Pokémon Communication196/181 · Team Up Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
- PSA 9$1modelled · pop 34
- PSA 10$108pop 55
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.
The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
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.
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. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 12 September 2026.
Pokémon Communication price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence3 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.
Sale mix: 3 auctions, 4 accepted offers, 3 fixed-price. A graded copy trades roughly every 46 days (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$14.574 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 10$87.504 sales
- PSA 8$11.752 sales
- PSA 7$8.502 sales
- PSA 9$14.401 sale
- PSA 6$5.501 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
Is Pokémon Communication worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 10 — worth $88 against the $82 you put in. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $1–$88. Averaged over every outcome that is −$35 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
Pokémon Communication is a Secret / Rainbow in Team Up — the pack's hit slot lands on Secret / Rainbow 2.5% of the time, split across 19 secret / rainbow cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 764 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 | $107.50 | $71 | +$25 | 9.3× |
| PSA 9 | $1.25 | $70 | −$80 | 0.1× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 104 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 — typical | 52.9% | $87.50 |
| PSA 9 | 32.7% | $1.25 |
| PSA 8 | 8.7% | $1.25 † |
| PSA 7 | 3.8% | $1.25 † |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 1.9% | $11.62 |
† 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
55 of the 104 PSA-graded Pokémon Communication copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 53%. 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 104.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 17.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Pokémon Communication 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Full Art - Pokemon Communication Pokémon Sun & Moon Team Up #196Raw · eBay$9.00
Pokémon TCG Communication Trainer Secret Rare 196/181 SM-Team Up HoloRaw · eBay$12.00
2019 Sun & Moon - Team Up Pokémon Communication Rare Secret #196Raw · eBay$14.51
Pokémon Communication 196/181 NMRaw · eBay$29.99Cheapest raw copy $9.00 — 23% below our near-mint estimate of $12
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 55 | $108$91–$124 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
For context: a graded PSA 7 slab of this card sells for about $10 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.
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.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Pokémon Communication (Team Up #196) worth?
As of 12 September 2026, Pokémon Communication from Team Up is worth approximately $11.62 ungraded (near-mint), and around $108 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 Pokémon Communication?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Pokémon Communication from Team Up is worth around $108 — roughly 9× the raw ungraded value of $11.62.
Should I grade my Pokémon Communication?
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 Pokémon Communication rare?
Pokémon Communication is a Rare Secret card from Team Up (card #196).
How do I know if my Pokémon Communication is Holofoil?
The illustration window: The picture itself is foiled and the card body is flat. This is the standard holo.
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