these trends have tended to keep going rather than reverse.

Is it expensive or cheap?

$882.13 - expensive for its set

At $882.13 it is one of the priciest cards in its set - number 3 of 357 by price. It costs more than 99% of other Ultra Rare cards we track. It is 13% below its 12-month high. Worth knowing: in this market cards near their highs have gone on to do better than deeply discounted ones, so a big discount is not automatically a bargain.

What makes this card unusual?

#3 most valuable in its set

Ultra Rare is a widely printed rarity - 2,593 tracked cards share it. Only 2 card(s) in this set are worth more. This is the Holofoil printing, which is priced as a completely separate market from the other printings of the same artwork. The set is about 8 years old, so surviving copies in good condition get scarcer over time.

Could you actually buy or sell it?

Slowly - it rarely trades

The price changed in 15% of our checks over the past year across 365 observations. TCGplayer's market price only updates when a copy sells, so a low figure means the price shown may be stale and any trend reading is built on very few real sales.

How does the grading fee compare?

Small fee versus raw price

A roughly $22.00 grading fee is 2% of the $882.13 raw price. Raw price plus fee comes to about $904.13, before shipping, insurance or selling costs. That is a cost comparison, not an estimate of a graded copy's value. We track raw ungraded prices only - no graded sales and no population data. We cannot assess this copy's condition or tell you what a PSA 10 is worth. Check condition and comparable graded sales before deciding whether grading would pay off.