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6 other Rayquaza VMAX printings exist — is this your card? Evolving Skies 218/203 ↓
Rayquaza VMAX — Evolving Skies #218

Rare RainbowEvolving Skies218/2032021Illustrated by Anesaki Dynamic

Rayquaza VMAX “Rayquaza Alt Art” 218/203 · Evolving Skies price & value

Raw · near mint

$1,399

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • BGS 10$15,21911×
  • PSA 10$2,6001.9×
  • TAG 10$2,5971.9×
Sales recorded
295
every grade, since 2024
Last 90 days
15 raw · 214 all
93 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
High
15 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
6d ago
raw · any grade 3d ago
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Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 15 completed sales of this exact card, each adjusted for the condition it sold in. 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 — here is the same card at every condition it is realistically held in. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →

  • NMheadline

    Near Mint

    $1,399

    basis

  • LP

    Lightly Played

    $1,035

    −26%

  • MP

    Moderately Played

    $836

    −40%

  • HP

    Heavily Played

    $649

    −54%

  • DM

    Damaged

    $529

    −62%

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

$1,399▲ 453%over 5 years

2021-09-01 → 2026-09-20

$200
$500
$1,000
Sept 20212023202420252026Sept 20262021-09-01 · $2532021-10-01 · $2282021-11-01 · $1852021-12-01 · $1702022-01-01 · $1962022-02-01 · $2082022-03-01 · $2002022-04-01 · $2332022-05-01 · $2292022-06-01 · $1892022-07-01 · $1922022-08-01 · $2032022-09-01 · $2252022-10-01 · $2762022-11-01 · $2372022-12-01 · $2402023-01-01 · $2772023-02-01 · $2572023-03-01 · $2702023-04-01 · $2612023-05-01 · $2802023-06-01 · $2502023-07-01 · $2132023-08-01 · $2352023-09-01 · $2032023-10-01 · $2162023-11-01 · $2112023-12-01 · $2072024-01-01 · $2062024-02-01 · $2262024-03-01 · $2342024-04-01 · $2892024-05-01 · $4252024-06-01 · $4162024-07-01 · $3682024-08-01 · $3252024-09-01 · $3332024-10-01 · $3302024-11-01 · $3892024-12-01 · $4452025-01-01 · $5502025-02-01 · $5822025-03-01 · $6142025-04-01 · $5322025-05-01 · $5682025-06-01 · $5642025-07-01 · $5742025-08-01 · $6342025-09-01 · $6532025-10-01 · $6552025-11-01 · $6502025-12-01 · $6082026-01-01 · $6302026-02-01 · $5822026-03-01 · $6752026-04-01 · $7482026-05-01 · $1,0192026-07-01 · $9202026-07-14 · $1,1622026-07-22 · $1,1622026-07-23 · $1,2502026-07-24 · $1,2502026-07-25 · $1,2502026-07-26 · $1,2502026-07-27 · $1,2502026-07-28 · $1,2502026-07-29 · $1,2342026-07-30 · $1,2342026-07-31 · $1,2162026-08-01 · $1,2502026-08-02 · $1,2502026-08-03 · $1,2542026-08-04 · $1,2542026-08-05 · $1,2542026-08-06 · $1,2542026-08-07 · $1,2542026-08-08 · $1,2542026-08-09 · $1,2542026-08-10 · $1,2542026-08-11 · $1,2542026-08-12 · $1,2542026-08-13 · $1,2542026-08-14 · $1,2542026-08-15 · $1,2542026-08-16 · $1,2542026-08-17 · $1,2542026-08-18 · $1,2542026-08-19 · $1,2542026-08-20 · $1,2482026-08-21 · $1,2542026-08-22 · $1,2542026-08-23 · $1,2462026-08-25 · $1,2462026-08-26 · $1,2542026-08-27 · $1,2542026-08-29 · $1,2542026-08-30 · $1,2542026-08-31 · $1,2742026-09-01 · $1,3132026-09-02 · $1,3132026-09-03 · $1,3102026-09-04 · $1,3102026-09-05 · $1,3102026-09-06 · $1,3102026-09-07 · $1,3102026-09-08 · $1,3132026-09-09 · $1,3072026-09-10 · $1,3062026-09-11 · $1,3052026-09-12 · $1,2992026-09-13 · $1,2972026-09-14 · $1,2932026-09-15 · $1,2942026-09-16 · $1,2982026-09-17 · $1,2982026-09-18 · $1,3992026-09-19 · $1,3992026-09-20 · $1,399
Ratio (log) price axis — this series spans 8×, and a linear axis would flatten its first years into the floor. 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.
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Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-19T08:25:19.254Z.

