Sandstorm · #98 · 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.
$343
up32% · 28dvia 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 $15,450 · PSA 9 $4,000 · CGC 10 $2,556
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
$343 (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 →
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 Raichu ex trades at $343 for the Holofoil printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the most valuable card in Sandstorm — top of all 100 priced cards. Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 314.6% — from $82.66 to $343. Over the last year it's climbed 286.6%, from $88.65 to $343. The 90-day move: up 27.9%, $268 to $343. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $343 in September 2026; its lowest, $70.99 in May 2024. Today's price is the highest we've seen since February 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $343 at the top and $260 at the bottom. On Cardmarket, the European printings of this card go for about €180.
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Cost: Lightning
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Cost: Lightning, Lightning, Colorless
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About $343 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 7, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $15,450 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 7, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $343 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 28% over the last 3 months — from $268 to $343 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 287%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $343 — 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 €180 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $343 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 Raichu ex (Sandstorm #98). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $343 today.
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