Houndoom V #178 value & price
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Houndoom V is one of those Darkness Ablaze pulls that made 2020 packs feel worth ripping open, an Ultra Rare with Ayaka Yoshida artwork that gives the dark-type fire hound a genuinely menacing presence on the card. Right now Houndoom V value sits at $6 raw, which makes it an easy card to pick up if you just want it for the binder. It's not a chase card that breaks the bank, but it's got the kind of clean, moody art style that keeps collectors coming back to Darkness Ablaze years later.
Recent pulls of Houndoom V
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$1.88starterLastpack · 3h ago
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Card details
- Card number
- 178 of 201
- Rarity
- Ultra Rare
- Type
- Fire
- HP
- 210
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Water ×2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Ayaka Yoshida
- Released
- 2020
Attacks
- Searing Flame20Fire
Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Burned.
- Vengeful Flame100+Fire · Fire · Colorless
If your Benched Fire Pokémon have any damage counters on them, this attack does 100 more damage.
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The collector's take on Houndoom V
Is Houndoom V worth grading?
So is Houndoom V worth grading? Here's the honest math: a raw copy sits at $6, a Grade 9 gets you to $22, and a true PSA 10 gem mint jumps all the way to $76, which works out to about 12.6 times the raw price. That's a real jump, but hitting a 10 isn't guaranteed, this card has to survive perfectly centered edges and a flawless surface to grade out gem mint, and grading fees plus shipping and turnaround time eat into your margin fast. If you already own a sharp-looking copy sitting in a sleeve, it's worth considering, but buying raw copies specifically to gamble on a 10 is a riskier play than most people expect.
How rare is it?
Darkness Ablaze wasn't a tiny print run set, and Ultra Rares like Houndoom V were pulled at a steady enough rate that raw copies aren't hard to track down today. That accessibility is part of why the raw price sits at $6 rather than climbing into serious money. The real scarcity shows up higher up the grading ladder: pristine, PSA 10 copies are naturally rarer than raw ones simply because most cards pick up small dings from packs, sleeves, and handling long before they ever reach a grader, and that's exactly why a 10 commands $76 while a 9 sits meaningfully lower at $22.
Where to pull it
This is where PackSpy's own data comes in, since we track real pack rips across live opening sites rather than just guessing at odds. We've recorded Houndoom V pulled 30 times across courtyard and lastpack, showing up in products like the Pokémon Starter Pack, Wildcard Basic Pack, Wildcard Starter Pack, starter, and noobie. The biggest recorded pull value we've logged for this card sits at $30, which gives you a real sense of what people have actually walked away with. Worth saying plainly: opening packs is gambling, and most rips don't beat what you'd pay just buying the card outright, so treat any pull as a bonus rather than the plan.
Questions people ask
How much is Houndoom V worth?+
A raw, ungraded Houndoom V is valued at $6 right now. Graded copies climb from there, with a Grade 9 sitting at $22 and a PSA 10 reaching $76, so condition makes a real difference to what you can expect to get for it.
Is Houndoom V worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth about 12.6 times the raw price at $76 versus $6. But gem mint copies are genuinely hard to hit, and grading fees plus the wait mean it's smarter for copies that already look sharp rather than a random raw pickup.
What set is Houndoom V from?+
Houndoom V is card #178 from Darkness Ablaze, released in 2020. It's an Ultra Rare with artwork by Ayaka Yoshida, and it's still a fun pull from that era of packs even though it doesn't carry the highest price tag in the set.
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