Great Encounters · #47 · 2008
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.
$0.65
Steady · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 14, 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. CGC 10 $18.00
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 Great Encounters
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$0.65 (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.)
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Today's TCGplayer market price for Metapod is $0.65 for the Normal printing.
Among the 106 priced cards in Great Encounters, it sits 72nd. The set's top card is Darkrai LV.X at $263. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $0.55 then, $0.65 now (up 18.2%). A year ago it sat around $0.56; today's $0.65 is 16.1% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 3.2%, from $0.63. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $0.66 (June 2026) and as low as $0.49 (February 2026). The Normal printing is the headline number here; the Reverse Holofoil at $3.98 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. $0.65 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $3.98
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.
Poké-Power Emerge
Once during your turn (before your attack), if Metapod is your Active Pokémon, you may flip a coin. If heads, search your deck for a card that evolves from Metapod and put it onto Metapod. (This counts as evolving Metapod.) Shuffle your deck afterward. This power can't be used if Metapod is affected by a Special Condition.
Ram30
Cost: Grass, Colorless
“A steel-hard shell protects its tender body. It quietly endures hardships while awaiting evolution.”
About $0.65 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 14, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $18.00 — the latest CGC 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 11, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $0.65 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 3% over the last 3 months — from $0.63 to $0.65 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 16%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $0.66 — that was June 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 (Great Encounters #47). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $0.65 today.
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