Most expensive old school ex?

[crystalcollector149]

@caslon

like already mentioned, Charizard and Lugia are in a class of their own. They’re both like the ex incarnation of their respective debut cards, and the fact that lugia was played a ton in the tcg really doesn’t lower its price. It also has a championship deck version.

other than that you want to look out for the big hitter sets, like again already mentioned ex team rocket returns (rockets mewtwo ex is stupid pricy), ex team magma and aqua, other fan favorites from ex frlg and unseen forces, some cards from ex dragon like dragonite, ex sandstorm, arcanine and mew from legend maker, just to name a few. the ex cards from the first half of ex era are generally worth more, as gold stars start to take a lot of the attention in sets like ex dragon frontiers. that is also when they stopped using the galaxy holo foil on the ex cards, and swapped to just blank holo which carry a lot more prominent print lines.

Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense, I’d like to grab some of the big hitters and get them out of the way. Luckily I have most of them named

[pokehaul]

@randox

Got the milotic in a 9. Has to be one of the most stunning cards ever.

Think I’m going to grab a Japanese one and get it graded for the artwork.

Saw a mint one for like £2 earlier on Yahoo Auctions

[shizzlemetimbers]

@caslon, highly doubt it went for that price from what I have seen they sell high hundreds have you got a link?

[caslon]

@shizzlemetimbers

@caslon , highly doubt it went for that price from what I have seen they sell high hundreds have you got a link?

i cant find it, probably just my memory being iffy my bad

[mojo]

@randox

Anyone know why the pop is so low for deoxys ex PSA 10 (ex emerald series)? Sorry that this is a bit unrelated.

I asked the discord why Gold Star Rayquaza was so expensive a couple of weeks ago, the answer I got was essentially that EX Deoxys had silvering issues on the borders, and high grades were hard to get. I would expect this to extend to the ex cards from the set as well which may explain the low population of 10’s.

[robbiegrass]

@cinnaminhbun

@crystalcollector149

that Milotic comes to mind as well. whats the PSA 10 value you on that card now? and yeah I think the FRLG Zard and Lugia USF are some of the top cards

That Milotic went for just over $150 a couple of years ago. If one surfaced again I’d probably put it at $200-300.

I sold one for over 1k when it was pop 2 haha

[fresh]

I’ve gotten offers for my Deoxys #93 (population 8) $400-500 but nothing crazy but I haven’t sold due the lack of sales data. And I’m not a flipper so I’ll let it sit until I know I can make a fair evaluation.

[legendslugia251]

@mojo

@randox

Anyone know why the pop is so low for deoxys ex PSA 10 (ex emerald series)? Sorry that this is a bit unrelated.

I asked the discord why Gold Star Rayquaza was so expensive a couple of weeks ago, the answer I got was essentially that EX Deoxys had silvering issues on the borders, and high grades were hard to get. I would expect this to extend to the ex cards from the set as well which may explain the low population of 10’s.

EX Deoxys had a lot of the silvering issues on the boarder of the cards and they were very very easy to warp. About 7 years ago I took out all my old holos from the early ex series and only the Deoxys cards warped like crazy while the other ones didnt. It was the first set to feature the Gold Star cards and everyone wanted to get them.Plus EX Deoxys was wanted for players due to jirachi, rayquaza ex and gold star rayquaza being used in decks at the time. As the set got older it got harder to find for collectors and Latias Gold star when it was on the last leg of being in the format shot up cause of the BLS deck ( Blastoise. Lugia, Steelix)

@randox,
EX Emerald was more of a combination of sub sets and was only to tie the card game with the release of the video game. some of the cards were reprints of older sets but the main thing people were looking into were the new holo energies that I find to this day the best holo ones out there. The reason probably that there are low numbers of the EX Emerald Deoxys ex was cause it was being played in Mewtrick that year, maybe also the print run was lower than most of the other EX series

Ex FR/LG well the name speaks for itself and of course Charizard ex was the main thing of the set. Blastoise got attention due to the deck that was played for worlds in 2006 and the cards were pretty much all nostalgic pokemon fans dream. Lots of sets like EX Team Rocket, Delta Species & Unseen forces had lots of very high end cards even common cards were fetching 10-20 dollar prices.

[randox]

@fresh

I’ve gotten offers for my Deoxys #93 (population 8) $400-500 but nothing crazy but I haven’t sold due the lack of sales data. And I’m not a flipper so I’ll let it sit until I know I can make a fair evaluation.

Im not selling either and have this card as well Cool to see its worth that much tho.

[randox]

@legendslugia251

@mojo

I asked the discord why Gold Star Rayquaza was so expensive a couple of weeks ago, the answer I got was essentially that EX Deoxys had silvering issues on the borders, and high grades were hard to get. I would expect this to extend to the ex cards from the set as well which may explain the low population of 10’s.

EX Deoxys had a lot of the silvering issues on the boarder of the cards and they were very very easy to warp. About 7 years ago I took out all my old holos from the early ex series and only the Deoxys cards warped like crazy while the other ones didnt. It was the first set to feature the Gold Star cards and everyone wanted to get them.Plus EX Deoxys was wanted for players due to jirachi, rayquaza ex and gold star rayquaza being used in decks at the time. As the set got older it got harder to find for collectors and Latias Gold star when it was on the last leg of being in the format shot up cause of the BLS deck ( Blastoise. Lugia, Steelix)

@randox,
EX Emerald was more of a combination of sub sets and was only to tie the card game with the release of the video game. some of the cards were reprints of older sets but the main thing people were looking into were the new holo energies that I find to this day the best holo ones out there. The reason probably that there are low numbers of the EX Emerald Deoxys ex was cause it was being played in Mewtrick that year, maybe also the print run was lower than most of the other EX series

Ex FR/LG well the name speaks for itself and of course Charizard ex was the main thing of the set. Blastoise got attention due to the deck that was played for worlds in 2006 and the cards were pretty much all nostalgic pokemon fans dream. Lots of sets like EX Team Rocket, Delta Species & Unseen forces had lots of very high end cards even common cards were fetching 10-20 dollar prices.

