Entei's most valuable card is a 2005 Gold Star rare priced at $1,067.00 raw, more than double the next card in a top ten that includes three EX-era prints and four LEGEND half-cards from a single 2010 set.
Entei star, the Gold Star rare from 2005's EX Unseen Forces, is Entei's most valuable card. Cardboard Alpha's live market data prices a raw, Near Mint copy at $1,067.00 as of September 26, 2026, more than double the next card on this list.
The rest of the top ten mixes two more EX-era ex prints, a 2001 1st Edition holo, four LEGEND half-cards from 2010's Unleashed, a 2011 Call of Legends Entei and a 2012 Entei-EX full art.
Cardboard Alpha market price $1,067.00 (raw, Near Mint) as of September 26, 2026, the highest of any Entei card.
Entei's ten most valuable cards
Every price below is Cardboard Alpha's own evaluated market price for a raw, ungraded, Near Mint copy, read September 26, 2026. None of these are graded prices, and none include shipping.
Four of the ten spots belong to one release. Unleashed paired Entei into two different LEGEND cards in the same May 12, 2010 set, and both halves of both pairs price high enough to make this list on their own.
Entei's top 6 cards by raw market price
Entei star (2005)1,067USD
Rocket's Entei ex (2004)503.99USD
Entei 1st Ed. (2001)500USD
Suicune & Entei LEGEND 94 (2010)340USD
Entei & Raikou LEGEND 90 (2010)310.99USD
Entei, Call of Legends (2011)290USD
Cardboard Alpha market price, raw/Near Mint, read September 26, 2026.
Why the Gold Star sits on top
Gold Star cards, marked with a star after the Pokemon's name, were a one-per-deck Basic Pokemon subset that started with EX Team Rocket Returns, per Wikipedia's Pokemon Trading Card Game entry. Entei's own Gold Star, Entei star, arrived the following year in EX Unseen Forces, a 115-card set released August 22, 2005.
Entei star is the only Gold Star on this ranking, and the only Gold Star Entei in Cardboard Alpha's English catalog.
The card most likely to be confused with it is Rocket's Entei ex, a different Pokemon ex print from the same EX era, released the year before in Team Rocket Returns. It is Entei's second most valuable card, at $503.99, but it is not a Gold Star.
Entei star still trades at roughly 2.1 times that second-place price, per the same September 26, 2026 read. That multiple is the widest gap between any two adjacent cards in the top ten.
The LEGEND pairs behind four of the top ten
LEGEND cards are not single cards. Introduced in the HeartGold & SoulSilver series, a LEGEND Pokemon is built from two separate physical cards that both have to be played onto the Bench at once, and the completed Pokemon is worth two Prize cards when knocked out, per Wikipedia.
Unleashed printed two LEGEND pairs that include Entei: Suicune & Entei LEGEND (halves numbered 94/95 and 95/95) and Entei & Raikou LEGEND (halves numbered 90/95 and 91/95). Every price in the table above is for one half, not a matched pair.
Suicune & Entei LEGEND, 94/95 half: $340.00, the higher-priced half of the pair.
Suicune & Entei LEGEND, 95/95 half: $213.99.
Entei & Raikou LEGEND, 90/95 half: $310.99, the higher-priced half of the pair.
Entei & Raikou LEGEND, 91/95 half: $203.50.
A collector assembling either full LEGEND therefore needs both listed halves, and the completed Pokemon costs roughly the sum of both prices, not the single higher number. On the September 26, 2026 read, that sum is $553.99 for Suicune & Entei LEGEND and $514.49 for Entei & Raikou LEGEND. A newer two-card format, the Legendary Stadium, is covered in the Delta Reign artwork preview.
Entei's ex, EX, GX and V prints
Entei has been printed under four different card mechanics whose names overlap but are not the same thing. Keeping them apart matters when comparing prices across this list.
Spread across roughly 19 years, from a 2004 Entei ex to a 2023 Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery Entei V, none of these four prints reaches Entei's top three.
Pokemon ex (2004, Team Magma vs Team Aqua): Entei ex at $233.33, a holo print from the EX-era ex mechanic, released roughly eight years before the Pokemon-EX mechanic debuted in 2012.
Pokemon-EX (2012, Dark Explorers): a separate card, Entei-EX, an Ultra Rare full art, at $255.91. Wikipedia's Pokemon TCG entry places the Pokemon-EX mechanic's debut at Next Destinies, the set released just before Dark Explorers.
