Ancient Origins · #22 · 2015
Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily. · Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card.
$1.14
Steady · 28dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 8, 2026
Graded: Examined by a professional company, scored 1–10, and sealed in a labeled case. Graded copies trade at their own prices, grade by grade. PSA 10 $344 · PSA 9 $70.00 · PSA 8 $17.28
Set rank: Where this card's market price ranks among the priced cards in its set — #1 is the set's most valuable card. in Ancient Origins
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$1.14 (TCGplayer Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily.)
PSA: Professional Sports Authenticator, the biggest grading company. Grades 1–10; PSA 10 is Gem Mint, and PSA slabs are the easiest to price and sell.
CGC: Certified Guaranty Company, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10, with a Pristine 10 above Gem Mint 10; CGC slabs often sell a little below PSA.
Latest sold prices As of (a date): The price in force on the day we last checked — not a sale that closed that day. Rows marked “sold” carry the real sale day.. PSA and CGC grade on the same 1–10 scale, but the market prices them differently — what grades mean →
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Vaporeon sits at $1.14 on TCGplayer today for the Normal printing.
Inside Ancient Origins, that ranks 38th out of 100 priced cards. The set's top card is M Rayquaza-EX at $1,147. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $0.44 then, $1.14 now (up 159.1%). A year ago it sat around $0.71; today's $1.14 is 60.6% higher. Over the last 90 days it's down 30.5%, from $1.64. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $1.77 (July 2026) and as low as $0.29 (May 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $1.06 up to $1.16. The Normal printing is the headline number here; the Reverse Holofoil at $3.11 prices separately.
By Printing
By printing: Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card. $1.14 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $3.11
TCGplayer prices each printing on its own — the Normal printing is the headline number on this page. Same card, same number — the print run or foil treatment is what changes.
Ability Aqua Effect
Each of your Stage 1 Pokémon in play is now a Water Pokémon in addition to its existing types.
Hydro Splash70
Cost: Water, Colorless, Colorless
“It has evolved to be suitable for an aquatic life. It can invisibly melt away into water.”
About $1.14 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 8, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $344 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 8, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $1.14 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 31% over the last 3 months — from $1.64 to $1.14 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 61%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $1.77 — that was July 2026. We've been writing this card's price down since February 2024, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for Vaporeon (Ancient Origins #22). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $1.14 today.
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