Misty's Tentacool$12.00
Gym Heroes · RarePSA 10 $100
Tentacool Pokémon Cards
- National Dex
- #072
- Printed
- 1999–2023
- Sets
- 14
- Rarities
- 3
- Total value
- $25
- raw, near mint
- Cards priced
- 16
- 14 with PSA 10
- Most valuable
- $12
- Gym Heroes
- Typical PSA 10
- 159×
- median of 14
CardTrack prices 16 different Tentacool cards across 14 sets, from 1999 to 2023, worth $25 together. The most valuable is the Misty's Tentacool from Gym Heroes at $12.00 ungraded, about $100 in PSA 10. Every price below is a blended raw value from real sold results, updated daily.
Tentacool is a Water-type Pokémon (Generation I). Evolution line: Tentacool → Tentacruel.
All 16 Tentacool cards
Filter by set or rarity, sort by value, era, the PSA 10 gap or the 30-day move.
16 cards
- Misty's Tentacool #32
- Tentacool #113Tentacool$3.50Aquapolis · CommonPSA 10 $80
- Tentacool #71Tentacool$3.09Primal Clash · UncommonPSA 10 $46
- Misty's Tentacool #57Misty's Tentacool$2.61Gym Heroes · UncommonPSA 10 $50
- Tentacool #96Tentacool$0.76Legendary Collection · Common
- Tentacool #80Tentacool$0.65HS—Triumphant · CommonPSA 10 $46
- Tentacool #56Tentacool$0.54Fossil · CommonPSA 10 $115
- Tentacool #125Tentacool$0.48Legends Awakened · CommonPSA 10 $42
- Tentacool #77Tentacool$0.39Hidden Legends · Common
- Tentacool #66Tentacool$0.36Legend Maker · CommonPSA 10 $78
- Tentacool #70Tentacool$0.22Primal Clash · CommonPSA 10 $35
- Tentacool #23Tentacool$0.21Guardians Rising · CommonPSA 10 $36
- Tentacool #72Tentacool$0.18151 · CommonPSA 10 $31
- Tentacool #60Tentacool$0.18Team Up · CommonPSA 10 $30
- Tentacool #26Tentacool$0.13Evolving Skies · CommonPSA 10 $31
- Tentacool #40Tentacool$0.06Unbroken Bonds · CommonPSA 10 $30
Where the Tentacool 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 16 Tentacool cards hold 84% of the $25 total. The remaining 12 share what is left, which is why a “complete Tentacool collection” in the collection tracker costs far less than the headline suggests until you reach the top row.
- Gym Heroes · 2 cards$15
- Aquapolis · 1 card$4
- Primal Clash · 2 cards$3
- Legendary Collection · 1 card$1
- HS—Triumphant · 1 card$1
- Fossil · 1 card$1
What grading a Tentacool is worth
Across the 14 Tentacool cards that have both a raw price and a real PSA 10 price.
Typical (median)
159×
half are above, half below
Middle half
22.9× – 172×
the 25th to 75th percentile
Cheapest card
8.3×
smallest gap
Largest gap
502×
one card, near-zero raw
This is the median, not the average. Averaging the ratios gives 147×, which only 8 of 14 cards (57%) 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.
Tentacool value over time
Total tracked value of every Tentacool printing since 2021, from PriceCharting sales history; the top 100 cards across every Pokémon are charted in the market report.
90 days
-34.5%
1 year
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All time
-44.0%
As of
2026-10
$252026-10-06-40.5% since 2021Hover the chart to read any month
Indexed over 11 of this set's 16 cards — the ones with enough PriceCharting sales history to track continuously.
1 year is withheld: the weighted index and the basket total disagree over that window, which means the index was re-based rather than the cards re-priced. A number we cannot stand behind is worse than no number.
Every Tentacool card, by set
Open the other 13 Tentacool cards, across 12 more sets
Collecting Tentacool cards
Tentacool has been printed in every era of the game, from 1999 (Fossil) to 2023 (151). The Vintage (1999–2003) era holds the most printings, 5 of the 16, and it holds the value too: $19, 77% of the total.
Most Tentacool cards are cheap to own: 15 of the 16 priced cards sit under $5 raw, the cheapest being the Tentacool, and the median card is worth about $0.39. None reaches $50, so the total above is spread thinly rather than stacked in one card.
By rarity the printings split into 3 tiers, led by Common (13), Uncommon (2) and Rare (1). 14 of the 16 cards carry a PSA 10 price, the figure the grading section uses; those cards are worth about $0.36 raw at the median, against $0.39 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 Tentacool 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.
Tentacool card questions
How many Tentacool cards are there?
CardTrack tracks 16 priced Tentacool cards across 14 Pokémon TCG sets, printed between 1999 and 2023. 14 of them also carry a real PSA 10 price.
What is the most valuable Tentacool card?
The most valuable Tentacool card is the Misty's Tentacool from Gym Heroes (#32) at about $12.00 ungraded, or around $100 in PSA 10 gem mint.
How much is a complete Tentacool collection worth?
All 16 tracked Tentacool cards come to approximately $25 in raw near-mint condition. The value is concentrated: the top 4 cards alone account for 84% of it.
How much more is a graded Tentacool card worth?
A typical Tentacool card in PSA 10 sells for about 159× its raw price — that is the median across the 14 cards with both a raw and a PSA 10 price. Half fall between 22.9× and 172×, and the very cheapest cards can show far larger multiples simply because their raw price is near zero.
What is the cheapest Tentacool card?
The cheapest priced Tentacool card CardTrack tracks is the Tentacool from Unbroken Bonds (#40) at about $0.06. 15 of the 16 priced cards sit under $5, so a set-by-set Tentacool collection starts cheaply.
Which set has the most Tentacool cards?
Gym Heroes has the most Tentacool printings, 2 of the 16. It also holds the most Tentacool value, about $15.