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Check your printing15 different Meganium printings exist — is this your card? Lost Thunder #8
Meganium Lost Thunder #8 Pokémon card
ViewingRaw / ungraded (this page)Reverse Holo price · 5 sold in 30 days
Rare Holo

Meganium8/214 · Lost Thunder Price & Value

2018 · Illustrated by nagimiso
150 HPGrassPokémonStage 2

Market value · Near Mint · Holofoil

$5.98

Pack fresh $10est.

  • PSA 8$21pop 12
  • PSA 9$38modelled · pop 20
  • PSA 10$105pop 6
LiquiditySells often
Confidence85 · high24 raw sales in 90 days, prices spread across conditions, last sale 3 days ago.
Sales · 90 days25
Range$6$6
Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 33 completed sales of this exact card, each adjusted for the condition it sold in. Listings ask what a seller hopes for; this is what copies actually changed hands for, which is why it can sit below what you see for sale. Updated 11 September 2026. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

Make sure you have the right card

Every price on this page is for Lost Thunder #8/214, 2018. 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.

What's your copy worth?

What's your copy worth?
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Estimated value · Pack fresh
Based on 20 sold sales

Estimated. This card has enough sales to price the top 15% but not the top 5%, so pack-fresh is projected from the gap we measure between those two tiers on cards that do — about 1.4x on vintage, 1.2x on modern. $10.04. That's about +68% over a typical Near Mint copy.

How do we work this out?

We take every real sale of this exact card over the last 12 months (20 sales), sort them by price, and read off the top 15% and top 5%. No multipliers, no guesses — the prices cleaner copies actually fetched.

Why cleaner copies cost more: buyers can see condition in the photos and pay for it. Listings sellers describe as pack fresh or gem mint land in this top band 1.7× more often than ordinary ones — the premium follows the card, not the hype.

Copies in this band are also the ones collectors send to grading: far more likely than a typical binder copy to be submitted at all — and to come back with the strong grade that carries the PSA prices shown on this page. That prospect is part of what buyers are paying for here.

These are read straight off this card's own completed sales — sort them by price and take the top 15% and top 5%. Whether your copy qualifies is a judgment made by looking at the card.

See the completed sales behind these figures

Is it worth it?

An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.

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Meganium is a Rare Holo Pokémon card from Lost Thunder (#8, released 2018), illustrated by nagimiso. It's a Stage 2 Grass-type Pokémon with 150 HP, evolving from Bayleef, weak to Fire ×2. It's listed among our holo rares. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 11 September 2026.

3%
Played in 3% of competitive decks — 135 of 4,460 decklists across the last 44 Standard tournaments.

Meganium price history & recent sales

Price history · Raw

1 Oct 202311 Sept 2026
Latest
$5.98
Period high
$6.84
Period low
$2.95
Change
35.9% · 3Y
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Verified sales history

High confidence

24 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · LiquidSells regularly

Range$2.19$75.00Rawlowest to highest sale
Sales5 / 25last 30d / 90d, every grade
Sales rate7.2/mo50 recorded, every grade
Latest sale3d agoRaw24 in 90 days
Where it sells100% eBayRawlast 90 days
Demand65/100sales rate, trend & buzz
Last sold
$5
Raw · 8 Sep 2026
Typical Raw
$6
Sales · last 90 days
24
How often it sells
Sells regularly
every 17 days · 4 in last 30 days

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 50 completed sales recorded between Feb 16, 2025 and Sep 8, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. 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$5.7337 sales · 24 in 90d, sells often
  • PSA 8$15.254 sales
  • PSA 10$1303 sales
  • PSA 7$22.802 sales
  • PSA 9$37.951 sale
  • CGC 9.5$35.001 sale
  • CGC 7$34.001 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 10$71.001 sale

Is Meganium worth grading?

Not worth grading

Most copies come back PSA 9worth $38 against the $76 you put in, a $38 loss. The money is in the 1 in 2 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $38$105. Averaged over every outcome that is $37 a card.

