Spheal #199 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 8 Sept 2026Related Spheal & chase cards
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Spheal is the kind of card that makes you stop flipping through a binder and just smile for a second, that soft, round little seal doing its best impression of a beach ball, brought to life by miki kudo's artwork. As card #199 in the Surging Sparks set from 2024, it carries illustration rare status, and if you're trying to pin down Spheal's value, the short answer is that it sits at $8 raw, with real upside if you send it off for grading. It's not a chase card that breaks the bank, but it's exactly the sort of pull that reminds you why illustration rares are worth paying attention to.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $8.00, up 28% over the past year, with an all-time high of $13 in February 2025.
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Spheal price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 5,043 graded, only 1,755 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $116 | 1,755 | 1,477 / 278 |
| PSA 9 | $21 | 2,629 | 2,487 / 142 |
| PSA 8 | $17 | 557 | 503 / 54 |
| PSA 7 | $14 | 65 | 55 / 10 |
| PSA 6 | $6.00 | 28 | 27 / 1 |
| PSA 5 | $5.00 | 8 | 7 / 1 |
| PSA 4 | $4.00 | 1 | 1 / - |
| PSA 3 | $3.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 2 | $3.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 1 | - | - | - / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $9.64 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Card number
- 199 of 252
- Rarity
- Illustration rare
- Type
- Water
- HP
- 70
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Metal ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- miki kudo
- Released
- 2024
Attacks
- Powder Snow10Water
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The collector's take on Spheal
Is Spheal worth grading?
Here's the honest math on Spheal: a raw copy runs about $8, a Grade 9 climbs to $22, and a PSA 10 sits at $114, which works out to roughly 13.4 times what the raw card is worth. That's a real jump, and it's tempting to think every copy in your binder is a future gem mint. The catch is that hitting a true PSA 10 is genuinely hard, illustration rares can show tiny print lines or edge wear that's invisible until a grader has it under a loupe, and grading fees plus shipping and turnaround time eat into that upside fast. If you've got a copy that looks sharp under a light with clean corners and centered borders, it's worth considering. If it's got any softness or edge wear, you're often better off enjoying it raw or selling it as is rather than gambling the grading fee.
How rare is Spheal?
Illustration rares as a tier are already scarcer than your standard holo or reverse holo pulls, since they're reserved for the artwork-forward cards a set wants to spotlight, and Spheal earns that spot with kudo's illustration style. We don't have a full population count to point to here, but the pricing curve tells its own story: the wide gap between $8 raw and $114 for a PSA 10 tells you gem mint copies are the exception, not the rule, in any print run of this size. That scarcity at the top end is exactly why graded copies command such a premium over the raw market.
Where can you pull Spheal?
This is where PackSpy's own tracking comes in handy, because we've recorded Spheal pulled 33 times across sites like courtyard and collector-crypt, with the biggest recorded pull landing at $128. It's shown up in a real spread of pack types too, from the Wildcard Basic Pack and Water Pack to the Pokémon Starter Pack, Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack, and Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack. That kind of cross-site data is something a static price guide simply can't give you, and it's worth remembering that pack opening is still a gamble where most rips don't come out ahead, but knowing where a card has actually surfaced helps you make a more informed bet.
Questions people ask
How much is Spheal worth?+
A raw, ungraded Spheal from Surging Sparks is valued at $8. Graded copies are worth more, with a Grade 9 sitting at $22 and a PSA 10 reaching $114, and our tracked pulls have seen it sell for as much as $128.
Is Spheal worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth about 13.4 times the raw price of $8, pushing it up to $114. Just know that gem mint copies are tough to land, and grading costs and risk should factor into your decision before you send it in.
What set is Spheal from?+
Spheal is card #199 from the Surging Sparks set, released in 2024, where it appears as an illustration rare illustrated by miki kudo.
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