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Piplup Pokémon Cards

National Dex
#009
Printed
2007–2025
Sets
17
Rarities
8
Total value
$1,060
raw, near mint
Cards priced
26
19 with PSA 10
Most valuable
$475
Cosmic Eclipse
Typical PSA 10
17.8×
median of 19

CardTrack prices 26 different Piplup cards across 17 sets, from 2007 to 2025, worth $1,060 together. The most valuable is the Blastoise & Piplup-GX from Cosmic Eclipse at $475.21 ungraded, about $2,900 in PSA 10. Every price below is a blended raw value from real sold results, updated daily.

Piplup is a Water-type Pokémon (Generation IV). Evolution line: Piplup → Prinplup → Empoleon.

All 26 Piplup cards

Filter by set or rarity, sort by value, era, the PSA 10 gap or the 30-day move.

26 cards

Prices updated · How we price →

Where the Piplup money is

Value is not spread evenly across the printings — the ranking below is by total tracked value, not by card count, the same measure as the most valuable Pokémon cards.

The top 4 of 26 Piplup cards hold 81% of the $1,060 total. The remaining 22 share what is left, which is why a “complete Piplup collection” in the collection tracker costs far less than the headline suggests until you reach the top row.

What grading a Piplup is worth

Across the 19 Piplup cards that have both a raw price and a real PSA 10 price.

Typical (median)

17.8×

half are above, half below

Middle half

7.1× – 47.6×

the 25th to 75th percentile

Cheapest card

2.8×

smallest gap

Largest gap

820×

one card, near-zero raw

This is the median, not the average. Averaging the ratios gives 73.6×, which only 4 of 19 cards (21%) actually reach: a card worth a few cents raw with a three-figure slab produces a ratio in the hundreds and drags the mean above almost the whole set. The median is what a card in the middle really does, and it is the figure to take to the grading ROI calculator.

Piplup value over time

Total tracked value of every Piplup printing since 2021, from PriceCharting sales history; the top 100 cards across every Pokémon are charted in the market report.

90 days

+11.1%

1 year

+89.7%

All time

+576.4%

As of

2026-10

$1,0602026-10-06+621.1% since 2021Hover the chart to read any month
$0$548$1,09620222023202420252026

Indexed over 17 of this set's 26 cards — the ones with enough PriceCharting sales history to track continuously.

Strongest Piplup grading opportunities

Ranked by expected net — every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it (the gem rate beside each card is its PSA 10 share). Best case is the PSA 10 outcome, which is why it is the larger number and the one to trust least.

All 11 Piplup grading picks →

What people are saying about Piplup

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Every Piplup card, by set

Open the other 19 Piplup cards, across 15 more sets

Collecting Piplup cards

Piplup printings span 3 eras, from 2007 (DP Black Star Promos) to 2025 (Phantasmal Flames), and the Modern (2011–2019) era holds the most of them, 12 of the 26, and it holds the value too: $940, 89% of the total.

Piplup cards are affordable but not bulk: 11 of the 26 priced cards sit under $5 raw, the cheapest being the Piplup, and the median card is worth about $6.41. 5 are worth $50 or more. Those 5 cards hold 87% of the total on this page.

By rarity the printings split into 8 tiers, led by Common (16), Rare Ultra (2) and Promo (2). 19 of the 26 cards carry a PSA 10 price, the figure the grading section uses; those cards are worth about $9.00 raw at the median, against $4.51 for the 7 with no gem-mint price on file.

The grid filters by set and rarity and sorts by value, era, the PSA 10 gap or the 30-day move, so the cheapest Piplup is one sort away (add the rarity filter for the cheapest holo); the by-set index above lists every card as text for when you know the number. Prices are CardTrack's blended raw value from real sold results, updated today.

Piplup card questions

How many Piplup cards are there?

CardTrack tracks 26 priced Piplup cards across 17 Pokémon TCG sets, printed between 2007 and 2025. 19 of them also carry a real PSA 10 price.

What is the most valuable Piplup card?

The most valuable Piplup card is the Blastoise & Piplup-GX from Cosmic Eclipse (#215) at about $475.21 ungraded, or around $2,900 in PSA 10 gem mint.

How much is a complete Piplup collection worth?

All 26 tracked Piplup cards come to approximately $1,060 in raw near-mint condition. The value is concentrated: the top 4 cards alone account for 81% of it.

How much more is a graded Piplup card worth?

A typical Piplup card in PSA 10 sells for about 17.8× its raw price — that is the median across the 19 cards with both a raw and a PSA 10 price. Half fall between 7.1× and 47.6×, and the very cheapest cards can show far larger multiples simply because their raw price is near zero.

What is the cheapest Piplup card?

The cheapest priced Piplup card CardTrack tracks is the Piplup from Brilliant Stars (#35) at about $0.26. 11 of the 26 priced cards sit under $5, so cheap Piplup cards exist, but most cost more.

Which set has the most Piplup cards?

Cosmic Eclipse has the most Piplup printings, 6 of the 26. It also holds the most Piplup value, about $920.

Which Piplup card is worth grading?

On expected profit the Piplup from DP Black Star Promos leads, at about $787 profit per submission after fees, with 4% of 224 graded copies coming back PSA 10. The full ranking covers all 11 gradeable Piplup cards.