Team Rocket Returns · #40 · 2004
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.
$2.10
up5% · 27dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 12, 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 $128 · PSA 9 $50.54 · CGC 10 $49.00
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 Team Rocket Returns
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$2.10 (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 →
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Dark Pupitar sits at $2.10 on TCGplayer today for the Normal printing.
Inside Team Rocket Returns, that ranks 93rd out of 110 priced cards. The set's top card is Torchic ★ at $4,500. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $1.17 then, $2.10 now (up 79.5%). A year ago it sat around $1.82; today's $2.10 is 15.4% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 12.3%, from $1.87. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $2.11 (October 2026) and as low as $0.83 (June 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $1.99 up to $2.11. The Normal printing is the headline number here; the Reverse Holofoil at $79.94 prices separately.
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. $2.10 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $79.94
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.
Explosive Evolution
Cost: Colorless
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance.) Then, search your deck for a card that evolves from Dark Pupitar and put it on Dark Pupitar. (This counts as evolving Dark Pupitar.) Shuffle your deck afterward.
Double Tackle
Cost: Fighting, Colorless
Does 20 damage to each Defending Pokémon.
About $2.10 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 12, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $128 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 6, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $2.10 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 12% over the last 3 months — from $1.87 to $2.10 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 15%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $2.11 — 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.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for Dark Pupitar (Team Rocket Returns #40). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $2.10 today.
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