modelled guide
Thin liquidity
TCGplayer reported
1 sellers
across 3 graders
as of Oct 14, 2026 · UTC
history since Jul 2026
Vikavolt — 230/217 · 1DMkt$2.91+13.7%guide price · 3-day avgitem price
Vol — sold·0 prints·1 obs
Insufficient data
No fair value is published for this card — no confirmed print or completed auction in 30 days — an estimate built from live asks alone would be a restatement of the book.
$3.98 buys the entire visible book — 1 unit, fewer than one ordinary order (30d traded unknown, 1 ask).
Book
10%$3.98$3.98 askSweeping 10% of the visible book costs $3.98The next unbought ask after that sweep sits at $3.98 ask.Visible asks only, at delivered prices. An unshipped listing has no delivered price and is not in this ladder.50%$3.98$3.98 askSweeping 50% of the visible book costs $3.98The next unbought ask after that sweep sits at $3.98 ask.Visible asks only, at delivered prices. An unshipped listing has no delivered price and is not in this ladder.80%$3.98$3.98 askSweeping 80% of the visible book costs $3.98The next unbought ask after that sweep sits at $3.98 ask.Visible asks only, at delivered prices. An unshipped listing has no delivered price and is not in this ladder.Book $3.98Total notional on the visible ask ladder, and the largest single seller's share of it. A book that is mostly one seller's inventory is one decision away from moving.Whole book$3.98
nothing traded — priced at the whole board
Book breadth1 level
1 units on the board
VenuesTCGplayer
The absorption ladder walks the visible delivered-price ask book cheapest-first: what each slice of the book costs, the ask it leaves marginal, and how far that sits from the last price the card actually traded at. Manipulation risk is the worse of two reads — how many days of this card’s own turnover it would take to absorb the cost of control, and whether the whole buyable book fits inside a single ordinary order.
Insufficient data
Only 2 units sold in 30 days — under the 8-unit floor for reading a pace.
Daily units are the venue's own sold-quantity history, expanded off each bucket's real span, plus confirmed prints from the other side of the market. Prints come from the live sales tape at delivered prices. The floor is the cheapest delivered ask (item + required shipping) across venues — the same one FAIR VALUE prices against.
37/100 across 5 of 11 inputs. For: it sits in the top 12% of ranked cards on 30-day return. Against: liquidity reads 0/100. That is under half the model, so no call is made on it.
Not reading yet: value vs fair, price trend, money flow, book pressure, seller concentration, reprint risk.
The bottom line is a weighted mean of the signals that reported, renormalised so their weights sum to 1. Nothing defaults to a neutral 50: an input with no evidence is reweighted away and its absence is charged as a confidence penalty. Risk rows (manipulation, concentration, reprint) enter inverted. Data quality carries no weight at all — it decides whether the verdict may be spoken, because knowing a lot about a card is not a reason to buy it. Competitive meta sits OUTSIDE the weighted mean as a capped bonus added after it: a card nobody plays is never marked down for that, and a card the meta is built on can be marked up for it.
1 in 8.9 packs for illustration rare, shared by 33 cards in Ascended Heroes — but nothing on record says how many packs are in this set's sealed products, and a guessed pack count would sit invisibly inside the spend figure.
