Poliwhirl #61 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 8 Aug 2026Related Poliwhirl & chase cards
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Poliwhirl #61 comes from the Japanese Crossing the Ruins set released in 2023, a common card illustrated by Kurata So that plenty of collectors pick up just because it's a nice, clean entry in a fun set to chase. If you're looking into Poliwhirl value, the short answer is that as a common it sits at the affordable end of the spectrum, but that doesn't mean it's not worth understanding properly before you buy, sell, or send one off for grading.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $2.15, down 25% over the past year, with an all-time high of $3.76 in August 2024.
Recent pulls of Poliwhirl
Real pulls of this card across the tracked pack-opening sites, data no price guide has.
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Poliwhirl price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population).
| Grade | Value | Population |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $270 | - |
| PSA 9 | $34 | - |
| PSA 8 | $6.50 | - |
| PSA 7 | - | - |
| PSA 6 | - | - |
| PSA 5 | - | - |
| PSA 4 | - | - |
| PSA 3 | - | - |
| PSA 2 | - | - |
| PSA 1 | - | - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $2.15 | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company.
Card details
- Card number
- 61
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Water
- HP
- 90
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Kurata So
Attacks
- Wave Splash20Water
- Frog Hop30+Water · Colorless
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 60 more damage.
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The collector's take on Poliwhirl
Is Poliwhirl worth grading?
So is Poliwhirl worth grading? Raw, it sits at $4, a Grade 9 brings that up to $30, and a PSA 10 jumps all the way to $270, which works out to 76.9 times the raw price. That's a real jump on paper, but here's the honest part: gem mint is genuinely hard to land, especially on a common card that was never printed with extra-thick stock or special handling in mind. Grading costs money and takes time, and there's no guarantee your copy comes back a 10. If you've got a copy that looks sharp under a light with clean corners and no whitening, it might be worth the gamble, but go in knowing the odds aren't a sure thing.
How rare is Poliwhirl?
As a common from Crossing the Ruins, Poliwhirl was never going to be a scarce pull in terms of raw print numbers, commons are printed in high volume in every set. Where the real scarcity shows up is at the top of the grading scale. Getting a copy that grades out as a true PSA 10 gem mint is a different challenge than just owning the card, since sharp corners and perfect centering are much rarer than the card itself. That gap between plentiful raw copies and hard-to-find gem mint ones is exactly why the price climbs so much once you reach PSA 10.
Where can you pull Poliwhirl?
This is where PackSpy's tracking actually earns its keep. We've recorded Poliwhirl pulled 200 or more times across packs, courtyard, mnstr, and collector-crypt, so this isn't a card that only shows up in theory, it genuinely turns up in real live breaks. The biggest recorded pull value we've logged sits at $288, and we've seen it show up in packs like XY Evolutions, Pokémon Master Pack, Pack 1, The Amazing Chase Encore, and Pokémon Pro Pack. Worth remembering though, opening packs chasing a specific card is still a gamble, and most rips don't come out ahead financially, so treat pulling as the fun part and buying raw or graded on the secondary market as the reliable path if you want this exact card.
Questions people ask
How much is Poliwhirl worth?+
A raw, ungraded Poliwhirl #61 from Crossing the Ruins currently sits around $4. That price reflects its status as a common card, and it's the number most people mean when they ask about Poliwhirl price in its everyday, ungraded condition.
Is Poliwhirl worth grading?+
It can be, if your copy is genuinely clean. A Grade 9 brings it to $30 and a PSA 10 brings it to $270, which is 76.9 times the raw value, but gem mint copies are tough to hit and grading isn't free, so weigh the cost against how sharp your copy actually looks before sending it in.
How much is a PSA 10 Poliwhirl worth?+
A PSA 10 Poliwhirl is worth $270, a big step up from the $4 raw price and the $30 Grade 9 price. That jump is the reward for landing a truly gem mint copy, which is the hard part.
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