Gengar 17/99

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Gengar has moved up 41% to $97.71. PSA 10 copies are unchanged over the same period.

Gengar #17/99 appears roughly 1 in 30 packs, which works out at 3.3% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Arceus.

Gengar #17/99 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Arceus.

At $97.71 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $10,000.00, giving a net return of +$8,574.29 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$240.69 and PSA 8 returns −$20.16, so a PSA 9 or 10 can profit, while anything below that loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 338 copies of Gengar #17/99, of which 5 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 1.5%, or roughly 1 in 68 graded copies.

Yes. At a 1.5% gem rate, Gengar grades worse than the Arceus average by 9 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Gengar #17/99 was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, who has illustrated 1418 Pokémon cards in total.

Gengar #17/99 was released on 4 November 2009 as part of Arceus. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.