Platinum · #79 · 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.
$2.90
up20% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 13, 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 $20.50 · CGC 10 $26.40 · PSA 8 $8.21
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
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$2.90 (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
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Today's TCGplayer market price for Lapras is $2.90 for the Normal printing.
Among the 133 priced cards in Platinum, it sits 55th. The set's top card is Dialga G LV.X at $233. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $1.07 then, $2.90 now (up 171%). A year ago it sat around $1.19; today's $2.90 is 143.7% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 25%, from $2.32. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $2.90 (October 2026) and as low as $0.96 (April 2025). Right now it's the priciest it's been since February 2024. Its 30-day range runs from $2.42 up to $2.90. The Normal printing is the headline number here; the Reverse Holofoil at $29.99 prices separately. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €0.36 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. $2.90 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $29.99
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.
Grind10×
Cost: Colorless
Does 10 damage times the amount of Energy attached to Lapras.
Ice Beam30
Cost: Water, Colorless, Colorless
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
“It loves crossing the sea with people and Pokémon on its back. It understands human speech.”
About $2.90 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 $26.40 — the latest CGC 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 5, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $2.90 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 25% over the last 3 months — from $2.32 to $2.90 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 144%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $2.90 — that was October 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 €0.36 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $2.90 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 Lapras (Platinum #79). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
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