Dark Houndoom 5/109

Set: Team Rocket Returns Released: Nov 1, 2004
Pokémon: Houndoom Fire Type Darkness Type Rare Holo Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita Pull Rate: 1 in 57.0 packs (1.8%) Evolves From: Houndour

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Dark Houndoom #5/109 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Dark Houndoom #5/109 from Team Rocket Returns — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Dark Houndoom has stayed flat at $93.37. PSA 10 copies are up 88% over the same period.

Dark Houndoom #5/109 appears roughly 1 in 57.0 packs, which works out at 1.8% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Team Rocket Returns.

Dark Houndoom #5/109 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Team Rocket Returns.

At $93.37 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $2,680.90, giving a net return of +$2,211.01 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$673.04 and PSA 8 returns −$3.22, so a PSA 9 or 10 can profit, while anything below that loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 579 copies of Dark Houndoom #5/109, of which 49 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 8.5%, or roughly 1 in 12 graded copies.

Yes. At a 8.5% gem rate, Dark Houndoom grades worse than the Team Rocket Returns average by 11.7 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Dark Houndoom #5/109 was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, who has illustrated 1418 Pokémon cards in total.

Dark Houndoom #5/109 was released on 1 November 2004 as part of Team Rocket Returns. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 2 Pokémon from the Johto region.