GX (2017, Shining Legends): Entei GX, a Secret Rare, at $31.63. GX debuted with the Sun and Moon series and, like EX, is worth two Prizes.
V (2023, Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery): Entei V, a Galarian Gallery Ultra Rare, at $51.13. V debuted with the Sword and Shield series as a Basic Pokemon that can evolve into VMAX or VSTAR forms.
The two newest of these, the GX and the V, are also the two lowest-priced prints in this section, each under a quarter of the 2004 and 2012 prices.
The low end of the Entei range
Entei is a Generation II Pokemon, introduced in Pokemon Gold and Silver, which were first released in Japan on November 21, 1999, per Wikipedia's list of Generation II Pokemon. Its fellow legendary beasts are Raikou and Suicune, the other two names on its LEGEND cards.
The cheapest card cited in this guide is Entei's Wizards Black Star Promo, number 34, a reverse-holo promo. Cardboard Alpha's live market data prices it at $28.18 raw and Near Mint as of September 26, 2026.
That is a roughly 38-fold spread between the promo and Entei star, across the 35 English Entei printings on file. Entei star alone is worth more than a third of the combined value of every other card cited in this guide.
What this guide does not price
Every figure here is Cardboard Alpha's own evaluated market price, read directly from Cardboard Alpha's production pricing engine on September 26, 2026. A same-day check against TCGplayer's published market prices matched eight of the top ten figures to the cent.
The two exceptions are LEGEND halves. TCGplayer's market price read $231.50 for Suicune & Entei LEGEND 95/95 and $150.15 for Entei & Raikou LEGEND 91/95 on the same day, so those two figures depend on which pricing source is used. Neither difference changes a card's rank.
PSA population data is absent. No PSA 10 count or gem rate could be verified against PSA's own published report while this guide was prepared, so none appears here. No auction-house realized sale, from Heritage, PWCC or any other house, appears either.
Graded prices are absent entirely. Every number above is raw and ungraded, and a raw price is not a stand-in for what a graded copy of the same card sells for.
Prices also move. This is a single dated read, not a trend line, and any figure in it, or the order of cards separated by a few dollars, can change on the next read. Card-value guides like this one are filed in Cardboard Alpha's best-cards section, and how often each set grades a PSA 10 is worth reading before assuming a raw price translates directly to a graded one.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most valuable Entei card?
Entei star, the Gold Star rare from 2005's EX Unseen Forces, is the most valuable Entei card. Cardboard Alpha's live market data priced a raw, Near Mint copy at $1,067.00 as of September 26, 2026, more than double the second-place card.
Why is Entei star a Gold Star instead of an EX or GX card?
Gold Star is a different, older chase mechanic that predates GX by more than a decade. Per Wikipedia's Pokemon Trading Card Game entry, Gold Star cards started with EX Team Rocket Returns as a one-per-deck Basic Pokemon subset, roughly 12 years before GX debuted with the Sun and Moon series.
Do I need to buy both halves of a LEGEND card?
Yes. A LEGEND Pokemon, per Wikipedia, is built from two separate physical cards that both have to be played onto the Bench together to function as one Pokemon. Four of Entei's ten most valuable cards are LEGEND halves from 2010's Unleashed, and completing either pair means buying both numbered halves, not just the higher-priced one.
Are the 2004 Entei ex and the 2012 Entei-EX the same card?
No. The 2004 Team Magma vs Team Aqua card is Entei ex, from the original lowercase ex mechanic, while the 2012 Dark Explorers card is Entei-EX, an Ultra Rare full art from the Pokemon-EX mechanic that Wikipedia dates to Next Destinies. Cardboard Alpha prices them separately at $233.33 and $255.91 respectively, raw and Near Mint, as of September 26, 2026.
Why doesn't this guide show PSA 10 prices or population counts?
No PSA population figure or graded price for these cards could be verified against PSA's own published report while this guide was prepared. Rather than estimate a graded number, this guide omits graded pricing entirely and prices every card raw and ungraded.
Janelle Sazon writes collecting guides and best-card roundups for Cardboard Alpha, with an eye on what makes a Pokémon card worth chasing: the artwork, the rarity tier, the condition it survives in, and what it really costs to own once the hype is set aside. Articles under this byline are written for collectors at every level, lean on published pricing and population data rather than speculation, cite every source inline, and are fact-checked against those sources before they are published.
Janelle Sazon's articles describe the collecting market using published pricing and population data. They are informational and are not personalized investment advice.
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