Dragon · #1 · 2003
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. · Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more.
$170
Steady · 26dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 15, 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 $2,500 · PSA 9 $875 · CGC 10 $262
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 Dragon
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$170 (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.
BGS: Beckett Grading Services, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10 in half steps; a Black Label 10 is perfect on all four subgrades.
SGC: Sportscard Guaranty — a long-running grader with black-bordered slabs. Grades 1–10 in half steps; fewer Pokémon sales than the big three.
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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Absol sits at $170 on TCGplayer today for the Holofoil printing.
Inside Dragon, that ranks 9th out of 100 priced cards. (Rayquaza ex leads the set at $596.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 385% — from $35.05 to $170. Over the last year it's fallen 57%, from $395 to $170. The 90-day move: up 6.8%, $159 to $170. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $395 in October 2025; its lowest, $33.29 in March 2024. That's the Holofoil printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $101. On Cardmarket, the European printings of this card go for about €216.
By Printing
By printing: Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more. $170 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $101
TCGplayer prices each printing on its own — the Holofoil printing is the headline number on this page. Same card, same number — the print run or foil treatment is what changes.
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Cost: Darkness
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About $170 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 15, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $2,500 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 14, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $170 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 7% over the last 3 months — from $159 to $170 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's down 57%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $395 — that was October 2025. 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.
The European printings list around €216 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $170 on TCGplayer. Two marketplaces, two currencies — so watch both numbers instead of converting one into the other.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for Absol (Dragon #1). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $170 today.
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