PikachuピカチュウWizards Black Star Promos · #025/48 · 2001 · 🇯🇵 Japanese
The Hoshino Verdict
What this card’s market is actually doing — scored, stated and kept current.
Hoshino recorded 4 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. The most recent sale we hold is 26 days old.
Why is it expensive? It prices in the top 1% of the catalogue because it is from Wizards Black Star Promos (2001).
Verdict recomputed 9m ago · it changes as the market does.
Pikachu is card 25 of 48 in Wizards Black Star Promos, released in 2001 as part of the web series. This is the Japanese printing (ピカチュウ).
We hold 4 confirmed sales on record for this card — 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) | — | — | 3 in 90d | 0 sales · last 1mo ago | |
| PSA 9 | — | — | 1 in 90d | 1 sale · single sale | 1 |
| PSA 10 | $894 | — | — | modeled est. est. from PSA 9 × 2 |
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.
Monthly market prices (raw bucket) — daily snapshots take over as history builds.
Recent sales
| Sold | Venue | Region | Grade | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-24 26d ago | 🇯🇵 Yahoo! Japan Auctions | Japan | PSA 9 | ¥69,000 · $447 | view ↗ |
| 2026-08-16 34d ago | 🇯🇵 Yahoo! Japan Auctions | Japan | NM | ¥339,900 · $2,201 | view ↗ |
| 2026-08-16 34d ago | 🇯🇵 Yahoo! Japan Auctions | Japan | NM | ¥371,066 · $2,403 | view ↗ |
| 2026-08-16 34d ago | 🇯🇵 Yahoo! Japan Auctions | Japan | NM | ¥301,400 · $1,952 | view ↗ |
The 4 most recent — confirmed sales first, then estimates; distinct price points, identical re-ingested rows count once, never stacked. 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 9 sales of this card that are not allowed to price anything. Every figure on this page was computed with them removed. See what we set aside for this card, and why →
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.
| Platform | Sales | Median | Low – High | Last sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 Yahoo! Japan Auctions | 3 | $2,201 | $1,952 – $2,403 | ¥339,900 · $2,201 34d ago |
Daily market prices across 1 platform in Japan — counts are distinct sales, never duplicated listings. Guide rows (TCGplayer market / Cardmarket trend) are labelled as estimates, not sales.
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 English
One artwork trades in two markets under different numbers. Here is the other one.
Who is looking at this card
Demand and supply signals that move before price does.
This is where the attention layer goes: how much YouTube activity this card is getting (demand) against how many copies are listed for sale right now (supply). Rising demand into falling supply is the setup that moves before the price does — the leading indicator this category does not have.
We hold no readings for this card, so there is no number here. The model is built (src/attention); the collector has not run against this database yet, and until it has, an attention score would be something we made up. A blank panel that says so is the honest version of this section.
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.
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Frequently asked questions
Answered from the data on this page — nothing here is written by hand.
How much is Pikachu (Wizards Black Star Promos #025) worth?
Pikachu (Wizards Black Star Promos #025) is worth $2,201 based on daily market prices (3 distinct sales) on Hoshino. Typical range: $1,952–$2,403 (raw/ungraded).
Where can I buy or sell Pikachu (Wizards Black Star Promos #025)?
You can find Pikachu (Wizards Black Star Promos #025) on Hoshino, with live listings on eBay (US), eBay AU and recent solds from Yahoo! Japan Auctions. Each listing links directly to the seller’s page.
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