Lugia #102 value & price
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Lugia has always had that quiet, towering presence, the kind of Pokémon that makes a binder page feel special even when it's not the flashiest card in it. This particular Lugia, card #102 from the Japanese Best of XY set, released back in 2013, is a Rare illustrated by Toyste Beach, and it's held up as a genuinely likable piece from that era. If you're here checking Lugia value, the short version is: raw copies sit at $16, and that number tells a much bigger story once you start looking at grading.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $16, up 36% over the past year, with an all-time high of $16 in August 2026.
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Lugia price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 387 graded, only 298 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $313 | 298 | 220 / 78 |
| PSA 9 | $101 | 68 | 35 / 33 |
| PSA 8 | $92 | 14 | 6 / 8 |
| PSA 7 | $11 | 6 | 4 / 2 |
| PSA 6 | $9.00 | 1 | 1 / - |
| PSA 5 | $7.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 4 | $6.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 3 | $5.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 2 | $5.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 1 | - | - | - / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $16 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Card number
- 102
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Colorless
- HP
- 180
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Toyste Beach
Attacks
- Plasma Gale120Colorless · Colorless · Colorless · Colorless
Discard a Plasma Energy attached to this Pokémon. If you can't discard a Plasma Energy, this attack does nothing.
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The collector's take on Lugia
Is Lugia worth grading?
So is Lugia worth grading? Honestly, it depends on what you're chasing. A raw, ungraded copy runs $16, a Grade 9 brings that up to $35, and a PSA 10 sits at $220, which works out to 14.0x the raw price. That's a real jump, no question, but gem mint is not a given here. Grading costs money and takes time, and there's always a chance your card comes back a 9 instead of a 10, which narrows the gap considerably. If you've got a copy that looks genuinely clean under a loupe, corners sharp, centering even, it can be worth the gamble. If it's got soft edges or print lines, you're probably better off enjoying it raw or selling as is.
How rare is Lugia?
Right now there are 387 total graded copies of this Lugia on record, and out of those, 298 have landed a PSA 10. That's a notably high share sitting at the top grade, which tells you this card, when it survives well, tends to survive very well. It also means the real scarcity isn't in finding a graded copy, it's in finding one that didn't make the gem mint cut, which is a bit of an unusual dynamic and worth knowing before you assume a PSA 10 is automatically the rare outcome here.
Where can you pull Lugia?
This is where PackSpy's own tracking comes in handy, because we don't just quote price guides, we watch actual pulls across pack sites. Lugia has been pulled 200 or more times across packs, collector-crypt, courtyard, and mnstr, so it's not some mythical chase card, it does show up. We've seen it turn up in Celebrations Pack, Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack, Pokémon Ultra Pack, Pokémon Starter Pack, and Wildcard Basic Pack, and the biggest recorded pull value on this card hit $2,175, which is a fun number to sit with given the raw price is $16. That gap is exactly why opening packs is a gamble, most rips won't land anywhere near that high, but the data shows it does happen.
Questions people ask
How much is Lugia worth?+
A raw, ungraded Lugia #102 from Best of XY is valued at $16. Grading changes that picture fast, a Grade 9 sits at $35, and a PSA 10 reaches $220, so condition really does most of the talking on this one.
Is Lugia worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth 14.0x the raw price. But with only 298 of the 387 total graded copies hitting that top grade, gem mint isn't guaranteed, so weigh the grading cost against how confident you are in the card's condition.
How much is a PSA 10 Lugia worth?+
A PSA 10 Lugia #102 is valued at $220, a solid step up from the $16 raw price. It's the top of the ladder for this card, and with 298 PSA 10s already on record, it's an achievable grade but not a certain one.
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