Pikachu 39/99

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Pikachu has moved up 4.3% to $5.08. PSA 10 copies are unchanged over the same period.

Pikachu #39/99 appears roughly 1 in 5.8 packs, which works out at 17.2% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Next Destinies.

Pikachu #39/99 is a Common, one of the higher rarity tiers in Next Destinies.

At $5.08 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $1,799.23, giving a net return of +$1,532.25 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$39.35 and PSA 8 returns −$1.33, so a PSA 9 or 10 can profit, while anything below that loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 164 copies of Pikachu #39/99, of which 8 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 4.9%, or roughly 1 in 21 graded copies.

Yes. At a 4.9% gem rate, Pikachu grades worse than the Next Destinies average by 3.6 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Pikachu #39/99 was illustrated by Akira Komayama, who has illustrated 506 Pokémon cards in total.

Pikachu #39/99 was released on 8 February 2012 as part of Next Destinies. It belongs to the Modern era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.