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Cloyster 8/165

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Set: Expedition Base Set Released: Sep 15, 2002
Pokémon: Cloyster Water Type Rare Holo Illustrator: Kyoko Umemoto Pull Rate:1 in 96 packs (1.0%) Evolves From: Shellder
Raw market price 99.45 $7.74 (8.44%)
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Cloyster #8/165 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Cloyster #8/165 from Expedition Base Set — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Cloyster has moved up 8.4% to $99.45. PSA 10 copies are up 405.7% over the same period.

Cloyster #8/165 appears roughly 1 in 96 packs, which works out at 1.0% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Expedition Base Set.

Cloyster #8/165 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Expedition Base Set.

At $99.45 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $15,560.51, giving a net return of +$13,410.19 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$861.71 and PSA 8 returns +$26.98, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 936 copies of Cloyster #8/165, of which 39 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 4.2%, or roughly 1 in 24 graded copies.

Yes. At a 4.2% gem rate, Cloyster grades worse than the Expedition Base Set average by 13.4 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Cloyster #8/165 was illustrated by Kyoko Umemoto, who has illustrated 365 Pokémon cards in total.

Cloyster #8/165 was released on 15 September 2002 as part of Expedition Base Set. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.