Budew221/217 · Ascended Heroes Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $12
- PSA 9$1811 sold · 90d · pop 594
- PSA 10$6539 sold · 90d · pop 1,195
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Ascended Heroes #221/217, 2026. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
What's your copy worth?
The top 5% of this card's sales — pack-fresh examples — sold for $11.47 or more. That's about +39% 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 (91 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.
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Budew is a Illustration Rare Pokémon card from Ascended Heroes (#221, released 2026), illustrated by Yoko Hishida. It's a Basic Grass-type Pokémon with 30 HP, weak to Fire ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 9 September 2026.
Budew price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence180 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
5 of 10 verified sales were competitive auctions — this price reflects real bidding, not asking prices. A graded copy trades roughly every day (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$8.00182 sales · 180 in 90d, sells often
- CGC 10$26.4047 sales · 23 in 90d, sells regularly
- PSA 10$62.0039 sales · 39 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 9$15.5011 sales · 11 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 9$9.6011 sales · 8 in 90d, occasional
- TAG 10$98.073 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- Lot$10.202 sales
- CGC 9.6$14.502 sales
Is Budew worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 10 — worth $62 against the $78 you put in, a $16 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $18–$62. Averaged over every outcome that is −$36 a card.
That is the average submitted copy. Tell us about yours and the verdict re-prices — most cards stop being worth grading here. Not sure? Grade it from a photo →
These are set to a flawless copy — the answer above. Change any of them to re-price it for the card in your hand.
Compare graders, and the live market
The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population report, the ROI table and the price ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.
- PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and its own fees, with Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market actually 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.
The odds
Budew is a Ultra Rare in Ascended Heroes — the pack's hit slot lands on Ultra Rare 10% of the time, split across 47 ultra rare cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 472 packs.
Estimates only. Pack odds come from CardTrack's pack model (the same one behind the pack simulator) — not an official rate. Grading odds are the real cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies, so it overstates the true first-submission gem rate. Full grade-by-grade breakdown below.
Grade-by-grade ROI & risk-adjusted outcomesNet vs raw per target grade, plus the probability-weighted distribution
| Target grade | Est. value | Grading fee | Net vs raw | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | $64.99 | $71 | −$14 | 7.9× |
| PSA 9 | $17.50 | $70 | −$61 | 2.1× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 440 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 — typical | 58.6% | $62.00 |
| PSA 9 | 34.8% | $17.50 |
| PSA 8 | 4.1% | $8.25 |
| PSA 7 | 0.2% | $8.25 |
| PSA 6 | 0.5% | $8.25 |
| PSA 5 | 1.4% | $8.25 |
| PSA 4 | 0.5% | $8.25 |
Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-08-26; the paused PSA Value tier is excluded so this isn't overstated. Gem rate is estimated from cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies — so it overstates the true grade rate. Treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
1,195 of the 1,891 PSA-graded Budew copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 63%. The rest graded lower.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 1,891.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 118.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Budew 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Pokémon TCG: ME: Ascended Heroes - Budew IR 221/217 - NM+Raw · eBay$6.00
Budew 221/217 Me: Ascended Heroes HoloRaw · eBay$6.00
Budew 221/217 – Illustration Rare – Mega Evolutions: Ascended Heroes – HoloRaw · eBay$6.49
Budew 221/217 Me: Ascended Heroes HoloRaw · eBay$6.95
Ascended Heroes Budew 221/217 Illustration Rare IR Holo Pokemon TCG NMRaw · eBay$6.98
Budew 221/217 Illustration Rare Ascended Heroes Pokemon HoloRaw · eBay$6.99Cheapest raw copy $6.00 — 27% below our near-mint estimate of $8
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 1,195 | $65$55–$75 | |
| PSA 9pop 594 | $18$15–$20 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $8.27. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $9.84 (+19%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $11.50.
From 54 sales in the last 12 months. These describe the market — whether a specific copy is a grading candidate is a judgment made by looking at it.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
Cross-market prices
3% spreadCurrently 3% cheaper on TCGplayer than PriceCharting. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.
Market signal
Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.
🔥 Trending in the community
#110 on the radarBudew is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →
What people are saying: “Tox box supporting cast” · 3↑
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
During your opponent's next turn, they can't play any Item cards from their hand.
“The pollen it releases contains poison. If this Pokémon is raised on clean water, the poison’s toxicity is increased.”
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Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Budew cards
There are 5 different Budew printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Ascended Heroes #221 (Illustration Rare).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Budew (Ascended Heroes #221) worth?
As of 9 September 2026, Budew from Ascended Heroes is worth approximately $8.25 ungraded (near-mint), and around $65 in PSA 10 gem mint. Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
What is the PSA 10 price for Budew?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Budew from Ascended Heroes is worth around $65 — roughly 8× the raw ungraded value of $8.25.
Should I grade my Budew?
Grading is worth it when the PSA 10 premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10 — the "Should you grade it?" estimate above works that out per grade, net of the current fee.
Is Budew rare?
Budew is a Illustration Rare card from Ascended Heroes (card #221).
How do I know if my Budew is Holofoil?
The illustration window: The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
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