Espeon48/108 · Dark Explorers Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
Typical copy sold $7 40 sales, all conditionsPack fresh $13est.
- PSA 8$291 sold · 90d · modelled · pop 16
- PSA 9$72pop 13
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. $17.39. That's about +90% 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 (37 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 confidence40 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Recent Raw sales
- Sep 5, 2026eBay — Espeon 48/108 Dark Explorers Regular Pokémon, LPLP$6.00
- Sep 3, 2026eBay — Pokémon TCG Espeon Dark Explorers 48/108 Regular Rare$7.42
- Sep 2, 2026eBay — Damaged, English Pokemon Regular Espeon - 48/108 - Rare BW - Dark ExplorersDM$4.47
- Sep 2, 2026eBay — POKEMON ESPEON 48/108 REGULAR FINISH RARE DARK EXPLORERS LPLP$5.50
- Aug 31, 2026eBay — POKEMON ESPEON 48/108 REGULAR FINISH RARE DARK EXPLORERS LPLP$9.99
- Aug 16, 2026eBay — Espeon 48/108 Dark Explorers Rare Pokemon Card 2012 NM 48/108NM$7.00
- Aug 11, 2026eBay — Pokemon Dark Explorers Espeon Rare 48/108 CGC Guinness World Record - 1 of 1$250
- Aug 6, 2026eBay — Pokemon TCG Espeon Dark Explorers 48/108 Regular Rare English 2012 90HP$7.00
By grade
- Raw$6.9957 sales
- PSA 8$22.252 sales
- CGC 9$1382 sales
- CGC 10$1,1102 sales
- PSA 10$4,0471 sale
- CGC 0.5$68.001 sale
From 66 completed sales recorded between Jan 2, 2026 and Sep 5, 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
Not enough graded evidence yet — 8 graded sales recorded.
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Espeon is a Rare Pokémon card from Dark Explorers (#48, released 2012), illustrated by Mizue. It's a Stage 1 Psychic-type Pokémon with 90 HP, evolving from Eevee, weak to Psychic ×2. Its current blended market value is $9.15 ungraded. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 6 September 2026.
Espeon price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history53 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 $6 · Raw · 5 Sep 2026
How often each grade sells · last 90 days, all marketplaces
Is Espeon worth grading?
Raw $9.15 → graded PSA 9 ≈ $72.03, after ~$70.71 grading fee → 7.9× the raw value.
The odds
Espeon is a Rare in Dark Explorers — the pack's hit slot lands on Rare 59.7% of the time, split across 19 rare cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 32 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 9 | $72.03 | $71 | −$8 | 7.9× |
| PSA 8 | $29.00 | $70 | −$50 | 3.2× |
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. Real outcome depends on the grade achieved; PSA 10 is best-case.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
Only 7% of 45 PSA-graded Espeon copies are a gem-mint 10 (3 of 45) — the rest grade lower.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Espeon 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Espeon 48/108 Dark Explorers RegularRaw · eBay$3.49
Espeon 48/108 Dark Explorers RegularRaw · eBay$5.65
Espeon Rare Dark Explorers 48/108 LPRaw · eBay$6.64
Espeon Rare 48/108 MPRaw · eBay$6.99
Pokémon Espeon 48/108 Dark Explorers Regular English Non-Holo (LP)Raw · eBay$7.00
Pokémon TCG Espeon Dark Explorers 48/108 Regular Rare Raw · eBay$7.42Cheapest raw copy $3.49 — 62% below our estimate of $9
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 9pop 13 | 3 sold$72$61–$83 | |
| PSA 8pop 161 · 90d | modelled$29$29–$29 | |
| PSA 7pop 8 | 3 sold$28$24–$32 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $7.10. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $9.99 (+41%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $13.49.
From 13 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 $14 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.
Price by printingBase vs reverse holo vs 1st edition — priced separately
Price by variant
TCGplayer market price per printing — reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
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Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Eevee.
Prevent all effects of your opponent's attacks, except damage, done to each of your Pokémon that has any Energy attached to it.
Your opponent reveals his or her hand.
“Its fur is so sensitive, it can sense minute shifts in the air and predict the weather.”
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Espeon cards
There are 9 different Espeon printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Dark Explorers #48 (Rare).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Espeon (Dark Explorers #48) worth?
As of 6 September 2026, Espeon from Dark Explorers is worth approximately $9.15 ungraded (near-mint). Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
Is Espeon rare?
Espeon is a Rare card from Dark Explorers (card #48), illustrated by Mizue. Its current blended market value is $9.15 ungraded.
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