Breakdown
RarityIllustration rareRarityIllustration rareThe provider's own spelling, verbatim. The odds row and this printing have to carry the same string or no estimate is made — a mismatch must produce nothing rather than another rarity's rate.Slot odds1 in 8.9 packsSlot odds1 in 8.9 packsTCGplayer (Authentication Center) — no sample size published. Measured Feb 24, 2026, 232d before this reading. 11.25% ± 1.33% of packs, 95% CI (>2,000 packs). Community measurement, not official odds: nobody publishes physical pack rates.Cards at rarity33 in Ascended HeroesCards at rarity33 in Ascended HeroesCounted from the catalog: 33 printings in Ascended Heroes carry the rarity "Illustration rare".This card1 in 293 packs±30%This card1 in 293 packsThe rarity’s measured odds, split evenly across the 33 cards printed at it. That even split is the estimate's weakest link, and it is bounded rather than hand-waved: a published 8,000-pack study put two Special Illustration Rares from one set at 1 in 309 and 1 in 393 packs — same rarity, same set — so a per-card figure is good to about ±30%.P(this card, per pack) = the published odds of its RARITY appearing, split evenly across the cards printed at that rarity in the set. Expected packs is 1/p, the mean of the geometric distribution. The range plots expected pack spend ÷ the single's delivered price on a log axis centred on parity. Pack price is a sealed product's own price divided by its stated pack count, and is computed only where that count carries a source. The single is the cheapest delivered ask (item + required shipping) across venues — the same figure FAIR VALUE prices against.
The Pokémon Company has never published physical booster odds in any region — the only official drop-rate page covers the digital TCG Live packs and lists no probabilities at all. Every figure here is a hand-entered citation of a published pack-opening study, and each one names its source and sample on hover.
40 of this set’s 40 sealed products carry a price; none carries a recorded MSRP to measure appreciation against.
Appreciation vs MSRP
ProductPriceMSRPvs MSRPEvery sealed product the catalog holds for this set, ordered by how standard a unit each is for tracking a set’s sealed price. PRICE is the product’s last stored day — a sale where one was recorded, the provider’s daily guide value where none was, and the row’s hover says which. MSRP is blank wherever no source is recorded against one, because an MSRP with nobody behind it is not a fact. VS MSRP is the price against that MSRP, as a percentage up to a doubling and as a multiple past it.Sealed product from Ascended Heroes — the set this card was printed in. We track which set a product belongs to, not which cards are inside it. Appreciation is each product’s last stored price against its own recorded MSRP, in percent. The card’s call is the MEDIAN of those percentages across the products that have an MSRP — a median rather than a mean, so one outlier SKU cannot carry a whole set — and a product with no MSRP on file is left out of that aggregate rather than counted as zero; it still lists below with its price. MSRP is somebody’s assertion rather than a published dataset, so it is shown only where a source is recorded against it, and that source is on the row’s hover. The bands are a legend for the percentage the card prints beside them: within ±5% is at MSRP, which is this repo’s own fair-value tolerance; up to +25% is a slight premium; up to +100% a significant one; at or above +100% the price has at least doubled and the figure is stated as a multiple, because a four-digit percentage is not a number anybody reads. Each price line takes a day’s observed low/high sale range and plots its midpoint; on a day with no recorded sale it carries the provider’s own daily guide value instead — a quoted price, not a transaction — and those days are drawn dashed, never described as trades. Every line is indexed to its own first stored day = 100, so the chart compares appreciation between products rather than price levels: a booster pack and a booster box cannot honestly share a dollar axis.
14 tracked SKUs, and not one of them could be read on the last pass.
Store board
Not readAscended Heroes Booster Pack29d agoAscended Heroes Booster Pack at Target, SKU 1011207063 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:23 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Booster Pack29d agoAscended Heroes Booster Pack at Target, SKU 1009318827 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:01 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Booster Pack29d agoAscended Heroes Booster Pack at Target, SKU 1009318838 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:01 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Elite Trainer Box29d agoAscended Heroes Elite Trainer Box at Target, SKU 1009790687 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:01 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Clefairy & Chikorita]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Clefairy & Chikorita] at Target, SKU 1010937647 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:23 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Clefairy & Chikorita]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Clefairy & Chikorita] at Target, SKU 1010422938 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:01 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Pikachu & Tepig]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Pikachu & Tepig] at Target, SKU 1010937646 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:23 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Pikachu & Tepig]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Pikachu & Tepig] at Target, SKU 1009818849 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:01 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Riolu & Darumaka]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Riolu & Darumaka] at Target, SKU 1010937644 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:23 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Riolu & Darumaka]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Riolu & Darumaka] at Target, SKU 1009818850 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:01 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Togepi & Totodile]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Togepi & Totodile] at Target, SKU 1010937649 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:23 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Togepi & Totodile]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Togepi & Totodile] at Target, SKU 1009818851 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:01 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Zorua & Cramorant]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Zorua & Cramorant] at Target, SKU 1010937645 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:23 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Not readAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Zorua & Cramorant]29d agoAscended Heroes Mini Tin [Zorua & Cramorant] at Target, SKU 1009818852 — Not read, no shelf price shown. Read Sep 15, 08:01 UTC. A Ascended Heroes sealed product, not this card.Each row is one tracked retailer's most recent reading of one of the set's sealed products, at that retailer's own SKU. A restock is an observed OUT_OF_STOCK → IN_STOCK transition in that SKU's reading history, never a change we inferred from a price or a gap. Shelf prices are pre-tax and exclude shipping, so they are not delivered prices and are never fed into a floor.
