N's Zoroark ex #286 — Ascended Heroes Pokémon card

N's Zoroark ex #286 Value

Name: N's Zoroark ex #286 — Ascended Heroes
Brand: Pokémon

Ascended Heroes · Card 286/295 · Special illustration rare · 2026

N's Zoroark ex is the kind of card that stops you mid-scroll, a Special illustration rare from the 2026 Ascended Heroes set with artwork from Raita Kazama that gives it real presence in a binder or a case. If you're trying to pin down N's Zoroark ex value right now, the raw market sits at $166, which tells you collectors are already taking this one seriously. It's not the flashiest chase card in the game, but it's earned a steady following, and that's exactly why people keep searching for N's Zoroark ex price before they buy or sell.

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Market value & price

Raw / Ungraded

$166

Grade 9

$170

PSA 10

$455

PSA 10 is 2.7× the raw price

Value by grade

Where it drops

Pulled 123× on PackSpy across Courtyard, Collector Crypt, Lastpack, Tilt Rips · biggest hit $625.

Found in packs: Pokémon Starter Pack · Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack · Pokémon Master Pack · explorer · Wildcard Starter Pack …

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N's Zoroark ex price history

Ungraded value is $166, up 11% over the past year, with an all-time high of $175 in April 2026.

Market value over time by grade. Hover for any month; tap a grade to toggle its line.

Card details

Set: Ascended Heroes
Card number: 286 of 295
Rarity: Special illustration rare
Type: Darkness
HP: 280
Stage: Stage1
Weakness: Grass ×2
Retreat cost: 2
Illustrator: Raita Kazama
Released: 2026

Attacks

Night Joker
Darkness · Darkness
Choose 1 of your Benched N's Pokémon's attacks and use it as this attack.

N's Zoroark ex — collector's take

Is N's Zoroark ex worth grading?

So is it worth sending N's Zoroark ex off to get graded? Here's the honest math: a raw copy sits at $166, a Grade 9 comes in at $170, and a PSA 10 jumps to $455, which works out to about 2.7 times the raw price. That gap between a 9 and a 10 is the whole story with this card. A Grade 9 barely moves the needle over what you'd pay raw, but gem mint is where the real money lives, and gem mint is genuinely hard to hit. Special illustration rares like this one tend to show whitening or surface wear along the borders, so a copy that looks perfect to your eye can still come back a 9 once it's under a grader's light. Add in the grading fee and the wait, and you're taking a real gamble on a coin flip between decent and excellent. If your copy looks sharp under a loupe, centered, clean edges, no scuffing, it's worth the shot. If it's a maybe, it might be smarter to just enjoy it raw or sell it as is.

How rare is it?

As a Special illustration rare, N's Zoroark ex sits in one of the harder tiers to pull straight from packs, the kind of card a set includes as a genuine chase rather than a common insert. We don't have official population figures to point to here, so take any claims of exact rarity with a grain of salt, but the print run and rarity tier alone explain why the raw price holds where it does. Cards in this tier tend to get scarcer at the gem mint level simply because there are fewer copies in circulation to begin with, and fewer still survive handling and shipping without a mark. That scarcity is a big part of why the PSA 10 price sits so far above the raw and Grade 9 figures.

Where to pull it

This is where PackSpy actually earns its keep, because we don't just quote a price guide, we track real pulls happening across live pack sites. N's Zoroark ex has been recorded 128 times so far, showing up across courtyard, lastpack, collector-crypt and tilt-rips. The biggest single pull we've logged came in at $625, which gives you a sense of what a lucky rip can look like on a good day. If you're chasing this one, it's turned up in the Pokémon Starter Pack, Pokémon Master Pack, explorer, Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack and Wildcard Starter Pack. Worth saying plainly: opening packs is a gamble, and most rips don't come close to what you paid, so treat any pull here as a bonus rather than a plan.

Questions people ask

How much is N's Zoroark ex worth?

A raw, ungraded N's Zoroark ex is currently valued at $166. Graded copies climb from there, with a Grade 9 at $170 and a PSA 10 reaching $455, so condition makes a real difference to what it's worth.

Is N's Zoroark ex worth grading?

It can be, since a PSA 10 sits at 2.7 times the raw price of $166, coming in at $455. But gem mint is tough to land on a Special illustration rare like this, so weigh the grading cost and risk against how sharp your copy actually looks before you send it in.

What set is N's Zoroark ex from?

N's Zoroark ex is card #286 from the Ascended Heroes set, released in 2026. It's a Special illustration rare illustrated by Raita Kazama, which is part of why collectors seek it out.