TorchicPR-NP 17 · Nintendo Black Star Promos Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
Pack fresh $97est.
- PSA 8$651 sold · 90d · modelled · pop 52
- PSA 9$100modelled · pop 26
Why prices differ
TCGplayer's figure is what sellers are asking on their marketplace, not what copies sold for — an asking price sits above a completed sale because it is the start of a negotiation, not the end of one. Our price comes from those same completed sales, adjusted to Near Mint — the median below mixes every condition together, and most copies that change hands are played rather than mint. How we weigh them →
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Nintendo Black Star Promos #PR-NP 17, 2003. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.
The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
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. $109. That's about +405% 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 (29 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.
Torchic is a Promo Pokémon card from Nintendo Black Star Promos (#17, released 2003), illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno. It's a Basic Fire-type Pokémon with 50 HP, weak to Water ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 8 September 2026.
Torchic price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence29 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Liquid — Sells regularly
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.
By grade
- Raw$17.9947 sales · 29 in 90d, sells often
- CGC 9$59.504 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 10$74.994 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 8$1573 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 9$85.502 sales
- PSA 6$8.502 sales
- PSA 7$1131 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 4$25.001 sale
Is Torchic worth grading?
Raw $21.50 → graded PSA 9 ≈ $99.80, after ~$70.99 grading fee → 4.6× the raw value.
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
Torchic 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 9 | $99.80 | $71 | +$7 | 4.6× |
| PSA 8 | $64.95 | $71 | −$27 | 3.0× |
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. Real outcome depends on the grade achieved; PSA 10 is best-case.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
3 of the 169 PSA-graded Torchic copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 1.8%. 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 169.
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 Torchic 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Torchic 017 Promo Nintendo Black Star Promos Pokemon DamagedRaw · eBay$6.99
Pokemon Torchic (17/52) Nintendo Black Star Promos HP HOLORaw · eBay$9.95
Pokemon TCG - Torchic 017/040 (Black Star Promo) Nintendo Promo Holo MPRaw · eBay$9.99
Pokémon Torchic Nintendo 017 50HP Holo Black Star Promo Basic EnglishRaw · eBay$11.00
Torchic 017 Promo Nintendo Black Star Promos Pokemon Moderately PlayedRaw · eBay$12.49
Nintendo Promos #017 Torchic (Creased)Raw · eBay$12.99Cheapest raw copy $11.00 — 49% below our near-mint estimate of $22
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 9pop 26 | modelled$100$71–$100 | |
| PSA 8pop 52 | modelled$65$65–$65 | |
| PSA 7pop 39 | modelled$12$12–$12 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $19.30. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $69.60 (+261%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $97.44.
From 8 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.
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
Market signal
Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.
🔥 Trending in the community
#160 on the radarTorchic is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Discard a Fire Energy card attached to Torchic.
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Torchic cards
There are 31 different Torchic printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Nintendo Black Star Promos #17 (Promo). The most valuable 7 are below.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Torchic (Nintendo Black Star Promos #17) worth?
As of 8 September 2026, Torchic from Nintendo Black Star Promos is worth approximately $21.50 ungraded (near-mint). Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
Is Torchic rare?
Torchic is a Promo card from Nintendo Black Star Promos (card #17).
How do I know if my Torchic 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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