Great Encounters · #53 · 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.
$0.50
Steady · 28dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 13, 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 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
$0.50 (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.)
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.
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Today's TCGplayer market price for Skarmory is $0.50 for the Normal printing.
Among the 106 priced cards in Great Encounters, it sits 83rd. The set's top card is Darkrai LV.X at $255. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $0.31 then, $0.50 now (up 61.3%). A year ago it sat around $0.34; today's $0.50 is 47.1% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 6.4%, from $0.47. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $0.52 (August 2026) and as low as $0.26 (September 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $0.49 up to $0.50. The Normal printing is the headline number here; the Reverse Holofoil at $3.75 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. $0.50 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $3.75
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.
Air Crash20
Cost: Metal
Flip a coin. If heads, discard an Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon.
Steel Wing40
Cost: Metal, Colorless, Colorless
During your opponent's next turn, any damage done to Skarmory by attacks is reduced by 20 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
“Despite being clad entirely in iron-hard armor, it flies at speeds over 180 mph.”
About $0.50 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 13, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $5.51 — the latest CGC 9 sold price we have, as of Oct 12, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $0.50 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 6% over the last 3 months — from $0.47 to $0.50 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 47%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $0.52 — 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 Skarmory (Great Encounters #53). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $0.50 today.
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