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8 other Pikachu printings exist — is this your card? SWSH Black Star Promos PR-SW SWSH153 ↓
Pikachu — SWSH Black Star Promos #SWSH153

PromoSWSH Black Star PromosPR-SW SWSH1532019Illustrated by sowsow

Pikachu PR-SW SWSH153 · SWSH Black Star Promos price & value

Raw · near mint

$43.69

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 10$4319.9×
  • PSA 9$962.2×
  • CGC 9$531.2×
Sales recorded
62
every grade, since 2026
Last 90 days
25 raw · 35 all
7 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
High
25 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
4d ago
raw
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Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 48 completed sales of this exact card, each adjusted for the condition it sold in. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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Estimated value · Pack fresh
Based on 27 sold sales

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. $79.91. That's about +83% 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 (27 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.

And here is what an ungraded copy has actually done. The line ends on the Near Mint price above — the same number, not a second one.

Raw · latest

$44▲ 92%over 4 years

2023-01-01 → 2026-09-24

$10
$20
$30
$40
$50
Jan 2023202420252026Sept 20262023-01-01 · $232023-02-01 · $182023-03-01 · $202023-04-01 · $162023-05-01 · $192023-06-01 · $162023-07-01 · $162023-08-01 · $162023-09-01 · $172023-10-01 · $172023-11-01 · $172023-12-01 · $182024-01-01 · $152024-02-01 · $162024-03-01 · $152024-04-01 · $172024-05-01 · $172024-06-01 · $122024-07-01 · $122024-08-01 · $102024-09-01 · $102024-10-01 · $102024-11-01 · $142024-12-01 · $142025-01-01 · $142025-02-01 · $142025-03-01 · $142025-04-01 · $142025-05-01 · $172025-06-01 · $142025-07-01 · $142025-08-01 · $152025-09-01 · $202025-10-01 · $182025-11-01 · $202025-12-01 · $202026-01-01 · $262026-02-01 · $282026-03-01 · $292026-04-01 · $302026-05-01 · $342026-06-01 · $402026-07-01 · $402026-07-14 · $472026-07-22 · $472026-07-23 · $482026-07-24 · $482026-07-25 · $482026-07-26 · $482026-07-27 · $482026-07-28 · $482026-07-29 · $482026-07-30 · $482026-07-31 · $482026-08-01 · $482026-08-02 · $482026-08-03 · $482026-08-04 · $482026-08-05 · $482026-08-06 · $482026-08-07 · $482026-08-08 · $482026-08-09 · $482026-08-10 · $482026-08-11 · $482026-08-12 · $482026-08-13 · $482026-08-14 · $482026-08-15 · $482026-08-16 · $492026-08-17 · $492026-08-18 · $492026-08-19 · $492026-08-20 · $492026-08-21 · $492026-08-22 · $492026-08-23 · $492026-08-25 · $492026-08-26 · $492026-08-27 · $492026-08-29 · $482026-08-30 · $482026-08-31 · $462026-09-01 · $462026-09-02 · $462026-09-03 · $462026-09-04 · $462026-09-05 · $462026-09-06 · $442026-09-07 · $442026-09-08 · $442026-09-09 · $442026-09-10 · $442026-09-11 · $442026-09-12 · $442026-09-13 · $442026-09-14 · $442026-09-15 · $442026-09-16 · $442026-09-17 · $442026-09-18 · $442026-09-19 · $442026-09-20 · $442026-09-21 · $442026-09-22 · $442026-09-23 · $442026-09-24 · $44
Our recorded ungraded price for this card. The line closes on the Near Mint figure shown above — the chart and the headline are the same number by construction, never two.

Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-20T07:26:53.081Z.

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Raw / ungraded

Cheapest raw copy $20 — 54% below our near-mint estimate of $44

What the sales actually show

The counts are in the hero; this is how the card trades — the range, the pace, where, and what each grade has actually fetched. Figures that name a grade cover that grade alone; the rest count every grade.

Range

$13 – $108

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

10.3/mo

every grade, whole record

Momentum

-17%

Raw — 30d vs 90d median

Where it sells

100% eBay

Raw — last 90 days

Demand

71/100

Liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz

What each grade sold for

  • Raw$3948 sales · 25 in 90d, sells often
  • PSA 9$1886 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
  • TAG 9$2231 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 8$601 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 6$1021 sale
  • PSA 10$5,0001 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 9$361 sale
  • CGC 8$601 sale · 1 in 90d, rare

Medians of completed sales at that grade — not the ladder above, which prices every grade including the ones that have never traded here. Where the two differ, this one is what changed hands and the ladder is what it is worth.

