Rocket's Zapdos #15 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 15 Sept 2026Related Rocket's Zapdos & chase cards
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Rocket's Zapdos is one of those cards that makes you smile the moment you see it, a Rare Holo from the 2000 Celebrations set with artwork from Shin-ichi Yoshida that captures the electric energy of Team Rocket's version of the classic bird perfectly. If you're checking Rocket's Zapdos value right now, you're looking at a card that sits comfortably in that fun, affordable holo tier, one that plenty of collectors pick up just to have in their binder rather than as a big investment play. It's not going to break the bank raw, but it has real character and a real following.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $3.60, down 5% over the past year, with an all-time high of $4.95 in June 2026.
Recent pulls of Rocket's Zapdos
Real pulls of this card across the tracked pack-opening sites, data no price guide has.
$27CGC 5.5 EX+30th Anniversary - Day 2: BlueCourtyard · 0m ago
$0.77RawCelebrations PackPacks · 3m ago
$0.77RawCelebrations PackPacks · 4m ago
$850PSA GEM-MT 10Pokémon 300 Boss Battle GachaCollector Crypt · 23m ago$0.77RawCelebrations PackPacks · 24m ago$0.77RawCelebrations PackPacks · 24m ago
$30CGC 10 GEM MINT30th Anniversary - Day 2: BlueCourtyard · 35m ago
$30CGC 10 GEM MINT30th Anniversary - Day 2: BlueCourtyard · 40m ago
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Rocket's Zapdos price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 3 graded, only 1 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $70 | 1 | - / 1 |
| PSA 9 | $23 | 1 | - / 1 |
| PSA 8 | $20 | - | - / - |
| PSA 7 | $8.66 | 1 | - / 1 |
| PSA 6 | $7.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 5 | $6.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 4 | $5.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 3 | $4.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 2 | $4.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 1 | - | - | - / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $4.00 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Set
- Celebrations
- Card number
- 15
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Type
- Lightning
- HP
- 70
- Stage
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Shin-ichi Yoshida
Attacks
- Plasma20Lightning
If there are any Lightning Energy cards in your discard pile, attach 1 of them to Rocket's Zapdos.
- Electroburn70Lightning · Lightning · Lightning · Colorless
Rocket's Zapdos does damage to itself equal to 10 times the number of Lightning Energy cards attached to it.
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The collector's take on Rocket's Zapdos
Is Rocket's Zapdos worth grading?
So is Rocket's Zapdos worth grading? Here's the honest answer: raw copies sit at $5, a Grade 9 goes for $20, and a true PSA 10 gem mint jumps all the way up to $70, which works out to about 15.6x the raw price. That's a meaningful multiplier for a card in this range, but you have to factor in what grading actually costs you, the submission fees, the wait times, and the very real chance your card comes back a 9 instead of a 10 because of a soft corner or print line you didn't notice under normal light. If you've got a copy that looks sharp edge to edge and centered well, it can be worth the gamble. If it's got visible wear, you're probably better off enjoying it raw or selling it as is rather than paying to find out.
How rare is Rocket's Zapdos?
Celebrations was a set built around nostalgia, and Rocket's Zapdos carries that Rare Holo status that keeps it a notch above your average pull without making it a chase card. We don't have exact population numbers to point to here, but the pricing tells its own story: a $5 raw card climbing to $70 in PSA 10 tells you gem mint copies are meaningfully harder to come by than the raw supply suggests. That gap between grades is really the clearest scarcity signal we have, and it's why patient collectors watch for clean copies rather than assuming any random pull will grade out perfectly.
Where can you pull Rocket's Zapdos?
This is where PackSpy actually earns its keep, because we track real pulls across pack sites rather than just guessing at odds. Rocket's Zapdos has been recorded 200 or more times across packs, courtyard, collector-crypt, mnstr, tilt-rips, and lastpack, so it's genuinely out there circulating, not some ghost card you only see on eBay. We've seen it show up in the Celebrations Pack, Wildcard Basic Pack, Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, Pack 5, and The Amazing Chase Encore, and the biggest single pull value we've logged tied to this card sits at $21,000, which gives you a sense of just how wild pack-opening luck can swing depending on what else lands alongside it. Worth remembering though, opening packs is gambling at the end of the day, and most rips don't come close to what you paid, so treat it as fun first and profit a distant second.
Questions people ask
How much is Rocket's Zapdos worth?+
A raw, ungraded Rocket's Zapdos is worth around $5 right now. Once you move into graded territory that number climbs quickly, with a Grade 9 sitting at $20 and a PSA 10 reaching $70.
Is Rocket's Zapdos worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 sells for about 15.6x what the raw card fetches, jumping from $5 to $70. Just weigh that against grading fees and the real chance a near perfect looking copy still comes back a 9 rather than a 10.
How much is a PSA 10 Rocket's Zapdos worth?+
A PSA 10 gem mint Rocket's Zapdos is currently worth $70, well above the $5 raw price and the $20 you'd get for a Grade 9 copy.
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