Gyarados VMAX29/203 · Evolving Skies Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $18
- PSA 8$17pop 92
- PSA 9$312 sold · 90d · pop 524
- PSA 10$1009 sold · 90d · pop 1,284
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Evolving Skies #29/203, 2021. 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 $18.21 or more. That's about +83% 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 (111 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.
Gyarados VMAX is a Rare Holo VMAX Pokémon card from Evolving Skies (#29, released 2021), illustrated by Shin Nagasawa. It's a VMAX Water-type Pokémon with 330 HP, evolving from Gyarados V, weak to Lightning ×2. It's listed among our VMAX cards, from the Sword & Shield (2020–2022) era. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 11 September 2026.
Gyarados VMAX price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence98 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
Sale mix: 1 auction, 6 accepted offers, 3 fixed-price. A graded copy trades roughly every day (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$8.75164 sales · 98 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 10$99.9513 sales · 9 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 10$34.8013 sales · 8 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9$12.003 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 9$40.002 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- CGC 8.5$20.502 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- TAG 10$6001 sale
- CGC 9.5$12.001 sale
Is Gyarados VMAX worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 10 — worth $100 against the $81 you put in. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $31–$100. Averaged over every outcome that is −$6 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
Gyarados VMAX is a Holo / V / ex in Evolving Skies — the pack's hit slot lands on Holo / V / ex 27.9% of the time, split across 53 holo / v / ex cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 190 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 | $99.99 | $71 | +$19 | 10.1× |
| PSA 9 | $30.50 | $70 | −$50 | 3.1× |
| PSA 8 | $17.00 | $70 | −$63 | 1.7× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 1,848 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 — typical | 65.5% | $99.95 |
| PSA 9 | 26% | $30.50 |
| PSA 8 | 4.8% | $17.00 |
| PSA 7 | 1.9% | $14.95 |
| PSA 6 | 0.9% | $14.95 |
| PSA 5 | 0.7% | $13.00 |
| PSA 4 | 0.1% | $9.94 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.2% | $9.94 |
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
1,284 of the 1,969 PSA-graded Gyarados VMAX copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 65%. 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 1,969.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 1,034.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Gyarados VMAX 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
2021 Pokemon Evolving Skies #029/203 Gyarados VMAX Ultra Rare HoloRaw · eBay$8.00
Gyarados Vmax 029/203 from evolving skiesRaw · eBay$8.00
Gyarados VMAX 029/203 Evolving Skies Pokemon Holo LPRaw · eBay$8.41
Gyarados VMAX 029/203 SWSH07: Evolving Skies HoloRaw · eBay$8.89
NM Pokémon TCG Gyarados VMAX 029/203 Evolving Skies UR Holo Eng HP 330Raw · eBay$9.35
Gyarados VMAX 029/203 Holo SWSH07: Evolving Skies LP Pokémon TCGRaw · eBay$9.39Cheapest raw copy $8.00 — 20% below our near-mint estimate of $10
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 1,284 | $100$85–$115 | |
| PSA 9pop 524 | $31$26–$35 | |
| PSA 8pop 92 | ✓ 7 cert-verified$17$5–$28 | |
| PSA 7pop 35 | modelled$15$8–$15 | |
| PSA 6pop 17 | modelled$15$8–$15 | |
| PSA 5pop 14 | modelled$13$13–$13 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $9.99. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $13.00 (+30%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $18.30.
From 55 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 $20 (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
15% spreadCurrently 15% 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.
🔥 Trending in the community
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Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Gyarados V.
Discard an Energy from your opponent's Active Pokémon.
VMAX rule: When your Pokémon VMAX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Gyarados VMAX cards
There are 2 different Gyarados VMAX printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Evolving Skies #29 (Rare Holo VMAX).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Gyarados VMAX (Evolving Skies #29) worth?
As of 11 September 2026, Gyarados VMAX from Evolving Skies is worth approximately $9.94 ungraded (near-mint), and around $100 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 Gyarados VMAX?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Gyarados VMAX from Evolving Skies is worth around $100 — roughly 10× the raw ungraded value of $9.94.
Should I grade my Gyarados VMAX?
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 Gyarados VMAX rare?
Gyarados VMAX is a Rare Holo VMAX card from Evolving Skies (card #29).
How do I know if my Gyarados VMAX 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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