XY Black Star Promos · #XY196 · 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.
$4.24
up24% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 6, 2026
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
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Genesect sits at $4.24 on TCGplayer today for the Holofoil printing.
Inside XY Black Star Promos, that ranks 182nd out of 207 priced cards. (Pikachu-EX leads the set at $493.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 542.4% — from $0.66 to $4.24. Over the last year it's climbed 228.7%, from $1.29 to $4.24. The 90-day move: up 67.6%, $2.53 to $4.24. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $4.24 in October 2026; its lowest, $0.65 in February 2024. Today's price is the highest we've seen since February 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $4.24 at the top and $3.43 at the bottom.
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Cost: Metal, Colorless
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About $4.24 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 →
Up about 68% over the last 3 months — from $2.53 to $4.24 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 229%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $4.24 — 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.
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Cards trading near $4.24 today.
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