Sandstorm · #41 · 2003
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.
$3.11
down2% · 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 10 $89.97 · CGC 10 $9.00 · PSA 8 $14.51
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 Sandstorm
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$3.11 (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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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 →
Right now Lairon trades at $3.11 for the Normal printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the 45th most valuable of Sandstorm's 100 priced cards. (Raichu ex leads the set at $343.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 68.1% — from $1.85 to $3.11. Over the last year it's climbed 69.9%, from $1.83 to $3.11. The 90-day move: up 7.2%, $2.90 to $3.11. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $3.18 in August 2026; its lowest, $1.56 in June 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $3.18 at the top and $3.09 at the bottom. That's the Normal printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $6.36. On Cardmarket, the European printings of this card go for about €2.63.
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. $3.11 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $6.36
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.
Iron Defense
Cost: Colorless
Flip a coin. If heads, prevent all effects of an attack, including damage, done to Lairon during your opponent's next turn.
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Cost: Metal, Colorless, Colorless
About $3.11 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 7, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $89.97 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 5, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $3.11 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 7% over the last 3 months — from $2.90 to $3.11 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 70%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $3.18 — 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.
The European printings list around €2.63 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $3.11 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 Lairon (Sandstorm #41). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $3.11 today.
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