Sandstorm · #97 · 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. · Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more.
$147
up28% · 27dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 9, 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 $6,500 · PSA 9 $694 · CGC 10 $840
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. · Holofoil
$147 (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.
BGS: Beckett Grading Services, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10 in half steps; a Black Label 10 is perfect on all four subgrades.
SGC: Sportscard Guaranty — a long-running grader with black-bordered slabs. Grades 1–10 in half steps; fewer Pokémon sales than the big three.
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 →
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Right now Kabutops ex trades at $147 for the Holofoil printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the 6th most valuable of Sandstorm's 100 priced cards. The set's top card is Raichu ex at $343. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $54.50 then, $147 now (up 170.2%). A year ago it sat around $67.84; today's $147 is 117.1% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 32.7%, from $111. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $147 (October 2026) and as low as $46.56 (November 2024). Right now it's the priciest it's been since February 2024. Its 30-day range runs from $115 up to $147. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €109 on Cardmarket.
Hydrocutter40×
Cost: Colorless
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Spiral Drain70
Cost: Fighting, Fighting, Colorless, Colorless
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About $147 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 9, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $6,500 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 9, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $147 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 33% over the last 3 months — from $111 to $147 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 117%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $147 — 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 €109 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $147 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 Kabutops ex (Sandstorm #97). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
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