Lugia has fewer cards than the other giants and a higher share of them matter. The Neo Genesis holo is one of the great vintage cards full stop, the Aquapolis Crystal is a six-figure slab, and this year's 30th Celebration Lugia is the heaviest card in that whole set. A short desk, on purpose.
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Shelf one · The grails
The grails
Two Wizards-era Lugias. Both are notoriously hard grades, and the PSA 10 column shows it.
The one
Neo Genesis Lugia #9 (2000)
The first Lugia card, the holo from the first Neo set, and one of the hardest vintage cards to find in a 10: Neo Genesis print quality was poor enough that gem copies are famous for being scarce. Our ladder has no PSA 10 mark for either print because clean title-verified 10 sales simply have not come through at the rate our rule needs. The 1st Edition is the serious print; the Unlimited is the collector's way to own the art.
One of the Aquapolis Crystal Pokémon secret rares, from the second-to-last Wizards set. It is the heaviest card in our Aquapolis index and trades mostly graded, which is why the raw mark rests on only a handful of sales.
The Lugias with a clear chase slot in their set and enough sales to mark.
This year's chase
Lugia #149, 30th Celebration (2026)
The top card of the 30th Celebration set by weight in our index, released this September. Too new for a graded mark that meets our rule; the raw column is the one to read for now, and the TAG column is the one grader with enough early sales to show.
The second Wizards-era Lugia, a rare from Neo Revelation. Nowhere near the Neo Genesis card in price, which is exactly why a collector who wants a vintage Lugia on the shelf starts here.
The Team Up Lugia, a $20 raw card whose PSA 10 sells for many multiples of that — the sign of a card that was pulled, played and sleeved late. A cheap way into a graded Lugia set.
The modern Lugia everyone chases is the Silver Tempest alternate-art Lugia V, and it is the one card on this desk I can't put a number on: we don't track Silver Tempest yet, and I won't print a price I can't point at on our own pages. It belongs on this list, so it is on this list — with a search instead of a mark.
Silver Tempest · not in our index yet · a search, not a price
Our graded marks require at least three title-verified sales in 30 days or two in 90. Neo Genesis Lugia PSA 10s trade so rarely that neither print met that bar at the last read, so the ladder shows no mark rather than a number we can't stand behind. The PSA 9 column is the one with a real market on it.
1st Edition and Unlimited are different cards
Neo Genesis and Neo Revelation each exist as a 1st Edition print and an Unlimited print with separate PSA labels, separate population reports and separate price histories. Our indices track them separately and every link on this page searches for the exact print on the row.
The one we don't track
The Silver Tempest Lugia V alternate art is named above without a price because we do not track that set yet. When it enters our data it gets a ladder like the rest; until then it gets a search link and an honest blank.
On grading
PSA 10 is the hobby's price reference. TAG grades by machine-measured imaging with human review and publishes a full defect report for every card, which is why we link TAG slabs beside PSA on every row. We think measured grading is where the hobby is heading — our view, not a price claim. How TAG grading works →
Where every number came from
Method
Raw is each card's sold mark in its own ShopCardHub set index: the median of its clean ungraded sold comps (PriceCharting completed sales) over the trailing 30 days, 90 days on the 1st Edition and Shadowless indices, re-marked Monday and Thursday — the same number as the index table and the card page. PSA 9, PSA 10 and TAG 10 are read from dated completed sales whose own listing title names that grade: the median of 3+ sales in 30 days, else 2+ in 90 days. Fewer than that is no mark; a single sale is shown as one dated sale, never as a price. A raw vintage copy can be in any condition, so a raw mark on a 1999 card is a typical raw sale, not a near-mint price. Marks on this page were read between Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026. eBay links are searches for the exact print on each row, with our affiliate tag — live listings, never a price. Nothing on this desk is a call to buy or sell. How prices work →
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