Top Selling Pokémon Cards on TCGplayer: March 2025

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 March 1 and March 31, 2025. 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 March 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 Charizard ex - 223/197
Set: Obsidian Flames
Average Sale Price: $65.43

The original Special Illustration Rare printing of Charizard ex from Obsidian Flames is back again, 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 steadily month after month.

#2 Blastoise ex - 200/165
Set: Scarlet & Violet—151
Average Sale Price: $82.95

151 was never exactly an “underrated” Pokémon set. Since its debut in September 2023, there’s been a strong argument for naming it the most universally loved Pokémon set in history. But the boom in Pokémon card collecting over the past few months, together with the flow of new 151 products slowing to a trickle, has pushed the chase cards from 151 to new heights, both in price and popularity.

Special Illustration Rare Charizard ex is the obvious beneficiary of this attention, but its multi-hundred-dollar Market Price limits the number of sales it sees. Instead, SIR Blastoise ex has edged out the other 151 cards in this price bracket.

#3 Zapdos ex - 202/165
Set: Scarlet & Violet—151
Average Sale Price: $62.31

Next is SIR Zapdos ex, which sneakily features the other two Legendary Birds of Kanto as well.

#4 Venusaur ex - 198/165
Set: Scarlet & Violet—151
Average Sale Price: $77.14

Then SIR Venusaur ex, the last Gen I starter.

#5 Alakazam ex - 201/165
Set: Scarlet & Violet—151
Average Sale Price: $50.26

Finally, SIR Alakazam takes 5th place as the last Special Illustration Rare Pokémon in 151. The other two Special Illustration Rares of the set, Giovanni’s Charisma and Erika’s Invitation, may not earn as many sales because they’re not necessary to complete a Pokédex.

Top Selling Pokémon Cards: $1.00 to $49.99

#1 Night Stretcher
Set: Shrouded Fable
Average Sale Price:​​ $2.23

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.

#2 Budew
Set: Prismatic Evolutions
Average Sale Price:​​ $1.06

From a competitive standpoint, Budew is the single most important card released in Prismatic Evolutions: a true menace that can lock players out of playing Item cards with its zero-Energy attack.

#3 Arven - 166/198
Set: Scarlet & Violet Base Set
Average Sale Price: $1.85

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.

#3 Eevee - 074/131 (Pokemon Day 2025) (Reverse Cosmos Holo)
Set: Miscellaneous Cards & Products
Average Sale Price: $4.35

For the first time, some of the bestselling Pokémon cards in the $1-50 price range this month aren’t competitive staples.

This promo card comes in the Prismatic Evolutions 2-Pack Blister. Normally, guaranteed promos like this don’t see any speculation while the product is still in print. But the Pokémon market is hotter than Magmortar’s cannon-arm right now, so some enterprising speculators bought enough copies of this Eevee to raise the average number of copies per buyer to 22.8 and 22.4 on March 13 and 21, respectively.

#5 Pikachu
Set: Celebrations
Average Sale Price: $2.85

Like Eevee, this is another low-cost, moderately collectible card which speculators attempted to buy out. The average number of copies of Pikachu rose to 22.4 on March 1, making that the second-largest buyout on this card this year, the largest having occurred back on February 16.

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.