ShellderFireRed & LeafGreen · #79/112 · Common · 2004
The Hoshino Verdict
What this card’s market is actually doing — scored, stated and kept current.
Hoshino recorded 7 confirmed sales of this card in the last 12 months. We hold enough sales to describe the market, but not a continuous price history long enough to measure a move against — so we do not report one. PSA has graded 111 copies of it, 26 of them Gem Mint 10 — a 23.4% gem rate (CGC 72, BGS 1 further). The most recent sale we hold is 53 days old.
Verdict recomputed 15m ago · it changes as the market does.
Shellder is card 79 of 112 in FireRed & LeafGreen, released in 2004 as part of the EX series. It is a Common card, illustrated by Aya Kusube.
PSA reports 111 graded copies, 26 of them Gem Mint 10 (CGC 72, BGS 1 further). We hold 7 confirmed sales on record for this card across 2 venues — every price on this page traces back to them.
Descriptive market data, not investment advice. The Hoshino Score measures how deep, liquid, widely-traded, dear and scarce this card’s market is from sales and population records we hold. It is not a forecast, not a recommendation, and not a rating of this card as an investment.
Price by grade
What each grade’s real sales say — median of what actually sold.
Each grade is priced on the median of its own real sales — never averaged across grades, and never across printings. A 1st Edition, Shadowless or No Rarity copy is a different market from the ordinary print, so it gets its own row; where a grade holds sales of more than one printing and we cannot tell which copy sold, it is shown without a price — we abstain rather than publish the blend.
| Tier | Price | Confidence | Liquidity | Basis | Obs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw (ungraded) | $0.97 | — | — | market estimate (guide) | 2 |
| CGC 10 | $54.27 | Thin2 of 5 confidence checks passed | none in 90d | 2 sales · last 4mo ago · ceiling $130 · 1 sale, unconfirmed · pop 40 | 2 |
| PSA 4 | — | — | 1 in 90d | 1 sale · single sale · pop 1 | 1 |
| PSA 8 | — | — | none in 90d | 2 sales · inverts ladder · pop 23 | 2 |
| PSA 9 | $62.50 | Thin3 of 5 confidence checks passed | 1 in 90d | 2 sales · last 2mo ago · pop 44 | 2 |
| PSA 10 | $87.05 | — | — | modeled est. est. from PSA 9 × 2.18 · pop 26 |
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How confident are we in each of these prices?
There is no weighting and no hidden formula here. We ask five plain questions about the sales behind a price, and the rating is simply how many of them we can answer yes to. Every threshold is the one our pricing engine already uses to decide whether it trusts its own answer — none was invented for this rating. A grade we publish no price for gets no rating either: there would be nothing to rate.
- ✗Enough sales to have a middle — 2 confirmed sales at this exact grade — under the 5 our pricing engine treats as a settled sample
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 1% around the median
- ✗The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 118 days ago — past the 45-day half-life at which our engine already halves a sale’s weight
- ✗More than one marketplace — Every sale came from the same marketplace, so this is one venue’s price rather than the market’s
- ✓Dated by the venue, not by us — Every sale carries a date its venue published
- ✗Enough sales to have a middle — 2 confirmed sales at this exact grade — under the 5 our pricing engine treats as a settled sample
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 36% around the median
- ✗The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 74 days ago — past the 45-day half-life at which our engine already halves a sale’s weight
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 2 different marketplaces
- ✓Dated by the venue, not by us — Every sale carries a date its venue published
Cross-market comparisons and arbitrage routes are computed within one grade — PSA 10 against PSA 10, raw against raw. A route is never built from two different grades.
Price trend
Median market price over time, plus the sale-by-sale receipts.
Each point is a real recorded sale at that grade, over the full time we hold. Grades trade at very different prices, so the trend is per grade — pick a grade above.
Daily snapshot medians · US market · raw bucket. — the broader raw market-price trend across the same period, alongside the graded sales above.
