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Lugia — 30th Celebration #121

Rare30th Celebration121/1282026Illustrated by Kazuki Minami

Lugia 121/128 · 30th Celebration price & value

Raw · near mint

$2.49

Updated

Sales recorded
34
every grade, since 2026
Last 90 days
34 raw · 34 all
34 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
High
34 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
3d ago
raw

Bulk card. At this price most of what a buyer pays is postage, so treat it as a rough band rather than a valuation. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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The headline above is Near Mint. Most copies that actually change hands are not — here is the same card at every condition it is realistically held in. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →

  • NMheadline

    Near Mint

    $2.49

    basis

  • LP

    Lightly Played

    $2.20

    −12%

  • MP

    Moderately Played

    $1.89

    −24%

  • HP

    Heavily Played

    $1.56

    −37%

  • DM

    Damaged

    $1.37

    −45%

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Estimated value · Pack fresh
Based on 33 sold sales

Estimated. This card has enough sales to price the top 15% but not the top 5%, so pack-fresh is projected from the gap we measure between those two tiers on cards that do — about 1.4x on vintage, 1.2x on modern. $4.87. That's about +96% over a typical Near Mint copy.

ⓘ How do we work this out?

We take every real sale of this exact card over the last 12 months (33 sales), sort them by price, and read off the top 15% and top 5%. No multipliers, no guesses — the prices cleaner copies actually fetched.

Why cleaner copies cost more: buyers can see condition in the photos and pay for it. Listings sellers describe as pack fresh or gem mint land in this top band 1.7× more often than ordinary ones — the premium follows the card, not the hype.

Copies in this band are also the ones collectors send to grading: far more likely than a typical binder copy to be submitted at all — and to come back with the strong grade that carries the PSA prices shown on this page. That prospect is part of what buyers are paying for here.

These are read straight off this card's own completed sales — sort them by price and take the top 15% and top 5%. Whether your copy qualifies is a judgment made by looking at the card.

Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-19T08:27:40.269Z.

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Cheapest raw copy $8 — 201% above our near-mint estimate of $2

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What the sales actually show

The counts are in the hero; this is how the card trades — the range, the pace, where, and what each grade has actually fetched. Figures that name a grade cover that grade alone; the rest count every grade.

Range

$1 – $21

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

5.7/mo

every grade, whole record

Momentum

0%

Raw — 30d vs 90d median

Where it sells

100% eBay

Raw — last 90 days

Demand

84/100

Very liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz

Every sale we can show you

Completed sales from our own sold ledger, PSA’s certified-sale feed and the eBay comps, in one list, newest first — Fanatics, Goldin and eBay between them. Filter by grade: a raw copy and a graded slab are different objects, and averaging them is how a raw market comes to look wild. We hold 34 sales for this card going back to 2026; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
Pokemon TCG Lugia 121/128 ME: 30th Celebration Holo NMRaweBay2026-09-17—$2.99
Lugia 121/128 30th Celebration Holo English Pokemon Card NMRaweBay2026-09-17—$1.00
Lugia 121/128 Rare ME: 30th Celebration Pokemon Holo Near MintRaweBay2026-09-17—$4.99
Lugia 121/128 Rare ME: 30th Celebration Pokemon Holo Near MintRaweBay2026-09-17—$1.89

1–4 of 4 sales · 0 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

Trader

Compare graders, and the live market

The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population, the ROI table and the ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.

Trader plan and above →
  • PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market pays for.
  • Lightly and moderately played — the same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
  • Ask vs sold — what the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
  • Momentum — the 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
  • Where it sells higher — the Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
  • Population history — the weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.

Built on 0 graded sales · fees as of 2026-09-19.

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Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

Market data

Where else this card trades, where the markets disagree, and what the price series says about the last 90 days.

What the series says

Volatility

volatile

90-day band

$2 – $34

Today’s price sits 0% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

🔥 Trending in the community

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About Lugia

Which card this is — then the attacks and stats as printed, and the species behind them.

Lugia is a Rare Pokémon card from 30th Celebration (#121, released 2026), illustrated by Kazuki Minami.

#35 most valuable Lugia of 40#28 most valuable in 30th Celebration of 55

The Pokémon

Diving PokémonGEN IILegendary

It is said that it quietly spends its time deep at the bottom of the sea because its powers are too strong.

Card details

Set
30th Celebration
Number
#121
Rarity
Rare
Released
2026
Pokémon
All Lugia cards
Generation
Gen II · Johto
Artist
Kazuki Minami
Card ID
me55-121
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Lugia (30th Celebration #121) worth?

As of 20 September 2026, Lugia from 30th Celebration is worth approximately $2 ungraded in near-mint condition. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

How often does Lugia sell?

CardTrack recorded 34 completed sales of Lugia (30th Celebration #121) across every grade in the last 90 days, 34 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-17. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Lugia rare?

Lugia is a Rare card from 30th Celebration (card #121), released in 2026.