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Pokemon Empoleon Card #26/127 Platinum HP
$2.24free shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 99.9% seller
vs raw market $3.14: 29% under
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Platinum · #26 · 2009
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.
$3.14
down5% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 8, 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 $99.97 · PSA 8 $48.42
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 Platinum
48 ungraded eBay listings · asking from $1.00
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$3.14 (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.
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
48 ungraded Buy It Now listings · asking from $1.00 · median ask $2.99 (36 asks)
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Item prices asked right now for ungraded, Buy It Now copies of this exact card — what sellers want, not what copies sell for. Graded slabs and auctions are left out. The TCGplayer market price above is the sold-side yardstick.
$2.24free shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 99.9% seller
vs raw market $3.14: 29% under
Buy on eBay
$1.89+ $0.65 shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $3.14: 19% under
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$1.75+ $1.00 shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 99.9% seller
vs raw market $3.14: 12% under
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$1.49+ $1.32 shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $3.14: 11% under
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$2.70free shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $3.14: 14% under
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$2.79free shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $3.14: 11% under
Buy on eBay
$2.99+ $0.99 shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $3.14: 27% above
Buy on eBay
$1.79+ $0.65 shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $3.14: 22% under
Buy on eBay
Listings from eBay as of our last check — some may have sold since.How we compare →
What it actually sells for
Our chart tracks TCGplayer's market price and the asking prices of live eBay listings — what sellers want, not what buyers paid. Completed sale prices live on eBay itself: see recent sold listings for this card →
Empoleon sits at $3.14 on TCGplayer today for the Normal printing.
Inside Platinum, that ranks 52nd out of 133 priced cards. The set's top card is Dialga G LV.X at $231. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $1.48 then, $3.14 now (up 112.2%). A year ago it sat around $1.43; today's $3.14 is 119.6% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 7.2%, from $2.93. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $3.39 (September 2026) and as low as $1.27 (November 2025). Its 30-day range runs from $3.11 up to $3.39. The Normal printing is the headline number here; the Reverse Holofoil at $10.82 prices separately. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €1.66 on Cardmarket.
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. $3.14 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $10.82
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.
Knock Off40
Cost: Water, Colorless
Choose 1 card from your opponent's hand without looking and discard it.
Jet Smash
Cost: Water, Colorless, Colorless
Choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 70 damage to that Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Empoleon can't use Jet Smash during your next turn.
“If anyone were to hurt its pride, it would slash them with wings that can cleave through an ice floe.”
About $3.14 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 $99.97 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 5, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $3.14 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 7% over the last 3 months — from $2.93 to $3.14 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 120%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $3.39 — 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.
The European printings list around €1.66 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $3.14 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 Empoleon (Platinum #26) (48 right now). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $3.14 today.
