Dratini53/109 · Team Rocket Returns Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
- PSA 9$223 sold · 90d · pop 30
- PSA 10$1031 sold · 90d · pop 25
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Team Rocket Returns #53/109, 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.
The same name and number exists in other sets. The number printed on your card is what separates them — this page prices 53/109.
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.
Dratini is a Common Pokémon card from Team Rocket Returns (#53, released 2004), illustrated by Atsuko Nishida. It's a Basic Colorless-type Pokémon with 50 HP, weak to Colorless ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 9 September 2026.
Dratini price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
High confidence36 sales in 90 days, closely clustered. · Very liquid — Sells often
7 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$5.9946 sales · 36 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 9$23.755 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 8$28.523 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 7$21.752 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- PSA 10$1032 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- Lot$9.002 sales
- CGC 9.5$24.492 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9$13.201 sale
Is Dratini worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $22 against the $78 you put in, a $56 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $22–$103. Averaged over every outcome that is −$29 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
Dratini is a Commoncard — 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 | $103.23 | $71 | +$24 | 12.7× |
| PSA 9 | $22.00 | $70 | −$56 | 2.7× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 73 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 34.2% | $103.23 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 41.1% | $22.00 |
| PSA 8 | 23.3% | $22.00 † |
| PSA 7 | 1.4% | $22.00 † |
† 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
25 of the 73 PSA-graded Dratini copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 34%. 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 73.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 151.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 3.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 4.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Dratini 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Dratini 53/109 EX Team Rocket Returns RegularRaw · eBay$5.00
Dratini - 53/109 - Team Rocket Returns - Pokémon Vintage 2004 LPRaw · eBay$5.00
Pokemon TCG Dratini 53/109 EX Team Rocket Returns Unlimited Regular Common 50 HPRaw · eBay$5.00
Dratini 53/109 Team Rocket Returns regular LP PokemonRaw · eBay$5.50
Dratini - 53/109 - Team Rocket Returns - 2004Raw · eBay$5.99
Dratini 53/109 EX Team Rocket Returns RegularRaw · eBay$6.00Cheapest raw copy $5.00 — 39% below our near-mint estimate of $8
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 25 | $103$88–$119 | |
| PSA 9pop 30 | ✓ 7 cert-verified$22 |
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
Priced per printing — some from our own completed sales, the rest from TCGplayer's market price. Reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.
Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz
Cross-market prices
13% spreadCurrently 13% 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
Each Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage.
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Other Dratini cards
There are 27 different Dratini printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Team Rocket Returns #53 (Common). The most valuable 7 are below.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Dratini (Team Rocket Returns #53) worth?
As of 9 September 2026, Dratini from Team Rocket Returns is worth approximately $8.15 ungraded (near-mint), and around $103 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 Dratini?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Dratini from Team Rocket Returns is worth around $103 — roughly 13× the raw ungraded value of $8.15.
Should I grade my Dratini?
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 Dratini rare?
Dratini is a Common card from Team Rocket Returns (card #53).
How do I know if my Dratini 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.
How do I tell this Dratini apart from the Team Rocket one?
They share a name and a card number but come from different sets, and the number printed on the card tells them apart: this one is 53/109 (Team Rocket Returns, 2004) and the other is 53/82 (Team Rocket, 2000).
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