Top Selling Pokémon Cards on TCGplayer: December 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 December 1 and December 31, 2024. 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 December 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 Squirtle
Set: Stellar Crown
Average Sale Price: $52.53

Released in September, Illustration Rare Squirtle notched its first month with an average sale price above $50 in December, meaning it’s finally eligible for this section of the report.

This card belongs to a trio of full-art cards depicting the Kanto starter Pokémon interacting with Pidgey in an apartment building. Collectors want the full set, so all three have been selling well and trending up in the past few months. Bulbasaur, which also released in Stellar Crown, is just behind Squirtle at a current Market Price of $48.38, making it the third-most valuable card in the set. And Charmander, which was released as a promo in the Obsidian Flames Elite Trainer Box, has been on a tear, with the Pokémon Center-exclusive version breaking $100 early in December. It’s now worth twice as much as the product it came in cost from the Pokémon Center.

#2 Charizard ex - 223/197
Set: Obsidian Flames
Average Sale Price: $60.56

The original Special Illustration Rare printing of Charizard ex from Obsidian Flames is back for a second month in the #2 spot, breaking a long dry spell during which it wasn’t valuable enough to break the $50 threshold. Charizard has all the appeal you’d expect for collectors, but due to reprints and Obsidian Flames’s generous pull rates, SIR Charizard stayed below the $50 cutoff until November. With Obsidian Flames more than a year old, the supply for this card is drying up, and its price has risen by another $10 in just a month.

#3 Gardevoir ex - 233/091
Set: Paldean Fates
Average Sale Price: $60.08

Just like Charizard ex, Gardevoir ex is back for a second month as a top-seller over $50, this time $10 more valuable than it was in November.

After Mew ex and Charizard ex from Paldean Fates both spiked in October, collectors and speculators turned their attention to the third-most popular card in the set, Gardevoir ex. Call it a self-fulfilling prophecy, but the card followed the precedent set by those other Special Illustration Rare and spiked in November, attracting more attention and sales along the way.

#4 Zapdos ex - 202/165
Set: Scarlet & Violet—151
Average Sale Price: $54.46

Another top-selling card that’s finally broken through the $50 threshold, Zapdos ex is the fourth such card from 151, behind the Special Illustration Rare versions of the fully evolved Kanto starters. Everyone knew 151 would be a blockbuster set when it released in 2023, and while new products and reprints kept singles prices in check for months, the supply of this set has finally run out. We saw 151 Charizard break the $200 threshold in December, and the other cards from the set are following it into the stratosphere.

#5 Eevee - 188/167
Set: Twilight Masquerade
Average Sale Price: $57.77

December wasn’t Eevee’s first month above $50, but it’s picked up steam recently—both as part of a general trend of Illustration Rares out-pacing Special Illustration Rares over time when the IR depicts a more popular character, and in anticipation of Prismatic Evolutions, the Scarlet & Violet Series’s answer to Evolving Skies. The Pokémon Center has declared 2025 the Year of Eevee, and between this card’s rise and the sky-high presale prices of Prismatic Evolutions, it’s hard to argue with them.

Top Selling Pokémon Cards: $1.00 to $49.99

#1 Buddy-Buddy Poffin
Set: Temporal Forces
Average Sale Price: $1.29

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. The top five cards (and their order) haven't changed since November.

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 Night Stretcher
Set: Shrouded Fable
Average Sale Price:​​ $2.59

Night Stretcher adds a little helpful recursion to any deck, so it’s been a staple since Shrouded Fable. Shrouded Fable wasn’t terribly exciting for collectors, so it didn’t get opened in huge quantities and players are mostly acquiring Night Stretchers as singles.

#3 Earthen Vessel
Set: Paradox Rift
Average Sale Price: $2.99

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.

#4 Arven - 166/198
Set: Scarlet & Violet Base Set
Average Sale Price: $1.36

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.

#5 Counter Catcher
Set: Paradox Rift
Average Sale Price: $1.40

Counter Catcher isn’t as ubiquitous as cards like Arven and Earthen Vessel, but it still had a good showing at the 2025 LAIC in decks like Charizard and Gardevoir.

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.