Thanks for the great information and detailed reply! Interesting stuff

[robbiegrass]

I actually had to search a bit but I sold my Milotic ex for 1450, possibly the highest an ex card ever sold for?

[randox]

@robbiegrass

I actually had to search a bit but I sold my Milotic ex for 1450, possibly the highest an ex card ever sold for?

A zard ex in BGS 10 would be worth more I imagine but that’s probably the highest recorded sale? Would it still be worth the same you reckon?

[robbiegrass]

@randox

@robbiegrass

I actually had to search a bit but I sold my Milotic ex for 1450, possibly the highest an ex card ever sold for?

A zard ex in BGS 10 would be worth more I imagine but that’s probably the highest recorded sale? Would it still be worth the same you reckon?

No I don’t think one will sell as high again, pop is now 6 so around 4-600 would be a more realistic number now.
Fun fact I actually bought the card for 150 when it was pop 2

[randox]

@robbiegrass

@randox

A zard ex in BGS 10 would be worth more I imagine but that’s probably the highest recorded sale? Would it still be worth the same you reckon?

No I don’t think one will sell as high again, pop is now 6 so around 4-600 would be a more realistic number now.
Fun fact I actually bought the card for 150 when it was pop 2

Wow! Good flip lol

[mojo]

@legendslugia251

@mojo

I asked the discord why Gold Star Rayquaza was so expensive a couple of weeks ago, the answer I got was essentially that EX Deoxys had silvering issues on the borders, and high grades were hard to get. I would expect this to extend to the ex cards from the set as well which may explain the low population of 10’s.

EX Deoxys had a lot of the silvering issues on the boarder of the cards and they were very very easy to warp. About 7 years ago I took out all my old holos from the early ex series and only the Deoxys cards warped like crazy while the other ones didnt. It was the first set to feature the Gold Star cards and everyone wanted to get them.Plus EX Deoxys was wanted for players due to jirachi, rayquaza ex and gold star rayquaza being used in decks at the time. As the set got older it got harder to find for collectors and Latias Gold star when it was on the last leg of being in the format shot up cause of the BLS deck ( Blastoise. Lugia, Steelix)

@randox ,
EX Emerald was more of a combination of sub sets and was only to tie the card game with the release of the video game. some of the cards were reprints of older sets but the main thing people were looking into were the new holo energies that I find to this day the best holo ones out there. The reason probably that there are low numbers of the EX Emerald Deoxys ex was cause it was being played in Mewtrick that year, maybe also the print run was lower than most of the other EX series

Ex FR/LG well the name speaks for itself and of course Charizard ex was the main thing of the set. Blastoise got attention due to the deck that was played for worlds in 2006 and the cards were pretty much all nostalgic pokemon fans dream. Lots of sets like EX Team Rocket, Delta Species & Unseen forces had lots of very high end cards even common cards were fetching 10-20 dollar prices.

Oops I misread randox’s question, thought they were asking about ex deoxys as a set :X Thank you for the detailed reply, this is the kind of detailed information I love to come here for

[piezers]

@robbiegrass

@randox

A zard ex in BGS 10 would be worth more I imagine but that’s probably the highest recorded sale? Would it still be worth the same you reckon?

No I don’t think one will sell as high again, pop is now 6 so around 4-600 would be a more realistic number now.
Fun fact I actually bought the card for 150 when it was pop 2

Just curious and am not disagreeing with it, but why do you say it would only be worth 400-600 now?

[fourthstartcg]

@piezers

@robbiegrass

No I don’t think one will sell as high again, pop is now 6 so around 4-600 would be a more realistic number now.
Fun fact I actually bought the card for 150 when it was pop 2

Just curious and am not disagreeing with it, but why do you say it would only be worth 400-600 now?

Several have sold for much lower since. Due to the low pop if you want one right now it may take a $400-600 offer to get one, but I wouldn’t count on one selling for over $250 at auction.

[randox]

@fourthstartcg

@piezers

Just curious and am not disagreeing with it, but why do you say it would only be worth 400-600 now?

Several have sold for much lower since. Due to the low pop if you want one right now it may take a $400-600 offer to get one, but I wouldn’t count on one selling for over $250 at auction.

I’d think the auction would be at least $500. Plenty of people want this card in aus alone. Don’t think a PSA 10 even is in aus. Lots of money chasing it

[robbiegrass]

@piezers

@robbiegrass

No I don’t think one will sell as high again, pop is now 6 so around 4-600 would be a more realistic number now.
Fun fact I actually bought the card for 150 when it was pop 2

Just curious and am not disagreeing with it, but why do you say it would only be worth 400-600 now?

since population went up alot more people who needed it to complete their ex sets got their copies thus its gonna fetch a much lower price since there is much less competition

[shizzlemetimbers]

Miltoic is def at least in the high hundreds IMO. I haven’t seen any recent sales maybe my Aus eBay is failing me.