Team Rocket Returns · #8 · 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.
$21.49
Steady · 22dvia 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 $2,130 · PSA 9 $99.99 · CGC 10 $240
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
$21.49 (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.
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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Right now Dark Octillery trades at $21.49 for the Normal printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the 36th most valuable of Team Rocket Returns's 110 priced cards. The set's top card is Torchic ★ at $4,500. We've logged its price daily since May 29, 2024: $5.00 then, $21.49 now (up 329.8%). A year ago it sat around $19.12; today's $21.49 is 12.4% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 1.4%, from $21.19. Since May 2024 it's run as high as $21.49 (October 2026) and as low as $5.00 (May 2024). Right now it's the priciest it's been since May 2024. Its 30-day range runs from $21.19 up to $21.49. The Normal printing is the headline number here; the Holofoil at $29.08 and the Reverse Holofoil at $85.00 price 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. $21.49 · Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more. $29.08 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $85.00
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.
Black Suction Cups
Cost: Water
Does 10 damage to each Defending Pokémon. Flip a coin. If heads, each Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
Ink Blast30+
Cost: Colorless, Colorless
Does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each Energy attached to Dark Octillery but not used to pay for this attack's Energy cost. You can't add more than 20 damage in this way.
About $21.49 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 $2,130 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 12, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $21.49 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 1% over the last 3 months — from $21.19 to $21.49 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 12%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $21.49 — that was October 2026. We've been writing this card's price down since May 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 Octillery (Team Rocket Returns #8). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
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