Gyarados Gold Star #102 value & price
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Gyarados Gold Star #102 is one of those cards that stops collectors mid-scroll, that shimmering star holo treatment on a Pokemon everyone already loves. It comes from Holon Phantoms, released back in 2006, and it carries a rare tag with artwork from Masakazu Fukuda that still holds up nearly two decades later. If you are trying to pin down Gyarados value today, the raw market sits at $1,650, which tells you this was never a common pull to begin with.
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Card details
- Card number
- 102 of 111
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Fire
- HP
- 80
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Masakazu Fukuda
- Released
- 2006
Attacks
- Spiral Growth20Fire · Colorless
Flip a coin until you get tails. For each heads, search your discard pile for a basic Energy card and attach it to Gyarados Star.
- All-out Blast50+Fire · Fire · Fire · Fire
Discard cards from the top of your deck until you have 1 card left. This attack does 50 damage plus 20 more damage for each Energy card you discarded in this way.
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The collector's take on Gyarados
Is Gyarados worth grading?
Here is the honest math: a raw copy sits at $1,650, a Grade 9 jumps to $10,776, and a PSA 10 climbs all the way to $80,520, which works out to 48.8 times what the ungraded card sells for. That gap is enormous, and it is exactly why people ask if Gyarados is worth grading in the first place. The catch is that gem mint is genuinely hard to land on a card this old, centering and surface wear from 2006 print runs are unforgiving under a grader's light, and submission fees plus the wait time are real costs even if the card comes back a 9 instead of a 10. If your copy already looks sharp in hand, corners crisp, no visible print lines, it is worth exploring. If it has any obvious soft spots, you might be paying to confirm what you can already see.
How rare is it?
Holon Phantoms was not a small set, but Gold Star cards within it were always the scarce insert, the kind of pull that made an entire box worth opening. We do not have official population figures to lean on here, but the rarity tier alone, combined with a print run from 2006 that predates a lot of today's grading culture, means far fewer high grade copies exist than you would find in modern sets. That scarcity is a big part of why the price gap between raw and PSA 10 is so wide. When gem mint copies are genuinely rare, every one that surfaces tends to sell for a premium.
Where to pull it
This is where PackSpy's data actually earns its keep. We have recorded Gyarados pulled 136 times across courtyard, collector-crypt, packs, and tilt-rips, with the biggest recorded pull value hitting $1,025. It has shown up in Pokemon Starter Pack, Starter Pokemon Gacha Pack, Wildcard Basic Pack, Pokemon Pro Pack, and Water Pack, which tells you it is still floating around online pack sites even though the physical print run is old. Worth saying plainly: opening packs chasing a card like this is a gamble, most rips do not come close to covering their cost, and Gyarados is rare enough that you should expect to buy it on the secondary market far more often than pull it yourself.
Questions people ask
How much is Gyarados worth?+
A raw, ungraded Gyarados Gold Star #102 is valued at $1,650. Once graded, that number changes fast, a Grade 9 sits at $10,776, and a PSA 10 reaches $80,520.
Is Gyarados worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 sells for 48.8 times the raw price. But gem mint is tough to hit on a 2006 card, so weigh the grading cost and the real chance of landing a 9 instead of a 10 before you send it in.
What set is Gyarados from?+
Gyarados Gold Star #102 comes from Holon Phantoms, released in 2006. It is a rare card illustrated by Masakazu Fukuda and one of the more sought after Gold Star pulls from that era.
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