Malamar51/131 · Forbidden Light Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
- PSA 9$12modelled · pop 3
- PSA 10$100modelled · pop 4
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Forbidden Light #51/131, 2018. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.
No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.
What's your copy worth?
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Malamar is a Rare Pokémon card from Forbidden Light (#51, released 2018), illustrated by You Iribi. It's a Stage 1 Psychic-type Pokémon with 90 HP, evolving from Inkay, weak to Psychic ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 7 September 2026.
Malamar price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence3 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
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.
By grade
- Raw$1.593 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 9$12.001 sale
- PSA 10$1001 sale
- Lot$10.801 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
Is Malamar worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 8 — worth $1 against the $71 you put in, a $70 loss. The money is in the 1 in 4 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $12–$100. Averaged over every outcome that is −$64 a card.
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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
Malamar is a Rare in Forbidden Light — the pack's hit slot lands on Rare 59.7% of the time, split across 27 rare cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 45 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 | $100.00 | $71 | +$28 | 140.8× |
| PSA 9 | $12.00 | $70 | −$59 | 16.9× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 28 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 3.6% | $100.00 |
| PSA 9 | 25% | $12.00 |
| PSA 8 — typical | 25% | $0.71 |
| PSA 7 | 3.6% | $0.71 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 42.9% | $0.71 |
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
4 of the 8 PSA-graded Malamar copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 50%. 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 8.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 28.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Malamar 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 4 | modelled$100$100–$100 | |
| PSA 9pop 3 | modelled$12$12–$12 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
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
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Inkay.
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Psychic Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
“It lures prey close with hypnotic motions, then wraps its tentacles around it before finishing it off with digestive fluids.”
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Malamar cards
There are 16 different Malamar printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Forbidden Light #51 (Rare). The most valuable 7 are below.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Malamar (Forbidden Light #51) worth?
As of 7 September 2026, Malamar from Forbidden Light is worth approximately $0.71 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 Malamar?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Malamar from Forbidden Light is worth around $100 — roughly 141× the raw ungraded value of $0.71.
Should I grade my Malamar?
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 Malamar rare?
Malamar is a Rare card from Forbidden Light (card #51).
How do I know if my Malamar is Reverse Holo?
The card body, not the picture: Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.
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