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Check your printing22 different Combusken printings exist — is this your card? Great Encounters #35
Combusken Great Encounters #35 Pokémon card
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Uncommon

Combusken35/106 · Great Encounters Price & Value

2008 · Illustrated by Naoyo Kimura
80 HPFirePokémonStage 1

Market value · Near Mint · Normal

$1.01
LiquiditySells regularly
Confidence48 · low14 raw sales in 90 days, prices spread across conditions, last sale 2 month ago.
Sales · 90 days14
Range$1$2
Bulk card. At this price most of what a buyer pays is postage, so treat it as a rough band rather than a valuation. eBay + TCGplayer. Updated 12 September 2026. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

Make sure you have the right card

Every price on this page is for Great Encounters #35/106, 2008. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

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.

Normalpriced on this page
The whole card

No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.

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Combusken is a Uncommon Pokémon card from Great Encounters (#35, released 2008), illustrated by Naoyo Kimura. It's a Stage 1 Fire-type Pokémon with 80 HP, evolving from Torchic, weak to Water +20. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 12 September 2026.

3.8%
Played in 3.8% of competitive decks — 145 of 3,835 decklists across the last 44 Standard tournaments.

Combusken price history & recent sales

Price history · Raw

15 Jun 202612 Sept 2026
Latest
$1.01
Period high
$1.01
Period low
$0.94
Change
7.4% · 90d
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Verified sales history

Medium confidence

14 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely.

Range$0.50$7.75Rawlowest to highest sale
Sales0 / 14last 30d / 90d, every grade
Sales rate3.2/mo20 recorded, every grade
Latest sale50d agoRaw14 in 90 days
Where it sells100% eBayRawlast 90 days
Demandtoo few recent sales to score
Reverse Holo$2.591 sale, priced separately
Last sold
$2
Raw · 25 Jul 2026
Typical Raw
$2
Sales · last 90 days
14
How often it sells
No sales in the last 30 days
every 2 days · 0 in last 30 days
Worn-condition sales — shown for context, not price-forming
These listings claimed play wear in the title (LP/MP/played/damaged), so they sell below the Near Mint price above and are excluded from it.

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.

Recent Raw sales

From 20 completed sales recorded between Nov 2, 2024 and Jul 25, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. The median above is computed over the 18 sales of the printing this page lists; reverse holo copies are real sales of a different card and are shown separately rather than mixed in. The range is wide because these sales span different printings and conditions — 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited copies all carry this card's name, and they trade at very different levels. Each sale above is labelled with what its listing claimed, so you can see which ones describe the same object. Treat the median as the typical copy, not the range.

By grade

  • Raw$1.9919 sales · 14 in 90d, sells regularly
  • CGC 10$5.001 sale

Is Combusken worth grading?

Not worth grading

Most copies come back PSA 9worth $34 against the $71 you put in, a $37 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $34$84. Averaged over every outcome that is $26 a card.

You put in$71card + fees
Most likelyPSA 9$34 ($37)
Break even atPSA 10or better
Best case1 in 3PSA 10 · $84
Average per card$26across every grade

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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.

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.
Trader plan and above

The odds

Combusken is a Uncommoncard — a guaranteed slot in every pack, not a rarity gamble, so there's no pull-odds figure for it.

PSA 10 (gem mint)25%1 of 4
PSA 925%1 of 4
PSA graded so far4
Gem Mint 101
Total graded4

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 gradeEst. valueGrading feeNet vs rawMultiple
PSA 10$84.00$71+$1283.2×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 32 PSA-graded copies:

OutcomeChanceValue
PSA 1034.4%$84.00
PSA 9typical40.6%$34.00
PSA 818.8%$14.99 †
PSA 63.1%$1.01
PSA 43.1%$1.01

Priced from PriceCharting's graded ladder — we hold no completed sale of our own at that grade. Every other row is our own sold data.

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 of the 4 PSA-graded Combusken copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 25%. The rest graded lower.

PSA4 gradedPSA 10 · 1 · 25% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 4.

10125%
9125%
8250%
CGC104 gradedCGC 10 · 50 · 48% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 104.

105048%
9.576.7%
91514%
8.51212%
865.8%
7.532.9%
721.9%
6.510.96%
621.9%
5.532.9%
510.96%
BGS2 gradedBGS 10 · 0 · 0% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 2.

92100%

Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Combusken 10 is harder to pull.

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All grades & conditions

Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
Graded prices
Ungraded (raw)$1.01
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 1modelled$84$84$84
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). “Modelled” = no verified graded sale behind the figure; it is derived from the raw price and reference guides, so treat it as a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. Confidence reflects source backing and price spread — not PSA-official values.
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Raw price by condition
Reverse Holofoil · NM = our estimate, lower conditions use TCGplayer condition ratios · how we price played copies
NMNear Mint$1.01
LPLightly Played$0.65
MPModerately Played$0.30real sales: $2 n5
HPHeavily Played$0.24
7-day 19.8%
30-day 21.9%
90-day 34.2%
All-time high$1
All-time low$0
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost
Price by printingBase vs reverse holo vs 1st edition — priced separately

Price by variant

Reverse Holo$4
Normal$1

TCGplayer market price per printing — reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.

Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz

Cross-market prices

97% spread
TCGplayer · cheapest$1
PriceCharting · dearest$2

Currently 97% 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

Volatility · 90dStable ±3%
Cross-marketMarkets disagree 97% gap
90d low $1near its high$1 high

Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.

🔥 Trending in the community

#180 on the radar
Mentions this week1

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Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat

Evolves from Torchic.

Bulk Up30
Fire

During your next turn, each of Combusken's attacks does 30 more damage to the Defending Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

Double Kick50×
Fire · Colorless · Colorless

Flip 2 coins. This attack does 50 damage times the number of heads.

Weakness Water +20Retreat 1

Its kicking mastery lets it loose 10 kicks per second. It emits sharp cries to intimidate foes.

About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Young Fowl PokémonGEN IIITorchicCombuskenBlaziken

COMBUSKEN toughens up its legs and thighs by running through fields and mountains. This POKéMON’s legs possess both speed and power, enabling it to dole out ten kicks in one second.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#35
RarityUncommon
Released2008
SupertypePokémon
SubtypesStage 1
TypeFire
HP80
Evolves fromTorchic
WeaknessWater +20
Retreat cost1
National Pokédex#256
Card IDdp4-35
SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Combusken cards

There are 22 different Combusken printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Great Encounters #35 (Uncommon). The most valuable 7 are below.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Combusken (Great Encounters #35) worth?

As of 12 September 2026, Combusken from Great Encounters is worth approximately $1.01 ungraded (near-mint), and around $84 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 Combusken?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Combusken from Great Encounters is worth around $84 — roughly 83× the raw ungraded value of $1.01.

Should I grade my Combusken?

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 Combusken rare?

Combusken is a Uncommon card from Great Encounters (card #35).

How do I know if my Combusken 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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