Iron Thorns #98 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 7 Sept 2026Related Iron Thorns & chase cards
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Iron Thorns is the kind of promo that makes people stop scrolling, a bold Tonji Matsuno illustration that came out in 2023 and has been a steady little favorite ever since. It's card #98 from the Promo set, so it carries that special distribution feel rather than being a pack staple, and if you're trying to nail down Iron Thorns value, the short answer is it sits around $3 raw right now. Not a headline chase card, but a genuinely fun one to pull and a fair one to price out.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $2.99, down 25% over the past year, with an all-time high of $7.50 in March 2024.
Recent pulls of Iron Thorns
Real pulls of this card across the tracked pack-opening sites, data no price guide has.
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Iron Thorns price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population).
| Grade | Value | Population |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $105 | - |
| PSA 9 | $17 | - |
| PSA 8 | $15 | - |
| PSA 7 | $12 | - |
| PSA 6 | $6.50 | - |
| PSA 5 | $5.00 | - |
| PSA 4 | $4.00 | - |
| PSA 3 | $3.00 | - |
| PSA 2 | $3.00 | - |
| PSA 1 | - | - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $3.00 | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company.
Card details
- Set
- Promo
- Card number
- 98 of 226
- Rarity
- Promo
- Type
- Lightning
- HP
- 140
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Fighting ×2
- Retreat cost
- 3
- Illustrator
- Tonji Matsuno
- Released
- 2023
Attacks
- Destructo-Press70×Lightning · Colorless
Reveal the top 5 cards of your deck. This attack does 70 damage for each Future card you find there. Then, discard those Future cards and shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
- Megaton Lariat140Lightning · Lightning · Lightning · Colorless
Where to pull Iron Thorns
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The collector's take on Iron Thorns
Is Iron Thorns worth grading?
Here's the honest math: a raw Iron Thorns runs about $3, a Grade 9 sits at $17, and a PSA 10 jumps all the way to $110, which works out to roughly 32.8 times the raw price. That's a real gap, and it's tempting. But gem mint is called gem mint for a reason, corners, centering, and surface all have to line up just right, and plenty of copies come back as a 9 instead of a 10. Grading fees, shipping, and the wait all eat into that upside, so if you've got a sharp-looking copy it might be worth the shot, but if it's got soft corners or edge wear, that $3 raw value is probably the more realistic outcome, and that's fine too.
How rare is Iron Thorns?
As a Promo release, Iron Thorns already sits outside the normal pack-pull rotation, which naturally limits how many raw copies are floating around compared to a mainline set card. We don't have a hard population count to point to here, but promos in general tend to trade in smaller volumes than base set staples, and that scarcity is a big part of why a PSA 10 commands $110 while the raw copy sits at $3. Fewer copies in circulation, especially in top grade, tends to keep demand steady even for cards that aren't the flashiest in a set.
Where can you pull Iron Thorns?
This is where PackSpy's own data gets interesting, because we've tracked Iron Thorns being pulled 133 times across real pack sites, specifically tilt-rips and courtyard, with the best recorded hit coming in at $111. It's shown up in a spread of pack types too, from the Pokemon Starter Pack up through the Pokémon Master Pack, so it's not tied to one single product. Worth saying plainly: opening packs for a card like this is a gamble, and most rips won't beat what you paid, but knowing where it's actually been pulled from real, recorded openings gives you a much better read than any price guide alone.
Questions people ask
How much is Iron Thorns worth?+
Raw or ungraded, Iron Thorns is valued at $3 right now. Grade it well and a Grade 9 brings $17, while a true PSA 10 gem mint copy climbs to $110, so condition makes a big difference here.
Is Iron Thorns worth grading?+
It depends on the copy. The jump from raw to PSA 10 is about 32.8 times the value, which sounds great, but hitting a 10 isn't guaranteed and grading costs money regardless of the result, so it's worth grading mainly if your copy already looks close to flawless.
What set is Iron Thorns from?+
Iron Thorns is card #98 from the Promo set, released in 2023 and illustrated by Tonji Matsuno. Being a promo, it's distributed a bit differently than main set cards, which shapes both its scarcity and its value.
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