Gengar #5 value & price
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Gengar has always been one of those cards that makes collectors stop and smile, that shadowy purple grin just has a personality to it. This is card #5 from the Fossil set, released back in 1999, illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi and holding Rare status ever since. If you're checking Gengar value today, the raw market sits at $87, which tells you this ghost still has plenty of life in the hobby a quarter century later.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $112, up 94% over the past year, with an all-time high of $114 in December 2020.
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Gengar price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 15,874 graded, only 130 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $4.4k | 130 | 51 / 79 |
| PSA 9 | $589 | 1,610 | 1,165 / 445 |
| PSA 8 | $253 | 4,373 | 3,185 / 1,188 |
| PSA 7 | $204 | 3,709 | 3,087 / 622 |
| PSA 6 | $153 | 2,875 | 2,475 / 400 |
| PSA 5 | $112 | 1,922 | 1,680 / 242 |
| PSA 4 | $98 | 697 | 606 / 91 |
| PSA 3 | $91 | 259 | 226 / 33 |
| PSA 2 | $76 | 102 | 94 / 8 |
| PSA 1 | $149 | 197 | 192 / 5 |
| Raw / Ungraded | $112 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Set
- Fossil
- Card number
- 5 of 62
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Psychic
- HP
- 80
- Stage
- Stage2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Keiji Kinebuchi
- Released
- 1999
Attacks
- Dark Mind30Psychic · Psychic · Psychic
If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, choose 1 of them and this attack does 10 damage to it. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
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The collector's take on Gengar
Is Gengar worth grading?
So is Gengar worth grading? Here's the honest answer: a PSA 10 sells for $3,925, which works out to 45.1x what you'd get for the raw card at $87. That's a real jump, and it's the kind of number that gets people excited about sending cards in. But gem mint is genuinely hard to hit on a 1999 Fossil card, corners soften, centering drifts, and print lines show up more than you'd like on close inspection. A Grade 9 still brings $664, which is solid, but it's a fraction of what that perfect 10 pays. Before you ship it off, factor in grading fees and turnaround time, and go in knowing that most raw copies won't come back as a 10. If you already own a sharp, well-centered copy, it's worth the gamble. If you're on the fence, that's your answer right there.
How rare is Gengar?
Across every grading company combined, there are 15,735 graded copies of Gengar on record, which sounds like a lot until you look at the top of the pile. Only 130 of those are PSA 10. That's a tiny sliver sitting at the very peak of a fairly large population, and it's exactly why the price gap between raw and gem mint is so wide. When a card has been graded this many times over 25 years but still can't produce many perfect copies, you know the grading itself is the bottleneck, not the supply of the card.
Where can you pull Gengar?
This is where PackSpy's own data comes in, because we track real pulls across pack sites, not just price guides. Gengar has been recorded pulled 200 or more times across courtyard, collector-crypt, mnstr, tilt-rips, and packs, and the biggest single pull we've logged came in at $2,733. It's shown up in a handful of specific packs worth knowing if you're hunting for it yourself: Pokémon Master Pack, Legendary Pokémon Gacha Pack, Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack, Pokémon VIP (Spicy), and Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack. Worth saying plainly, opening packs is a gamble and most rips don't beat what you paid in, but Gengar is at least a card that has proven it shows up often enough to chase.
Questions people ask
How much is Gengar worth?+
A raw, ungraded Gengar from Fossil is worth $87 right now. Once you move up to graded copies, a Grade 9 sits at $664 and a PSA 10 jumps to $3,925, so condition makes a real difference to the price.
Is Gengar worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 pays 45.1x the raw price of $87. Just know that gem mint copies are rare, only 130 exist out of 15,735 total graded, so grading is a real bet on the card's condition, not a sure thing.
What set is Gengar from?+
Gengar #5 comes from the Fossil set, released in 1999. It's a Rare card illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi and remains one of the more recognizable pulls from that era.
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