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4 other Pokémon Communication printings exist — is this your card? Team Up 196/181 ↓
Pokémon Communication — Team Up #196

Rare SecretTeam Up196/1812019Illustrated by Ayaka Yoshida

Pokémon Communication 196/181 · Team Up price & value

Raw · near mint

$12.51

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 10$1088.6×
  • PSA 9$141.2×
  • Ungraded$13
Sales recorded
15
every grade, since 2025
Last 90 days
3 raw · 5 all
1 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
Medium
3 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Latest sale
40d ago
raw · any grade 4d ago
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No completed sales recorded yet. This is a marketplace asking price, which usually sits above what copies actually sell for. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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What's your copy worth?

The headline above is Near Mint. Most copies that actually change hands are not — here is the same card at every condition it is realistically held in. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →

  • NMheadline

    Near Mint

    $12.51

    basis

  • LP

    Lightly Played

    $8.89

    −29%

  • MP

    Moderately Played

    $6.21

    −50%

  • HP

    Heavily Played

    $5.75

    −54%

  • DM

    Damaged

    $4.75

    −62%

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

$13▲ 16%over 6 years

2021-02-01 → 2026-09-20

$5
$10
$15
$20
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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.
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Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-09T07:39:55.931Z.

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Cheapest raw copy $9 — 28% below our near-mint estimate of $13

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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

$7 – $80

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

1.5/mo

every grade, whole record

Demand

43/100

Moderate — sales rate, trend & buzz

What each grade sold for

  • PSA 10$1055 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
  • Raw$154 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
  • PSA 8$122 sales
  • PSA 7$92 sales
  • PSA 9$141 sale
  • PSA 6$61 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 15 sales for this card going back to 2025; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
Pokemon Communication (Secret) 196/181 Sm-Team Up Holo PSA 10PSA 10eBay2026-09-16—$105
Pokemon Communication 196/181 Secret Rare Team Up Pokemon Holo Near MintRaweBay2026-08-11—$12.99
Pokémon TCG Pokémon Communication 196/181 Rare Secret Team Up SetRaweBay2026-08-09—$6.50
2019 Pokémon Team Up Pokémon Communication 196/181 · PSA 6PSA 6eBayAuction2026-07-30156868408$5.50
2019 Pokemon Sun & Moon Team Up Secret #196 FA Pokemon Communication PSA 6PSA 6eBay2026-07-29—$5.50
Pokémon Communication 196/181 • Team Up • Gold Card • Pokémon TCGRaweBay2026-07-27—$16.15
2019 Pokémon Team Up Pokémon Communication 196/181 · PSA 10PSA 10eBayBestOffer2026-06-0185088434$105
POKEMON TEAM UP POKEMON COMMUNICATION #196 SECRET RARE PSA 10 GEM MINT PSA 10eBay2026-05-31—$105

1–8 of 30 sales · 19 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 10$1088.6× raw
  • PSA 9✓ 1 cert-verified$141.2× raw
  • Ungraded$13

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.

Is Pokémon Communication worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — not the PSA 10 outcome alone.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-20

after fees, all grades

Best case

$24

PSA 10 only

Grading cost

$71

tier fee + shipping

Best case is the PSA 10 outcome and the number to trust least — it assumes the gem rate the census above shows, which the census itself overstates. Expected net is the honest one.

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These are set to a flawless copy — the answer above. Change any of them to re-price it for the card in your hand.

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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 11 graded sales and a population of 4,409,561 · fees as of 2026-09-19.

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

Make sure you have the right card

Every price on this page is for Team Up #196/181, 2019. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

Holofoilpriced on this page
The illustration window

The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.

Market data

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

Across the markets

42% apart
  • PriceCharting$10
  • TCGplayer$13
  • Our raw sold median$15

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

$7 – $20

Today’s price sits 44% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

About Pokémon Communication

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

Pokémon Communication is a Rare Secret Pokémon card from Team Up (#196, released 2019), illustrated by Ayaka Yoshida. It’s a Item Trainer card. It’s listed among our gold secret rares.

#42 most valuable in Team Up of 197

Card text

Reveal a Pokémon from your hand and put it into your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn (before your attack).

Card details

Set
Team Up
Number
#196
Rarity
Rare Secret
Released
2019
Artist
Ayaka Yoshida
Supertype
Trainer
Subtypes
Item
Card ID
sm9-196
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Pokémon Communication (Team Up #196) worth?

As of 20 September 2026, Pokémon Communication from Team Up is worth approximately $13 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $108 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Pokémon Communication?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Pokémon Communication from Team Up is worth around $108 — roughly 9× the raw ungraded value of $13.

Should I grade my Pokémon Communication?

Probably not. Weighted across the grades this card actually earns, expected value after the $71 grading fee is about $-20 — grading it is likely to cost more than it adds.

How often does Pokémon Communication sell?

CardTrack recorded 5 completed sales of Pokémon Communication (Team Up #196) across every grade in the last 90 days, 3 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-16. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Pokémon Communication rare?

Pokémon Communication is a Rare Secret card from Team Up (card #196), released in 2019.