Dark Arbok29/109 · Team Rocket Returns Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
- PSA 9$307 sold · 90d · pop 30
- PSA 10$1441 sold · 90d · pop 32
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Team Rocket Returns #29/109, 2004. 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.
Dark Arbok is a Uncommon Pokémon card from Team Rocket Returns (#29, released 2004), illustrated by Nakaoka. It's a Stage 1 Grass/Darkness-type Pokémon with 90 HP, evolving from Ekans, weak to Psychic ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 14 September 2026.
Dark Arbok price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence51 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely. · Very liquid — Sells often
5 of 10 verified sales were competitive auctions — this price reflects real bidding, not asking prices. A graded copy trades roughly every 8 days (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$4.9961 sales · 51 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 9$30.008 sales · 7 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 10$1434 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 4$14.252 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- CGC 8$13.152 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 8$1001 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 7$24.191 sale
- CGC 9$14.401 sale
Is Dark Arbok worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $30 against the $77 you put in, a $47 loss. The money is in the 1 in 2 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $30–$143. Averaged over every outcome that is −$13 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
Dark Arbok is a Uncommoncard — 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 | $143.80 | $71 | +$66 | 22.5× |
| PSA 9 | $30.00 | $70 | −$47 | 4.7× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 96 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 33.3% | $142.60 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 31.3% | $30.00 |
| PSA 8 | 15.6% | $30.00 † |
| PSA 7 | 8.3% | $24.88 |
| PSA 6 | 4.2% | $6.39 |
| PSA 5 | 3.1% | $6.39 |
| PSA 4 | 2.1% | $6.39 |
| PSA 3 | 1% | $6.39 |
| PSA 2 | 1% | $6.39 |
† 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
32 of the 96 PSA-graded Dark Arbok copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 33%. 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 96.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 155.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 4.
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 Dark Arbok 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Dark Arbok Uncommon Team Rocket Returns 29/109 MPRaw · eBay$2.00
Dark Arbok 29/109 Uncommon Team Rocket Returns Pokemon CardRaw · eBay$2.48
Pokemon - Dark Arbok - EX Team Rocket Returns - 29/109 - Vintage - 2004Raw · eBay$2.50
Dark Arbok 29/109 Uncommon Team Rocket Returns Pokemon Moderately PlayedRaw · eBay$2.89
Dark Arbok 29/109 HP Team Rocket Returns Uncommon PokemonRaw · eBay$2.99
2004 Pokemon, Team Rocket Returns, #29/109 Dark Arbok, Uncommon HPRaw · eBay$2.99Cheapest raw copy $2.48 — 61% below our near-mint estimate of $6
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 32 | $144$122–$165 | |
| PSA 9pop 30 | $30$26–$35 | |
| PSA 7pop 8 | modelled$25$21–$29 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
For context: a graded PSA 4 slab of this card sells for about $18 (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
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
21% spreadCurrently 21% 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 textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Ekans.
Before doing damage, count the remaining HP of the Defending Pokémon and Dark Arbok. If the Defending Pokémon has fewer remaining HP than Dark Arbok's, this attack does 10 damage plus 30 more damage.
If the Defending Pokémon is Pokémon-ex, the Defending Pokémon is now Asleep and Poisoned.
This Pokémon is both Grass Darkness type.
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Dark Arbok cards
There are 3 different Dark Arbok printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Team Rocket Returns #29 (Uncommon).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Dark Arbok (Team Rocket Returns #29) worth?
As of 14 September 2026, Dark Arbok from Team Rocket Returns is worth approximately $6.39 ungraded (near-mint), and around $144 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 Dark Arbok?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Dark Arbok from Team Rocket Returns is worth around $144 — roughly 23× the raw ungraded value of $6.39.
Should I grade my Dark Arbok?
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 Dark Arbok rare?
Dark Arbok is a Uncommon card from Team Rocket Returns (card #29).
How do I know if my Dark Arbok 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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