151 Card Values: The Complete Guide
What every tier of Pokemon TCG: 151 actually trades for, from the Charizard ex Special Illustration Rare at the top to a 165-card base set with a median market price of twenty-one cents.
By Jackie Chung · Reviewed by Ryan Shugars · (updated )
Charizard ex 199/165, the Special Illustration Rare, is the most valuable card in Pokémon TCG: 151. It carried a TCGplayer market price of $366.88 as of September 1, 2026, more than double any other card in the set.
Below it, value falls away quickly. Only 12 of the set's 207 cards traded above $50 on that read, and the 165-card numbered base set had a median TCGplayer market price of $0.21.
That gap between a handful of secret cards and everything else is the whole story of this set. What follows prices each tier, ranks the ten chase cards, and shows why the order does not follow print rarity.
199 · 151
TCGplayer market price $366.88 as of September 1, 2026, the highest of any card in the set.
Where 151's value actually sits
Pokémon TCG: 151 released in Japan on June 16, 2023, and in English on September 22, 2023, per Bulbapedia's set page. The English release contains 207 cards: a 165-card numbered base set plus 42 secret cards numbered 166 through 207.
Those 42 secret cards split into 16 Illustration Rares, 16 Ultra Rare full-art etched cards, 7 Special Illustration Rares, and 3 Hyper Rare gold-etched cards. TCGplayer's own rarity labels for cards 166 through 207 line up with that split exactly, which pins each tier to a specific block of card numbers.
Prices below are TCGplayer market prices read on September 1, 2026, across all 249 listings in the set.
| Tier | Card numbers | Cards | TCGplayer market price range, September 1, 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbered base set | 001 to 165 | 165 | median $0.21, high $8.27 (Charizard ex 006/165) |
| Illustration Rare | 166 to 181 | 16 | $13.45 (Omanyte 180/165) to $97.89 (Squirtle 170/165) |
| Ultra Rare, full-art etched | 182 to 197 | 16 | $3.01 (Daisy's Help 195/165) to $41.03 (Charizard ex 183/165) |
| Special Illustration Rare | 198 to 204 | 7 |
Frequently asked questions
- What is the most valuable card in the 151 set?
- Charizard ex 199/165, the Special Illustration Rare, carried a TCGplayer market price of $366.88 as of September 1, 2026. That is more than double the next card in the set, Blastoise ex 200/165 at $140.68 on the same read. No other card in 151 traded above $150.
- Why does Mew ex sit below the Special Illustration Rares?
- Mew ex 205/165 sits in the Hyper Rare tier, which holds only three cards in the whole set per Bulbapedia's set list. It still carried a TCGplayer market price of $29.98 as of September 1, 2026, below all five Pokemon-ex Special Illustration Rares. It did trade above the two Trainer Special Illustration Rares, Erika's Invitation 203/165 and Giovanni's Charisma 204/165.
- How many cards are in the 151 set?
- The English release contains 207 cards: a 165-card numbered base set plus 42 secret cards numbered 166 to 207, per Bulbapedia's set breakdown. Those 42 split into 16 Illustration Rares, 16 Ultra Rare full-art etched cards, 7 Special Illustration Rares, and 3 Hyper Rare gold-etched cards. TCGplayer's rarity labels for cards 166 through 207 match that split exactly.
- Why was there no 151 booster box?
- The Pokemon Company never released a traditional 36-pack booster box for the English 151 set. Its official expansion page states that opening packs from special expansions like this one requires buying products such as the Elite Trainer Box and Ultra-Premium Collection. A single 151 booster pack carried a TCGplayer market price of $29.07 as of September 1, 2026.
- Are 151 base-set cards worth anything?
- Mostly no. Across the 165 numbered base-set cards, the median TCGplayer market price was $0.21 as of September 1, 2026, and 150 of the 165 sat below $1.00. The highest base-set card was Charizard ex 006/165 at $8.27, which is still less than a quarter of what its Ultra Rare counterpart 183/165 traded for.
Sources
- SV: Scarlet & Violet 151 product listings and market prices, TCGplayer Official / primary source · accessed September 1, 2026
- Charizard ex - 199/165 - SV: Scarlet & Violet 151, TCGplayer Official / primary source · accessed September 1, 2026
- Charizard ex - 183/165 - SV: Scarlet & Violet 151, TCGplayer Official / primary source · accessed September 1, 2026
- Charizard ex - 006/165 - SV: Scarlet & Violet 151, TCGplayer Official / primary source · accessed September 1, 2026
- Mew ex - 205/165 - SV: Scarlet & Violet 151, TCGplayer Official / primary source · accessed September 1, 2026
- Pokemon TCG: Scarlet & Violet-151 expansion page, The Pokemon Company International Official / primary source · accessed September 1, 2026
- 151 (TCG), Bulbapedia
About the author
Jackie Chung covers the Pokémon TCG secondary market for PokéQuant, with a focus on grading economics and set value guides. She spends most of her research time in population reports and grade-spread data, tracing how submission volume, print runs, and grading-company standards shape the premium between a raw card and its graded counterparts across different eras. Her set guides are built the same way: grounded in published pricing and pop data first, with market narrative kept separate from the numbers behind it.
Jackie Chung's articles describe market history and mechanics using published population and pricing data. They are informational and are not personalized investment advice.
Revision history
- — PokéQuant Research: Third pass. Replaced the removed aggregator-sourced pricing with Tier-1 TCGplayer market prices read September 1, 2026 for every card and sealed product cited, each cross-checked against TCGplayer's dated price-history series. Rebuilt the chase-card ranking on those reads, added per-tier price ranges and the base-set median, and dropped all Tier-3 aggregator sources. Graded and population figures remain absent because no Tier-1 read was obtainable.
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