Blastoise-EXXY Black Star Promos · #XY122/211 · Promo · 2013
The Hoshino Verdict
What this card’s market is actually doing — scored, stated and kept current.
Hoshino recorded 461 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 3 days old.
Verdict recomputed 5m ago · it changes as the market does.
Blastoise-EX is card XY122 of 211 in XY Black Star Promos, released in 2013 as part of the XY series. It is a Promo card, illustrated by kawayoo.
PSA reports 6,968 graded copies, 95 of them Gem Mint 10 (BGS 126 further). We hold 375 confirmed sales on record for this card across 3 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) | $209 | Moderate3 of 5 confidence checks passed | 11 in 90d | 35 sales · last 6d ago | 35 |
| BGS 8 | — | — | 1 in 90d | 1 sale · single sale · pop 74 | 1 |
| BGS 9 | — | — | 1 in 90d | 1 sale · single sale · pop 25 | 1 |
| CGC 1 | — | — | 2 in 90d | 2 sales · inverts ladder · pop 1 | 2 |
| CGC 3 | — | — | none in 90d | 2 sales · inverts ladder · pop 4 | 2 |
| CGC 4 | — | — | 1 in 90d | 2 sales · inverts ladder · pop 7 | 2 |
| CGC 6 | — | — | none in 90d | 1 sale · single sale · pop 38 | 1 |
| CGC 7 | — | — | 1 in 90d | 6 sales · inverts ladder · pop 96 | 6 |
| CGC 8 | $285 | High4 of 5 confidence checks passed | 3 in 90d | 10 sales · last 1mo ago · pop 241 | 10 |
| CGC 9 | $554 | Thin3 of 5 confidence checks passed | 4 in 90d | 4 sales · last 12d ago · pop 40 | 4 |
| PSA 1 | — | — | 7 in 90d | 15 sales · inverts ladder · pop 180 | 15 |
| PSA 2 | — | — | 1 in 90d | 1 sale · single sale · pop 54 | 1 |
| PSA 3 | — | — | 4 in 90d | 6 sales · inverts ladder · pop 89 | 6 |
| PSA 4 | — | — | 3 in 90d | 9 sales · inverts ladder · pop 208 | 9 |
| PSA 5 | — | — | 11 in 90d | 33 sales · inverts ladder · pop 647 | 33 |
| PSA 6 | — | — | 23 in 90d | 73 sales · inverts ladder · pop 1316 | 73 |
| PSA 7 | $246 | High4 of 5 confidence checks passed | 28 in 90d | 108 sales · last 6d ago · pop 2056 | 108 |
| PSA 8 | $379 | Highest5 of 5 confidence checks passed | 0.4/day | 105 sales · last 4d ago · ceiling $847 · 1 sale, unconfirmed · pop 1614 | 105 |
| PSA 9 | $1,150 | Highest5 of 5 confidence checks passed | 24 in 90d | 47 sales · last 4d ago · pop 709 | 47 |
| PSA 10 | $11,999 | Thin2 of 5 confidence checks passed | 1 in 90d | 4 sales · last 2mo ago · pop 95 | 4 |
| SGC 7 | — | — | none in 90d | 1 sale · single sale · pop 7 | 1 |
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 — 34 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✗Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 57% around the median — wide enough that the median is close to a coin toss
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 6 days ago
- ✗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 — 10 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 11% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 30 days ago
- ✗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 — 4 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 23% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 12 days ago
- ✗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 — 108 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 33% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 6 days ago
- ✗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 — 104 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 27% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 4 days ago
- ✓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
- ✓Enough sales to have a middle — 47 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 27% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 4 days ago
- ✓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
- ✗Enough sales to have a middle — 4 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 19% around the median
- ✗The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 55 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
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.
The same card in a different holder
What the market pays for this card at the same grade in each grader’s slab — and, if you hold one, what cracking it would have to return to be worth the fee.
