Dark Explorers · #23 · 2012
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.
$9.01
down8% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 10, 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 8 $13.50
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 Dark Explorers
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$9.01 (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.)
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 →
Sold data via Card Hedge
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Slowpoke sits at $9.01 on TCGplayer today for the Normal printing.
Inside Dark Explorers, that ranks 24th out of 111 priced cards. (Gardevoir leads the set at $946.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 1666.7% — from $0.51 to $9.01. Over the last year it's climbed 1187.1%, from $0.70 to $9.01. The 90-day move: down 1.4%, $9.14 to $9.01. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $12.36 in August 2026; its lowest, $0.46 in March 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $10.02 at the top and $8.99 at the bottom. That's the Normal printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $31.65.
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. $9.01 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $31.65
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.
Big Yawn
Cost: Colorless
Both this Pokémon and the Defending Pokémon are now Asleep.
Shot in the Dark20
Cost: Water, Colorless
Flip 2 coins. If either of them is tails, this attack does nothing.
“Although slow, it is skilled at fishing with its tail. It does not feel pain if its tail is bitten.”
About $9.01 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 10, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $13.50 — the latest PSA 8 sold price we have, as of Oct 6, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $9.01 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 1% over the last 3 months — from $9.14 to $9.01 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 1187%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $12.36 — that was August 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 Slowpoke (Dark Explorers #23). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $9.01 today.
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