Blastoise & Piplup GX #215 — Cosmic Eclipse Pokémon card

Blastoise & Piplup GX #215 Value

Name: Blastoise & Piplup GX #215 — Cosmic Eclipse
Brand: Pokémon

Cosmic Eclipse · Card 215/271 · Ultra Rare · 2019

Blastoise & Piplup GX is one of those Cosmic Eclipse cards that makes collectors stop scrolling, a tag team Ultra Rare from 2019 with artwork from Akira Komayama that pairs a classic starter evolution with a fan favorite in a way that just works visually. If you are looking up Blastoise & Piplup GX value because you pulled one or are eyeing a copy on the secondary market, the short answer is that a raw copy sits around $409, which already puts it well above most cards from that era.

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Market value & price

Raw / Ungraded

$409

Grade 9

$500

PSA 10

$3.3k

PSA 10 is 8.1× the raw price

Value by grade

Where it drops

Pulled 18× on PackSpy across Collector Crypt, Courtyard · biggest hit $131.

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Card details

Set: Cosmic Eclipse
Card number: 215 of 271
Rarity: Ultra Rare
Type: Water
HP: 270
Weakness: Grass ×2
Retreat cost: 3
Illustrator: Akira Komayama
Released: 2019

Attacks

Splash Maker150
Water · Water · Colorless
You may attach up to 3 Water Energy cards from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like. If you do, heal 50 damage from those Pokémon for each card you attached to them in this way.
Bubble Launcher GX100+
Water · Water · Colorless
Your opponent’s Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed. If this Pokémon has at least 3 extra Water Energy attached to it (in addition to this attack’s cost), this attack does 150 more damage. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)
100+
Water · Water · Colorless

Blastoise & Piplup GX — collector's take

Is Blastoise & Piplup GX worth grading?

Here is the honest math on grading this one: a raw copy runs $409, a Grade 9 comes in at $500, but a PSA 10 jumps all the way to $3,305, which works out to about 8.1x the raw price. That gap between Grade 9 and Grade 10 is the real story here, gem mint copies are genuinely hard to land because centering and edge wear on cards from this era can be unforgiving, and grading fees plus shipping and turnaround time are a real cost even if your card comes back a 9 instead of a 10. If you have a copy that looks sharp in hand under good light, with clean corners and centering that looks dead on, it can be worth the gamble. If it has any soft corners or a hint of whitening, you might be better off selling raw and letting someone else take the grading risk.

How rare is it?

We do not have population data to point to here, but as an Ultra Rare tag team GX from Cosmic Eclipse, this card sits in a rarity tier that was pulled less often than the standard holo rares in the set, though Cosmic Eclipse itself was a large, widely opened set so raw copies are not impossible to find. What drives the real scarcity is the jump to gem mint condition, since Ultra Rares from this printing era tend to show wear easily, and that is exactly why PSA 10 copies command such a premium over raw and Grade 9 prices.

Where to pull it

Across the sites PackSpy tracks, we have recorded Blastoise & Piplup GX pulled 18 times, showing up on courtyard and collector-crypt, with the biggest recorded pull value coming in at $131. That number is a good reminder that most pack pulls land well below the card's full market price, whether the copy is off center or just not the grade a buyer wants, and it is one more reason opening packs is a gamble more than an investment. If you are chasing this card specifically, we have seen it turn up in Pokémon Pro Pack, Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, Water Pack, Wildcard Pro Pack, and Anime Pop Culture Gacha, though plenty of collectors simply buy it outright on the secondary market instead of hoping for a pull.

Questions people ask

How much is Blastoise & Piplup GX worth?

A raw, ungraded copy is worth around $409 right now. Grade 9 copies sit close by at $500, but a PSA 10 gem mint copy jumps to $3,305, so condition makes a huge difference in what this card is actually worth.

Is Blastoise & Piplup GX worth grading?

It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth about 8.1x the raw price. But gem mint copies are tough to hit, and grading costs money and time with no guarantee, so it really comes down to how clean your specific copy looks before you send it in.

What set is Blastoise & Piplup GX from?

It is card #215 from Cosmic Eclipse, released in 2019, and it carries Ultra Rare status with artwork by Akira Komayama. Cosmic Eclipse was one of the bigger sets of that era, which is part of why this card still gets attention from collectors today.