Steelix28/100 · Stormfront Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
- PSA 9$30modelled · pop 4
- PSA 10$100modelled · pop 1
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Stormfront #28/100, 2008. 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.
Steelix is a Rare Pokémon card from Stormfront (#28, released 2008), illustrated by Naoyo Kimura. It's a Stage 1 Metal-type Pokémon with 130 HP, evolving from Onix, weak to Fire +30. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 10 September 2026.
Steelix price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence4 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee. · 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$2.995 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 8.5$11.752 sales
- PSA 9$30.001 sale
- PSA 8$10.501 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9$20.001 sale
Is Steelix worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 8 — worth $11 against the $74 you put in, a $63 loss. The money is in the 1 in 2 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $30–$100. Averaged over every outcome that is −$51 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
Steelix is a Rare in Stormfront — the pack's hit slot lands on Rare 67% of the time, split across 23 rare cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 34 packs.
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 | $99.67 | $71 | +$25 | 25.7× |
| PSA 9 | $30.00 | $70 | −$44 | 7.7× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 12 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 8.3% | $99.67 |
| PSA 9 | 33.3% | $30.00 |
| PSA 8 — typical | 33.3% | $11.17 † |
| PSA 7 | 8.3% | $3.88 |
| PSA 5 | 8.3% | $3.88 |
| PSA 1 | 8.3% | $3.88 |
† 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
1 of the 13 PSA-graded Steelix copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 7.7%. 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 13.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 24.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 2.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Steelix 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Steelix 28/100 Rare Non Holo Stormfront PokemonRaw · eBay$1.32
STEELIX 28/100 STORMFRONT HP/DMG / B10-12Raw · eBay$1.89
Steelix 28/100 Rare Stormfront Pokemon Moderately PlayedRaw · eBay$1.99
Steelix 28/100 Rare Stormfront Pokemon Moderately PlayedRaw · eBay$1.99
Stormfront #28/100 SteelixRaw · eBay$1.99
Stormfront #28/100 SteelixRaw · eBay$1.99Cheapest raw copy $1.32 — 66% below our near-mint estimate of $4
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 1 | modelled$100$100–$100 | |
| PSA 9pop 4 | modelled$30$30–$30 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
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
17% spreadCurrently 17% 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.
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Onix.
Choose a number of your opponent's Pokémon up to the amount of Energy attached to Steelix. This attack does 20 damage to each of them. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 100 damage times the number of heads.
“Tempered underground under high pressure and heat, its body is harder than any metal.”
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Steelix cards
There are 23 different Steelix printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Stormfront #28 (Rare). The most valuable 7 are below.
More from Stormfront
Frequently asked questions
How much is Steelix (Stormfront #28) worth?
As of 10 September 2026, Steelix from Stormfront is worth approximately $3.88 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 Steelix?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Steelix from Stormfront is worth around $100 — roughly 26× the raw ungraded value of $3.88.
Should I grade my Steelix?
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 Steelix rare?
Steelix is a Rare card from Stormfront (card #28).
How do I know if my Steelix 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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