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Cheapest raw copy $500 — 64% below our near-mint estimate of $1,399 · 1 copy whose seller declares wear left out of that comparison

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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

$611 – $1,250

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

44.3/mo

every grade, whole record

Momentum

+17%

Raw — 30d vs 90d median

Where it sells

100% eBay

Raw — last 90 days

Demand

80/100

Very liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz

What each grade sold for

  • PSA 10$2,575163 sales · 116 in 90d, sells often
  • PSA 9$1,20041 sales · 38 in 90d, sells often
  • CGC 10$1,40016 sales · 9 in 90d, sells regularly
  • Raw$93815 sales · 15 in 90d, sells regularly
  • BGS 10$3,72013 sales · 10 in 90d, sells regularly
  • CGC 9$8707 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
  • BGS 9.5$1,2256 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 8$8705 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional

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 295 sales for this card going back to 2024; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
FRI 18/09 Rayquaza Vmax 218/203 Secret Evolving Skies Pokemon PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-18—$2,271
POKEMON FA/RAYQUAZA VMAX 2021 SWORD & SHIELD EVOLVING SKIES #218 SECRET PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-16—$2,125
2021 Pokemon Evolving Skies #218 Rayquaza VMax CGC 9.5 GEM MINTCGC 9.5eBay2026-09-16—$1,225
2021 Pokemon SWSH Evolving Skies Rayquaza VMAX #218/203 PSA 10 GEM MINTPSA 10eBay2026-09-15—$2,125
2021 Pokemon SWSH Evolving Skies Rayquaza VMAX #218/203 PSA 10 GEM MINTPSA 10eBay2026-09-15—$2,025
Rayquaza VMAX 218/203 FA Evolving Skies Secret Pokemon 2021 EX-MT EnglishRaweBay2026-09-15—$1,100
2021 Pokemon SWSH Evolving Skies Rayquaza VMAX #218/203 PSA 10 GEM MINTPSA 10eBay2026-09-14—$2,175
2021 Pokemon Sword & Shield Evolving Skies Alt Art Rayquaza VMAX #218 PSA 10 GEMPSA 10Fanatics2026-09-14—$1,775

1–8 of 97 sales · 23 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.

  • BGS 102 sold$15,21911× raw
  • PSA 10pop 15,082$2,6001.9× raw
  • TAG 10modelled$2,5971.9× raw
  • ACE 102 sold$1,8391.3× raw
  • CGC 10pop 1,1706 sold$1,8301.3× raw
  • Ungraded$1,399
  • BGS 9.54 sold$1,350
  • CGC 9.5pop 844 sold$1,170
  • PSA 9pop 4,983$1,100
  • ACE 9modelled$916
  • BGS 9modelled$907
  • CGC 9pop 5875 sold$900
  • PSA 8pop 1,256modelled$880
  • TAG 9modelled$707
  • SGC 9.5modelled$657
  • BGS 8.5modelled$599
  • CGC 8.5pop 160modelled$557
  • PSA 7pop 348modelled$516
  • SGC 8.5modelled$500
  • CGC 7.5pop 31modelled$490
  • CGC 6.5pop 14modelled$480
  • BGS 6.5modelled$400
  • PSA 5pop 132modelled$250
  • PSA 3pop 30modelled$189
  • SGC 6modelled$182

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.