Every sale we can show you

Completed sales from our own sold ledger, PSA’s certified-sale feed and the eBay comps, in one list, newest first — Fanatics, Goldin and eBay between them. Filter by grade: a raw copy and a graded slab are different objects, and averaging them is how a raw market comes to look wild. We hold 62 sales for this card going back to 2026; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
Pokemon SWSH Black Star Promos Pikachu 2021 Holo #SWSH153RaweBay2026-09-20—$33.33
Pikachu (Holiday Calendar) SWSH153 Black Star Promo Pokemon Card WAG 9RaweBay2026-09-03—$60.00
Pikachu HOLO PROMO SWSH153 (NM) SWSH Black Star PROMO Pokemon Cards 💎🔥💎🔥RaweBay2026-09-02—$20.00
Pokémon Pikachu Holo Promo Holiday Calendar SWSH153 PSA 9 2022 Snowflake StampPSA 9eBay2026-09-01—$250
Pikachu HOLO PROMO SWSH153 (NM) SWSH Black Star PROMO Pokemon Cards 💎🔥💎🔥RaweBay2026-08-30—$15.00
2022 Pokemon PIKACHU #SWSH153 SWSH Black Star Promos Holiday Calendar Holo PSA 9PSA 9eBay2026-08-30—$94.00
Pikachu (Holiday Calendar) SWSH153 Sword & Shield Black Star Promo Pokemon CardRaweBay2026-08-26—$49.99
Pikachu SWSH153 Holo Black Star Promo Holiday Calender Pokemon Card TCG 2022RaweBay2026-08-24—$33.00

1–8 of 21 sales · 0 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

Every grade, priced

Each row is a blended value for that slab, from real completed sales where we have them.

  • PSA 10asking$4319.9× raw
  • PSA 9$962.2× raw
  • CGC 92 sold$531.2× raw
  • ACE 9modelled$501.2× raw
  • PSA 8$501.1× raw
  • Ungraded$44
  • PSA 6modelled$40
  • BGS 8.5modelled$32
  • ACE 82 sold$26

A badge says what is behind the number. cert-verified means PSA sales each tied to a specific slab you can check by serial; sold means completed eBay or Fanatics listings; modelled means no verified graded sale exists and the figure is derived from the raw price and reference guides — a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. reviewed was set by hand after reading the sales record.

Trader

Compare graders, and the live market

The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population, the ROI table and the ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.

Trader plan and above →
  • PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market 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.

Built on 13 graded sales and a population of 4,409,561 · fees as of 2026-09-23.

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Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

Market data

Where else this card trades, where the markets disagree, and what the price series says about the last 90 days.

🇪🇺 Europe price · eBay sold

15% cheaper than the US

$33

Median of 5 raw sales, last 90 days (5 UK)

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Across the markets

24% apart
  • Our raw sold median$39
  • TCGplayer$48

Vendor prices for the same printing beside our own raw sold median — the same figure as the Raw row in the by-grade table. A wide gap is usually thin data on one side rather than an arbitrage; the headline is blended from sales, not from the cheapest of these.

What the series says

Volatility

volatile

90-day band

$10 – $49

Today’s price sits 87% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

🔥 Trending in the community

#3 on the radar

Mentions this week

26

Pikachu is among the most-discussed Pokémon right now across the investing and TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →

“A friend pulled the weirdest error pack” · 2858↑

About Pikachu

Which card this is — then the attacks and stats as printed, and the species behind them.

Pikachu is a Promo Pokémon card from SWSH Black Star Promos (#SWSH153, released 2019), illustrated by sowsow. It’s a Basic Lightning-type Pokémon with 60 HP, weak to Fighting ×2.

#65 most valuable Pikachu of 197#21 most valuable in SWSH Black Star Promos of 304

Card text

Thunder Shock30

Lightning · Lightning

Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Weakness Fighting ×2Retreat 1

“Pikachu that can generate powerful electricity have cheek sacs that are extra soft and super stretchy.”

The Pokémon

Mouse PokémonGEN I

Pichu → Pikachu → Raichu

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

Card details

Set
SWSH Black Star Promos
Number
#SWSH153
Rarity
Promo
Released
2019
Pokémon
All Pikachu cards
Generation
Gen I · Kanto
Artist
sowsow
Supertype
Pokémon
Subtypes
Basic
Type
Lightning
HP
60
National Pokédex
#25
Card ID
swshp-SWSH153
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Pikachu (SWSH Black Star Promos #SWSH153) worth?

As of 24 September 2026, Pikachu from SWSH Black Star Promos is worth approximately $44 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $431 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Pikachu?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Pikachu from SWSH Black Star Promos is worth around $431 — roughly 10× the raw ungraded value of $44.

How often does Pikachu sell?

CardTrack recorded 35 completed sales of Pikachu (SWSH Black Star Promos #SWSH153) across every grade in the last 90 days, 25 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-20. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Pikachu rare?

Pikachu is a Promo card from SWSH Black Star Promos (card #SWSH153), released in 2019.