Flashfire · #2 · 2014
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.
$0.28
Steady · 27dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 8, 2026
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 Flashfire
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$0.28 (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.
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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Today's TCGplayer market price for Metapod is $0.28 for the Normal printing.
Among the 109 priced cards in Flashfire, it sits 72nd. (M Charizard-EX leads the set at $1,501.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 40% — from $0.20 to $0.28. Over the last year it's climbed 21.7%, from $0.23 to $0.28. The 90-day move: down 6.7%, $0.30 to $0.28. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $0.30 in July 2026; its lowest, $0.15 in September 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $0.28 at the top and $0.27 at the bottom. That's the Normal printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $1.34.
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. $0.28 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $1.34
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 Adaptive Evolution
This Pokémon can evolve during your first turn or the turn you play it.
Harden
Cost: Colorless, Colorless
During your opponent's next turn, if this Pokémon would be damaged by an attack, prevent that attack's damage done to this Pokémon if that damage is 60 or less.
“A steel-hard shell protects its tender body. It quietly endures hardships while awaiting evolution.”
About $0.28 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 $14.50 — the latest PSA 7 sold price we have, as of Oct 8, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $0.28 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 7% over the last 3 months — from $0.30 to $0.28 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 22%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $0.30 — 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 Metapod (Flashfire #2). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $0.28 today.
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