Fifteen of the fifty most valuable bulk Pokemon cards on the market today are printed Common. The one at the top is a Rare, an Umbreon from SV: Prismatic Evolutions at number 059/131, and TCGplayer had it at $54.11 on October 14, 2026. The card sitting fiftieth still clears thirteen dollars. Every one of the fifty shares a single feature, and it is not the rarity symbol in the corner.
All fifty are Master Ball Pattern cards, an alternate foil treatment that exists in three sets and nowhere else: SV: Prismatic Evolutions, SV: Black Bolt and SV: White Flare. We scanned every Common, Uncommon and Rare printing across the 39 Pokemon sets released since January 2023, which came to 6,605 printings carrying a live market price, and sorted them by what they sell for. The Master Ball cards took all fifty places. They also took 101 of the 102 printings trading at or above ten dollars.
What the most valuable bulk Pokemon cards have in common
The Master Ball Pattern is not the only alternate foil in those sets, and that is the part that costs people money. Poke Ball Pattern cards come out of the same three sets and read the same way at arm's length. There are 260 of them carrying a price, their median sits at 34 cents, and the strongest single card among them is Hilda from SV: White Flare 084/086 at $3.42. The 211 Master Ball cards have a median of $9.44, and even the weakest one still fetches 98 cents.
A third treatment turned up in the scan, the Energy Symbol Pattern from ME: Ascended Heroes, 140 priced printings whose best card is a Rayquaza at $2.38. So one of the three alternate foils in print carries real money and two of them do not, which means the thing to look at is the foil itself rather than the symbol. Our guide to how to sort bulk Pokemon cards covers the lamp tilt that separates one foil pattern from another.
The 50 most valuable bulk Pokemon cards, October 2026
Prices are TCGplayer market price, read on October 14, 2026. PRE is SV: Prismatic Evolutions, BLK is SV: Black Bolt, WHT is SV: White Flare. Every row is a Master Ball Pattern printing.
| # | Card | Set | Rarity | Oct 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Umbreon | PRE 059/131 | Rare | $54.11 |
| 2 | Victini | BLK 012/086 | Rare | $47.98 |
| 3 | Vaporeon | PRE 022/131 | Rare | $33.35 |
| 4 | Sylveon | PRE 040/131 | Rare | $30.74 |
| 5 | Espeon | PRE 033/131 | Rare | $28.04 |
| 6 | Jolteon | PRE 029/131 | Rare | $27.23 |
| 7 | Maractus | BLK 008/086 | Common | $26.43 |
| 8 | Leafeon | PRE 005/131 | Rare | $26.33 |
| 9 | Glaceon | PRE 025/131 | Rare | $25.56 |
| 10 | Musharna | BLK 036/086 | Uncommon | $24.95 |
| 11 | Emboar | WHT 013/086 | Rare | $23.45 |
| 12 | Durant | WHT 070/086 | Uncommon | $22.77 |
| 13 | Stunfisk | WHT 035/086 | Uncommon | $22.55 |
| 14 | Scolipede | BLK 056/086 | Uncommon | $21.70 |
| 15 | Flareon | PRE 013/131 | Rare | $21.36 |
| 16 | Whirlipede | BLK 055/086 | Common | $20.87 |
| 17 | Zoroark | WHT 062/086 | Rare | $20.43 |
| 18 | Emolga | BLK 029/086 | Common | $19.75 |
| 19 | Krookodile | BLK 059/086 | Uncommon | $19.75 |
| 20 | Herdier | WHT 075/086 | Common | $19.55 |
| 21 | Darmanitan | BLK 014/086 | Uncommon | $18.81 |
| 22 | Swadloon | WHT 002/086 | Common | $18.80 |
| 23 | Simisage | BLK 005/086 | Uncommon | $18.73 |
| 24 | Dewott | WHT 022/086 | Common | $18.44 |
| 25 | Dudunsparce | PRE 080/131 | Rare | $18.34 |
| 26 | Alomomola | BLK 024/086 | Uncommon | $18.14 |
| 27 | Lilligant | BLK 007/086 | Uncommon | $17.40 |
| 28 | Lampent | WHT 017/086 | Common | $17.11 |
| 29 | Swoobat | WHT 037/086 | Uncommon | $17.06 |
| 30 | Accelgor | WHT 009/086 | Uncommon | $16.70 |
| 31 | Chandelure | WHT 018/086 | Rare | $16.62 |
| 32 | Amoonguss | BLK 011/086 | Uncommon | $16.38 |
| 33 | Simipour | BLK 018/086 | Uncommon | $16.03 |
| 34 | Leavanny | WHT 003/086 | Uncommon | $15.96 |
| 35 | Volcarona | BLK 016/086 | Rare | $15.74 |
| 36 | Fraxure | BLK 069/086 | Common | $15.59 |
| 37 | Archen | WHT 050/086 | Uncommon | $15.43 |
| 38 | Boldore | WHT 047/086 | Common | $15.36 |
| 39 | Conkeldurr | BLK 049/086 | Rare | $15.32 |
| 40 | Beheeyem | BLK 041/086 | Uncommon | $15.12 |
| 41 | Riolu | PRE 050/131 | Common | $15.05 |
| 42 | Sawk | WHT 049/086 | Uncommon | $14.83 |
| 43 | Eevee | PRE 074/131 | Common | $14.77 |
| 44 | Palpitoad | BLK 020/086 | Common | $14.58 |
| 45 | Audino | BLK 074/086 | Common | $14.48 |
| 46 | Gothorita | WHT 042/086 | Common | $14.38 |
| 47 | Cryogonal | BLK 027/086 | Uncommon | $14.16 |
| 48 | Simisear | WHT 015/086 | Uncommon | $13.94 |
| 49 | Timburr | BLK 047/086 | Common | $13.83 |
| 50 | Landorus | BLK 053/086 | Rare | $13.83 |
Why this list looks nothing like the one TCGplayer publishes
TCGplayer runs the same kind of report on their seller blog, and not one Master Ball card appears on it. So why would the biggest published version of this list leave out every card at the top of ours? Their own method note answers it: the July 15, 2026 edition says the special pattern cards from Prismatic Evolutions, Black Bolt, White Flare and Ascended Heroes were excluded, because "otherwise, they would have been the entire list". Our scan is the arithmetic sitting under that aside, and all fifty places on the table above are Master Ball cards.
