Dark Arbok #2 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 25 Aug 2026Related Dark Arbok & chase cards
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Dark Arbok is the #2 card from the Team Rocket set, a Rare pull illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita that came out back in 2000 and still turns heads on collector boards today. There's something about the Dark Pokemon artwork from that era that keeps people coming back to it, and if you're checking Dark Arbok value right now, a raw copy sits at $12, which makes it a fun, accessible piece of Team Rocket history rather than a budget-breaker. It's the kind of card that rewards patience, especially once you start looking at what happens to its price in higher grades.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $10, up 39% over the past year, with an all-time high of $12 in June 2026.
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Dark Arbok price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 7,967 graded, only 117 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $281 | 117 | 52 / 65 |
| PSA 9 | $100 | 1,157 | 844 / 313 |
| PSA 8 | $42 | 2,621 | 1,687 / 934 |
| PSA 7 | $30 | 1,671 | 1,212 / 459 |
| PSA 6 | $23 | 1,158 | 872 / 286 |
| PSA 5 | $22 | 786 | 588 / 198 |
| PSA 4 | $18 | 265 | 186 / 79 |
| PSA 3 | $7.50 | 101 | 74 / 27 |
| PSA 2 | $7.00 | 34 | 28 / 6 |
| PSA 1 | $37 | 57 | 56 / 1 |
| Raw / Ungraded | $10 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Set
- Team Rocket
- Card number
- 2 of 83
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Grass
- HP
- 60
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Psychic ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- 2000
Attacks
- StareGrass · Grass
Choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 10 damage to that Pokémon. Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for this attack. (Any other effects that would happen after applying Weakness and Resistance still happen.) If that Pokémon has a Pokémon Power, that power stops working until the end of your opponent's next turn.
- Poison Vapor10Grass · Grass · Grass
The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned. This attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
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The collector's take on Dark Arbok
Is Dark Arbok worth grading?
So is Dark Arbok worth grading? Here's the honest math: a raw copy runs $12, a Grade 9 jumps to $100, and a PSA 10 sits at $287, which works out to 24.3 times the raw price. That's a real jump, no question, but gem mint on a card from 2000 isn't something you just assume you'll get. Team Rocket cards from this era often show centering quirks or edge wear that keep them out of that top grade, so before you send one in, factor in the grading fees, the wait time, and the very real chance it comes back a 9 instead of a 10. If you already own a sharp-looking copy and you're patient, grading can pay off. If you're buying raw specifically to gamble on a 10, go in with eyes open.
How rare is Dark Arbok?
We don't have official population figures for Dark Arbok in hand, but as a Rare from the Team Rocket set, it sits in that middle tier of scarcity, common enough to find but not something printed in the volumes of a basic set card. What we do know is how the price behaves across grades: the wide gap between a $100 Grade 9 and a $287 PSA 10 tells you that flawless copies are genuinely tough to come by, whatever the exact population turns out to be. That spread is usually a good real world signal of scarcity even without a hard number attached to it.
Where can you pull Dark Arbok?
This is where PackSpy's own data earns its keep, because we've tracked Dark Arbok being pulled 161 times across real pack openings on sites like tilt-rips, courtyard, mnstr, collector-crypt, and lastpack. It's shown up in products like the Pokemon Premium Pack, The Amazing Chase Encore, the Pokémon Pro Pack, the Pokemon Starter Pack, and Pack 2, and the biggest recorded pull we've logged for it hit $207. That tells you it's not some ghost card you'll never see live, people are genuinely ripping it out of packs right now, though as with any pack opening, the odds favor the house and most rips don't cover their cost. If you're chasing one, watching where it's actually been pulled from is a better bet than guessing.
Questions people ask
How much is Dark Arbok worth?+
A raw, ungraded Dark Arbok is valued at $12 right now. Once you move into graded copies the number climbs fast, with a Grade 9 at $100 and a PSA 10 reaching $287, so condition really does the heavy lifting on this one.
Is Dark Arbok worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth 24.3 times the raw price. That said, gem mint copies are genuinely hard to land, so weigh the grading cost and turnaround against the realistic chance your copy actually grades out that high.
How much is a PSA 10 Dark Arbok worth?+
A PSA 10 Dark Arbok is valued at $287, a big step up from the $100 you'd get for a Grade 9 and well above the $12 raw price. That gap is exactly why gem mint copies get chased so hard.
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