Swellow$2.57
Roaring Skies · Rare HoloPSA 10 $48
Swellow Pokémon Cards
- National Dex
- #277
- Printed
- 2003–2025
- Sets
- 13
- Rarities
- 4
- Total value
- $14
- raw, near mint
- Cards priced
- 14
- 12 with PSA 10
- Most valuable
- $3
- Roaring Skies
- Typical PSA 10
- 64.4×
- median of 12
CardTrack prices 14 different Swellow cards across 13 sets, from 2003 to 2025, worth $14 together. The most valuable is the Swellow from Roaring Skies at $2.57 ungraded, about $48 in PSA 10. Every price below is a blended raw value from real sold results, updated daily.
Swellow is a Colorless-type Pokémon (Generation III). Evolution line: Taillow → Swellow.
14 cards
- Swellow #72
- Swellow #15Swellow$1.92POP Series 1 · CommonPSA 10 $92
- Swellow δ #40Swellow δ$1.76Dragon Frontiers · Uncommon
- Swellow #45Swellow$1.74Dragon · UncommonPSA 10 $80
- Swellow #41Swellow$1.52Emerald · UncommonPSA 10 $59
- Swellow #46Swellow$1.23Ruby & Sapphire · UncommonPSA 10 $44
- Swellow #32Swellow$0.98Delta Species · Rare
- Swellow #73Swellow$0.69Legends Awakened · UncommonPSA 10 $44
- Swellow #49Swellow$0.66Deoxys · UncommonPSA 10 $56
- Swellow #103Swellow$0.44XY · RarePSA 10 $34
- Swellow #71Swellow$0.32Roaring Skies · RarePSA 10 $33
- Swellow #104Swellow$0.24Guardians Rising · RarePSA 10 $32
- Swellow #157Swellow$0.07Destined Rivals · CommonPSA 10 $31
- Swellow #134Swellow$0.04Vivid Voltage · UncommonPSA 10 $13
Where the Swellow 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 7 of 14 Swellow cards hold 83% of the $14 total. The remaining 7 share what is left, which is why a “complete Swellow collection” in the collection tracker costs far less than the headline suggests until you reach the top row.
- Roaring Skies · 2 cards$3
- POP Series 1 · 1 card$2
- Dragon Frontiers · 1 card$2
- Dragon · 1 card$2
- Emerald · 1 card$2
- Ruby & Sapphire · 1 card$1
What grading a Swellow is worth
Across the 12 Swellow cards that have both a raw price and a real PSA 10 price.
Typical (median)
64.4×
half are above, half below
Middle half
38.8× – 104×
the 25th to 75th percentile
Cheapest card
18.8×
smallest gap
Largest gap
438×
one card, near-zero raw
This is the median, not the average. Averaging the ratios gives 117×, which only 3 of 12 cards (25%) 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.
Swellow value over time
Total tracked value of every Swellow printing since 2021, from PriceCharting sales history; the top 100 cards across every Pokémon are charted in the market report.
90 days
+14.1%
1 year
-47.0%
All time
-40.6%
As of
2026-10
$142026-10-06-6.7% since 2021Hover the chart to read any month
Indexed over 9 of this set's 14 cards — the ones with enough PriceCharting sales history to track continuously.
Every Swellow card, by set
Open the other 11 Swellow cards, across 11 more sets
Collecting Swellow cards
Swellow has been printed in every era of the game, from 2003 (Dragon) to 2025 (Destined Rivals). The Classic (2004–2010) era holds the most printings, 6 of the 14, and it holds the value too: $8, 53% of the total.
Most Swellow cards are cheap to own: 14 of the 14 priced cards sit under $5 raw, the cheapest being the Swellow, and the median card is worth about $0.69. None reaches $50, so the total above is spread thinly rather than stacked in one card.
By rarity the printings split into 4 tiers, led by Uncommon (7), Rare (4) and Common (2). 12 of the 14 cards carry a PSA 10 price, the figure the grading section uses; those cards are worth about $0.66 raw at the median, against $0.98 for the 2 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 Swellow 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.
Swellow card questions
How many Swellow cards are there?
CardTrack tracks 14 priced Swellow cards across 13 Pokémon TCG sets, printed between 2003 and 2025. 12 of them also carry a real PSA 10 price.
What is the most valuable Swellow card?
The most valuable Swellow card is the Swellow from Roaring Skies (#72) at about $2.57 ungraded, or around $48 in PSA 10 gem mint.
How much is a complete Swellow collection worth?
All 14 tracked Swellow cards come to approximately $14 in raw near-mint condition. The value is concentrated: the top 7 cards alone account for 83% of it.
How much more is a graded Swellow card worth?
A typical Swellow card in PSA 10 sells for about 64.4× its raw price — that is the median across the 12 cards with both a raw and a PSA 10 price. Half fall between 38.8× and 104×, and the very cheapest cards can show far larger multiples simply because their raw price is near zero.
What is the cheapest Swellow card?
The cheapest priced Swellow card CardTrack tracks is the Swellow from Vivid Voltage (#134) at about $0.04. 14 of the 14 priced cards sit under $5, so a set-by-set Swellow collection starts cheaply.
Which set has the most Swellow cards?
Roaring Skies has the most Swellow printings, 2 of the 14. It also holds the most Swellow value, about $3.