ZapdosPR 23 · Wizards Black Star Promos Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
- PSA 8$40pop 456
- PSA 9$876 sold · 90d · pop 1,581
- PSA 10$36413 sold · 90d · pop 3,255
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Wizards Black Star Promos #PR 23, 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?
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Zapdos is a Promo Pokémon card from Wizards Black Star Promos (#23, released 1999), illustrated by Toshinao Aoki. It's a Basic Lightning-type Pokémon with 70 HP. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 12 September 2026.
Zapdos price history & recent sales
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Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence4 sales in 90 days — enough for a guide, not a guarantee. · Very liquid — Sells often
6 of 10 verified sales were competitive auctions — this price reflects real bidding, not asking prices. A graded copy trades roughly every 9 days (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- PSA 10$18625 sales · 13 in 90d, sells regularly
- CGC 10$54.6020 sales · 9 in 90d, sells regularly
- PSA 9$53.9012 sales · 6 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 9$27.009 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 8$18.606 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- CGC 6.5$15.605 sales
- Raw$15.974 sales · 4 in 90d, occasional
- Lot$15.604 sales
Is Zapdos worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $87 against the $97 you put in, a $10 loss. The money is in the 1 in 2 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $87–$186. Averaged over every outcome that is +$0 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
Zapdos 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 | $364.00 | $74 | +$265 | 14.1× |
| PSA 9 | $87.00 | $71 | −$10 | 3.4× |
| PSA 8 | $39.71 | $70 | −$57 | 1.5× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 378 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 34.4% | $186.00 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 22.8% | $87.00 |
| PSA 8 | 13.8% | $39.71 |
| PSA 7 | 8.5% | $31.20 |
| PSA 6 | 7.1% | $25.86 |
| PSA 5 | 8.5% | $20.47 |
| PSA 4 | 3.7% | $20.47 |
| PSA 3 | 0.5% | $20.47 |
| PSA 2 | 0.5% | $20.47 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.3% | $25.86 |
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
3,255 of the 5,995 PSA-graded Zapdos copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 54%. 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 5,995.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 4.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 76.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Zapdos 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Pokémon TCG Zapdos Wizards Black Star Promos 23 Regular PromoRaw · eBay$6.98
Zapdos 23 Promo Wizards Black Star Promos Pokemon HPRaw · eBay$7.77
Zapdos 23 Promo Wizards Black Star Promos Pokemon Heavily PlayedRaw · eBay$8.49
Zapdos 23 Promo Wizards Black Star Promos Pokemon MPRaw · eBay$9.00
Zapdos 23 Promo Wizards Black Star Promos Pokemon Lightly PlayedRaw · eBay$11.50
Zapdos 23 Wizards Black Star Promos Pokemon Lightly PlayedRaw · eBay$13.77Cheapest raw copy $6.98 — 73% below our near-mint estimate of $26
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 3,255 | ✓ 12 cert-verified$364$133–$364 | |
| PSA 9pop 1,581 | ✓ 11 cert-verified$87$51–$87 | |
| PSA 8pop 456 | 2 sold$40$34–$46 | |
| PSA 7pop 213 | 1 sold$31$27–$36 | |
| PSA 5pop 154 | modelled$20$16–$21 |
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 $54 (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
36% spreadCurrently 36% 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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Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Flip a coin. If heads, and if your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, choose 1 of them. This attack does 30 damage to that Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) If tails, Zapdos does 30 damage to itself.
“This legendary Pokémon is said to be present wherever there is a lightning storm.”
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
A legendary bird POKéMON that is said to appear from clouds while dropping enormous lightning bolts.
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Zapdos cards
There are 26 different Zapdos printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Wizards Black Star Promos #23 (Promo). The most valuable 7 are below.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Zapdos (Wizards Black Star Promos #23) worth?
As of 12 September 2026, Zapdos from Wizards Black Star Promos is worth approximately $25.86 ungraded (near-mint), and around $364 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 Zapdos?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Zapdos from Wizards Black Star Promos is worth around $364 — roughly 14× the raw ungraded value of $25.86.
Should I grade my Zapdos?
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 Zapdos rare?
Zapdos is a Promo card from Wizards Black Star Promos (card #23).
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