Their number one that month was Slowpoke from SV07: Stellar Crown 057/142 in reverse holo at $5.62. We read the same card at $4.67 on October 14. The Hilda they ranked third had fallen from $3.30 to $2.23 by the time we read it, while the Poke Ball Hilda they excluded sits at $3.42, which would have beaten their own third place card.
What a buylist pays for these
QuickFlips, one of the larger mail in buylists still taking bulk, published a rate of five cents a card for holo and reverse holo commons, uncommons and rares when we read their board on October 14, 2026. A Master Ball Pattern Maractus is a holo common. Sent in on that line it is worth five cents, against a market price of $26.43 the same day.
We are not holding that up to sell you an alternative. We closed our own mail in buylist on October 1, 2026, so there is no board of ours for this post to point at. The nine shops we priced for our bulk Pokemon card price guide all pay by category, and a category rate cannot see a foil pattern, which is the whole reason this keeps happening. Two QuickFlips lines did move since we last read that board on September 7: VMAX and VSTAR went from sixty cents a card to seventy five, and rainbow foil ultra rares doubled from two dollars to four.
The list if your box predates 2025
Prismatic Evolutions landed in January 2025, so a box packed before that holds none of the fifty above and the numbers for it are much flatter. Of the 6,134 ordinary printings in the scan, the median card is worth 21 cents and 89 of them clear a dollar. Only two get past five dollars. The best of the lot is Snorlax from SWSH: Crown Zenith 109/159 in reverse holo, which TCGplayer had at $13.56 on October 14.
| # | Card | Set | Printing | Oct 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snorlax | CRZ 109/159 | Reverse holo | $13.56 |
| 2 | Gengar | MEW 094/165 | Reverse holo | $8.53 |
| 3 | Basic Darkness Energy (Cracked Ice) | SVE 015 | Holo | $4.94 |
| 4 | Slowpoke | SCR 057/142 | Reverse holo | $4.67 |
| 5 | Snorlax | MEW 143/165 | Reverse holo | $4.31 |
| 6 | Basic Grass Energy (Cracked Ice) | SVE 009 | Holo | $3.99 |
| 7 | Mewtwo | MEW 150/165 | Reverse holo | $3.92 |
| 8 | Metang | TEF 114/162 | Reverse holo | $3.91 |
| 9 | Slowpoke | SCR 057/142 | Normal | $3.38 |
| 10 | Dragonair | MEW 148/165 | Reverse holo | $3.25 |
CRZ is SWSH: Crown Zenith, MEW is SV: Scarlet & Violet 151, SVE is the Scarlet & Violet energy set, SCR is SV07: Stellar Crown and TEF is SV05: Temporal Forces.
The ordinary cards also change hands far more often, which a ranked list hides completely. TCGplayer's own thirty day history has that Metang selling 376 copies in reverse holo between September 15 and October 14, and the Stellar Crown Slowpoke selling 305. The Umbreon at the top of our list sold 49 in the same window and the Victini behind it sold 17. Somebody holding a Master Ball card is waiting for a buyer to turn up rather than naming a price, and that is a different kind of asset to a three dollar Metang with a queue behind it.
What moved since September
We priced 6,519 of these printings on September 14 and published the result in our post on what bulk Pokemon cards are worth money. Five weeks later the same scan carries 6,605, the ordinary median moved from 20 cents to 21, and the number of ordinary cards clearing a dollar fell from 93 to 89, which is four cards in five weeks.
The top of the list is another story. The Master Ball Umbreon was $78.42 on September 14 and it is $54.11 today, down about 31 percent in five weeks. Snorlax went the other way, from $12.13 to $13.56. Gengar from SV: Scarlet & Violet 151 094/165 in reverse holo slipped from $9.60 to $8.53, and the Temporal Forces Metang came off $4.87 to $3.91. If you are buying rather than sorting, our bulk Pokemon cards page explains how the quantity price breaks work on a single title.
This list gets measured again and reposted at this same address in the first week of November. The number worth watching is whether the Master Ball block keeps sliding, because Umbreon has given up roughly a third of its price in five weeks while the ordinary cards underneath it have moved by pennies.
