Tangela #178 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 9 Aug 2026Related Tangela & chase cards
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Tangela is one of those cards that quietly wins people over, a grass-type curiosity turned into a genuinely lovely illustration rare in the Japanese Scarlet & Violet 151 set from 2023, brought to life by Oswaldo KATO. If you are digging into Tangela value because one landed in your binder or you are eyeing a copy online, the short version is that raw copies sit at $15, which makes this a card plenty of people can actually own rather than just admire from a distance.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $15, up 88% over the past year, with an all-time high of $17 in June 2026.
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Tangela price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 5,539 graded, only 1,750 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $147 | 1,750 | 1,443 / 307 |
| PSA 9 | $26 | 2,901 | 2,659 / 242 |
| PSA 8 | $18 | 784 | 659 / 125 |
| PSA 7 | $17 | 81 | 77 / 4 |
| PSA 6 | $13 | 8 | 8 / - |
| PSA 5 | $10 | 8 | 8 / - |
| PSA 4 | $9.00 | 5 | 5 / - |
| PSA 3 | $8.00 | 2 | 2 / - |
| PSA 2 | $7.00 | - | - / - |
| PSA 1 | - | - | - / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $15 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Card number
- 178
- Rarity
- Illustration rare
- Type
- Grass
- HP
- 80
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Fire ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Oswaldo KATO
Attacks
- Tactful Tangling10+Grass
If you played Erika's Invitation from your hand during this turn, this attack does 60 more damage.
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The collector's take on Tangela
Is Tangela worth grading?
So is Tangela worth grading? Here is the honest math: a raw copy runs $15, but a PSA 10 is valued at $1,443, which works out to about 96.2 times the raw price. That is a real jump, and it is exactly why people send cards in. But gem mint is called gem mint for a reason, corners, centering and surface all have to line up, and plenty of nice-looking copies come back as a 9 rather than a 10. Interestingly, Grade 9 copies of Tangela are actually valued higher right now at $2,659, which is a good reminder that grading outcomes and market demand do not always move in the direction you expect. Factor in grading fees, turnaround time and the very real chance your card does not come back a 10, and you can see why grading is a calculated bet, not a guarantee.
How rare is Tangela?
Right now there are 5,515 total graded copies of Tangela on record, and of those, 1,743 have earned the PSA 10 label. That is a decent chunk of the graded population sitting at the top tier, which tells you Tangela is not an impossibly hard card to find in gem mint condition, but it is far from common either. Population numbers like these matter because they set the ceiling on supply at each grade, and they are a big part of why the Tangela price behaves the way it does at the high end.
Where can you pull Tangela?
This is where PackSpy earns its keep, because we do not just quote a price guide, we track real pulls across pack sites. Tangela has been pulled 58 times in our records across courtyard, collector-crypt and mnstr, with the biggest recorded pull coming in at $213. It has turned up in packs like the Pokémon Pro Pack, Pokémon Starter Pack, Wildcard Basic Pack, Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack and The Amazing Chase Encore. Worth saying plainly, opening packs is gambling and most rips do not beat what you paid, but if you are chasing Tangela specifically, those are the packs where our data shows it has actually shown up.
Questions people ask
How much is Tangela worth?+
A raw, ungraded Tangela from Scarlet & Violet 151 is valued at $15. Graded copies climb from there, with Grade 9 sitting at $2,659 and PSA 10 at $1,443, so condition and grading make a real difference to what the card is worth.
Is Tangela worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth roughly 96.2 times the raw price of $15. That said, grading costs money and time, gem mint is genuinely hard to hit, and Grade 9 copies are currently valued even higher at $2,659, so it is worth thinking through before you send a copy in.
How much is a PSA 10 Tangela worth?+
A PSA 10 Tangela is valued at $1,443. Out of 5,515 total graded copies on record, 1,743 have reached that PSA 10 grade, so gem mint copies exist but they are far from a common outcome.
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