Pikachu72/100 · Sandstorm Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
Pack fresh $22est.
- PSA 8$66pop 67
- PSA 9$857 sold · 90d · pop 149
- PSA 10$6105 sold · 90d · pop 112
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Sandstorm #72/100, 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?
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. $21.99. That's about +52% 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.
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Pikachu is a Common Pokémon card from Sandstorm (#72, released 2003), illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. It's a Basic Lightning-type Pokémon with 50 HP, weak to Fighting ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 10 September 2026.
Pikachu price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence100 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely. · Very liquid — Sells often
Sale mix: 2 auctions, 5 accepted offers, 3 fixed-price. A graded copy trades roughly every day (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$10.00117 sales · 100 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 10$6509 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 10$1499 sales · 6 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 9$1108 sales · 7 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9$33.408 sales · 7 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 7$32.005 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 8.5$14.405 sales
- PSA 8$66.003 sales
Is Pikachu worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $85 against the $95 you put in, a $10 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $85–$650. Averaged over every outcome that is +$142 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
Pikachu 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 | $610.00 | $106 | +$489 | 42.3× |
| PSA 9 | $85.00 | $71 | −$0 | 5.9× |
| PSA 8 | $66.00 | $71 | −$19 | 4.6× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 375 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 29.3% | $649.99 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 38.1% | $85.00 |
| PSA 8 | 16.8% | $66.00 |
| PSA 7 | 6.9% | $29.95 |
| PSA 6 | 5.1% | $14.42 |
| PSA 5 | 2.1% | $14.42 |
| PSA 4 | 0.5% | $14.42 |
| PSA 2 | 0.3% | $14.42 |
| PSA 1 | 0.5% | $14.42 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.3% | $14.42 |
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
112 of the 394 PSA-graded Pikachu copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 28%. 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 394.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 283.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 18.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Pikachu 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Pikachu - Sandstorm (SS) 72/100 Common HPRaw · eBay$4.99
Pokemon TCG Pikachu Sandstorm 72/100 Common Regular Non Holo CardRaw · eBay$5.00
Sandstorm Pikachu Raw · eBay$5.00
The Pokémon Company Pikachu 72/100 Sandstorm Common Reg Eng Basic 50HPRaw · eBay$5.50
Pokémon Pikachu Sandstorm 72/100 Common Regular 50 HP Scratch Pika BoltRaw · eBay$6.50
Pokemon TCG Pikachu Sandstorm 72/100 Common Regular Non Holo CardRaw · eBay$6.50Cheapest raw copy $5.00 — 65% below our near-mint estimate of $14
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 112 | ✓ 31 cert-verified$610$610–$862 | |
| PSA 9pop 149 | $85$72–$98 | |
| PSA 8pop 67 | ✓ 10 cert-verified$66$66–$95 | |
| PSA 7pop 29 | $30$25–$34 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $14.60. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $15.90 (+9%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $22.26.
From 11 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.
For context: a graded PSA 7 slab of this card sells for about $30 (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
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
42% spreadCurrently 42% 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
Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.
🔥 Trending in the community
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Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Pikachu (Sandstorm #72) worth?
As of 10 September 2026, Pikachu from Sandstorm is worth approximately $14.42 ungraded (near-mint), and around $610 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 Pikachu?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Pikachu from Sandstorm is worth around $610 — roughly 42× the raw ungraded value of $14.42.
Should I grade my Pikachu?
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 Pikachu rare?
Pikachu is a Common card from Sandstorm (card #72).
How do I know if my Pikachu 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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