Shining Mew #40 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 2 Sept 2026Related Shining Mew & chase cards
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Shining Mew is one of those cards that stops you mid-scroll, that soft glowing foil treatment from illustrator Sanosuke Sakuma makes it look like nothing else in the Shining Legends set. Released in 2017 as an Ultra Rare, it has held onto real collector demand for years, and anyone digging into Shining Mew value quickly finds it is not a card that faded with time. Right now a raw copy sits at $137, which tells you this is a card people still actively want, not just a nostalgia piece.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $151, up 101% over the past year, with an all-time high of $151 in September 2026.
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Shining Mew price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 12,830 graded, only 3,460 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $1.4k | 3,460 | 3,303 / 157 |
| PSA 9 | $236 | 6,386 | 5,698 / 688 |
| PSA 8 | $178 | 2,331 | 1,680 / 651 |
| PSA 7 | $128 | 358 | 278 / 80 |
| PSA 6 | $79 | 155 | 124 / 31 |
| PSA 5 | $63 | 69 | 52 / 17 |
| PSA 4 | $54 | 37 | 32 / 5 |
| PSA 3 | $46 | 15 | 13 / 2 |
| PSA 2 | $41 | 4 | 3 / 1 |
| PSA 1 | $117 | 15 | 15 / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $151 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Card number
- 40 of 78
- Rarity
- Ultra Rare
- Type
- Psychic
- HP
- 30
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Psychic ×2
- Retreat cost
- 0
- Illustrator
- Sanosuke Sakuma
- Released
- 2017
Attacks
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The collector's take on Shining Mew
Is Shining Mew worth grading?
So is it worth sending Shining Mew off to get graded? Here is the honest math: a raw copy runs $137, a Grade 9 sits at $250, and a true PSA 10 jumps to $1,350, which works out to about 9.9 times the raw price. That gap is tempting, but gem mint is genuinely hard to land on this card, foil surfaces like this show every little print line or edge nick under grading lights. Add in grading fees, turnaround time, and the real chance your copy comes back a 9 instead of a 10, and grading becomes a bet on your card's condition, not a guaranteed payout. If your copy already looks clean under a light with no whitening on the edges, it is worth considering. If it has any wear, the raw value is still solid and probably the safer place to leave it.
How rare is Shining Mew?
Across every grading company combined, there are 12,806 copies of Shining Mew on record, and of those only 3,456 have earned a PSA 10. That means gem mint copies make up roughly a quarter of the total graded population, which is not razor thin, but it is far from common either. It explains why the price gap between raw and PSA 10 is so wide: collectors know a true gem mint Shining Mew took some luck to pull off, both from the pack and from the grader.
Where can you pull Shining Mew?
Here is where we have to be straight with you: PackSpy has not recorded a single pull of Shining Mew across any of the pack sites we track. That is not a glitch in our data, it genuinely reflects how rare a live pull is for a card like this. Realistically, if you want a Shining Mew, you are buying it on the secondary market from a seller or grading company rather than hoping to rip it from a pack. Worth remembering too that pack opening in general is a gamble where most rips do not cover their cost, so treat any pull of a card like this as a bonus, not the plan.
Questions people ask
How much is Shining Mew worth?+
A raw, ungraded Shining Mew is valued at $137. Graded copies climb from there, with a Grade 9 at $250 and a PSA 10 reaching $1,350.
Is Shining Mew worth grading?+
It depends on your copy's condition. The jump from raw to PSA 10 is about 9.9 times the value, which sounds great, but only 3,456 of the 12,806 graded copies have hit that gem mint grade, so it is far from a sure thing.
What set is Shining Mew from?+
Shining Mew is card #40 from the Shining Legends set, released in 2017 as an Ultra Rare illustrated by Sanosuke Sakuma.
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