Top Selling Pokémon Cards on TCGplayer: September 2024

The first step to serving customer demand is to understand it. So to help you follow what’s currently popular with players and collectors, we’ve put together a pair of downloadable CSV reports of the top-selling Pokémon cards of the past month.

These reports show the name and set of the Pokémon cards with the highest total number of copies sold on the TCGplayer Marketplace between September 1 and September 26. The reports consider cards from different sets to be distinct (even if they have the same name), but do not distinguish copies sold by condition (Near Mint, Lightly Played, etc.) or by printing (Foil, etc.).

The two reports cover cards that had an average sale price in September within two ranges: $50.00 or more, and $1.00 to $49.99.

• Download Top Selling Report: PKMN Cards $50 or More
• Download Top Selling Report: PKMN Cards $1 to $50

Here are five highlights from each report.

 

Top Selling Pokémon Cards: $50 or More

#1 Terapagos ex - 170/142
Set: Stellar Crown
Average Sale Price: $121.80

Stellar Crown released on September 13 and Special Illustration Rare Terapagos ex was immediately crowned the new hotness. With dazzling art for collectors and hard-hitting attacks for players, Terapagos earns its title as the #1 chase card in the new Pokémon set. It probably won’t have the staying power of other cards on this list like Mew and Charizard, but fans will enjoy hunting for this hidden treasure at least until Surging Sparks arrives on November 8.

#2 Mew ex - 232/091
Set: Paldean Fates
Average Sale Price: $92.02

The Special Illustration Rare version of Mew ex with art by USGMEN is continuing its multi-month streak as one of the bestselling Pokémon cards over $50. Once again, it was helped along by a sizable buyout, this time on September 16, when the number of copies per buyer rose to 6.3.

#3 Charizard ex - 199/165
Set: Scarlet & Violet—151
Average Sale Price: $119.84

The Pokémon Company did an admirable job printing enough Scarlet & Violet—151 to meet the absurd demand for this nostalgia-set-to-end-all-nostalgia-sets. Even so, 151 is a year old now, and supply is starting to dry up—which is driving up prices and sales of the #1 card from the set, this Special Illustration Rare Charizard card that forms the third part in a story connecting its whole evolution line.

#4 Charizard ex - 234/091
Set: Paldean Fates
Average Sale Price: $106.77

Paldean Fates came out this year and doesn’t have as compelling a premise as 151, so its fancy Charizard card falls just short of 151’s fancy Charizard card in terms of copies sold. But only just. Shiny Tera Charizard has the advantage of being one of the strongest cards in Standard, so it gets the same bump from player demand that’s helped keep Mew ex near the top of this report.

#5 Lacey - 172/142
Set: Stellar Crown
Average Sale Price: $51.69

Lacey came out swinging when Stellar Crown released, with a price reflecting her status as the most expensive card in Stellar Miracle, the Japanese equivalent of Stellar Crown. Her price quickly dropped and never bounced back, but she’s still among the bestselling cards from the set. Illustration Rare Squirtle and Bulbasaur from Stellar Crown would have outranked her on this list, but they both fell short of the $50.

 

Top Selling Pokémon Cards: $1.00 to $49.99

#1 Buddy-Buddy Poffin
Set: Temporal Forces
Average Sale Price:​​ $2.13

As usual, the bestselling Pokémon cards in the $1 to $50 range this month are Trainer cards that show up across a wide range of competitive decks. This month’s list might have been identical to last month’s if Super Rod hadn’t dropped to under $1, disqualifying it from this section.

Buddy-Buddy Poffin sees play in every competitive Pokémon deck that runs Evolution Pokémon, so it’s more or less guaranteed to rank among the top-selling cards.

#2 Earthen Vessel
Set: Paradox Rift
Average Sale Price: $4.69

Just like Buddy-Buddy Poffin, Earthen Vessel is a competitive staple across tons of Pokémon decks that has only been printed once at its base rarity. The upcoming Pokémon set Stellar Crown is going to feature lots of Stellar-type Pokémon cards that require multiple types of Energy to attack, so the ability to search up any type of energy with Earthen Vessel is only going to become more powerful.

#3 Arven - 166/198
Set: Scarlet & Violet Base Set
Average Sale Price: $1.80

Arven is another two-for-one search card that shows up all over the Pokémon TCG’s Standard format. Along with this version, Arven has been printed as an Uncommon in Obsidian Flames, but the Scarlet & Base Set version has more listings on TCGplayer and is consequently cheaper.

#4 Counter Catcher
Set: Paradox Rift
Average Sale Price: ​​$1.48

Counter Catcher isn’t as ubiquitous as cards like Arven and Earthen Vessel, but it still had a good showing at the 2024 Pokémon World Championships in decks like Charizard and Gardevoir.

#5 Fezandipiti ex - 038/064
Set: Shrouded Fable
Average Sale Price: ​​$9.47

Fezandipiti ex is more expensive than most of the cards that appear in this report, but it’s just as generically useful in a wide variety of decks. 100% of the Top 8 decks at the recent 4800+ player Tokyo Champions League included a copy of Fezandipiti ex as a Bench-sniper and extra source of card draw. And since so many collectors chose to skip Shrouded Fable, Fezandipiti and the handful of other cards that players want from the set are more valuable than they would’ve been if more people had cracked packs and sold their bulk.


Selling cards that have high “velocity” keeps your cash flow healthy so you can take advantage of new opportunities. Check out our reports on the top-selling cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic, and be sure to list these cards on TCGplayer to unlock value you can reinvest in your business.