Recent sales
| Sold | Venue | Region | Grade | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-30 53d ago | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) via PokéPriceTracker | North America | PSA 4 | $33.75 | auction view ↗ |
| 2026-07-09 2mo ago | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) via PokéPriceTracker | North America | PSA 9 | $39.99 | view ↗ |
| 2026-06-16 3mo ago | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) via PokéPriceTracker | North America | PSA 8 | $22.99 | auction view ↗ |
| 2026-06-06 3mo ago | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) via PokéPriceTracker | North America | PSA 8 | $13.51 | auction view ↗ |
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The 4 most recent — confirmed sales first, then estimates; distinct price points, identical re-ingested rows count once, never stacked. The full 9-point sale-by-sale history unlocks with Pro. Venue is the marketplace the sale actually cleared on — eBay, Goldin, ALT, Fanatics, SNKRDUNK and the rest — established from the sale’s own listing URL, its auction house, or the feed’s own declaration of the venue. A via tag names the data feed that delivered the record; the feed is never the venue. Where none of those establish a marketplace the row says venue not disclosed rather than naming one we cannot prove. Rows tagged guide are marketplace price-guide points (TCGplayer market / Cardmarket trend), not confirmed sales; rows tagged est. are inferred from a listing that left the market, not directly-recorded sales. Rows tagged recorded come from a venue that publishes no sale date — Mercari Japan publishes none — so the date shown is the day we recorded the sale, an upper bound on when it sold. The price is real either way; we do not invent a date.
We hold 1 sale of this card that is not allowed to price anything. Every figure on this page was computed with it removed. See what we set aside for this card, and why →
See the 30-day, 90-day and 1-year charts and every past sale on record — date, venue, region, grade and the price it actually fetched.
Buy from around the world
The lowest live ask on every platform we track — cheapest first.
The cheapest live ask in every region we track — real global pricing, not just the US.
See every listing we track and the net spread — cheapest ask first, the difference after ~13% marketplace + payment fees.
Asks are what sellers want; the price above is what the market actually clears at. Pro shows both sides plus the spread net of fees.
Sold around the world
Daily market prices by region and platform — what this card actually changes hands for worldwide, kept apart from seller asks.
Markets are too thin or divergent to quote a reliable cross-border spread on this card yet.
Per-platform sold history builds as feeds report — the value above is the honest anchor we hold today.
Population reports
How many graded copies exist, and how fast that number is moving — scarcity in plain numbers.
PSA 111 graded copies
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 26 |
| PSA 9 | 44 |
| PSA 8 | 23 |
| PSA 7 | 10 |
| PSA 6 | 2 |
| PSA 5 | 4 |
| PSA 4 | 1 |
| PSA 1 | 1 |
CGC 72 graded copies
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| CGC 10 | 40 |
| CGC 9.5 | 2 |
| CGC 9 | 23 |
| CGC 8 | 4 |
| CGC 7 | 1 |
| CGC 6 | 2 |
BGS 1 graded copy
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| BGS 9 | 1 |
SGC 1 graded copy
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| SGC 10 | 1 |
Population over time — 1 new copy slabbed across 1 tier in this window
| Tier | Trend | 2026-08-27 | 2026-09-21 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 9 | 44 | 44 | no change | |
| CGC 10 | 40 | 40 | no change | |
| PSA 10 | 26 | 26 | no change | |
| PSA 8 | 23 | 23 | no change | |
| CGC 9 | 23 | 23 | no change | |
| PSA 7 | 9 | 10 | +1 (11%) | |
| PSA 5 | 4 | 4 | no change | |
| CGC 8 | 4 | 4 | no change |
Every point is a real population reading taken on the date shown — first reading 2026-08-27, latest 2026-09-21 (25 days). That is the whole window we hold for this card; it is not a one-year trend and we will not present it as one. A population can only grow — a card cannot be un-graded — so where a reading came back lower than the one before it, that is a partial crawl and the series carries the higher figure forward rather than drawing a fall that never happened.
Why this matters: scarcity is a flow, not a constant. A tier whose count is climbing is getting less scarce while its price chart says nothing at all — and a tier that has not moved in weeks is holding its scarcity. Nobody else publishes this per grade.
