Forbidden Light · #81 · 2018
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.
$1.00
Steady · 27dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 7, 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 9 $23.36 · 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 Forbidden Light
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$1.00 (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 Empoleon is $1.00 for the Holofoil printing.
Among the 146 priced cards in Forbidden Light, it sits 61st. (Lucario-GX leads the set at $128.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 92.3% — from $0.52 to $1.00. Over the last year it's climbed 63.9%, from $0.61 to $1.00. The 90-day move: up 14.9%, $0.87 to $1.00. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $1.01 in September 2026; its lowest, $0.47 in May 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $1.01 at the top and $1.00 at the bottom. That's the Holofoil printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $0.93.
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. $1.00 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $0.93
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.
Total Command20×
Cost: Metal, Colorless
This attack does 20 damage for each Benched Pokémon (both yours and your opponent's).
Whirlpool90
Cost: Metal, Metal, Colorless
Discard an Energy from your opponent's Active Pokémon.
“The three horns that extend from its beak attest to its power. The leader has the biggest horns.”
About $1.00 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 7, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $23.36 — the latest PSA 9 sold price we have, as of Oct 5, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $1.00 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 15% over the last 3 months — from $0.87 to $1.00 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 64%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $1.01 — that was September 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 Empoleon (Forbidden Light #81). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $1.00 today.
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