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Check your printing5 different Pokémon Communication printings exist — is this your card? Team Up #196
Pokémon Communication Team Up #196 Pokémon card
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Rare Secret

Pokémon Communication196/181 · Team Up Price & Value

2019 · Illustrated by Ayaka Yoshida
TrainerItem

Market value · Near Mint

$11.62
  • PSA 9$1modelled · pop 34
  • PSA 10$108pop 55
LiquidityOccasional sales
Confidence39 · low3 raw sales in 90 days, prices spread across conditions, last sale 1 month ago.
Sales · 90 days4
Range$10$12
Cert-verified10 PSA sales
No completed sales recorded yet. This is a marketplace asking price, which usually sits above what copies actually sell for. It becomes a sold-based price as soon as this card starts trading. eBay + TCGplayer. Updated 12 September 2026. 2 sources agree within 13%. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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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
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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

Graded a PSA 10? See its cert-verified sales and price history — individual sales PSA tied to a specific slab, each with a cert number you can check.

Price history · Raw

1 Oct 202312 Sept 2026
Latest
$11.62
Period high
$13.49
Period low
$6.55
Change
19.5% · 3Y
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Verified sales history

Medium confidence

3 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee.

Range$6.50$80.00Rawlowest to highest sale
Sales0 / 4last 30d / 90d, every grade
Sales rate1.3/mo14 recorded, every grade
Latest sale32d agoRaw3 in 90 days
Demandtoo few recent sales to score
DateSold viaGradeCertPrice
2026-07-30eBay · auctionPSA 6#156868408$5.50
2026-06-01eBay · offerPSA 10#85088434$105.00
2026-05-10eBay · auctionPSA 9#84126474$14.40
2026-03-25eBay · auctionPSA 8#143530483$10.51
2026-02-17eBayPSA 10#101163550$110.00
2025-11-09eBayPSA 8#96836077$13.16
2025-06-19eBay · offerPSA 8#96836077$21.12
2025-06-18eBay · offerPSA 10#95466389$70.00
2025-04-26eBay · offerPSA 10#56336340$60.00
2025-03-16eBayPSA 7#98564814$7.19

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Sale mix: 3 auctions, 4 accepted offers, 3 fixed-price. A graded copy trades roughly every 46 days (median gap between cert-verified sales).

Last sold
$13
Raw · 11 Aug 2026
Typical Raw
$15
Sales · last 90 days
4
How often it sells
No sales in the last 30 days
every 30 days · 0 in last 30 days

Real completed eBay sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title. Implausibly priced listings (lots, proxies, empty slabs) and wrong-variant sales are filtered out. Links to eBay are affiliate links — we may earn a commission.

Recent Raw sales

From 14 completed sales recorded between Feb 20, 2025 and Aug 11, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. The range is wide because these sales span different printings and conditions — 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited copies all carry this card's name, and they trade at very different levels. Each sale above is labelled with what its listing claimed, so you can see which ones describe the same object. Treat the median as the typical copy, not the range.

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?

Not worth grading

Most copies come back PSA 10worth $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.

You put in$82card + fees
Most likelyPSA 10$88 (+$6)
Break even atPSA 10or better
Best case1 in 2PSA 10 · $88
Average per card$35across every grade

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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.
Trader plan and above

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.

Secret / Rainbow2.5%19 cards
PSA 10 (gem mint)52.9%55 of 104
PSA 932.7%34 of 104
PSA graded so far104
Gem Mint 1055
Total graded104

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 gradeEst. valueGrading feeNet vs rawMultiple
PSA 10$107.50$71+$259.3×
PSA 9$1.25$70$800.1×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 104 PSA-graded copies:

OutcomeChanceValue
PSA 10typical52.9%$87.50
PSA 932.7%$1.25
PSA 88.7%$1.25 †
PSA 73.8%$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.

PSA104 gradedPSA 10 · 55 · 53% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 104.

105553%
93433%
898.7%
743.8%
CGC17 gradedCGC 10 · 6 · 35% gem

Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 17.

10635%
9847%
8.515.9%
4.515.9%

Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Pokémon Communication 10 is harder to pull.

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All grades & conditions

Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
Graded prices
Ungraded (raw)$11.62
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 55$108$91$124
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). “Modelled” = no verified graded sale behind the figure; it is derived from the raw price and reference guides, so treat it as a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. Confidence reflects source backing and price spread — not PSA-official values.
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Raw price by condition
Holofoil · live market via TCGplayer · how we price played copies
NMNear Mint$11.62
LPLightly Played$8.86
MPModerately Played$6.21
HPHeavily Played$5.75
DMGDamaged$4.75
7-dayflat
30-day 1.8%
90-day 5.5%
All-time high$12
All-time low$9
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost

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% spread
PriceCharting · cheapest$10
TCGplayer · dearest$12

Currently 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

Cross-marketSome gap 13% gap

Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.

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Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#196
RarityRare Secret
Released2019
SupertypeTrainer
SubtypesItem
Card IDsm9-196
SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Pokémon Communication cards

There are 5 different Pokémon Communication printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Team Up #196 (Rare Secret).

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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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