Each grader’s price below is the median of that grader’s own recorded sales of this card at this exact grade. Nothing is averaged across graders and nothing is interpolated from a neighbouring grade. Every price here is the same figure the price-by-grade table above publishes — a rung that table abstains on is abstained on here too, and every fee, freight and tax figure is a real published rate from our cost model.
CGC 8 vs PSA 8
CGC 7 vs PSA 7
SGC 7 vs PSA 7
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.
PSA 7 population has grown from 2,018 on 2026-09-07 to 2,056 on 2026-09-20 (+38) — real grading-population readings, not a price.
Recent sales
| Sold | Venue | Region | Grade | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 3d ago | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) via PokéPriceTracker | North America | PSA 6 | $139 | auction view ↗ |
| 2026-09-16 4d ago | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) via PokéPriceTracker | North America | PSA 8 | $495 | auction view ↗ |
| 2026-09-16 4d ago | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) via PokéPriceTracker | North America | PSA 9 | $1,183 | auction view ↗ |
| 2026-09-14 6d ago | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) via PokéPriceTracker | North America | PSA 7 | $275 | auction view ↗ |
The 4 most recent — confirmed sales first, then estimates; distinct price points, identical re-ingested rows count once, never stacked. The full 394-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 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 →
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.
| Platform | Sales | Median | Low – High | Last sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🌐 PokéPriceTracker | 33 | $209 | $100 – $500 | $500 6d ago |
Daily market prices across 1 platform in North America — counts are distinct sales, never duplicated listings. Guide rows (TCGplayer market / Cardmarket trend) are labelled as estimates, not sales.
Population reports
How many graded copies exist — with the readings our own sales contradict called out, not quietly used.
⚠︎ These population readings are incomplete, and we will not price scarcity off them
A population report counts every copy a grader has ever slabbed, over the card’s whole life. Our sale record covers a much shorter window. So when our confirmed-sale count for one tier comes out above that grader’s all-time count for the same tier, the two datasets contradict each other and the population reading is the one that is short — here by 1 on CGC 1.
- CGC 1 — the report lists 1 copy, and we hold 2 confirmed sales of that exact tier.
The numbers stay on screen because they are real readings and deleting them would hide the problem. What we have withdrawn is everything derived from them for CGC: no gem rate, no “only N copies exist”, and nothing in this page’s FAQ or structured data. We would rather answer nothing than answer that.
Only confirmed sales are counted in this check — never price-guide rows and never sales we inferred from a listing leaving the market. No competitor runs this check, because none of them holds an independent sale record deep enough to test a population report against.
PSA 6,968 graded copies
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 95 |
| PSA 9 | 709 |
| PSA 8 | 1,614 |
| PSA 7 | 2,056 |
| PSA 6 | 1,316 |
| PSA 5 | 647 |
| PSA 4 | 208 |
| PSA 3 | 89 |
| PSA 2 | 54 |
| PSA 1 | 180 |
CGC incomplete reading
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| CGC 9.5 | 1 |
| CGC 9 | 40 |
| CGC 8 | 241 |
| CGC 7 | 96 |
| CGC 6 | 38 |
| CGC 5 | 11 |
| CGC 4 | 7 |
| CGC 3 | 4 |
| CGC 2 | 1 |
| CGC 1 | 1incomplete |
BGS 126 graded copies
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| BGS 9.5 | 1 |
| BGS 9 | 25 |
| BGS 8 | 74 |
| BGS 7 | 16 |
| BGS 6 | 1 |
| BGS 5 | 4 |
| BGS 4 | 1 |
| BGS 3 | 3 |
| BGS 2 | 1 |
SGC 42 graded copies
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| SGC 10 | 1 |
| SGC 9.5 | 3 |
| SGC 9 | 8 |
| SGC 8 | 11 |
| SGC 7 | 7 |
| SGC 6 | 6 |
| SGC 5 | 1 |
| SGC 4 | 4 |
| SGC 3 | 1 |
Population over time — 101 new copies slabbed across 8 tiers in this window
| Tier | Trend | 2026-09-07 | 2026-09-20 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 7 | 2,018 | 2,056 | +38 (1.9%) | |
