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6 other Melmetal printings exist — is this your card? Fusion Strike 189/264 ↓
Melmetal — Fusion Strike #189

Rare HoloFusion Strike189/2642021Illustrated by Hasuno

Melmetal 189/264 · Fusion Strike price & value

Raw · near mint

$0.23

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 10$2086×
  • CGC 10$1043×
  • PSA 9$939×
Sales recorded
10
every grade, since 2024
Last 90 days
0 psa 10 · 1 all
0 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
Low
Only 0 sales in the last 90 days.
Latest sale
507d ago
psa 10 · any grade 35d ago
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No completed sales recorded yet. This is a marketplace asking price, which usually sits above what copies actually sell for. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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What's your copy worth?

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

    $0.23

    —

  • LP

    Lightly Played

    $0.19

    −17%

  • MP

    Moderately Played

    $0.07

    −70%

  • HP

    Heavily Played

    $0.07

    −70%

  • DM

    Damaged

    $0.06

    −74%

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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 2026-09-15T20:51:20.348Z.

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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

$16 – $24

PSA 10 — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

0.2/mo

every grade, whole record

Demand

—

too few recent sales to score

What each grade sold for

  • PSA 10$213 sales
  • CGC 8$33 sales
  • PSA 9$91 sale
  • PSA 8$151 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 9$31 sale
  • CGC 10$101 sale

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 10 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
2021 Pokémon Fusion Strike Melmetal 189/264 · PSA 8PSA 8eBayBestOffer2026-08-12164818930$7.50
2021 POKEMON SWORD & SHIELD FUSION STRIKE #189 MELMETAL-HOLO PSA 8PSA 8eBay2026-08-12—$15.00
2021 Pokémon Fusion Strike Melmetal 189/264 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayFixedPrice2025-06-1991121279$9.00
2021 Pokemon Sword and Shield Fusion Strike Holo Melmetal #189 PSA 9PSA 9eBay2025-06-18—$9.00
2021 Pokémon Fusion Strike Melmetal 189/264 · PSA 10PSA 10eBayFixedPrice2025-04-27102229518$20.99
2021 Pokémon Fusion Strike Melmetal 189/264 · PSA 10PSA 10eBayAuction2025-04-06102229518$16.00
2021 Fusion Strike English Holo Melmetal #189 CGC 10CGC 10eBay2025-01-26—$10.00
2021 Pokémon Fusion Strike Melmetal 189/264 · PSA 10PSA 10eBayBestOffer2025-01-2580148863$23.99

1–8 of 14 sales · 7 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 10pop 5modelled$2086× raw
  • CGC 10pop 6modelled$1043× raw
  • PSA 9pop 9modelled$939× raw
  • CGC 9.5pop 2modelled$626× raw
  • CGC 9pop 10modelled$313× raw
  • Ungraded$0

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

25%

5 of 20

PSA 9

45%

9 of 20

Total PSA graded

20

every grade, all time

  • PSA 20 graded
  • CGC 27 graded
  • BGS 6 graded
  • TAG 1 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

Melmetal is a Holo / V / ex in Fusion Strike— the pack’s hit slot lands on holo / v / ex 27.9% of the time, split across 40 of them in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 144 packs.

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Is Melmetal 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

$-60

after fees, all grades

Best case

$-51

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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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 10 graded sales and a population of 4,409,561 · fees as of 2026-09-15.

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More Melmetal and more from Fusion Strike

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 Fusion Strike #189/264, 2021. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

Holofoilpriced on this page
The illustration window

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

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.

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

161% apart
  • TCGplayer$0
  • PriceCharting$1

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.

About Melmetal

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

Melmetal is a Rare Holo Pokémon card from Fusion Strike (#189, released 2021), illustrated by Hasuno. It’s a Stage 1 Single Strike Metal-type Pokémon with 150 HP, evolving from Meltan, weak to Fire ×2. It’s listed among our holo rares.

#16 most valuable Melmetal of 20#114 most valuable in Fusion Strike of 284

Card text

Evolves from Meltan.

Ingot Swing80

Metal · Colorless · Colorless

During your opponent's next turn, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from Pokémon that have an Ability.

Blasting Hammer150

Metal · Metal · Colorless · Colorless

Discard an Energy from this Pokémon.

Weakness Fire ×2Resistance Grass -30Retreat 4

“Revered long ago for its capacity to create iron from nothing, for some reason it has come back to life after 3,000 years.”

The Pokémon

Hex Nut PokémonGEN VIIMythical

Revered long ago for its capacity to create iron from nothing, for some reason it has come back to life after 3,000 years.

Card details

Set
Fusion Strike
Number
#189
Rarity
Rare Holo
Released
2021
Pokémon
All Melmetal cards
Generation
Gen VII · Alola
Artist
Hasuno
Supertype
Pokémon
Subtypes
Stage 1, Single Strike
Type
Metal
HP
150
National Pokédex
#809
Card ID
swsh8-189
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Melmetal (Fusion Strike #189) worth?

As of 16 September 2026, Melmetal from Fusion Strike is worth approximately $0 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $20 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Melmetal?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Melmetal from Fusion Strike is worth around $20 — roughly 86× the raw ungraded value of $0.

Should I grade my Melmetal?

Probably not. Weighted across the grades this card actually earns, expected value after the $70 grading fee is about $-60 — grading it is likely to cost more than it adds.

How often does Melmetal sell?

CardTrack recorded 1 completed sales of Melmetal (Fusion Strike #189) across every grade in the last 90 days, 0 of them psa 10, the most recent on 2026-08-12. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Melmetal rare?

Melmetal is a Rare Holo card from Fusion Strike (card #189), released in 2021.