You put in$76card + fees
Most likelyPSA 9$38 ($38)
Break even atPSA 10or better
Best case1 in 7PSA 10 · $105
Average per card$37across every grade

That is the average submitted copy. Tell us about yours and the verdict re-prices — most cards stop being worth grading here. Not sure? Grade it from a photo →

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

Meganium is a Holo / V / ex in Lost Thunder — the pack's hit slot lands on Holo / V / ex 27.9% of the time, split across 34 holo / v / ex cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 122 packs.

Holo / V / ex27.9%34 cards
PSA 10 (gem mint)13.3%6 of 45
PSA 944.4%20 of 45
PSA graded so far45
Gem Mint 106
Total graded45

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$105.00$71+$2817.6×
PSA 9$37.95$70$386.3×
PSA 8$20.75$70$553.5×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 41 PSA-graded copies:

OutcomeChanceValue
PSA 1014.6%$105.00
PSA 9typical43.9%$37.95
PSA 824.4%$20.75
PSA 714.6%$16.00 †
PSA 62.4%$5.98

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

6 of the 45 PSA-graded Meganium copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 13%. The rest graded lower.

PSA45 gradedPSA 10 · 6 · 13% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 45.

10613%
92044%
81227%
7613%
612.2%
CGC35 gradedCGC 10 · 6 · 17% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 35.

10617%
9.512.9%
9823%
8.538.6%
8720%
7.5411%
7411%
TAG1 gradedTAG 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 1.

91100%

Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Meganium 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
Graded prices
Ungraded (raw)$5.98
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 6$105$89$121
PSA 9pop 20modelled$38$38$38
PSA 8pop 12$21$18$24
“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
What premium copies fetch

A typical Near Mint copy sells for $5.76. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $7.16 (+24%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $9.67.

Near Mint $5.76Grading candidate $7.16Pack fresh $9.67

From 10 sales in the last 12 months. These describe the market — whether a specific copy is a grading candidate is a judgment made by looking at it.

Raw price by condition
Reverse Holofoil · NM = our estimate, lower conditions use TCGplayer condition ratios · how we price played copies
NMNear Mint$5.98
LPLightly Played$5.10real sales: $5 n6
MPModerately Played$4.36
7-day 2.4%
30-day 1.0%
90-day 8.8%
All-time high$6
All-time low$5
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

Holofoil$6
Reverse Holo$6

Priced per printing — some from our own completed sales, the rest from TCGplayer's market price. Reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.

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

Cross-market prices

2% spread
PriceCharting · cheapest$6
TCGplayer · dearest$6

Currently 2% cheaper on PriceCharting than TCGplayer. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.

Market signal

Cross-marketMarkets agree 2% gap

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

🔥 Trending in the community

#45 on the radar
Mentions this week3

Meganium is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →

What people are saying: World Championship 2026 - Meta Report · 111↑

Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat

Evolves from Bayleef.

Quick-Ripening HerbAbility

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may use this Ability. Choose 1 of your Basic Pokémon in play. If you have a Stage 2 card in your hand that evolves from that Pokémon, put that card onto the Basic Pokémon to evolve it. You can use this Ability during your first turn or on a Pokémon that was put into play this turn.

Solar Beam110
Grass · Colorless · Colorless · Colorless
Weakness Fire ×2Retreat 2

Meganium's breath has the power to revive dead grass and plants. It can make them healthy again.

About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Herb PokémonGEN IIChikoritaBayleefMeganium

The aroma that rises from its petals contains a substance that calms aggressive feelings.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#8
RarityRare Holo
Released2018
SupertypePokémon
SubtypesStage 2
TypeGrass
HP150
Evolves fromBayleef
WeaknessFire ×2
Retreat cost2
National Pokédex#154
Card IDsm8-8
SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Meganium cards

There are 15 different Meganium printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Lost Thunder #8 (Rare Holo). The most valuable 7 are below.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Meganium (Lost Thunder #8) worth?

As of 11 September 2026, Meganium from Lost Thunder is worth approximately $5.98 ungraded (near-mint), and around $105 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 Meganium?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Meganium from Lost Thunder is worth around $105 — roughly 18× the raw ungraded value of $5.98.

Should I grade my Meganium?

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 Meganium rare?

Meganium is a Rare Holo card from Lost Thunder (card #8).

How do I know if my Meganium is Holofoil?

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

How do I know if my Meganium 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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