What grading this card would actually cost you
Every term in the sum, sourced — the slab’s real sale price, the marketplace’s published fee, the grader’s published rate.
Every graded row is that same sale, minus the same marketplace fee, minus the grader’s published fee, minus $12 of shipping both ways. The “vs raw” column is the only number that matters: what that outcome would leave you with over selling the card as it is now.
PSA · cheapest published service tier whose declared-value cap covers each outcome
| If it grades | Sells for | eBay fee | Grading | You net | vs raw | Of existing slabs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 9 · 2 sales | $63 | −$8.68 | −$80PSA Regular · 35d | −$38 | −$39 | 40% |
“Of existing slabs” is how PSA’s 111 graded copies of this card actually landed. It is the base rate for the population, not the odds for your copy — the copies people submit are not a random sample, and we have never seen the card in your hand.
CGC · cheapest published service tier whose declared-value cap covers each outcome
| If it grades | Sells for | eBay fee | Grading | You net | vs raw | Of existing slabs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CGC 10 · 2 sales | $54 | −$7.59 | −$17CGC Economy · 90d | $18 | +$17 | 56% |
“Of existing slabs” is how CGC’s 72 graded copies of this card actually landed. It is the base rate for the population, not the odds for your copy — the copies people submit are not a random sample, and we have never seen the card in your hand.
What this cannot tell you. Which grade your copy would get. That depends on centring, edges, surface and corners on the card in your hand, and we have never seen it — so there is no single headline number here and no “worth it / not worth it” verdict. Each row is one outcome, priced from that tier’s own real sales; a tier we publish no price for stays blank rather than borrowing a figure from the grade next to it. Turnaround is the grader’s published business-day estimate, and the market can move inside it. Descriptive market arithmetic, not investment advice.
Should you grade it?
Expected grade × daily market prices − grading fees = net value, per grader.
See the full grader ladder — chance of a 10, what a 10 and a 9 actually fetch, and the fee, expected value and ROI on every route.
Should you grade it? Every grader route, your cost basis, and Japan vs the West → · or scan a photo of your copy
The same card, in Japan
One artwork trades in two markets under different numbers. Here is the other one.
Long-term outlook
Transparent scenario model from real solds, supply and demand — bands widen with time.
See where this card is projected to be in 10 years — scenario bands, every horizon, and the long-term verdict.
Scenario projection based on demand/supply trends and known catalysts. Not investment advice and not a guarantee of future prices.
What Shellder actually does
The printed card — its attacks, what they cost, what it is weak to, and whether it is still tournament legal.
During your opponent's next turn, any damage done to Shellder by attacks is reduced by 20 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Card text, attacks and format legality come from the open card catalogues pokemontcg.io and TCGdex. They describe the card as printed; nothing here is a price, an estimate or anything Hoshino computed. A field we hold no record for is left out rather than filled in.
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Frequently asked questions
Every answer below is computed from the sales, population and catalogue records on this page — so it changes when the market does.
Where can I buy or sell Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79)?
You can find Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79) on Hoshino, with live listings on eBay (US), eBay UK, eBay CA, eBay AU. Each listing links directly to the seller’s page.
What is the graded value of Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79)?
Graded values for Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79): CGC 10 — $54.27; PSA 9 — $62.50. Each tier is priced on its own sales — Hoshino never mixes a PSA 10 with a raw copy.
Is Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79) going up or down in price?
Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79) is trending up in price. 30-day change: +2%. Based on live market data tracked on Hoshino.
How many Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79) have been graded?
Across PSA, CGC, BGS and SGC, 185 copies of Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79) have been professionally graded, based on population reports tracked on Hoshino.
What is the PSA 10 population of Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79)?
PSA has graded 26 copies of Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79) as Gem Mint 10, according to population reports tracked on Hoshino.
What does Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79) do?
Shellder (FireRed & LeafGreen #79) is a 50 HP Water-type card (Basic). Its attacks are Minimize, Wave Splash (10 damage). It is weak to Lightning (×2). Illustrated by Aya Kusube.
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