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.
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.
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
$14.55 (Giovanni's Charisma 204/165) to $366.88 (Charizard ex 199/165)
Hyper Rare, gold etched
205 to 207
3
$2.58 (Switch 206/165) to $29.98 (Mew ex 205/165)
The base-set number is the one worth sitting with. Of the 165 numbered cards, 150 carried a market price below $1.00 as of September 1, 2026, and none reached $10.
151 also carries a low-probability pack mechanic that feeds the secret tiers: an entire Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle evolutionary line can appear as secret cards in a single pack, in place of the two reverse holos and the rare. Bulbapedia notes that fans call these "demigod packs."
The chase tier, priced
The top of 151 is unusually easy to enumerate, because the secret-card numbering runs in a clean block. These ten cards are the entire Special Illustration Rare and Hyper Rare population.
Every figure is the TCGplayer market price read on September 1, 2026.
Card
Number
Rarity
Market price
Charizard ex
199/165
Special Illustration Rare
$366.88
Blastoise ex
200/165
Special Illustration Rare
$140.68
Venusaur ex
198/165
Special Illustration Rare
$118.37
Zapdos ex
202/165
Special Illustration Rare
$93.34
Alakazam ex
201/165
Special Illustration Rare
$70.78
Mew ex
205/165
Hyper Rare
$29.98
Erika's Invitation
203/165
Special Illustration Rare
$16.00
Giovanni's Charisma
204/165
Special Illustration Rare
$14.55
Basic Psychic Energy
207/165
Hyper Rare
$4.43
Switch
206/165
Hyper Rare
$2.58
Charizard ex 199/165 alone accounts for more market price than the next three cards in the tier combined. The drop from first to second is the steepest step anywhere in the set.
Rarity tier does not set the price
Read the table above by rarity rather than by price and the ordering breaks. Two effects show up clearly on the September 1, 2026 read.
The rarest tier is not the priciest tier. Mew ex 205/165 is one of only three Hyper Rares in 151, yet at $29.98 it sat below all five Pokémon-ex Special Illustration Rares, a tier with more cards in it.
Mew ex still beat the Trainer cards in the tier above it. Erika's Invitation 203/165 at $16.00 and Giovanni's Charisma 204/165 at $14.55 are both Special Illustration Rares, and both traded below the Hyper Rare Mew.
Illustration Rares outprice Special Illustration Rares. Squirtle 170/165 at $97.89 and Charmander 168/165 at $95.09 sit two tiers below Alakazam ex 201/165, which traded at $70.78.
Trainer cards lag Pokémon cards at equal rarity. The two lowest Special Illustration Rares in the set are its two Trainer cards, and the two lowest Hyper Rares are a Trainer and an Energy.
The pattern across all four points is the same. Cards showing a popular Pokémon carry a premium over cards that do not, and that premium is large enough to jump print tiers.
Collectors comparing this against the rest of the Scarlet and Violet era will find the same shape in most modern sets, though the size of the gap is set-specific and this read covers 151 only.
The Charizard ladder across three tiers
151 offers an unusually clean test of that idea, because the same Pokémon appears three times in one set at three different print tiers.
Charizard ex market price by print tier in 151
006/165 Double Rare8.27USD
183/165 Ultra Rare41.03USD
199/165 Special Illustration Rare366.88USD
TCGplayer market price, read September 1, 2026.
Charizard ex 006/165 is the highest-priced card in the entire numbered base set at $8.27 as of September 1, 2026, and it is still worth less than a quarter of its Ultra Rare counterpart 183/165 at $41.03. The Special Illustration Rare then trades at roughly nine times the Ultra Rare.
TCGplayer market price $8.27 as of September 1, 2026, the highest-priced card in the 165-card numbered base set.
Same character, same set, same release window. The only variable that changes across those three rungs is print tier, and it moves the price by a factor of about 44 from bottom to top.
That is the cleanest thing 151 tells you about card values: print tier multiplies, and character demand decides which cards get multiplied. You can compare that ladder against other sets across the wider covered universe.
Sealed product and the missing booster box
The Pokémon Company never released a traditional 36-pack booster box for the English 151 set. Its official expansion page tells buyers that opening packs from special expansions like this one means purchasing products such as the Elite Trainer Box and Ultra-Premium Collection.
The official lineup on that page covers the Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box, the standard Elite Trainer Box, the Booster Bundle, a Binder Collection, a Poster Collection, the Alakazam ex and Zapdos ex Collections, and the Ultra-Premium Collection.
Every English 151 pack therefore had to travel inside a boxed product. TCGplayer market prices across that lineup as of September 1, 2026 ran as follows:
151 Booster Pack (single): $29.07
151 Booster Bundle: $179.05
151 Elite Trainer Box: $569.14
151 Ultra-Premium Collection: $932.18
Current asks for these and other sealed items are visible directly in the tracked sealed listings.
What this guide does not price
Graded copies are absent from everything above, deliberately. PSA's population report and its graded price data could not be read from a Tier-1 source on September 1, 2026, so no PSA 9 or PSA 10 figure appears anywhere in this guide.
Every number here is a raw, ungraded TCGplayer market price. Graded economics for these cards run on separate supply, and applying a raw price to a slabbed copy, in either direction, would be wrong.
The prices themselves also move. They are a single dated read, not a trend, and the ranking is more durable than any individual figure in it. The set's structure is the part that holds: a narrow chase tier, a sealed lineup with no booster box behind it, and 150 base-set cards that trade below a dollar. Browse the full Pokémon set catalog for how 151 sits against its neighbours.
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
Jackie Chung covers the Pokémon TCG secondary market for Cardboard Alpha, 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
— Cardboard Alpha 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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