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2 other Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing printings exist — is this your card? Darkness Ablaze 188/189 ↓
Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing — Darkness Ablaze #188

Rare UltraDarkness Ablaze188/1892020Illustrated by kirisAki

Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing 188/189 · Darkness Ablaze price & value

Raw · near mint

$2.88

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 10$3412×
  • BGS 10$2910×
  • SGC 10$258.7×
Sales recorded
16
every grade, since 2026
Last 90 days
1 raw · 9 all
2 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
Low
Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.
Latest sale
36d ago
raw · any grade 1d ago

Bulk card. At this price most of what a buyer pays is postage, so treat it as a rough band rather than a valuation. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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The headline above is Near Mint. Most copies that actually change hands are not — pick the holder and condition you actually have. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →

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And here is what an ungraded copy has actually done. The line ends on the Near Mint price above — the same number, not a second one.

Raw · latest

$3▼ 39%over 6 years

2021-01-01 → 2026-09-22

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Our recorded ungraded price for this card. The line closes on the Near Mint figure shown above — the chart and the headline are the same number by construction, never two.

Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-13T07:44:22.092Z.

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Cheapest raw copy $3 — 13% below our near-mint estimate of $3

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What the sales actually show

The counts are in the hero; this is how the card trades — the range, the pace, where, and what each grade has actually fetched. Figures that name a grade cover that grade alone; the rest count every grade.

Range

$4 – $6

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

2.7/mo

every grade, whole record

Demand

43/100

Moderate — sales rate, trend & buzz

What each grade sold for

  • PSA 10$378 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
  • PSA 9$103 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • Raw$52 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 10$92 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 8$251 sale · 1 in 90d, rare

Medians of completed sales at that grade — not the ladder above, which prices every grade including the ones that have never traded here. Where the two differ, this one is what changed hands and the ladder is what it is worth.

Every sale we can show you

Completed sales from our own sold ledger, PSA’s certified-sale feed and the eBay comps, in one list, newest first — Fanatics, Goldin and eBay between them. Filter by grade: a raw copy and a graded slab are different objects, and averaging them is how a raw market comes to look wild. We hold 16 sales for this card going back to 2026; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze Full Art Pokemon Breeder's NurturingCGC 10Fanatics2026-09-21—$8.00
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze Full Art Pokemon Breeder's NurturingCGC 10Fanatics2026-09-21—$9.00
Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing Ultra Rare Darkness Ablaze 188/189 NM (SKU 1-2)RaweBay2026-08-17—$5.99
Pokemon Breeder's Nurturing (Full Art) - 188/189 Darkness Ablaze NM - PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-08-12—$39.99
POKEMON BREEDER'S NURTURING 188/189 DARKNESS ABLAZE POKEMON PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-08-05—$20.00
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze Full Art Pokemon Breeder's NurturingPSA 8Fanatics2026-07-24—$25.00
PSA 10 Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing #188 Darkness Ablaze 188/189 Full Art 2020PSA 10eBay2026-07-23—$32.00
2020 Pokemon Sword & Shield Darkness Ablaze #188 Pokemon Breeder PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-07-03—$39.99

1–8 of 15 sales · 0 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

Every grade, priced

Each row is a blended value for that slab, from real completed sales where we have them.

  • PSA 10$3412× raw
  • BGS 10modelled$2910× raw
  • SGC 10modelled$258.7× raw
  • CGC 10pop 249modelled$186.2× raw
  • TAG 10modelled$186.2× raw
  • PSA 9$113.7× raw
  • CGC 9.5pop 14modelled$93.1× raw
  • PSA 8modelled$93.1× raw
  • CGC 9pop 199modelled$51.6× raw
  • Ungraded$3

A badge says what is behind the number. cert-verified means PSA sales each tied to a specific slab you can check by serial; sold means completed eBay or Fanatics listings; modelled means no verified graded sale exists and the figure is derived from the raw price and reference guides — a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. reviewed was set by hand after reading the sales record.

Is Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — not the PSA 10 outcome alone.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-48

after fees, all grades

Best case

$-39

PSA 10 only

Grading cost

$70

tier fee + shipping

Best case is the PSA 10 outcome and the number to trust least — it assumes the gem rate the census above shows, which the census itself overstates. Expected net is the honest one.

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The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population, the ROI table and the ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.

Trader plan and above →
  • PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market 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.

Built on 14 graded sales and a population of 4,410,495 · fees as of 2026-09-21.

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Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

Make sure you have the right card

Every price on this page is for Darkness Ablaze #188/189, 2020. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

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Market data

Where else this card trades, where the markets disagree, and what the price series says about the last 90 days.

Across the markets

78% apart
  • TCGplayer$3
  • PriceCharting$3
  • Our raw sold median$5

Vendor prices for the same printing beside our own raw sold median — the same figure as the Raw row in the by-grade table. A wide gap is usually thin data on one side rather than an arbitrage; the headline is blended from sales, not from the cheapest of these.

What the series says

Volatility

volatile

90-day band

$2 – $5

Today’s price sits 27% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

About Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing

Which card this is — then the attacks and stats as printed, and the species behind them.

Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing is a Rare Ultra Pokémon card from Darkness Ablaze (#188, released 2020), illustrated by kirisAki. It’s a Supporter Trainer card. It’s listed among our full-art cards.

#23 most valuable in Darkness Ablaze of 201

Card text

Choose up to 2 of your Pokémon in play. For each of those Pokémon, search your deck for a card that evolves from that Pokémon and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck. You can't use this card during your first turn or on a Pokémon that was put into play this turn.

You may play only 1 Supporter card during your turn.

Card details

Set
Darkness Ablaze
Number
#188
Rarity
Rare Ultra
Released
2020
Artist
kirisAki
Supertype
Trainer
Subtypes
Supporter
Card ID
swsh3-188
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing (Darkness Ablaze #188) worth?

As of 22 September 2026, Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing from Darkness Ablaze is worth approximately $3 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $34 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing from Darkness Ablaze is worth around $34 — roughly 12× the raw ungraded value of $3.

Should I grade my Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing?

Probably not. Weighted across the grades this card actually earns, expected value after the $70 grading fee is about $-48 — grading it is likely to cost more than it adds.

How often does Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing sell?

CardTrack recorded 9 completed sales of Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing (Darkness Ablaze #188) across every grade in the last 90 days, 1 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-21. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing rare?

Pokémon Breeder's Nurturing is a Rare Ultra card from Darkness Ablaze (card #188), released in 2020.