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Team Rocket's Articuno #51 value & price

Card 51 / 244RareWater · HP 120Released 2025Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita
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Reviewed by · Updated 25 Aug 2026
Ungraded market value
$1.99 11% · 1Y
PSA 9
$23
PSA 10 · Gem Mint
$120

Team Rocket's Articuno is a Rare pull from the 2025 Destined Rivals set, brought to life by Mitsuhiro Arita's artwork, and it's the kind of card that gets a second look even from folks who don't usually chase Team Rocket cards. If you're searching Team Rocket's Articuno value because you just pulled one or spotted it in a binder, the short answer is that it's a modest but real card, worth a look regardless of what you decide to do with it.

Price history

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$0.00$36$72$108$144$120PSA 10$25BGS 9.5$23Grade 9$14Grade 8$7.50Grade 7$1.99Ungraded

Raw value is $1.99, down 11% over the past year, with an all-time high of $2.24 in April 2026.

Raw
$1.99
1Y
▼ 11%
PSA 10
$120
PSA 9
$23
Population
-
Gem PSA 10
-
Upside
60.2×
All-time high
$2.24

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Team Rocket's Articuno price at every grade

Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population).

GradeValuePopulation
PSA 10 (Gem Mint)$120-
PSA 9$23-
PSA 8$14-
PSA 7$7.50-
PSA 6$6.00-
PSA 5$5.00-
PSA 4$4.00-
PSA 3$3.00-
PSA 2$3.00-
PSA 1--
Raw / Ungraded$1.99-

Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company.

Card details

Card number
51 of 244
Rarity
Rare
Type
Water
HP
120
Stage
Basic
Weakness
Lightning ×2
Retreat cost
1
Illustrator
Mitsuhiro Arita
Released
2025

Attacks

  • Dark Frost60+
    Water · Colorless · Colorless

    If this Pokémon has any Team Rocket's Energy attached, this attack does 60 more damage.

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The collector's take on Team Rocket's Articuno

Is Team Rocket's Articuno worth grading?

Here's the honest breakdown on Team Rocket's Articuno price across grades: raw copies sit around $2, a Grade 9 climbs to $20, and a PSA 10 lands at $107, which works out to about 54.5 times the raw price. That's a genuinely wide gap, and it's tempting to think every copy in your binder is a hidden $107 card. In reality, hitting a true gem mint 10 takes a sharp, well centered card with clean edges and no surface marks, and grading companies charge real fees plus shipping time regardless of what grade comes back. For a $2 raw card, that math only makes sense if you're grading in bulk, you genuinely believe your copy is pack fresh perfect, or you just enjoy having graded cards in your collection for their own sake.

How rare is Team Rocket's Articuno?

As a Rare card rather than a secret rare or full art chase card, Team Rocket's Articuno wasn't printed to be scarce in the way ultra rares are, and that shows in its price. That doesn't mean it's common in every sense though: pulling a genuine PSA 10 still depends on how the card came out of the pack, and print quality on any given sheet can vary more than people expect. The value here isn't driven by a tiny population so much as by demand for Arita's art and the Destined Rivals set itself, which is worth remembering if you're deciding whether to grade or just enjoy the card raw.

Where can you pull Team Rocket's Articuno?

This is where PackSpy's live tracking actually earns its keep, because we don't just guess at pull rates, we record them. So far we've logged Team Rocket's Articuno being pulled 6 times, all across lastpack, with the biggest recorded pull value coming in at $1. It's also been spotted in packs like noobie. That's a small but real sample, and it tells you this card does turn up in circulation rather than being locked away as a rare chase, though it's not exactly flooding pack openings either. Worth remembering too: opening packs is a gamble, and most rips don't cover their cost, so treat any pull as a bonus rather than the plan.

Questions people ask

How much is Team Rocket's Articuno worth?+

A raw, ungraded Team Rocket's Articuno is worth around $2 right now. Graded copies are worth more, with a Grade 9 sitting at $20 and a PSA 10 reaching $107, so the value really depends on condition and whether it's been graded.

Is Team Rocket's Articuno worth grading?+

It can be, but go in with realistic expectations. The jump from raw to PSA 10 is about 54.5 times the raw value, which sounds great, but grading fees and the chance of landing a lower grade like a 9 mean it's not a guaranteed win, especially on a card that starts at just $2 raw.

How much is a PSA 10 Team Rocket's Articuno worth?+

A PSA 10, gem mint copy of Team Rocket's Articuno is currently valued at $107. That's a big step up from both the raw price of $2 and the Grade 9 price of $20, which shows just how much a perfect grade matters for this card.

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