Zapdos #145 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 22 Oct 2026Related Zapdos & chase cards
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Zapdos is one of those cards that needs no introduction: the electric legendary bird from the original 151, brought back in the 2023 Japanese Mystery of the Fossils set as a double rare with artwork from takuyoa that really lets the lightning fly. It's a card collectors gravitate toward for the nostalgia as much as the look, and if you're here checking the Zapdos value, the short answer is that it's an affordable card raw with real upside if you land a clean grade. This page breaks down exactly what Zapdos is worth right now, raw and graded, using real market and pull data.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $19, up 69% over the past year, with an all-time high of $22 in July 2026.
Recent pulls of Zapdos
Real pulls of this card across the tracked pack-opening sites, data no price guide has.
$13CGC 8.5 NM-MT+Wildcard Basic PackCourtyard · 5m ago
$36CGC 10 PRISTINEPokémon Pro PackCourtyard · 7m ago
$150PSA 6 EX-MTGengar's Game Night 4Courtyard · 17m ago$13CGC 8.5 NM-MT+Wildcard Basic PackCourtyard · 25m ago
$58CGC 7.5 NM+Gengar's Game Night 3Courtyard · 25m ago$36CGC 10 PRISTINEPokémon Pro PackCourtyard · 29m ago
$13PSAPokémon StarterTrove · 33m ago
$255PSA 9 MINTPokémon Ultra (Spicy)Courtyard · 56m ago
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Zapdos price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 4,900 graded, only 738 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $900 | 738 | 643 / 95 |
| PSA 9 | $132 | 1,707 | 1,431 / 276 |
| PSA 8 | $69 | 1,104 | 726 / 378 |
| PSA 7 | $42 | 483 | 302 / 181 |
| PSA 6 | $27 | 357 | 234 / 123 |
| PSA 5 | $23 | 232 | 138 / 94 |
| PSA 4 | $20 | 146 | 76 / 70 |
| PSA 3 | $17 | 75 | 31 / 44 |
| PSA 2 | $15 | 26 | 14 / 12 |
| PSA 1 | $80 | 32 | 30 / 2 |
| Raw / Ungraded | $20 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Card number
- 145
- Rarity
- Double rare
- Type
- Lightning
- HP
- 200
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- takuyoa
Attacks
- Multishot Lightning120Lightning · Lightning · Lightning
This attack also does 90 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon that has any damage counters on it. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
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The collector's take on Zapdos
Is Zapdos worth grading?
Here's where the Zapdos price gets interesting: a raw, ungraded copy runs about $15, but a PSA 10 sits at $643, which works out to roughly 42.5 times the raw value. That's a real jump, and it's the reason people bother sending cards off at all. But gem mint is not guaranteed just because a card looks nice in hand, corners, centering and surface all have to line up, and grading costs money and time whether or not you hit a 10. Interestingly, Grade 9 copies are currently valued even higher at $1,431, so a near perfect copy can sometimes be worth chasing on its own rather than holding out only for a 10. If your raw copy looks sharp, grading can make sense, just go in knowing it's a bet, not a sure thing.
How rare is Zapdos?
Right now there are 4,866 total graded copies of Zapdos on record, and of those, 735 have reached PSA 10. That means gem mint copies make up a meaningful slice of the graded population, not some ultra rare needle in a haystack, but still a limited group compared to how many raw copies are floating around uncertified. That population context matters when you're trying to figure out how much is Zapdos worth in any given grade: it's not vanishingly scarce at the top, but it's scarce enough that a clean PSA 10 stands out and holds real value against the $15 raw price.
Where can you pull Zapdos?
We've tracked Zapdos being pulled 104 times across pack sites including mnstr, courtyard, collector-crypt, packs, and tilt-rips, with the biggest recorded pull coming in at $1,697. If you're opening packs hoping to hit it, it's shown up in Pack 5, The Amazing Chase Encore, Wildcard Basic Pack, Pokémon Pro Pack, and Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack. That said, opening packs is gambling no matter how you slice it, and most rips don't come close to covering their cost, so treat any Zapdos pull as a nice bonus rather than the plan. This is exactly the kind of real, cross site pull data most price guides simply don't track, which is the whole reason PackSpy exists.
Questions people ask
How much is Zapdos worth?+
A raw, ungraded Zapdos from Mystery of the Fossils is worth about $15 right now. Once graded, the value shifts a lot depending on the grade, with a Grade 9 at $1,431 and a PSA 10 at $643, so condition really does the heavy lifting here.
Is Zapdos worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth roughly 42.5 times the raw $15 price. Just know that hitting a 10 isn't guaranteed, and with 4,866 total graded copies and only 735 reaching PSA 10, plenty of submissions land at Grade 9 or lower instead.
How much is a PSA 10 Zapdos worth?+
A PSA 10 Zapdos is currently valued at $643. Out of 4,866 graded copies overall, 735 have earned that top grade, so while it's not the rarest outcome, it's still a solid step up from the $15 raw price.
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