Torchic73/109 · Ruby & Sapphire Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
- PSA 9$30modelled · pop 45
- PSA 10$100modelled · pop 31
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Ruby & Sapphire #73/109, 2003. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.
No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.
What's your copy worth?
✨ 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 Common Pokémon card from Ruby & Sapphire (#73, released 2003), illustrated by Ken Sugimori. It's a Basic Fire-type Pokémon with 40 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 7 September 2026.
Torchic price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence14 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely. · Very liquid — Sells often
5 of 10 verified sales were competitive auctions — this price reflects real bidding, not asking prices. A graded copy trades roughly every 14 days (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$1.8915 sales · 14 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 10$39.5012 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- Lot$7.804 sales
- PSA 7$31.953 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9$29.993 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9.5$29.992 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- CGC 8.5$10.902 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- PSA 9$29.991 sale
Is Torchic worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $30 against the $71 you put in, a $41 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $30–$100. Averaged over every outcome that is −$28 a card.
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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 10 | $100.00 | $71 | +$28 | 95.2× |
| PSA 9 | $29.99 | $70 | −$41 | 28.6× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 114 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 27.2% | $100.00 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 39.5% | $29.99 |
| PSA 8 | 18.4% | $11.11 † |
| PSA 7 | 8.8% | $27.82 |
| PSA 6 | 5.3% | $1.05 |
| PSA 5 | 0.9% | $1.05 |
† 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
31 of the 116 PSA-graded Torchic copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 27%. 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 116.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 257.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 3.
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 - Common EX Ruby and Sapphire 73/109 LPRaw · eBay$0.99
Torchic 73/109 Ruby and Sapphire RegularRaw · eBay$1.00
Torchic 73/109 EX Ruby & Sapphire Regular Common HPRaw · eBay$1.00
Torchic 73/109 Ruby/Sapphire LP Raw · eBay$1.00
Torchic 73/109 Ruby Sapphire Pokemon TCG Light Play ConditionRaw · eBay$1.00
Torchic - Common Ruby and Sapphire 73/109 LPRaw · eBay$1.00Cheapest raw copy $1.00 — 5% below our near-mint estimate of $1
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 31 | modelled$100$85–$115 | |
| PSA 9pop 45 | modelled$30$25–$34 | |
| PSA 7pop 12 | $28$24–$32 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
For context: a graded PSA 7 slab of this card sells for about $24 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.
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
Cross-market prices
35% spreadCurrently 35% 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
Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.
🔥 Trending in the community
#71 on the radarTorchic is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →
What people are saying: “[US, US] [H] Mid slabs, PKC ETBs, BB [W] PP” · 3↑
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
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Other Torchic cards
There are 31 different Torchic printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Ruby & Sapphire #73 (Common). The most valuable 7 are below.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Torchic (Ruby & Sapphire #73) worth?
As of 7 September 2026, Torchic from Ruby & Sapphire is worth approximately $1.05 ungraded (near-mint), and around $100 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 Torchic?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Torchic from Ruby & Sapphire is worth around $100 — roughly 95× the raw ungraded value of $1.05.
Should I grade my Torchic?
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 Torchic rare?
Torchic is a Common card from Ruby & Sapphire (card #73).
How do I know if my Torchic 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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