20 readings of this book so far, one per 1 day, over 22d. The direction reads once there are enough of them to tell a drawdown from noise.
Each reading takes the venue's own listing count for this card in this condition — the whole book — at that instant. The direction is classified by the platform's absorption reading over that series: a book drawn down with demand behind it reads as accumulation, one that refills after a drawdown reads as distribution. Copies and sellers come from the cheapest asks we sample, not from the book, and are labelled as such. Sold units are confirmed prints from the live tape over the same span, and are shown only when the tape reaches back past the first reading.
The direction is classified over the platform-standard 30-day trailing window. That window is a scope, not a history: it contains exactly the readings counted on this card and no others — and only readings that counted the venue’s own book, never a sampled one trended against a counted one.
1 units listed across 1 sellers — 15.0d of stock at the 30-day pace of 0.1/day.
A PSA 10 is worth $46.00 — 11.6× the $3.98 raw cheapest delivered ask.
Dearest slab per grading company
PSA 10$46.0011.6×PSA 10 — $46.00, 11.6× raw$55.00 · EBAY · 2026-10-12 · $45.99 · EBAY · 2026-10-12 · $40.00 · EBAY · 2026-10-11 +40 more print(s)ACE 10$42.7610.7×ACE 10 — $42.76, 10.7× raw$42.76 · EBAY · 2026-09-11CGC Pristine 10$39.9910.0×CGC Pristine 10 — $39.99, 10.0× raw$39.99 · EBAY · 2026-10-07Raw$3.98askA live listing. Nobody has paid this.1.0×Raw — $3.98, 1.0× rawThe cheapest copy actually listed for sale, delivered — item plus required shipping. An offer, not a price anybody has paid. Every multiple on this ladder is taken against it.A PSA 10 fetches 8% more than a ACE 10.
One rung down, a PSA 9 is $18.01 — 4.5× raw.
Best on ACE: no ACE sub-10 comp for this printing — a materially likely outcome has no observed price, so the expected value is withheld rather than modelled.