How many exist, and at what grade

PSA's cumulative census for this card — the same population behind the ladder above and the grading verdict below.

PSA 10 · gem mint

68%

15,082 of 22,172

PSA 9

22.5%

4,983 of 22,172

Total PSA graded

22,172

every grade, all time

  • PSA 22,172 graded
  • CGC 2,174 graded

The census is cumulative and counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the gem rate a first submission should expect. Treat it as the ceiling.

The odds of pulling one

Rayquaza VMAX is a Secret / Rainbow in Evolving Skies— the pack’s hit slot lands on secret / rainbow 2.5% of the time, split across 34 of them in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 1,367 packs.

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Is Rayquaza VMAX worth grading?

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

Verdict

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$388

after fees, all grades

Best case

$806

PSA 10 only

Grading cost

$305

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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These are set to a flawless copy — the answer above. Change any of them to re-price it for the card in your hand.

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Trader

Compare graders, and the live market

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 272 graded sales and a population of 4,430,881 · fees as of 2026-09-19.

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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 Evolving Skies #218/203, 2021. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

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The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.

Market data

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

🇪🇺 Europe price · eBay sold

8% cheaper than the US

$864

Median of 7 raw sales, last 90 days (7 UK)

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Across the markets

34% apart
  • Our raw sold median$938
  • PriceCharting$1,100
  • TCGplayer$1,255

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

$170 – $1,399

Today’s price sits 100% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

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About Rayquaza VMAX

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

Rayquaza VMAX (“Rayquaza Alt Art”) is a Rare Rainbow Pokémon card from Evolving Skies (#218, released 2021), illustrated by Anesaki Dynamic. It’s a VMAX Rapid Strike Dragon-type Pokémon with 320 HP, evolving from Rayquaza V. It’s listed among our rainbow rares and VMAX cards.

#2 most valuable Rayquaza of 62#2 most valuable in Evolving Skies of 237

Card text

Evolves from Rayquaza V.

Azure PulseAbility

Once during your turn, you may discard your hand and draw 3 cards.

Max Burst20+

Fire · Lightning

You may discard any amount of basic Fire Energy or any amount of basic Lightning Energy from this Pokémon. This attack does 80 more damage for each card you discarded in this way.

Retreat 2

VMAX rule: When your Pokémon VMAX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.

The Pokémon

Sky High PokémonGEN IIILegendary

RAYQUAZA lived for hundreds of millions of years in the earth’s ozone layer, never descending to the ground. This POKéMON appears to feed on water and particles in the atmosphere.

Card details

Set
Evolving Skies
Number
#218
Rarity
Rare Rainbow
Released
2021
Pokémon
All Rayquaza cards
Generation
Gen III · Hoenn
Artist
Anesaki Dynamic
Supertype
Pokémon
Subtypes
VMAX, Rapid Strike
Type
Dragon
HP
320
National Pokédex
#384
Card ID
swsh7-218
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Rayquaza VMAX (Evolving Skies #218) worth?

As of 20 September 2026, Rayquaza VMAX from Evolving Skies is worth approximately $1,399 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $2,600 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Rayquaza VMAX?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Rayquaza VMAX from Evolving Skies is worth around $2,600 — roughly 2× the raw ungraded value of $1,399.

Should I grade my Rayquaza VMAX?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card actually earns it, the expected value after the $305 grading fee is about $388 — and a PSA 10 would net roughly $806. That assumes a copy clean enough to have a real shot at a high grade.

How often does Rayquaza VMAX sell?

CardTrack recorded 214 completed sales of Rayquaza VMAX (Evolving Skies #218) across every grade in the last 90 days, 15 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-18. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Rayquaza VMAX rare?

Rayquaza VMAX is a Rare Rainbow card from Evolving Skies (card #218), released in 2021.