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Check your printing9 different Ho-Oh printings exist — is this your card? XY Black Star Promos #XY153
Ho-Oh XY Black Star Promos #XY153 Pokémon card
Promo

Ho-Oh

XY Black Star Promos · PR-XY XY153 · Illustrated by You Iribi
120 HPFirePokémonBasic

Market value · ungraded

$11.60 6.0% · 30d
Confidencemedium
Range$11$16
Cert-verified10 PSA sales
Sold prices, not asking. TCGplayer + Cardmarket. Updated 20 August 2026. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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Estimated value · Near Mint
$11.60

What this price is based on

Low confidence

Only 2 sales in the last 90 days.

Median · Raw$62.492 sales
Trimmed mean$62.49outliers removed
Range$25.00$99.99lowest to highest sale
Sales rate0.7/mo10 recorded

Recent Raw sales

  • Jul 12, 2026eBay — 2015 Pokemon XY Black Star Promo #XY153 HO-Oh Holo KSA 9 MintNM$99.99
  • Jun 29, 2026eBay — Ho-Oh Black Star Promos XY153 Holo Pokemon Card GMA 6 EX-NMNM$25.00

By grade

  • Raw$62.492 sales
  • PSA 9$55.002 sales
  • PSA 8$1762 sales
  • PSA 7$12.502 sales
  • PSA 5$29.991 sale
  • PSA 10$3001 sale

From 10 completed sales recorded between Oct 6, 2024 and Jul 12, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted.

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NOT WORTH IT

Based on 8 graded sales and 1,305,862 pop-report entries for a near-mint copy.

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Ho-Oh is a Promo Pokémon card from XY Black Star Promos (#XY153), illustrated by You Iribi. It's a Basic Fire-type Pokémon with 120 HP, weak to Water ×2. Its current blended market value is $11.60 ungraded, with a PSA 10 worth around $300 — a gem-mint grading premium of roughly 26× the raw value. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 20 August 2026.

The receipts

Price history · Raw

1 Sept 202320 Aug 2026
Latest
$11.60
Period high
$11.75
Period low
$2.93
Change
55.3%
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Verified sales history10 in 90 daysreal completed listings

DateGradePriceCert
29 Jul 2026PSA 8$100.00#143457194
6 Jul 2026PSA 8$51.00#143457194
4 Jul 2026PSA 5$26.99#58335796
1 Jun 2026PSA 9$140.00#66316162
17 May 2026PSA 7$19.00#146022059
9 May 2026PSA 9$149.99#91615868
4 May 2026PSA 7$30.00#147651632
14 Feb 2026PSA 4$10.50#145273874
15 Dec 2025PSA 8$240.00#69087891
10 Oct 2025PSA 7$24.99#122572263

Should you grade it?

$28

Expected return across every likely grade, after fees — the realistic average, not the best case. Only 4.8% of copies gem (PSA 10 best case +$215); most land at PSA 9 or below.

Gem rate (est.)4.8%
Expected return$28
PSA 10 best case+$215
Break-evenPSA 9+
VerdictNot worth it

The odds

Ho-Oh is a Commoncard — a guaranteed slot in every pack, not a rarity gamble, so there's no pull-odds figure for it.

PSA 10 (gem mint)4.8%6 of 124
PSA 935.5%44 of 124
PSA graded so far124
Gem Mint 106
Total graded124

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$300.00$73+$21525.9×
PSA 9$100.00$71+$178.6×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 124 PSA-graded copies:

Likely outcomeChanceValue
PSA 104.8%$300.00
PSA 935.5%$100.00
PSA ≤859.7%$12.00

Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-06-28; 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 — every grade, with gem rates

Only 5% of 124 PSA-graded Ho-Oh copies are a gem-mint 10 (6 of 124) — the rest grade lower.

PSA124 gradedPSA 10 · 6 · 5% gem
106
944
8.51
831
7.51
715
615
58
43

Real graded population from PSA, CGC & BGS — a lower gem rate means a Ho-Oh 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)$11.60
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 6$300$300$300
PSA 9pop 44$100$100$100
PSA 7pop 152 sold$30$26$35
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). Other figures are blended marketplace estimates. 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
NMNear Mint$11.60
LPLightly Played$8.40
MPModerately Played$5.80
HPHeavily Played$3.90
DMGDamaged$3.24
7-dayflat
30-day 3.8%
90-day 6.1%
All-time high$12
All-time low$8
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost

For context: a graded PSA 7 slab of this card sells for about $19 (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

50% spread
PriceCharting · cheapest$11
TCGplayer$12
Cardmarket · dearest$16

Currently 50% cheaper on PriceCharting than Cardmarket. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.

Market signal

Momentum · 30dRising +6%
Cross-marketMarkets disagree 50% gap

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

🇪🇺 Cardmarket price · Europe

Cardmarket · Europe's largest card market$16

🔥 Trending in the community

#174 on the radar
Mentions this week1

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What people are saying: Dex Binder - Gen 1 Complete · 53↑

Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Stoke
Colorless

Flip a coin. If heads, search your deck for up to 2 Fire Energy cards and attach them to this Pokémon. Shuffle your deck afterward.

Fire Wing100
Fire · Fire · Colorless · Colorless
Weakness Water ×2Resistance Fighting -20Retreat 2

It will reveal itself before a pure-hearted Trainer by shining its bright, rainbow-colored wings.

About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Rainbow PokémonGEN IILegendary

Legends claim this POKéMON flies the world's skies con­ tinuously on its magnificent seven- colored wings.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#XY153
RarityPromo
SupertypePokémon
SubtypesBasic
TypeFire
HP120
WeaknessWater ×2
ResistanceFighting -20
Retreat cost2
National Pokédex#250
Card IDxyp-XY153
SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Ho-Oh cards

There are 9 different Ho-Oh printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is XY Black Star Promos #XY153 (Promo).

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Ho-Oh (XY Black Star Promos #XY153) worth?

As of 20 August 2026, Ho-Oh from XY Black Star Promos is worth approximately $11.60 ungraded (near-mint), and around $300 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 Ho-Oh?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Ho-Oh from XY Black Star Promos is worth around $300 — roughly 26× the raw ungraded value of $11.60.

Should I grade my Ho-Oh?

A PSA 10 sells for about $300 versus $11.60 raw — roughly a 26× uplift. Grading is worth it when that premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10. See the "Should you grade it?" estimate above for net profit per grade.

Is Ho-Oh rare?

Ho-Oh is a Promo card from XY Black Star Promos (card #XY153), illustrated by You Iribi. Its current blended market value is $11.60 ungraded.

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