Surfing PikachuPR 28 · Wizards Black Star Promos Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
Pack fresh $100est.
- PSA 8$8014 sold · 90d · pop 1,422
- PSA 9$15010 sold · 90d · pop 2,767
- PSA 10$1,2503 sold · 90d · pop 1,218
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Wizards Black Star Promos #PR 28, 1999. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.
What's your copy worth?
Estimated. This card has enough sales to price the top 15% but not the top 5%, so pack-fresh is projected from the gap we measure between those two tiers on cards that do — about 1.4x on vintage, 1.2x on modern. $98.27. That's about +48% over a typical Near Mint copy.
ⓘ How do we work this out?
We take every real sale of this exact card over the last 12 months (21 sales), sort them by price, and read off the top 15% and top 5%. No multipliers, no guesses — the prices cleaner copies actually fetched.
Why cleaner copies cost more: buyers can see condition in the photos and pay for it. Listings sellers describe as pack fresh or gem mint land in this top band 1.7× more often than ordinary ones — the premium follows the card, not the hype.
Copies in this band are also the ones collectors send to grading: far more likely than a typical binder copy to be submitted at all — and to come back with the strong grade that carries the PSA prices shown on this page. That prospect is part of what buyers are paying for here.
These are read straight off this card's own completed sales — sort them by price and take the top 15% and top 5%. Whether your copy qualifies is a judgment made by looking at the card.
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Surfing Pikachu is a Promo Pokémon card from Wizards Black Star Promos (#28, released 1999), illustrated by Toshinao Aoki. It's a Basic Lightning-type Pokémon with 50 HP, weak to Fighting ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 7 September 2026.
Surfing Pikachu price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence62 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely. · Very liquid — Sells often
Sale mix: 4 auctions, 3 accepted offers, 3 fixed-price. A graded copy trades roughly every day (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$54.0386 sales · 62 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 8$84.0017 sales · 14 in 90d, sells regularly
- PSA 9$16214 sales · 10 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 9$68.4010 sales · 5 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 10$1,0258 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 7.5$33.704 sales
- PSA 7$11.003 sales
- CGC 9.5$86.403 sales
Is Surfing Pikachu worth grading?
Raw $66.46 → graded PSA 10 ≈ $1,250.00, after ~$112.49 grading fee → 18.8× the raw value.
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
Surfing Pikachu 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 | $1,250.00 | $112 | +$1,071 | 18.8× |
| PSA 9 | $149.50 | $71 | +$12 | 2.2× |
| PSA 8 | $79.99 | $71 | −$57 | 1.2× |
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. Real outcome depends on the grade achieved; PSA 10 is best-case.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
1,218 of the 6,373 PSA-graded Surfing Pikachu copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 19%. 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 6,373.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 61.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Surfing Pikachu 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Surfing Pikachu 28 Promo Wizards Black Star Promos PokemonRaw · eBay$25.99
Surfing Pikachu 28 Promo Wizards Black Star Promos Pokemon Lightly PlayedRaw · eBay$44.95
Surfing Pikachu #28 Black Star Promo (LP)Raw · eBay$49.99
Surfing Pikachu 28 Promo Wizards Black Star Promos Pokemon Moderately PlayedRaw · eBay$50.99
Surfing Pikachu 28/53 Pokémon 1999 Non-Holo Wizards Black Star Promos LPRaw · eBay$52.00
Surfing Pikachu Wizards Black Star Promo #28Raw · eBay$57.50Cheapest raw copy $25.99 — 61% below our near-mint estimate of $66
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 1,218 | $1,250$1,063–$1,438 | |
| PSA 9pop 2,767 | $150$127–$172 | |
| PSA 8pop 1,422 | $80$68–$92 | |
| PSA 7pop 533 | ✓ 6 cert-verified$60 | |
| PSA 6pop 238 | modelled$42$22–$59 | |
| PSA 5pop 107 | modelled$27$9–$45 | |
| PSA 4pop 45 | modelled$25$25–$25 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
A typical Near Mint copy sells for $67.70. Grading-candidate copies — the cleanest 15% of sales — typically fetch $71.50 (+6%). Pack-fresh examples — the top 5% — go for about $100.
From 7 sales in the last 12 months. These describe the market — whether a specific copy is a grading candidate is a judgment made by looking at it.
For context: a graded PSA 1 slab of this card sells for about $200 (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
14% spreadCurrently 14% 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
“One summer, a group of Pikachus was found riding the waves at the local beach.”
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Surfing Pikachu cards
There are 3 different Surfing Pikachu printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Wizards Black Star Promos #28 (Promo).
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Surfing Pikachu (Wizards Black Star Promos #28) worth?
As of 7 September 2026, Surfing Pikachu from Wizards Black Star Promos is worth approximately $66.46 ungraded (near-mint), and around $1,250 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 Surfing Pikachu?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Surfing Pikachu from Wizards Black Star Promos is worth around $1,250 — roughly 19× the raw ungraded value of $66.46.
Should I grade my Surfing Pikachu?
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 Surfing Pikachu rare?
Surfing Pikachu is a Promo card from Wizards Black Star Promos (card #28).
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