Piplup 098/94

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Piplup has moved down 10.3% to $11.64. PSA 10 copies are down 15.8% over the same period.

Piplup #098/94 appears roughly 1 in 117 packs, which works out at 0.9% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Phantasmal Flames.

Piplup #098/94 is a Illustration Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Phantasmal Flames.

At $11.64 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $99.14, giving a net return of +$46.61 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns −$18.01 and PSA 8 returns −$22.47, so anything below a 10 loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 20,198 copies of Piplup #098/94, of which 10,189 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 50.5%, or roughly 1 in 2.0 graded copies.

No. At a 50.5% gem rate, Piplup grades better than the Phantasmal Flames average by 19.2 points. Most submitted copies come back clean.

Piplup #098/94 was illustrated by Jiro Sasumo, who has illustrated 77 Pokémon cards in total.

Piplup #098/94 carries regulation mark I and is currently legal in Standard, legal in Expanded and legal in Unlimited.

Piplup #098/94 was released on 9 February 2026 as part of Phantasmal Flames. It belongs to the Modern era.

Piplup #098/94 has moved from $18.38 at launch to $11.64 today, a change of down 36.7% since 9 February 2026.