Surfing Pikachu V8/25 · Celebrations Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Typical copy sold $6 42 sales, all conditionsPack fresh $15est.
- PSA 8$1713 sold · 90d · pop 634
- PSA 9$2712 sold · 90d · pop 3,281
- PSA 10$18027 sold · 90d · pop 3,067
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. $12.57. That's about +173% 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 (21 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.
What this price is based on
High confidence42 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Recent Raw sales
- Sep 2, 2026eBay — Surfing Pikachu V 8/25 Celebrations NM Pokemon TCGNM$6.99
- Sep 1, 2026eBay — Surfing Pikachu V, Pokémon Near Mint, Celebrations, Ultra Rare, 8/25NM$5.00
- Aug 31, 2026eBay — Pokémon Surfing Pikachu V Ultra Rare Full Art Holo 008/025 Celebrations TCG$13.50
- Aug 31, 2026eBay — Surfing Pikachu V Celebrations #8 Holo Pokemon TCG MPMP$4.99
- Aug 30, 2026eBay — Surfing Pikachu V Pokemon Celebrations 008 PSA {{cardGame}}$30.00
- Aug 30, 2026eBay — Surfing Pikachu V Pokemon Celebrations 008 PSA {{cardGame}}$30.00
- Aug 29, 2026eBay — Surfing Pikachu V 8/25 Black Star Promo - Pokemon SWSH Celebrations 25th - NMNM$5.49
- Aug 29, 2026eBay — Surfing Pikachu V 8/25 Black Star Promo - Pokemon SWSH Celebrations 25th - NMNM$5.49
By grade
- CGC 10$35.50102 sales
- Raw$5.5043 sales
- PSA 10$14441 sales
- CGC 9$14.4038 sales
- PSA 9$28.0025 sales
- CGC 8.5$12.0019 sales
- CGC 9.5$13.2018 sales
- PSA 8$21.9514 sales
From 331 completed sales recorded between Apr 26, 2025 and Sep 3, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. The range is wide because these sales span different printings and conditions — 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited copies all carry this card's name, and they trade at very different levels. Each sale above is labelled with what its listing claimed, so you can see which ones describe the same object. Treat the median as the typical copy, not the range.
Grade it or not
GRADE ITBased on 286 graded sales and 4,416,121 pop-report entries for a near-mint copy.
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✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Surfing Pikachu V is a Rare Holo V Pokémon card from Celebrations (#8, released 2021), illustrated by aky CG Works. It's a Basic V Lightning-type Pokémon with 200 HP, weak to Fighting ×2. Its current blended market value is $4.61 ungraded, with a PSA 10 worth around $180 — a gem-mint grading premium of roughly 39× the raw value. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 5 September 2026.
Surfing Pikachu V price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history214 in 90 days✓ real completed listings
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.
Demand & liquidity
Last sold $17 · CGC 9.6 · 3 Sep 2026
How often each grade sells · last 90 days, all marketplaces
Is Surfing Pikachu V worth grading?
Expected return across every likely grade, after fees — the realistic average, not the best case. Only 43.4% of copies gem (PSA 10 best case +$104); most land at PSA 9 or below.
The odds
Surfing Pikachu V is a Holo / V / ex in Celebrations — the pack's hit slot lands on Holo / V / ex 28.6% of the time, split across 12 holo / v / ex cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 42 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 | $180.00 | $72 | +$104 | 39.0× |
| PSA 9 | $27.00 | $70 | −$48 | 5.9× |
| PSA 8 | $17.00 | $70 | −$58 | 3.7× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 6,581 PSA-graded copies:
| Likely outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 43.4% | $180.00 |
| PSA 9 | 45% | $27.00 |
| PSA ≤8 | 11.7% | $16.00 |
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 & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
Only 43% of 7,181 PSA-graded Surfing Pikachu V copies are a gem-mint 10 (3,067 of 7,181) — the rest grade lower.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Surfing Pikachu V 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Surfing Pikachu V 008/025 Celebrations 25th Anniversary Ultra Rare Pokemon NMRaw · eBay$3.59
Pokémon TCG Surfing Pikachu V Celebrations 8/25 NMRaw · eBay$4.00
Surfing Pikachu V Celebrations #8 Holo Pokemon TCG MPRaw · eBay$4.99
Surfing Pikachu V 8/025 Celebrations Holo Rare V NMRaw · eBay$5.09
Surfing Pikachu V 8/25 Pokemon TCG: Celebrations NMRaw · eBay$5.50
2021 Pokemon Celebrations SURFING PIKACHU V 8 double rareRaw · eBay$5.99Cheapest raw copy $3.59 — 22% below our estimate of $5
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 3,06727 · 90d | ✓ 641 cert-verified$180$180–$345 | |
| PSA 9pop 3,28112 · 90d | ✓ 549 cert-verified$27$26–$35 | |
| PSA 8pop 63413 · 90d | ✓ 93 cert-verified$17$17–$29 | |
| PSA 7pop 99 | ✓ 14 cert-verified$14 | |
| PSA 6pop 61 | modelled$12$11–$13 | |
| PSA 5pop 18 | modelled$10$10–$10 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $5.55. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $12.50 (+125%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $15.13.
From 15 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 1 slab of this card sells for about $55 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
Cross-market prices
13% spreadCurrently 13% 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.
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Surfing Pikachu V (Celebrations #8) worth?
As of 5 September 2026, Surfing Pikachu V from Celebrations is worth approximately $4.61 ungraded (near-mint), and around $180 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 Surfing Pikachu V?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Surfing Pikachu V from Celebrations is worth around $180 — roughly 39× the raw ungraded value of $4.61.
Should I grade my Surfing Pikachu V?
A PSA 10 sells for about $180 versus $4.61 raw — roughly a 39× 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 Surfing Pikachu V rare?
Surfing Pikachu V is a Rare Holo V card from Celebrations (card #8), illustrated by aky CG Works. Its current blended market value is $4.61 ungraded.
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