Question Desk · Is Pokémon 151 worth it

Pokémon 151 is worth it as singles, not as packs

The set's five chase cards sum to $734.38 on dated sales, and only one of them — Charizard ex 199/165 at $342.63 — sells for more than a sealed Booster Bundle asks (median ask $187.50, 48 live, Sep 26). Six packs at that price buy the sealed premium, not the cards; buying the card you want costs less than the box it might be in.

Below: the top five cards priced raw, PSA 10 and PSA 9 from sold comps; the three sealed products at their live asks, labelled as asks; and the SV151 set index, which prices all 207 cards and opened on Sep 25, 2026.

🕑 Sold comps read Sep 26, 2026 📊 Source: PriceCharting completed eBay sales 🏷️ Index: SV151 100.00 (Sep 25)
Buy it now Pokémon 151 Booster Bundle Shop 151 Booster Bundles on eBay Charizard ex 199/165 →

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The Tape

The five chase cards, priced from dated sales

Raw is the median of the most recent 30 sales PriceCharting lists (the tab caps at 30). Graded rows use only sales whose own listing title names the grade, per our graded-figure rule. Fewer than 3 sales in 30 days would read "No sold read"; every cell here cleared it.

CardRawPSA 10PSA 9Buy
Charizard ex 199/165Special Illustration Rare · the set's chase $342.63median of 30 sales, Sep 14–26 $1,400.00median of 30 dated sales, Sep 6–23 $370.00median of 26 dated sales, Sep 10–25 Raw on eBay →
Blastoise ex 200/165Special Illustration Rare $121.25median of 30 sales, Sep 20–25 $512.00median of 29 dated sales, Sep 16–25 $140.50median of 27 dated sales, Sep 15–26 Raw on eBay →
Venusaur ex 198/165Special Illustration Rare $100.00median of 29 sales, Sep 12–25 $435.00median of 30 dated sales, Aug 29–Sep 25 $119.99median of 29 dated sales, Sep 4–25 Raw on eBay →
Charmander 168/165Illustration Rare $89.00median of 29 sales, Sep 3–26 $609.99median of 5 dated sales, Aug 28–Sep 14 $116.00median of 15 dated sales, Aug 27–Sep 20 Raw on eBay →
Squirtle 170/165Illustration Rare $81.50median of 30 sales, Sep 2–24 $455.00median of 13 dated sales, Aug 27–Sep 25 $101.50median of 16 dated sales, Aug 29–Sep 24 Raw on eBay →

Sum of the five raw medians: $734.38. The whole set — one of every card at its sold median — was $1,860.20 at the index's Sep 25 inception, so these five cards are 39% of the set's value and the other 202 cards are the rest.

The Sealed Shelf

Sealed 151, at today's asks

These are live eBay asks read through our own API on Sep 26, 2026 — what sellers want, not what anything sold for. Lots, Japanese product and accessories were filtered out of the query; Goldin-hosted listings and open auctions were set aside by hand.

ProductLive ask (Sep 26)ReadBuy
Booster Bundle6 packs · MSRP $26.99 (Walmart, Sep 22, 2023) Ask
lowest ask $80.99 · 48 live (Sep 26) · median ask $187.50
48 live asks, median $187.50. The two asks under $120 are far below the rest of the shelf; check the seller before treating either as the price. Sealed on eBay →
Elite Trainer Box9 packs · the flagship sealed product Ask
lowest ask $599.99 · 2 live (Sep 26)
Only 2 live asks ($599.99 and $699.95, one bundled with an acrylic case). Too thin to call a shelf price. Sealed on eBay →
Ultra Premium Collection16 packs · the Mew box Ask
lowest ask $1,099.95 · 3 live (Sep 26)
3 live asks, $1,099.95 to $1,199. Thin. Sealed on eBay →
The arithmetic
Booster Bundle median ask $187.50 ÷ 6 packs = $31.25 per pack (Sep 26 asks)
Bundle median ask $187.50 ÷ MSRP $26.99 = 6.9x the shelf price it launched at in 2023
Cards in the set that sold for more than one bundle asks: 1 of 207 (Charizard ex 199/165, $342.63)
A $187.50 bundle needs the one card in 207 to beat buying that card outright.

Card prices on this page are sold comps — completed eBay sales as listed by PriceCharting, read Sep 26, 2026 — shown with their count and window. Sealed prices are asks, labelled as asks, and never blended with the sold comps. eBay links are affiliate links (we earn a commission at no cost to you); the buttons open a live search where every price is an ask.

The Index

SV151: the whole set as one number

The Scarlet & Violet 151 Set Index prices every card in the set from sold comps, cap-weighted, and opened at 100.00 on Sep 25, 2026. It re-marks Monday and Thursday. There is no move to report yet; the level on this page updates when the index does.

SV151 level · Sep 25
100.00
inception Sep 25, 2026 · base 100.00
Basket · Sep 25
$1,860
$1,860.20: one of every card at its sold median, 207 of 207 priced
Set age
3 yrs
released Sep 22, 2023
What This Means

Reading the number

Buy the card, not the pack. Every chase card here trades 29 or 30 times a month raw, so the price you see is the price you pay. A Booster Bundle at $187.50 is 6.9x MSRP, and that premium is paid to whoever held sealed product for three years, not to you. If you want the Charizard, $342.63 buys it; $187.50 buys six packs with no promise of it.

As a sealed hold, the easy money is already gone. The bundle went from $26.99 to a $187.50 median ask in three years. The ETB shelf is two listings deep at $600, which is a number we report and do not lean on. Whether sealed keeps climbing depends on the print run and the reprint schedule, and neither is on this page because we could not read either from a source we would cite.

The grading spread is where 151 rewards work. Charizard ex PSA 10 at $1,400.00 is 4.1x raw on 30 dated sales; a PSA 9 at $370.00 is barely over raw. Charmander's PSA 10 at $609.99 is 6.9x raw, but on 5 dated sales, so read it as a thin market, not a target.

As an investment, the honest answer is "not graded yet." SV151 opened on Sep 25 at 100.00. In four weeks it will have a since-launch figure; until then, the set-level return is a number we do not have, and no one else has it from sold data either.

Sources

Where every number came from