Rocket’s Zapdos ex 106/109

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Rocket’s Zapdos ex has moved up 20% to $1,079.99. PSA 10 copies are up 85.6% over the same period.

Rocket’s Zapdos ex #106/109 appears roughly 1 in 148.5 packs, which works out at 0.7% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Team Rocket Returns.

Rocket’s Zapdos ex #106/109 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Team Rocket Returns.

At $1,079.99 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $14,645.16, giving a net return of +$11,633.30 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$1,749.87 and PSA 8 returns +$723.88, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 1,058 copies of Rocket’s Zapdos ex #106/109, of which 79 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 7.5%, or roughly 1 in 13 graded copies.

Yes. At a 7.5% gem rate, Rocket’s Zapdos ex grades worse than the Team Rocket Returns average by 12.2 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Rocket’s Zapdos ex #106/109 was illustrated by Ryo Ueda, who has illustrated 922 Pokémon cards in total.

Rocket’s Zapdos ex #106/109 was released on 1 November 2004 as part of Team Rocket Returns. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.