Surfing Pikachu VMAX #22 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 26 Aug 2026Related Surfing Pikachu VMAX & chase cards
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Surfing Pikachu VMAX is one of those cards that makes people smile the second they see it, and it comes from the Japanese 25th Anniversary Collection, a set that celebrated a quarter century of Pokemon with a run of cards collectors still chase today. Right now a raw copy sits at $12, while a pristine PSA 10 climbs all the way to $121, and that gap is really what a Surfing Pikachu VMAX value page like this one is here to explain. Between the artwork, the anniversary set it belongs to, and the real spread between raw and graded, it's earned its spot as a card people keep coming back to check on.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $14, up 60% over the past year, with an all-time high of $15 in June 2026.
Recent pulls of Surfing Pikachu VMAX
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Surfing Pikachu VMAX price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 10,645 graded, only 8,475 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $88 | 8,475 | 6,861 / 1,614 |
| PSA 9 | $29 | 1,816 | 1,562 / 254 |
| PSA 8 | $14 | 238 | 181 / 57 |
| PSA 7 | $11 | 61 | 55 / 6 |
| PSA 6 | $9.00 | 32 | 29 / 3 |
| PSA 5 | $7.00 | 14 | 14 / - |
| PSA 4 | $6.00 | 5 | 4 / 1 |
| PSA 3 | $5.00 | 2 | 2 / - |
| PSA 2 | $5.00 | 1 | 1 / - |
| PSA 1 | - | 1 | 1 / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $14 | - | - |
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 Surfing Pikachu VMAX
Is Surfing Pikachu VMAX worth grading?
So is it worth grading? That's really the question everyone lands here with. A PSA 10 on this card sits at 10.2x the raw price, which on paper looks tempting since you're turning a $12 card into a $121 one. But that multiplier only tells half the story: gem mint is genuinely hard to hit, grading takes time, costs money regardless of the result, and a card that comes back a Grade 9 (worth $28) still leaves you well short of that PSA 10 number. If you've got a copy that's centered well with clean edges and no surface wear under light, it's worth considering. If it's got soft corners or a whitening edge, save yourself the fee and enjoy it raw.
How rare is Surfing Pikachu VMAX?
Looking at the numbers, 10,443 copies of this card have been graded in total, and of those, 8,306 came back as PSA 10. That's a notably high gem rate for a modern era card, which tells you the print quality on this one was pretty forgiving, but it also means a PSA 10 alone doesn't carry the scarcity premium you might expect. The real rarity story here is in the smaller slice, the copies that didn't hit that top grade, since a Grade 9 population sitting well below the PSA 10 count is often the harder find in practice even if the price doesn't always reflect it yet.
Where can you pull Surfing Pikachu VMAX?
PackSpy has tracked this card being pulled 162 times across sites we monitor, including collector-crypt, packs, tilt-rips, courtyard, and lastpack, and it's shown up in products like the Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack, Celebrations Pack, Pokemon Mini Pack, and Pokemon Starter Pack. The biggest single pull we've recorded came in at $977, which gives you a sense of what's possible when a good copy lands in the right box. That said, most rips don't end anywhere close to that number, and opening packs chasing this specific card is genuinely a gamble more often than not. This is the kind of real, cross-site pull data that a static price guide simply can't show you, and it's exactly why we track it.
Questions people ask
How much is Surfing Pikachu VMAX worth?+
A raw or ungraded copy is worth $12 right now. Grade it and land a 9, and you're looking at $28, but a PSA 10 gem mint copy is where the real jump happens, valued at $121.
Is Surfing Pikachu VMAX worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 sits at 10.2x the raw value. But gem mint copies aren't guaranteed, grading has a real cost either way, and a Grade 9 result leaves you far below PSA 10 money, so it really comes down to how sharp your copy looks before you send it in.
What set is Surfing Pikachu VMAX from?+
It's card #22 from the Japanese 25th Anniversary Collection, the set released to mark 25 years of Pokemon and one that's stayed popular with collectors ever since.
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