Piplup20/25 · McDonald's Collection 2021 Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Holofoil
Pack fresh $7est.
- PSA 8$151 sold · 90d · modelled · pop 103
- PSA 9$264 sold · 90d · pop 332
- PSA 10$3205 sold · 90d · pop 306
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for McDonald's Collection 2021 #20/25, 2021. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.
What's your copy worth?
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. $8.96. That's about +115% 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 (22 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.
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Piplup is a Pokémon card from McDonald's Collection 2021 (#20, released 2021), illustrated by Shibuzoh.. It's a Basic Water-type Pokémon with 70 HP, weak to Lightning ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 10 September 2026.
Piplup price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence22 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely. · Liquid — Sells regularly
5 of 10 verified sales were competitive auctions — this price reflects real bidding, not asking prices. A graded copy trades roughly every 23 days (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$3.9934 sales · 22 in 90d, sells regularly
- PSA 10$30511 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 9$26.407 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9$10.517 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 8$12.492 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 10$36.852 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9.5$12.501 sale
- CGC 8.5$10.991 sale
Is Piplup worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $26 against the $75 you put in, a $49 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $26–$305. Averaged over every outcome that is +$57 a card.
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.
The odds
Piplup is a Commoncard — a guaranteed slot in every pack, not a rarity gamble, so there's no pull-odds figure for it.
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 | $320.00 | $73 | +$243 | 76.7× |
| PSA 9 | $26.00 | $70 | −$48 | 6.2× |
| PSA 8 | $14.63 | $70 | −$60 | 3.5× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 763 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 39.3% | $305.00 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 41.5% | $26.00 |
| PSA 8 | 12.3% | $14.63 |
| PSA 7 | 3.1% | $7.55 |
| PSA 6 | 2.6% | $4.17 |
| PSA 5 | 0.9% | $4.25 |
| PSA 4 | 0.1% | $4.00 |
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
306 of the 794 PSA-graded Piplup copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 39%. 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 794.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 707.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 1.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Piplup 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Piplup - 20/25 Promo Shibuzoh. McDonald's 25th Anniversary Promos 020/025 NMRaw · eBay$2.06
McDonald's 25th Anniversary Promos #020/025 PiplupRaw · eBay$2.17
Pokemon TCG 25th Anniversary McDonalds Promo Card - Piplup 20/25 nonholo 2021Raw · eBay$2.49
Piplup 020/025 Promo McDonald's 25th Anniversary Promos Pokemon Near MintRaw · eBay$2.50
Piplup - 20/25 Promo McDonald's 25th Anniversary Promos 020/025 NMRaw · eBay$2.71
Snivy 5/25 | Torchic 11/25 | Piplup 20/25 McDonald's 25th Anniversary Pokemon NMRaw · eBay$2.99Cheapest raw copy $2.06 — 51% below our near-mint estimate of $4
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 306 | $320$272–$368 | |
| PSA 9pop 332 | ✓ 7 cert-verified$26$25–$34 | |
| PSA 8pop 103 | modelled$15$10–$19 | |
| PSA 7pop 25 | modelled$8$7–$8 | |
| PSA 5pop 7 | modelled$4$4–$4 | |
| PSA 4pop 1 | modelled$4$4–$4 |
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
🔥 Trending in the community
#127 on the radarPiplup is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →
What people are saying: “Zam counter for Excadrill” · 3↑
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
“Because it is very proud, it hates accepting food from people. Its thick down guards it from cold.”
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Piplup cards
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Piplup (McDonald's Collection 2021 #20) worth?
As of 10 September 2026, Piplup from McDonald's Collection 2021 is worth approximately $4.17 ungraded (near-mint), and around $320 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 Piplup?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Piplup from McDonald's Collection 2021 is worth around $320 — roughly 77× the raw ungraded value of $4.17.
Should I grade my Piplup?
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.
How do I know if my Piplup is Holofoil?
The illustration window: The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
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