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Check your printing9 different Rare Candy printings exist — is this your card? Scarlet & Violet #256
Rare Candy Scarlet & Violet #256 Pokémon card
Hyper Rare

Rare Candy

Scarlet & Violet · 256/198
TrainerItem

Market value · ungraded

$5.88 1.5% · 30d
Confidencehigh
Range$6$7
Cert-verified10 PSA sales
Sold prices, not asking. TCGplayer + Cardmarket. Updated 21 August 2026. 3 sources agree within 25%. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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Estimated value · Near Mint
$5.88

What this price is based on

Low confidence

Only 0 sales in the last 90 days.

Median · CGC 10$16.804 sales
Trimmed meanoutliers removed
Range$13.20$18.00lowest to highest sale
Sales rate1.5/mo9 recorded

Recent CGC 10 sales

By grade

  • CGC 10$16.804 sales
  • PSA 10$42.902 sales
  • CGC 9$13.201 sale
  • CGC 8.5$10.001 sale
  • CGC 0.5$14.001 sale

From 9 completed sales recorded between Feb 22, 2026 and Jul 15, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted.

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NOT WORTH IT

Based on 9 graded sales and 5,110,777 pop-report entries for a near-mint copy.

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Rare Candy is a Hyper Rare Pokémon card from Scarlet & Violet (#256). It's a Item Trainer card. Its current blended market value is $5.88 ungraded, with a PSA 10 worth around $55 — a gem-mint grading premium of roughly 9× the raw value. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 21 August 2026.

28.5%
Played in 28.5% of competitive decks — 904 of 3,174 decklists across the last 41 Standard tournaments.

The receipts

Price history · Raw

1 Sept 202321 Aug 2026
Latest
$5.88
Period high
$11.50
Period low
$5.39
Change
39.7%
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Verified sales history10 in 90 daysreal completed listings

DateGradePriceCert
12 Aug 2026PSA 10$45.00#102271219
29 Jul 2026PSA 10$55.00#80012087
17 Jul 2026PSA 10$55.00#149761951
16 Jul 2026PSA 7$9.50#158354320
15 Jul 2026PSA 10$57.00#75187741
14 Jul 2026PSA 7$8.99#147603060
14 Jul 2026PSA 9$16.00#141039244
6 Jul 2026PSA 9$10.00#150653417
18 Jun 2026PSA 9$17.55#84510497
5 Jun 2026PSA 9$15.50#145484579

Should you grade it?

$45

Expected return across every likely grade, after fees — the realistic average, not the best case. Only 46.3% of copies gem (PSA 10 best case $21); most land at PSA 9 or below.

Gem rate (est.)46.3%
Expected return$45
PSA 10 best case$21
VerdictNot worth it

The odds

Rare Candy is a Secret / Rainbow in Scarlet & Violet — the pack's hit slot lands on Secret / Rainbow 2.5% of the time, split across 16 secret / rainbow cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 643 packs.

Secret / Rainbow2.5%16 cards

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 gradeEst. valueGrading feeNet vs rawMultiple
PSA 10$55.00$71$219.4×
PSA 9$16.19$70$602.8×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 480 PSA-graded copies:

Likely outcomeChanceValue
PSA 1046.3%$55.00
PSA 930.8%$16.00
PSA ≤822.9%$6.00

Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-06-28; 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 — every grade, with gem rates

Only 46% of 480 CGC-graded Rare Candy copies are a gem-mint 10 (222 of 480) — the rest grade lower.

CGC480 gradedCGC 10 · 222 · 46% gem
10222
9.556
9148
8.534
86

Real graded population from PSA, CGC & BGS — a lower gem rate means a Rare Candy 10 is harder to pull.

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All grades & conditions

Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
Graded prices
Ungraded (raw)$5.88
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10✓ 9 cert-verified$55$37$55
PSA 9$16$14$19
PSA 7$10$10$12
PSA 6$6$6$9
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). Other figures are blended marketplace estimates. Confidence reflects source backing and price spread — not PSA-official values.
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Raw price by condition
Holofoil · live market via TCGplayer
NMNear Mint$5.88
MPModerately Played$5.59
HPHeavily Played$4.14
7-day 4.0%
30-day 3.8%
90-day 1.6%
All-time high$7
All-time low$5
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost

For context: a graded PSA 7 slab of this card sells for about $9 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.

Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz

Cross-market prices

25% spread
TCGplayer · cheapest$6
PriceCharting$6
Cardmarket · dearest$7

Currently 25% cheaper on TCGplayer than Cardmarket. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.

Market signal

Momentum · 30dFlat -2%
Cross-marketSome gap 25% gap

Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.

🇪🇺 Cardmarket price · Europe

Cardmarket · Europe's largest card market$7
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat

Choose 1 of your Basic Pokémon in play. If you have a Stage 2 card in your hand that evolves from that Pokémon, put that card onto the Basic Pokémon to evolve it, skipping the Stage 1. You can't use this card during your first turn or on a Basic Pokémon that was put into play this turn.

You may play any number of Item cards during your turn.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#256
RarityHyper Rare
Artist
SupertypeTrainer
SubtypesItem
Card IDsv1-256
SourceAggregated marketplaces

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Rare Candy (Scarlet & Violet #256) worth?

As of 21 August 2026, Rare Candy from Scarlet & Violet is worth approximately $5.88 ungraded (near-mint), and around $55 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 Rare Candy?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Rare Candy from Scarlet & Violet is worth around $55 — roughly 9× the raw ungraded value of $5.88.

Should I grade my Rare Candy?

A PSA 10 sells for about $55 versus $5.88 raw — roughly a 9× uplift. Grading is worth it when that premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10. See the "Should you grade it?" estimate above for net profit per grade.

Is Rare Candy rare?

Rare Candy is a Hyper Rare card from Scarlet & Violet (card #256). Its current blended market value is $5.88 ungraded.

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