Charizard VSTAR18/172 · Brilliant Stars Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $15
- PSA 8$221 sold · 90d · pop 666
- PSA 9$334 sold · 90d · pop 2,538
- PSA 10$11013 sold · 90d · pop 3,938
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Brilliant Stars #18/172, 2022. 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 $15.08 or more. That's about +25% 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 (103 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.
Charizard VSTAR is a Rare Holo VSTAR Pokémon card from Brilliant Stars (#18, released 2022), illustrated by 5ban Graphics. It's a VSTAR Fire-type Pokémon with 280 HP, evolving from Charizard V, weak to Water ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 14 September 2026.
Charizard VSTAR price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence97 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
6 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$10.00149 sales · 97 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 10$12019 sales · 13 in 90d, sells regularly
- PSA 9$28.5012 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 10$32.2012 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9$19.209 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 8$17.854 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9.6$34.003 sales
- CGC 9.5$20.403 sales
Is Charizard VSTAR worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $33 against the $83 you put in, a $50 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $33–$120. Averaged over every outcome that is −$16 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
Charizard VSTAR is a Secret / Rainbow in Brilliant Stars — the pack's hit slot lands on Secret / Rainbow 2.5% of the time, split across 18 secret / rainbow cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 724 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 | $109.99 | $71 | +$27 | 9.1× |
| PSA 9 | $33.00 | $70 | −$49 | 2.7× |
| PSA 8 | $22.00 | $70 | −$60 | 1.8× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 2,704 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 42.4% | $119.99 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 39.3% | $33.00 |
| PSA 8 | 3.4% | $22.00 |
| PSA 7 | 0.6% | $20.00 |
| PSA 6 | 0.3% | $12.06 |
| PSA 5 | 0.2% | $9.00 |
| PSA 4 | 0% | $9.00 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 13.8% | $12.06 |
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
3,938 of the 7,375 PSA-graded Charizard VSTAR copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 53%. 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 7,375.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 2,704.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 272.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 77.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Charizard VSTAR 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Brilliant Stars Charizard Vstar 18/172Raw · eBay$10.12
2022 Sword & Shield - Brilliant Stars Charizard VSTAR VSTAR/Rare Holo VSTAR #18Raw · eBay$10.81
Pokémon TCG Charizard VSTAR Holo Ultra Rare Card Brilliant Stars 18/172 NMRaw · eBay$11.57
Charizard Vstar 18/172 Holo Rare- Pokemon Sword & Shield: Brilliant Stars Raw · eBay$11.99
Pokémon Charizard Vstar Ultra Rare Pokemon Sword & Shield Brilliant Stars 18/172Raw · eBay$12.00![Charizard VSTAR 18/172 Brilliant Stars Rare Holo VSTAR Full Art Pokemon TCG [NM]](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NZgAAeSwu7ZqhSIC/s-l225.jpg)
Charizard VSTAR 18/172 Brilliant Stars Rare Holo VSTAR Full Art Pokemon TCG [NM]Raw · eBay$12.22Cheapest raw copy $10.12 — 16% below our near-mint estimate of $12
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 3,938 | $110$93–$126 | |
| PSA 9pop 2,538 | ✓ 199 cert-verified$33$30–$40 | |
| PSA 8pop 666 | ✓ 59 cert-verified$22$16–$22 | |
| PSA 7pop 151 | ✓ 13 cert-verified$20 | |
| PSA 5pop 23 | modelled$9$9–$9 | |
| PSA 4pop 6 | modelled$9$9–$9 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $12.00. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $13.10 (+9%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $15.00.
From 48 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.
For context: a graded PSA 7 slab of this card sells for about $20 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
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Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Charizard V.
If this Pokémon has any damage counters on it, this attack does 100 more damage.
Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon. (You can't use more than 1 VSTAR Power in a game.)
VSTAR rule: When your Pokémon VSTAR is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
It is said that Charizard’s fire burns hotter if it has experienced harsh battles.
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Charizard VSTAR cards
There are 4 different Charizard VSTAR printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Brilliant Stars #18 (Rare Holo VSTAR).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Charizard VSTAR (Brilliant Stars #18) worth?
As of 14 September 2026, Charizard VSTAR from Brilliant Stars is worth approximately $12.06 ungraded (near-mint), and around $110 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 Charizard VSTAR?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Charizard VSTAR from Brilliant Stars is worth around $110 — roughly 9× the raw ungraded value of $12.06.
Should I grade my Charizard VSTAR?
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 Charizard VSTAR rare?
Charizard VSTAR is a Rare Holo VSTAR card from Brilliant Stars (card #18).
How do I know if my Charizard VSTAR 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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