Blastoise & Piplup-GX38/236 · Cosmic Eclipse Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $108
- PSA 8$666 sold · 90d · pop 1,026
- PSA 9$10730 sold · 90d · pop 2,462
- PSA 10$71034 sold · 90d · pop 1,741
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Cosmic Eclipse #38/236, 2019. 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 $110 or more. That's about +31% 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 (52 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.
Blastoise & Piplup-GX is a Rare Holo GX Pokémon card from Cosmic Eclipse (#38, released 2019), illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. It's a Basic TAG TEAM GX Water-type Pokémon with 270 HP, weak to Grass ×2. It's listed among our Tag Team GX cards and GX cards, from the Sun & Moon (2019) era. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 12 September 2026.
Blastoise & Piplup-GX price history & recent sales
Graded a PSA 10? See its cert-verified sales and price history → — individual sales PSA tied to a specific slab, each with a cert number you can check.
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence176 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
Sale mix: 4 auctions, 5 accepted offers, 1 fixed-price. A graded copy trades roughly every day (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$65.00193 sales · 176 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 10$77153 sales · 34 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 9$12137 sales · 30 in 90d, sells often
- CGC 9$69.6011 sales · 6 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 8$76.948 sales · 6 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 10$2507 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 7$54.693 sales
- TAG 9$1152 sales
Is Blastoise & Piplup-GX worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $107 against the $166 you put in, a $59 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $107–$771. Averaged over every outcome that is +$131 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
Blastoise & Piplup-GX is a Holo / V / ex in Cosmic Eclipse — the pack's hit slot lands on Holo / V / ex 27.9% of the time, split across 38 holo / v / ex cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 136 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 | $710.00 | $107 | +$519 | 8.5× |
| PSA 9 | $107.00 | $71 | −$48 | 1.3× |
| PSA 8 | $66.00 | $71 | −$89 | 0.8× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 5,438 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 30.4% | $770.58 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 42.7% | $107.00 |
| PSA 8 | 18% | $66.00 |
| PSA 7 | 4.4% | $60.00 |
| PSA 6 | 2.8% | $60.00 |
| PSA 5 | 0.7% | $60.00 |
| PSA 4 | 0.5% | $27.00 |
| PSA 3 | 0.1% | $27.00 |
| PSA 2 | 0.1% | $27.00 |
| PSA 1 | 0.1% | $27.00 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.2% | $83.97 |
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
1,741 of the 5,739 PSA-graded Blastoise & Piplup-GX copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 30%. 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 5,739.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 813.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 150.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Blastoise & Piplup-GX 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
The Pokemon Company Blastoise & Piplup GX 38/236 Cosmic Eclipse Holo ENRaw · eBay$24.99
The Pokémon Company Blastoise & Piplup GX 38/236 Cosmic Eclipse Holo UR ENRaw · eBay$35.00
Pokemon TCG Blastoise & Piplup GX Tag Team Sun Moon: Cosmic Eclipse Card 38/236Raw · eBay$39.99Blastoise & Piplup GX Tag Team Holo GX Rare 38/236 Cosmic Eclipse MPRaw · eBay$40.00
Blastoise & Piplup GX - 38/236 - Cosmic Eclipse - DMGRaw · eBay$42.64
Pokemon Blastoise & Piplup GX TAG TEAM 38/236 Cosmic Eclipse Holo UR 270 HPRaw · eBay$50.00Cheapest raw copy $24.99 — 70% below our near-mint estimate of $84
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 1,741 | ✓ 275 cert-verified$710$680–$920 | |
| PSA 9pop 2,462 | ✓ 280 cert-verified$107$107–$152 | |
| PSA 8pop 1,026 | ✓ 89 cert-verified$66$60–$98 | |
| PSA 7pop 258 | $60$51–$69 | |
| PSA 4pop 28 | modelled$27$27–$27 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $82.70. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $86.30 (+4%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $108.
From 14 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
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Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
You may attach up to 3 Water Energy cards from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like. If you do, heal 50 damage from those Pokémon for each card you attached to them in this way.
Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed. If this Pokémon has at least 3 extra Water Energy attached to it (in addition to this attack's cost), this attack does 150 more damage. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)
TAG TEAM rule: When your TAG TEAM is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.
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Other Blastoise & Piplup-GX cards
There are 4 different Blastoise & Piplup-GX printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Cosmic Eclipse #38 (Rare Holo GX).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Blastoise & Piplup-GX (Cosmic Eclipse #38) worth?
As of 12 September 2026, Blastoise & Piplup-GX from Cosmic Eclipse is worth approximately $83.97 ungraded (near-mint), and around $710 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 Blastoise & Piplup-GX?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Blastoise & Piplup-GX from Cosmic Eclipse is worth around $710 — roughly 8× the raw ungraded value of $83.97.
Should I grade my Blastoise & Piplup-GX?
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 Blastoise & Piplup-GX rare?
Blastoise & Piplup-GX is a Rare Holo GX card from Cosmic Eclipse (card #38).
How do I know if my Blastoise & Piplup-GX 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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