Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 24 Aug 2026Related Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) & chase cards
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Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) is a fun little corner of the hobby, a comic book tie-in card from the Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield set that crossed paths with pack collecting in a way most trading card releases never do. If you are looking for a Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) value page, this is it: raw copies sit at $2, but the story gets a lot more interesting once grading enters the picture. It is not a card that jumps off the shelf in price, but the spread between raw and graded is exactly why collectors keep an eye on it.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $1.90, up 9% over the past year, with an all-time high of $49 in March 2021.
Recent pulls of Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021)
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Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 372 graded, only 170 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $169 | 170 | 156 / 14 |
| PSA 9 | $24 | 148 | 138 / 10 |
| PSA 8 | $13 | 39 | 33 / 6 |
| PSA 7 | $10 | 13 | 11 / 2 |
| PSA 6 | $8.00 | 2 | 2 / - |
| PSA 5 | $6.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 4 | $5.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 3 | $4.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 2 | $4.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 1 | - | - | - / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $1.90 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
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The collector's take on Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021)
Is Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) worth grading?
Here is the honest answer on whether Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) is worth grading: a raw copy books at $2, a Grade 9 comes in at $138, and a PSA 10 sits at $156, which works out to about 84.8 times the raw price. That is a real jump, and on paper it looks tempting. But gem mint is genuinely hard to land, grading fees and shipping eat into any profit, and there is always a chance your submission comes back a 9 instead of a 10, or lower. If you already own the card and it looks clean in hand, sending it in can make sense given that multiplier. If you are buying raw copies specifically to grade and flip, treat it as a gamble, because that is what it is.
How rare is Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021)?
Across every grading company combined, only 369 copies of Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) have been graded, and of those, 168 have earned a PSA 10. That is a fairly high proportion landing at the top grade relative to the total population, which tells you this card is not brutally hard to find in gem mint if you have a clean copy to start with. Scarcity here is more about total graded volume than about gem mint being some impossible chase, and that balance is part of what keeps the PSA 10 price where it is rather than pushing it much higher.
Where can you pull Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021)?
PackSpy has tracked this card being pulled 4 times across recorded pack sites, all logged through collector-crypt, with the biggest recorded pull worth $63. It has shown up in Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack openings, so if you are chasing this one from a pack, that is the kind of product to watch. Four recorded pulls is a small sample, which tells its own story: this is not a card that floods pack openings, and most collectors who end up owning it are buying it directly on the secondary market rather than hoping to rip it. That is worth remembering before spending on packs chasing it specifically, since opening packs for any single card is a gamble more often than not.
Questions people ask
How much is Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) worth?+
A raw, ungraded copy is valued at $2. Once graded, the value climbs a lot, with Grade 9 copies at $138 and PSA 10 copies at $156, so condition and grading make all the difference here.
Is Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth roughly 84.8 times the raw price of $2. Just go in knowing grading costs money and gem mint is not guaranteed, so weigh that risk against the potential $156 payout.
How much is a PSA 10 Pokemon Adventures: Sword & Shield Vol. 1 (2021) worth?+
A PSA 10 copy is valued at $156. Out of 369 total graded copies, 168 have hit that PSA 10 grade, so it is achievable but far from automatic.
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