XY Black Star Promos · #XY171 · 2013

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.
$80.70
up7% · 27dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 13, 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 8 $129
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 XY Black Star Promos
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$80.70 (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 →
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Right now M Salamence-EX trades at $80.70 for the Holofoil printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the 28th most valuable of XY Black Star Promos's 207 priced cards. (Pikachu-EX leads the set at $493.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 252.6% — from $22.89 to $80.70. Over the last year it's climbed 68.4%, from $47.93 to $80.70. The 90-day move: up 28.4%, $62.87 to $80.70. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $81.26 in October 2026; its lowest, $22.89 in February 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $81.26 at the top and $75.64 at the bottom.
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About $80.70 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 13, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $52.00 — the latest CGC 8.5 sold price we have, as of Oct 13, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $80.70 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 28% over the last 3 months — from $62.87 to $80.70 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 68%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $81.26 — 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 M Salamence-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY171). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $80.70 today.