Starmie HeartGold & SoulSilver #53

Card #53 · Illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno

90 HPWaterPokémonStage 1

Market value · ungraded

$1.82

▼ 0.5% · 30d

1 sale · last 90 days · Fanatics + TCGplayer + Cardmarket
Sold prices, not asking · Updated 5 July 2026
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Estimated value · Near Mint

$1.82

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9 different Starmie printings exist — is this your card? HeartGold & SoulSilver #53

Starmie is a Uncommon Pokémon card from HeartGold & SoulSilver (#53), illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno. It's a Stage 1 Water-type Pokémon with 90 HP, evolving from Staryu, weak to Lightning ×2. Its current blended market value is $1.82 ungraded. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 5 July 2026.

#21 most valuable Starmie of 36 #118 most valuable in HeartGold & SoulSilver of 124

Raw price by condition

Reverse Holofoil · live market via TCGplayer

NMNear Mint$1.92

MPModerately Played$1.65

HPHeavily Played$1.08

DMGDamaged$0.99

7-dayflat

30-day▼ 0.5%

90-day▲ 4.3%

All-time high$3

All-time low$2

Other printingsNormal · $0.83

Price by variant

Reverse Holo$2

Normal$1

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

Graded prices

No graded sales tracked for this card yet — see the raw estimate above.

Price history · Raw

1 Aug 20231 Jul 2026

Latest

$1.56

Period high

$2.25

Period low

$1.05

Change

▲ 41.8%

Recent sold prices

Last sold price

$11

CGC 7.5 · 4 May 2026

Typical CGC 7.5

$11

Sales · last 90 days

How often it sells

Rarely sells

0 in last 30 days

CGC 7.52010 Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver Reverse Holo Starmie #53 CGC 7.5 NRMT+Weekly Sunday Auction #224 · 4 May 2026$11

Real completed sale prices from Fanatics Collect — weekly and premier auctions plus marketplace Buy It Now sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title.

Population across graders

Only 0% of 10 PSA-graded Starmie copies are a gem-mint 10 (0 of 10) — the rest grade lower.

PSA10 gradedPSA 10 · 0 · 0% gem rate

Full grade breakdown (4 grades)

7.51

CGC20 gradedCGC 10 · 2 · 10% gem rate

Full grade breakdown (4 grades)

102

8.53

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

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Cross-market prices

29% spread

TCGplayer · cheapest$2

PriceCharting · dearest$2

Currently 29% 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

Momentum · 30dFlat -1%

Cross-marketSome gap 29% gap

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

🇪🇺 Cardmarket price · Europe

71% cheaper than the US

Cardmarket · Europe's largest card market$1

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Card text

Evolves from Staryu.

Cosmic Cyclone20×

Water

Choose as many Water Energy attached to your Pokémon as you like. This attack does 20 damage times the number of Energy you chose. Shuffle those cards back into your deck.

Weakness Lightning ×2

“The middle section of its body is called the core. It glows in a different color each time it is seen.”

About the Pokémon

Mysterious PokémonGEN IStaryu → Starmie

Its central core glows with the seven colors of the rainbow. Some people value the core as a gem.

Card details

SetHeartGold & SoulSilver →

Number#53

RarityUncommon

PokémonAll Starmie cards →

GenerationGen I · Kanto →

ArtistKagemaru Himeno →

SupertypePokémon

SubtypesStage 1

TypeWater

HP90

Evolves fromStaryu

WeaknessLightning ×2

National Pokédex#121

Card IDhgss1-53

SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Starmie cards

There are 9 different Starmie printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is HeartGold & SoulSilver #53 (Uncommon).