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Check your printing9 different Pikachu printings exist — is this your card? SM Black Star Promos #SM227
Pikachu SM Black Star Promos #SM227 Pokémon card
Promo

Pikachu

SM Black Star Promos · PR-SM SM227 · Illustrated by 2019 Pikachu Project
60 HPLightningPokémonBasic

Market value · ungraded

$22.29 5.2% · 30d
Confidencehigh
Sales · 90 days11
Last sale$20 Raw · 24 Jun 2026
Range$17$22
Cert-verified10 PSA sales
Sold prices, not asking. eBay + TCGplayer. Updated 21 August 2026. 2 sources agree within 31%. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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Estimated value · Near Mint
$22.29

What this price is based on

Medium confidence

36 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely.

Median · Raw$16.5044 sales
Trimmed mean$16.07outliers removed
Range$5.00$42.99lowest to highest sale
Sales rate11/mo67 recorded

What each version actually sells for

PrintingNear MintLightly PlayedModerately Played
Common$18.00 31 sales$14.25 10 sales

Every figure is the median of real completed sales whose listing claimed that printing and condition — not a percentage of the headline price. A dash means we haven't seen enough sales of that exact version to publish one.

Recent Raw sales

  • Aug 14, 2026eBay — Pikachu SM227 Black Star Promo HD Swirl Pokémon Promo LPLP$20.00
  • Aug 12, 2026eBay — Pokemon Card TCG Pikachu SM227 Black Star Promo Sun & Moon Comos Holo 2019 MPMP$5.00
  • Aug 11, 2026eBay — Pikachu SM227 Black Star Promo 2019 Holo Rare Pokémon Card TCG$19.95
  • Aug 11, 2026eBay — Pikachu SM227 Black Star Promo 2019 Holo Rare Pokémon Card TCG$19.99
  • Aug 9, 2026eBay — 2019 SM Black Star Promo Pikachu SM227 DOUBLE SWIRL Sun and Moon NM Pokemon CardNM$42.99
  • Aug 8, 2026eBay — Pikachu - SM227 - Sun & Moon - Black Star Promo Holo Pokémon Card$7.00
  • Aug 8, 2026eBay — Pikachu SM227 Black Star Promo 2019 Holo Rare Pokémon Card TCG$20.00
  • Aug 6, 2026eBay — Pokemon Card TCG Pikachu SM227 Black Star Promo Sun & Moon Comos Holo 2019 MPMP$13.62

By grade

  • Raw$16.5044 sales
  • PSA 9$89.008 sales
  • PSA 7$25.003 sales
  • PSA 10$1,1703 sales
  • CGC 6.5$18.502 sales
  • PSA 8$16.801 sale
  • PSA 6$9.001 sale
  • PSA 4$12.501 sale

From 67 completed sales recorded between Jan 6, 2026 and Aug 15, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. The range is wide because these sales span different printings and conditions — 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited copies all carry this card's name, and they trade at very different levels. Each sale above is labelled with what its listing claimed, so you can see which ones describe the same object. Treat the median as the typical copy, not the range.

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Based on 23 graded sales and 4,410,738 pop-report entries for a near-mint copy.

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Is it worth it?

An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.

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Pikachu is a Promo Pokémon card from SM Black Star Promos (#SM227), illustrated by 2019 Pikachu Project. It's a Basic Lightning-type Pokémon with 60 HP, weak to Fighting ×2. Its current blended market value is $22.29 ungraded, with a PSA 10 worth around $1,150 — a gem-mint grading premium of roughly 52× 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.

The receipts

Graded a PSA 10? See its cert-verified sales and price history — individual sales PSA tied to a specific slab, each with a cert number you can check.

Price history · Raw

1 Sept 202321 Aug 2026
Latest
$22.29
Period high
$22.40
Period low
$3.94
Change
351.2%
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Verified sales history21 in 90 daysreal completed listings

Last sold
$20
Raw · 24 Jun 2026
Typical Raw
$16
Sales · last 90 days
11
How often it sells
Rarely sells
every 2 days · 0 in last 30 days
Worn-condition sales — shown for context, not price-forming
These listings claimed play wear in the title (LP/MP/played/damaged), so they sell below the Near Mint price above and are excluded from it.

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.

