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8 other Piplup printings exist — is this your card? McDonald's Collection 2021 20/25 ↓
Piplup — McDonald's Collection 2021 #20

—McDonald's Collection 202120/252021Illustrated by Shibuzoh.

Piplup 20/25 · McDonald's Collection 2021 price & value

Raw · near mint

$4.20

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 10$32076×
  • CGC 10$307.1×
  • PSA 9$266.2×
Sales recorded
71
every grade, since 2023
Last 90 days
18 raw · 40 all
7 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
Medium
18 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely.
Latest sale
37d ago
raw · any grade 2d ago
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Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 34 completed sales of this exact card, each adjusted for the condition it sold in. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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The headline above is Near Mint. Most copies that actually change hands are not — pick the holder and condition you actually have. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →

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And here is what an ungraded copy has actually done. The line ends on the Near Mint price above — the same number, not a second one.

Raw · latest

$4▲ 168%over 6 years

2021-02-01 → 2026-09-22

$2
$4
$6
Feb 202120222023202420252026Sept 20262021-02-01 · $22021-03-01 · $22021-04-01 · $22021-05-01 · $12021-06-01 · $12021-07-01 · $22021-08-01 · $22021-09-01 · $22021-10-01 · $22021-11-01 · $22021-12-01 · $22022-01-01 · $22022-02-01 · $22022-03-01 · $22022-04-01 · $22022-05-01 · $22022-06-01 · $22022-07-01 · $12022-08-01 · $22022-09-01 · $22022-10-01 · $22022-11-01 · $22022-12-01 · $22023-01-01 · $22023-02-01 · $22023-03-01 · $22023-04-01 · $22023-05-01 · $22023-06-01 · $22023-07-01 · $22023-08-01 · $22023-09-01 · $22023-10-01 · $22023-11-01 · $22023-12-01 · $22024-01-01 · $22024-02-01 · $22024-03-01 · $22024-04-01 · $22024-05-01 · $12024-06-01 · $12024-07-01 · $12024-08-01 · $22024-09-01 · $12024-10-01 · $12024-11-01 · $12024-12-01 · $22025-01-01 · $12025-02-01 · $12025-03-01 · $22025-04-01 · $22025-05-01 · $22025-06-01 · $22025-07-01 · $12025-08-01 · $12025-09-01 · $22025-10-01 · $12025-11-01 · $12025-12-01 · $12026-01-01 · $22026-02-01 · $22026-03-01 · $22026-04-01 · $22026-05-01 · $22026-06-01 · $22026-07-01 · $22026-08-01 · $32026-08-29 · $72026-08-30 · $62026-08-31 · $42026-09-01 · $42026-09-02 · $42026-09-03 · $42026-09-04 · $42026-09-05 · $42026-09-06 · $42026-09-07 · $42026-09-08 · $42026-09-09 · $42026-09-10 · $42026-09-11 · $42026-09-12 · $42026-09-13 · $42026-09-14 · $42026-09-15 · $42026-09-16 · $42026-09-17 · $42026-09-18 · $42026-09-19 · $42026-09-20 · $42026-09-21 · $42026-09-22 · $4
Our recorded ungraded price for this card. The line closes on the Near Mint figure shown above — the chart and the headline are the same number by construction, never two.

Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-20T08:49:31.375Z.

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Cheapest raw copy $2 — 56% below our near-mint estimate of $4

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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

$1 – $11

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

10.8/mo

every grade, whole record

Where it sells

100% eBay

Raw — last 90 days

Demand

63/100

Liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz

What each grade sold for

  • Raw$434 sales · 18 in 90d, sells regularly
  • PSA 10$30511 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
  • CGC 9$79 sales · 7 in 90d, occasional
  • PSA 9$267 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
  • PSA 8$122 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 8.5$92 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 10$372 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 9.5$131 sale · 1 in 90d, rare