| PSA 8 | 1,609 | 1,615 | +6 (0.4%) | |
| PSA 6 | 1,287 | 1,316 | +29 (2.3%) | |
| PSA 9 | 708 | 709 | +1 (0.1%) | |
| PSA 5 | 633 | 647 | +14 (2.2%) | |
| CGC 8 | 239 | 241 | +2 (0.8%) | |
| PSA 4 | 205 | 208 | +3 (1.5%) | |
| PSA 1 | 172 | 180 | +8 (4.7%) |
Every point is a real population reading taken on the date shown — first reading 2026-09-07, latest 2026-09-20 (13 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 10 · 4 sales | $11,999 | Above every PSA declared-value cap in our published fee table (highest: $10,000). We hold no rate we could quote for a slab worth this much, so we quote none. | 1.4% | |||
| PSA 9 · 47 sales | $1,150 | −$153 | −$80PSA Regular · 35d | $905 | +$690 | 10% |
| PSA 8 · 105 sales | $379 | −$51 | −$80PSA Regular · 35d | $236 | +$22 | 23% |
“Of existing slabs” is how PSA’s 6,968 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 9 · 4 sales | $554 | −$74 | −$35CGC Standard · 25d | $433 | +$218 | — |
The “of existing slabs” column is blank for CGC on this card. Its population reading is contradicted by our own sale record (see the population section), and a share worked out from a count we have called incomplete would be a fabricated probability.
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?
Grading EV in dollars, not vibes.
Projected PSA 10 value 11999.49 USD exceeds every modeled grading tier's declared-value cap (max 10000 USD). A higher-value service tier (priced case-by-case, not modeled here) is required — get a direct quote before submitting.
Should you grade it? Every grader route, your cost basis, and Japan vs the West → · or scan a photo of your copy
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.
What Blastoise-EX actually does
The printed card — its attacks, what they cost, what it is weak to, and whether it is still tournament legal.
Switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Then, your opponent switches his or her Active Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon.
Flip a coin. If tails, this Pokémon does 30 damage to itself.
Pokémon-EX rule: When a Pokémon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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.
More from XY Black Star Promos
Same set, same shelf.
Frequently asked questions
Answered from the data on this page — nothing here is written by hand.
How much is Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) worth?
Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) is worth $248 based on daily market prices (36 distinct sales) on Hoshino. Typical range: $147–$350 (raw/ungraded).
Where can I buy or sell Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122)?
You can find Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) on Hoshino, with live listings on eBay UK, eBay (US), eBay AU, eBay CA and recent solds from PokéPriceTracker. Each listing links directly to the seller’s page.
What is the graded value of Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122)?
Graded values for Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122): CGC 8 — $285; CGC 9 — $554; PSA 7 — $246; PSA 8 — $379; PSA 9 — $1,150; PSA 10 — $11,999. Each tier is priced on its own sales — Hoshino never mixes a PSA 10 with a raw copy.
Is Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) going up or down in price?
Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) is trending down in price. 30-day change: -4%. Based on live market data tracked on Hoshino.
How many Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) have been graded?
Across PSA and BGS and SGC, 7,136 copies of Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) have been professionally graded, based on population reports tracked on Hoshino.
What is the PSA 10 population of Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122)?
PSA has graded 95 copies of Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) as Gem Mint 10, according to population reports tracked on Hoshino.
What does Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) do?
Blastoise-EX (XY Black Star Promos #XY122) is a 180 HP Water-type card (Basic · EX). Its attacks are Rapid Spin (30 damage), Splash Bomb (120 damage). It is weak to Grass (×2). Illustrated by kawayoo.
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