Unseen Forces · #2 · 2005
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.
$18.93
Steady · 25dvia 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 $160 · PSA 9 $66.00 · PSA 8 $19.50
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 Unseen Forces
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$18.93 (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 →
Sold data via Card Hedge
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Ariados sits at $18.93 on TCGplayer today for the Holofoil printing.
Inside Unseen Forces, that ranks 66th out of 145 priced cards. The set's top card is Lugia ex at $2,500. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $6.74 then, $18.93 now (up 180.9%). A year ago it sat around $8.95; today's $18.93 is 111.5% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 14.8%, from $16.49. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $23.00 (July 2026) and as low as $6.68 (January 2025). The Holofoil printing is the headline number here; the Reverse Holofoil at $27.43 prices separately. Across the Atlantic, the European prints list around €10.66 on Cardmarket.
By Printing
By printing: Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more. $18.93 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $27.43
TCGplayer prices each printing on its own — the Holofoil printing is the headline number on this page. Same card, same number — the print run or foil treatment is what changes.
Reactive Poison10+
Cost: Colorless
Does 10 damage plus 30 more damage for each Special Condition affecting the Defending Pokémon.
Spider Trap
Cost: Grass
The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep and Poisoned. Before applying this effect, you may switch 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon with 1 of the Defending Pokémon. If you do, the new Defending Pokémon is now Asleep and Poisoned. Your opponent chooses the Defending Pokémon to switch.
About $18.93 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 $160 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 7, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $18.93 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 15% over the last 3 months — from $16.49 to $18.93 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 112%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $23.00 — that was July 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 €10.66 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $18.93 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 Ariados (Unseen Forces #2). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $18.93 today.
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