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Check your printing3 different Choice Band printings exist — is this your card? Burning Shadows #162
Choice Band Burning Shadows #162 Pokémon card
Rare Secret

Choice Band

Burning Shadows · 162/147 · Illustrated by Eske Yoshinob
TrainerPokémon Tool

Market value · ungraded

$4.67 1.5% · 30d
Confidencehigh
Range$4$5
Sold prices, not asking. TCGplayer. Updated 20 August 2026. 2 sources agree within 4%. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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Estimated value · Near Mint
$4.67

What this price is based on

Low confidence

Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.

Median · PSA 10$48.001 sale
Trimmed mean$48.00outliers removed
Range$48.00$48.00lowest to highest sale
Sales rate0.2/mo1 recorded

Recent PSA 10 sales

From 1 completed sales recorded between May 25, 2026 and May 25, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted.

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NOT WORTH IT

Based on 1 graded sales and 4,409,561 pop-report entries for a near-mint copy.

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Choice Band is a Rare Secret Pokémon card from Burning Shadows (#162), illustrated by Eske Yoshinob. It's a Pokémon Tool Trainer card. Its current blended market value is $4.67 ungraded, with a PSA 10 worth around $48 — a gem-mint grading premium of roughly 10× the raw value. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 20 August 2026.

The receipts

Price history · Raw

1 Sept 202320 Aug 2026
Latest
$4.67
Period high
$5.45
Period low
$2.62
Change
1.5%
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Recent sold prices

No recent sold listings tracked.

Should you grade it?

$55

Expected return across every likely grade, after fees — the realistic average, not the best case. Only 28.6% of copies gem (PSA 10 best case $27); most land at PSA 9 or below.

Gem rate (est.)28.6%
Expected return$55
PSA 10 best case$27
VerdictNot worth it

The odds

Choice Band is a Secret / Rainbow in Burning Shadows — the pack's hit slot lands on Secret / Rainbow 2.5% of the time, split across 22 secret / rainbow cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 884 packs.

Secret / Rainbow2.5%22 cards
PSA 10 (gem mint)28.6%55 of 192
PSA 943.2%83 of 192
PSA graded so far192
Gem Mint 1055
Total graded192

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 gradeEst. valueGrading feeNet vs rawMultiple
PSA 10$48.00$70$2710.3×
PSA 9$10.99$70$642.4×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 192 PSA-graded copies:

Likely outcomeChanceValue
PSA 1028.6%$48.00
PSA 943.2%$11.00
PSA ≤828.1%$5.00

Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-06-28; 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 — every grade, with gem rates

Only 29% of 192 PSA-graded Choice Band copies are a gem-mint 10 (55 of 192) — the rest grade lower.

PSA192 gradedPSA 10 · 55 · 29% gem
1055
983
839
79
63
51
CGC225 gradedCGC 10 · 0 · 0% gem
955
8.5100
845

Real graded population from PSA, CGC & BGS — a lower gem rate means a Choice Band 10 is harder to pull.

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All grades & conditions

Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
Graded prices
Ungraded (raw)$4.64
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 551 sold$48$41$55
PSA 9pop 83$11$10$11
PSA 7pop 9$10$10$10
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). Other figures are blended marketplace estimates. Confidence reflects source backing and price spread — not PSA-official values.
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Raw price by condition
Holofoil · live market via TCGplayer
NMNear Mint$4.67
LPLightly Played$3.55
HPHeavily Played$2.35
DMGDamaged$2.01
7-day 2.7%
30-day 2.0%
90-dayflat
All-time high$5
All-time low$5
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz

Cross-market prices

4% spread
PriceCharting · cheapest$4
TCGplayer · dearest$5

Currently 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

Momentum · 30dFlat +2%
Cross-marketMarkets agree 4% gap

Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.

Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat

Attach a Pokémon Tool to 1 of your Pokémon that doesn't already have a Pokémon Tool attached to it.

The attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to do 30 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon-GX or Active Pokémon-EX (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn (before your attack).

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#162
RarityRare Secret
SupertypeTrainer
SubtypesPokémon Tool
Card IDsm3-162
SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Choice Band cards

There are 3 different Choice Band printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Burning Shadows #162 (Rare Secret).

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Choice Band (Burning Shadows #162) worth?

As of 20 August 2026, Choice Band from Burning Shadows is worth approximately $4.67 ungraded (near-mint), and around $48 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 Choice Band?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Choice Band from Burning Shadows is worth around $48 — roughly 10× the raw ungraded value of $4.67.

Should I grade my Choice Band?

A PSA 10 sells for about $48 versus $4.67 raw — roughly a 10× uplift. Grading is worth it when that premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10. See the "Should you grade it?" estimate above for net profit per grade.

Is Choice Band rare?

Choice Band is a Rare Secret card from Burning Shadows (card #162), illustrated by Eske Yoshinob. Its current blended market value is $4.67 ungraded.

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