Surging Sparks
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Archaludon ex 224/191 Ultra Rare Surging Sparks Pokemon Holo Near Mint
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Surging Sparks · #224 · 2024
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.
$0.92
down16% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 6, 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 $49.99 · PSA 9 $10.00 · CGC 10 $10.00
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 Surging Sparks
995 ungraded eBay listings · asking from $0.99
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$0.92 (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.; rows marked “sold” carry the actual 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
995 ungraded Buy It Now listings · asking from $0.99 · median ask $1.99 (48 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.
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Ungraded · Buy It Now · 99.9% seller
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Listings from eBay as of our last check — some may have sold since.
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 →
Today's TCGplayer market price for Archaludon ex is $0.92 for the Holofoil printing.
Among the 252 priced cards in Surging Sparks, it sits 64th. The set's top card is Pikachu ex at $286. We've logged its price daily since Oct 31, 2024: $12.99 then, $0.92 now (down 92.9%). A year ago it sat around $1.53; today's $0.92 is 39.9% lower. Over the last 90 days it's down 8%, from $1.00. Since October 2024 it's run as high as $12.99 (October 2024) and as low as $0.89 (December 2025). Its 30-day range runs from $0.90 up to $1.19. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €1.13 on Cardmarket. Graded copies trade well above raw: a PSA 10 last sold for $49.99 on Sep 10 — about 54x the raw price.
Around the World
$0.92
USD is TCGplayer's market price for the English print; EUR is Cardmarket's, shared across the European printings (Cardmarket prices the physical card). Both update daily.
Ability Assemble Alloy
When you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may attach up to 2 Basic Metal Energy cards from your discard pile to your Metal Pokémon in any way you like.
Metal Defender220
Cost: Metal, Metal, Metal
During your opponent's next turn, this Pokémon has no Weakness.
About $0.92 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 6, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
A PSA 10 copy last sold for $49.99 on Sep 10, 2026 — a real recorded sale. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $0.92 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 8% over the last 3 months — from $1.00 to $0.92 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's down 40%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $12.99 — that was October 2024. We've been writing this card's price down since October 2024, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
The European printings list around €1.13 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $0.92 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 Archaludon ex (Surging Sparks #224) (995 right now). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $0.92 today.