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 71 sales for this card going back to 2023; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2021 Pokemon McDonald's Collection Piplup #20 CGC 8.5 NM-MT+CGC 8.5Fanatics2026-09-21—$7.00
Piplup Pokemon TCG McDonald's Collection 2021 20/25 Confetti Holo CGC 9. 1208CGC 9eBay2026-09-14—$1.00
Piplup Pokemon TCG McDonald's Collection 2021 20/25 Confetti Holo CGC 9. 1234CGC 9eBay2026-09-07—$1.00
2021 POKEMON MCDONALD'S COLLECTION CONFETTI HOLO #20 PIPLUP CGC 8.5CGC 8.5eBay2026-09-01—$10.99
Piplup Pokemon TCG McDonald's Collection 2021 20/25 Confetti Holo CGC 9. 1209CGC 9eBay2026-08-31—$10.51
2021 Pokemon McDonald's Collection #20 Piplup Holo PSA 8 NM-MTPSA 8eBay2026-08-30—$16.99
Piplup Pokemon TCG McDonald's Collection 2021 20/25 Confetti Holo CGC 9. 1234CGC 9eBay2026-08-24—$6.50
2021 Pokemon: PIPLUP 20/25 [HOLO Rare] [McDonald's 25th] - Gem Mint - PSA 10 💎PSA 10eBay2026-08-19—$404

1–8 of 49 sales · 11 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 307$32076× raw
  • CGC 10pop 671 sold$307.1× raw
  • PSA 9pop 343✓ 7 cert-verified$266.2× raw
  • PSA 8pop 107modelled$153.5× raw
  • SGC 10modelled$143.3× raw
  • BGS 7.5modelled$82.0× raw
  • PSA 7pop 25modelled$81.8× raw
  • PSA 5pop 8modelled$4
  • Ungraded$4
  • PSA 4pop 1modelled$4
  • CGC 9pop 315$1

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

37.9%

307 of 811

PSA 9

42.3%

343 of 811

Total PSA graded

811

every grade, all time

  • PSA 811 graded
  • CGC 710 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

Piplup is a common card — a guaranteed slot in every pack rather than a rarity gamble, so there is no pull-odds figure for it.

Is Piplup worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — not the PSA 10 outcome alone.

Verdict

Worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$63

after fees, all grades

Best case

$243

PSA 10 only

Grading cost

$71

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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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 36 graded sales and a population of 4,410,324 · fees as of 2026-09-21.

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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 McDonald's Collection 2021 #20/25, 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.

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The whole card

No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.

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

59% apart
  • Our raw sold median$4
  • TCGplayer$6

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.

What the series says

Volatility

volatile

90-day band

$1 – $7

Today’s price sits 58% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

🔥 Trending in the community

#52 on the radar

Mentions this week

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About Piplup

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

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.

#17 most valuable Piplup of 26#7 most valuable in McDonald's Collection 2021 of 25

Card text

Peck10

Colorless

Wave Splash20

Water · Colorless

Weakness Lightning ×2Retreat 1

“Because it is very proud, it hates accepting food from people. Its thick down guards it from cold.”

The Pokémon

Penguin PokémonGEN IV

Piplup → Prinplup → Empoleon

Because it is very proud, it hates accepting food from people. Its thick down guards it from cold.

Card details

Set
McDonald's Collection 2021
Number
#20
Rarity
—
Released
2021
Pokémon
All Piplup cards
Generation
Gen IV · Sinnoh
Artist
Shibuzoh.
Supertype
Pokémon
Subtypes
Basic
Type
Water
HP
70
National Pokédex
#393
Card ID
mcd21-20
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Piplup (McDonald's Collection 2021 #20) worth?

As of 22 September 2026, Piplup from McDonald's Collection 2021 is worth approximately $4 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $320 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated 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 76× the raw ungraded value of $4.

Should I grade my Piplup?

Probably yes. Weighting every grade by how often this card actually earns it, the expected value after the $71 grading fee is about $63 — and a PSA 10 would net roughly $243. That assumes a copy clean enough to have a real shot at a high grade.

How often does Piplup sell?

CardTrack recorded 40 completed sales of Piplup (McDonald's Collection 2021 #20) across every grade in the last 90 days, 18 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-21. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Piplup rare?

Piplup is a standard card from McDonald's Collection 2021 (card #20), released in 2021.