DateGradePriceCert
12 Aug 2026PSA 7$33.00#93287515
3 Aug 2026PSA 9$66.00#94373145
31 Jul 2026PSA 9$90.00#128885259
27 Jul 2026PSA 10$1,170.00#54729459
27 Jul 2026PSA 8$17.50#83601002
24 Jul 2026PSA 10$1,149.95#62055585
22 Jul 2026PSA 10$1,149.95#62055583
18 Jul 2026PSA 10$1,000.00#45704626
16 Jul 2026PSA 7$19.50#137866380
13 Jul 2026PSA 9$55.00#55688230

Demand & liquidity

Thin · Rarely sellsDemand 47/100
Sales · 30d0
Sales · 90d11
Price momentum+5%
Hype🔥 Heating
PSA 9
$89
Raw
$16
RawNM
$16

Last sold $20 · Raw · 24 Jun 2026

Should you grade it?

+$55

Expected return across every likely grade, after fees — the realistic average, not the best case. Only 13.3% of copies gem (PSA 10 best case +$1,011); most land at PSA 9 or below.

Gem rate (est.)13.3%
Expected return+$55
PSA 10 best case+$1,011
Break-evenPSA 10+
VerdictWorth grading

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.

PSA 10 (gem mint)13.3%156 of 1,177
PSA 943.3%510 of 1,177
PSA graded so far1,177
Gem Mint 10156
Total graded1,177

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$1,150.00$116+$1,01151.6×
PSA 9$74.00$71$193.3×
PSA 8$28.80$70$641.3×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 1,177 PSA-graded copies:

Likely outcomeChanceValue
PSA 1013.3%$1,150.00
PSA 943.3%$74.00
PSA ≤843.4%$22.00

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 13% of 1,177 PSA-graded Pikachu copies are a gem-mint 10 (156 of 1,177) — the rest grade lower.

PSA1,177 gradedPSA 10 · 156 · 13% gem
10156
9510
8.52
8251
7120
688
540
410

Real graded population from PSA, CGC & BGS — a lower gem rate means a Pikachu 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)$21.55
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 156✓ 21 cert-verified$1,150$760$1,150
PSA 9pop 510✓ 43 cert-verified$74$55$85
PSA 8pop 2512 sold$29$24$33
PSA 7pop 120✓ 13 cert-verified$23$17$23
PSA 6pop 88✓ 6 cert-verified$20$9$20
“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$22.29
LPLightly Played$15.27real sales: $21 n2
MPModerately Played$6.25
HPHeavily Played$6.25
DMGDamaged$3.91
7-day 1.9%
30-dayflat
90-day 36.0%
All-time high$22
All-time low$7
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost

For context: a graded PSA 7 slab of this card sells for about $25 (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

31% spread
PriceCharting · cheapest$17
TCGplayer · dearest$22

Currently 31% 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

Momentum · 30dRising +5%
Cross-marketMarkets disagree 31% gap

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

🔥 Trending in the community

#1 on the radar
Mentions this week32

Pikachu is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →

What people are saying: My girlfriend and I broke up · 3055↑

Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Quick Attack10+
Colorless

Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 more damage.

Thunderbolt80
Lightning · Lightning · Colorless

Discard all Energy from this Pokémon.

Weakness Fighting ×2Resistance Metal -20Retreat 1

Its nature is to store up electricity. Forests where nests of Pikachu live are dangerous, since the trees are so often struck by lightning.

About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Mouse PokémonGEN IPichuPikachuRaichu

When several of these POKéMON gather, their electricity could build and cause lightning storms.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#SM227
RarityPromo
SupertypePokémon
SubtypesBasic
TypeLightning
HP60
WeaknessFighting ×2
ResistanceMetal -20
Retreat cost1
National Pokédex#25
Card IDsmp-SM227
SourceAggregated marketplaces

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Pikachu (SM Black Star Promos #SM227) worth?

As of 21 August 2026, Pikachu from SM Black Star Promos is worth approximately $22.29 ungraded (near-mint), and around $1,150 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 SM Black Star Promos is worth around $1,150 — roughly 52× the raw ungraded value of $22.29.

Should I grade my Pikachu?

A PSA 10 sells for about $1,150 versus $22.29 raw — roughly a 52× 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 Pikachu rare?

Pikachu is a Promo card from SM Black Star Promos (card #SM227), illustrated by 2019 Pikachu Project. Its current blended market value is $22.29 ungraded.

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