| VendorVendorThe grading company, one row each. Rows are the graders we hold both a fee schedule and a population census for — a grader we cannot price is left out rather than estimated. | FeeFeeThe all-in submission cost per card at this grader: grading tier plus shipping both ways and insurance, as published. A † marks a fee we could not read from a published schedule and had to carry from a prior reading. Lower is better. | P(10)P(10)The share of this card’s submissions to this grader that came back a 10, from its own population census. It is what WAS submitted and kept, not the odds your particular copy grades — a card people only submit when it looks perfect reads high here for that reason alone. | 10 price10 priceWhat a 10 from this grader actually sells for. The superscript says what kind of evidence that is — a sale, an unsold listing, or the provider’s own modelled guide. | ROI(10)ROI(10)Return if the card grades a 10 and sells at that price: (10 price − raw price − fee) over what you put in. The BEST case, before any probability is applied. Higher is better. | Risk-wtdRisk-wtdThe same return weighted by the odds of each grade, not just the 10 — the number to compare graders on, because a high P(10) at a high fee can lose to a lower one. A leading ≈ means the full grade distribution was unavailable and a coarser method stood in. Higher is better. |
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| ACE | $24.39ACE Basic — the cheapest tier accepting single-card submissions, read 2026-10-06. £18.00 converted at GBP/USD 1.355 (2026-09-01) — a conversion, not a quoted USD price. Cheaper tiers you cannot use today: Core $16.26, Value $20.33. | 85.3%95% interval 78.6%–90.2% on n=143. A share of what was submitted and kept, not submission odds. | $42.76What a 10 from this grader actually sells for. The superscript says what kind of evidence that is — a sale, an unsold listing, or the provider’s own modelled guide. | -31%-$16.28 on a $53.37 cost basis. | ≈-40%No ACE price below grade 10 exists at any basis, so a miss is valued at the raw reference price — fee and shipping sunk for a slab the market pays no premium for. |
| CGC | $20.00CGC Economy — the cheapest tier accepting single-card submissions, read 2026-10-06. Cheaper tiers you cannot use today: Bulk $17.00. | 72.9%95% interval 67.3%–77.9% on n=266. A share of what was submitted and kept, not submission odds. | $30.00What a 10 from this grader actually sells for. The superscript says what kind of evidence that is — a sale, an unsold listing, or the provider’s own modelled guide. | -47%-$22.95 on a $48.98 cost basis. | ≈-51%Only 34% of the CGC distribution is priced, so this falls back to P(10)·ROI(10) + (1−P(10))·ROI(pooled sub-10 price). |
| PSA | $59.99PSA Standard — the cheapest tier accepting single-card submissions, read 2026-10-06. Cheaper tiers you cannot use today: Value Bulk $24.99, Value $32.99. | 64.0%95% interval 60.0%–67.9% on n=573. A share of what was submitted and kept, not submission odds. | $46.00What a 10 from this grader actually sells for. The superscript says what kind of evidence that is — a sale, an unsold listing, or the provider’s own modelled guide. | -55%-$49.06 on a $88.97 cost basis. | -65%Risk-weighted across all 6 PSA rungs; 100% of the distribution carried its own price, the remaining 0% valued at the pooled sub-10 price. |
| TAG | $59.95TAG Standard — the cheapest tier accepting single-card submissions, read 2026-10-06. Cheaper tiers you cannot use today: Basic $22.00. | —The share of this card’s submissions to this grader that came back a 10, from its own population census. It is what WAS submitted and kept, not the odds your particular copy grades — a card people only submit when it looks perfect reads high here for that reason alone. | —No 10 price is on file for TAG, so no return can be computed for it — an absence, never a zero. | —Return if the card grades a 10 and sells at that price: (10 price − raw price − fee) over what you put in. The BEST case, before any probability is applied. Higher is better. | —Risk-weighted ROI withheld: no TAG population total, so P(10) has no honest denominator. |
$3.98 raw (cheapest delivered ask) + $24.39 ACE Basic + $25.00 ship/ins = $53.37 · less 13.25% sale fee · 45d lockup
Share of what was submitted and kept — not the odds your copy grades 10.
Half of all openers get one within 203 packs
P(this card, per pack) = the published odds of its RARITY appearing, split evenly across the cards printed at that rarity in the set; the figure shown is 1/p, the mean number of packs to one copy. The ladder plots every tier of the set on a logarithmic scale, because a set spans two orders of magnitude between its commonest hit and its hardest and a linear scale would pin all but one of them to the same end.
The Pokémon Company has never published physical booster odds in any region — the only official drop-rate page covers the digital TCG Live packs and lists no probabilities at all. This figure is a hand-entered citation of a published pack-opening study of this set.
Graded population climbs for about a year after a set releases and then levels off, so a set inside that ramp looks lightly printed purely because nobody has sent its cards in yet. Ascended Heroes is 8 months old. We hold the read until 12 months.
