World Championship Decks · Rare
Pricier than 91% of the cards we track in this set · in the middle of its 12-month range ($8.07–$10.82)
Its interest score of 62 out of 100 is driven most by listing tightness — tight listings. Blue bars pushed the score up, red bars pulled it down. The ingredients are weighted by how well each one has actually predicted price moves in this market, measured on your own price history rather than assumed.
Is this card interesting right now?
Above average - 62 out of 100
It ranks above 62% 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. It is not a prediction, and it says nothing about whether you will enjoy owning the card.
Why is it interesting?
Tight listings and sellers holding firm
Asking prices are clustered tightly together, which is the mark of an orderly market. People selling this card are asking more than it has recently sold for. In this market that has been the single most reliable sign that supply is tight. Working against it: it sits well below its high of the past year.
Is it becoming more popular?
Yes - consistently
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?
$9.63 - expensive for its set
At $9.63 it is one of the priciest cards in its set - number 171 of 1989 by price. Against other Rare cards it sits at the 78th percentile - toward the top. It is 12% 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?
An ordinary Rare from a 8-year-old set
Rare is a common tier - 6,033 tracked cards share it. 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.
Is grading worth considering?
No
At $9.63 raw, grading costs roughly $22.00 - more than the card itself. Only worth it for sentimental reasons. This is a vintage set, where condition varies far more between copies and grading matters correspondingly more. This is a rule of thumb from the card's raw price, age and price stability. We track raw ungraded prices only - no graded sales and no population data - so this cannot tell you what a PSA 10 of this card is worth. Check a graded price guide before spending money.
Slightly behind the market
An estimated 45% chance of beating the typical tracked card over the next 60 days, by around +1.3% on a middling outcome.
$8.91 – $12.43 — 80% likely. The middle half lands between $9.51 and $11.04. Today it is $9.63.
Assumes the market as a whole drifts +4.0% over 60 days, its recent average. That part is an assumption carried forward, not a prediction — the 'vs market' figure above does not depend on it.
Prices here are TCGplayer's market price, which is an average of recent sales and lags a real move by a few weeks. Part of any short-term forecast is that lag catching up — visible in the chart, but not something you can buy at.
| Market price | $9.63 | What copies have recently sold for |
| Cheapest listing | $7.89 | The lowest price anyone is currently asking |
| Middle of listings | $10.64 | The midpoint of what sellers are asking |
| Seller confidence | +10.5% | Asking prices are above recent sales — sellers are in no hurry |
| 1-month trend vs market | +0.1% | Outpacing the market |
| 2-month trend vs market | +0.6% | Outpacing the market |
| 4-month trend vs market | +0.7% | Outpacing the market |
| Versus same-set, same-rarity cards | +9.4% | Shown for interest only — this one is not part of the score |
| Unusual move | +0.2 | Within its normal range of movement |
| Below its 12-month high | -11.0% | Well off its high |
| Day-to-day price movement | 0.0133 | Calm and steady |
| How often it trades | 15% | Rarely trades — the price shown may be stale |
| Price checks on record | 365 | Observations in the past year |
| Times the price changed | 53 | How many of those were real moves |
| Actively traded | Yes | Whether there is enough activity for the trend figures to mean anything |
| Set age | 8.2 years | Vintage |
| Interest score | 62 / 100 | Ranks above 62% of tracked cards |
| TCGplayer product ID | 479,669 | For looking it up elsewhere |