Dark Espeon 1st Edition #4 value & price
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Dark Espeon 1st Edition #4 comes from Neo Destiny, the 2002 set that gave us the Dark and Light Pokemon, and this Atsuko Nishida illustration is one collectors still stop scrolling for. It carries that rare tag for good reason, a raw copy sits at $294, but the real story is what happens once one gets graded. If you searched Dark Espeon value hoping for a straight answer, this is the page that has it.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $291, down 37% over the past year, with an all-time high of $463 in October 2025.
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Dark Espeon price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 1,081 graded, only 68 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $31k | 68 | 52 / 16 |
| PSA 9 | $3.0k | 325 | 292 / 33 |
| PSA 8 | $1.4k | 289 | 229 / 60 |
| PSA 7 | $665 | 160 | 132 / 28 |
| PSA 6 | $415 | 114 | 93 / 21 |
| PSA 5 | $406 | 69 | 59 / 10 |
| PSA 4 | $345 | 23 | 21 / 2 |
| PSA 3 | $282 | 9 | 8 / 1 |
| PSA 2 | $254 | 11 | 11 / - |
| PSA 1 | $565 | 13 | 13 / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $291 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Set
- Neo Destiny
- Card number
- 4 of 113
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Psychic
- HP
- 60
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Psychic ×2
- Illustrator
- Atsuko Nishida
- Released
- 2002
Attacks
- Gouge10+Colorless
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage plus 10 more damage; if tails, this attack does 10 damage.
- PsysplashPsychic · Colorless · Colorless
Does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon for each Energy card attached to that Pokémon. Don't apply Weakness and Resistance.
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The collector's take on Dark Espeon
Is Dark Espeon worth grading?
Here is the honest math: a raw Dark Espeon runs $294, a Grade 9 jumps to $2,974, and a PSA 10 sits at $31,027, which works out to about 105.5 times the raw price. That gap is real money, but so is the risk. Grading costs and turnaround time add up, and pulling a genuine gem mint 1st edition from 2002 is not easy, corners soften, edges wear, centering drifts on cards this old. If your copy looks sharp under a loupe it might be worth the gamble, but plenty of raw copies simply do not have a PSA 10 in them, and that is worth sitting with before you send one in.
How rare is Dark Espeon?
Across every grading company combined, there are 1,081 graded copies of this card on record, and only 68 of those hold the top PSA 10 grade. That is a small slice, roughly 6 in every 100 graded copies reaching gem mint, which tells you how demanding this card is at the top end. When population stays this tight decades after release, it puts a natural floor under the price and explains why that PSA 10 number is so far removed from the raw one.
Where can you pull Dark Espeon?
PackSpy has tracked this card being pulled once across the pack sites we monitor, that pull came out of packz inside a Pokemon Champion Pack, and it landed at $294. That is a genuinely rare hit, most people chasing Dark Espeon these days are buying it outright on the secondary market rather than hoping it falls out of a pack. Worth remembering too, opening packs is a gamble and most rips do not come close to covering their cost, so treat any pull like this as a bonus, not a plan.
Questions people ask
How much is Dark Espeon worth?+
A raw or ungraded Dark Espeon 1st Edition #4 currently sits at $294. Once graded, that value climbs fast, a Grade 9 is worth $2,974, and a PSA 10 sits at $31,027, so grading changes the picture completely if you land a high score.
Is Dark Espeon worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth about 105.5 times the raw price of $294. But only 68 out of 1,081 graded copies have hit that top grade, so it is genuinely hard to pull off, weigh the grading cost and the condition of your card carefully before sending it in.
Why is the Dark Espeon 1st Edition #4 print worth more than the standard one?+
1st edition Pokemon cards from this era were printed in smaller numbers before the standard run followed, and collectors have always paid a premium for that early print status. Combined with the low population of graded copies overall, it keeps demand for this specific 1st edition version noticeably stronger.
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