Model inputs
Graded copies982 copiesGraded copies982 copiesSlabs on record across PSA, CGC and ACE, summed over every grade. The model’s raw input — it is NOT the print run, because a card people grade often will show a large population off a small press run. Ungraded and sealed copies are invisible to it.Packs per copy1 in 293Packs per copy1 in 293How many packs it takes to see one named copy of this card — the same figure SCARCITY leads with. It is what converts a set-wide print scale into this card’s own.Set read from117 cardsSet read from117 cardsEvery card in the set with a price, a population and a pull rate gives an independent estimate of how many packs of the set exist. They are pooled by median, so one mis-joined card cannot move the answer.Graded population is print run × how often anyone bothers grading it, and the second factor moves with VALUE — so population is divided by price^0.606, the elasticity fitted across 3,826 cards that carry a population, a price and a pull rate at once. That normalised count is turned into a SET pack scale using the card’s pull rate (every card in a set is an independent read on how many packs exist, pooled by median), then brought back down to this card by its own pull rate. The band is a tertile of the result across every card that clears the gates.
Nobody has ever published a Pokémon print run, and this does not recover one — it is an ORDER, not a count. It reads surviving graded supply across PSA, CGC and ACE, so ungraded and sealed stock are invisible to it. What it is checked against: the model puts Black & White at the bottom of the catalog and modern Scarlet & Violet at the top, which is where the smallest and largest print runs actually are.

Does the meta move the price? Share of Standard decklists running this card against this print's median sale price and units sold, day by day; the rank correlation above is printed once 8 weeks exist.
Fringe at 0.0% of Standard decklists, -0.0 pp on the prior window. A playset costs $0.16 at the cheapest legal print.
94.5% of card lines in these decklists matched a card in our catalog; an unmatched line is never counted. Online events only, not Regionals or Worlds. Tournament results →
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| EvidenceEvidenceWhat kind of fact this row is. A completed sale, a live ask and a calculated guide price are three different weights of evidence about the same number, and this column is the difference between them. | ObservedObservedThe day the fact was read — not the day the underlying event happened, and not today. An old date is an old reading. | AgeAgeHow long ago this row was read, as of the moment the page was computed. | ConfidenceConfidenceHow much weight this row carries where it feeds a model, from the resolver that matched it. Lower means a looser match or a thinner source, and a low-confidence row is reweighted rather than dropped. | ModelledModelledYes = a CALCULATED value (a guide price, an estimate); No = something actually observed (a sale, a listing, a census count). A modelled row is evidence about a model, not about the market. |
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| CatalogCard identity: set, number, rarity, finish, release date. It dates from the printing itself, so an old reading here is expected and is not staleness. | Jan 30, 2026 | 257d | 98% | No |
| Live askA copy offered for sale right now. An ask is what a seller wants, not what anyone paid — it bounds the price from above until it clears. | Oct 14, 2026 | 17m | 90% | No |
| Price statisticAn observed figure computed over several rows rather than one print — a delivered floor, a published median over a window. | Oct 14, 2026 | 17m | 90% | No |
| Inventory countHow many copies and listings stand on the book. What depth, supply and absorption are measured against. | Oct 14, 2026 | 17m | 70% | No |
| Guide priceA calculated market guide — a model of where the product is trading. Never a confirmed sale, and always marked Modelled. | Oct 14, 2026 | 9h | 60% | Yes |
| Population censusA grader's published count of the copies it has slabbed at each grade. A record of what was submitted and kept, never the odds a copy grades. | Oct 13, 2026 | 15h | 60% | No |
Nearby in Ascended Heroes
More Illustration rare
and 2 more
$2.91, the modelled guide price, as of October 14, 2026.
Its printed rarity is Illustration rare.
Vikavolt (#230/217) is from Ascended Heroes, released January 30, 2026.
982 certified slabs are on file across every grading company we track, as of October 14, 2026.
A PSA 10 trades at about 15.8x the raw price, $46.00 against $2.91 raw, as of October 14, 2026.
Vikavolt evolves from Charjabug.