Shaymin VSTAR173/172 · Brilliant Stars Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $11est.
- PSA 8$15pop 76
- PSA 9$234 sold · 90d · pop 310
- PSA 10$705 sold · 90d · pop 502
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Brilliant Stars #173/172, 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?
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. $10.47. That's about +33% 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 (41 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.
Shaymin VSTAR is a Rare Rainbow Pokémon card from Brilliant Stars (#173, released 2022), illustrated by 5ban Graphics. It's a VSTAR Grass-type Pokémon with 250 HP, evolving from Shaymin V, weak to Fire ×2. It's listed among our rainbow rares. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 9 September 2026.
Shaymin VSTAR price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence44 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
Real completed eBay sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title. Implausibly priced listings (lots, proxies, empty slabs) and wrong-variant sales are filtered out. Links to eBay are affiliate links — we may earn a commission.
By grade
- Raw$7.0051 sales · 44 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 10$71.009 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 10$25.306 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 9$23.505 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9$10.204 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- PSA 8$11.252 sales
- TAG 9$21.991 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9.6$15.001 sale
Is Shaymin VSTAR worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 10 — worth $71 against the $78 you put in, a $7 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $23–$71. Averaged over every outcome that is −$30 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
Shaymin 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 | $70.00 | $71 | −$9 | 8.9× |
| PSA 9 | $23.24 | $70 | −$55 | 2.9× |
| PSA 8 | $15.00 | $70 | −$63 | 1.9× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 890 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 — typical | 54.5% | $71.00 |
| PSA 9 | 34% | $23.24 |
| PSA 8 | 8.4% | $15.00 |
| PSA 7 | 1.3% | $6.00 |
| PSA 6 | 0.3% | $6.00 |
| PSA 5 | 0.3% | $6.00 |
| PSA 4 | 0.3% | $6.00 |
| PSA 2 | 0.1% | $6.00 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.6% | $7.88 |
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
502 of the 910 PSA-graded Shaymin VSTAR copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 55%. 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 910.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 519.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 17.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Shaymin VSTAR 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Shaymin VSTAR (Secret) 173/172 Swsh09: Brilliant Stars HoloRaw · eBay$4.99
Shaymin VSTAR (Secret) 173/172 Swsh09: Brilliant Stars HoloRaw · eBay$5.00
Shaymin VSTAR (Secret) 173/172 Swsh09: Brilliant Stars HoloRaw · eBay$5.50
Pokemon Brilliant Stars Shaymin VStar 173/172 Secret Rare Rainbow Holo Raw · eBay$5.50
Shaymin VSTAR 173/172 Secret Rare Rainbow Pokemon Brilliant Stars NMRaw · eBay$5.99
Shaymin VSTAR (Secret) 173/172 Swsh09: Brilliant Stars HoloRaw · eBay$5.99Cheapest raw copy $4.99 — 37% 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 502 | $70$60–$81 | |
| PSA 9pop 310 | $23$20–$27 | |
| PSA 8pop 76 | $15$13–$17 | |
| PSA 7pop 12 | modelled$6$6–$6 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $7.99. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $8.78 (+10%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $10.62.
From 32 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
4% spreadCurrently 4% cheaper on PriceCharting than TCGplayer. 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
#34 on the radarShaymin is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →
What people are saying: “World Championship 2026 - Meta Report” · 111↑
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Shaymin V.
During your turn, you may heal 120 damage from each of your Benched Grass Pokémon. (You can't use more than 1 VSTAR Power in a game.)
This attack does 40 more damage for each Prize card your opponent has taken.
VSTAR rule: When your Pokémon VSTAR is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
It lives in flower patches and avoids detection by curling up to look like a flowering plant.
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Shaymin VSTAR cards
There are 2 different Shaymin VSTAR printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Brilliant Stars #173 (Rare Rainbow).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Shaymin VSTAR (Brilliant Stars #173) worth?
As of 9 September 2026, Shaymin VSTAR from Brilliant Stars is worth approximately $7.88 ungraded (near-mint), and around $70 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 Shaymin VSTAR?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Shaymin VSTAR from Brilliant Stars is worth around $70 — roughly 9× the raw ungraded value of $7.88.
Should I grade my Shaymin 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 Shaymin VSTAR rare?
Shaymin VSTAR is a Rare Rainbow card from Brilliant Stars (card #173).
How do I know if my Shaymin 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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