Pokémon character collector guide
Best Cloyster Cards: Prices, Values and Collector Guide
- Tracked cards
- 36
- Tracked variants
- 52
- Sets
- 33
- Artists
- 11
- Completed sales (90 days)
- 107
This guide draws on 36 tracked Cloyster cards, covering 33 sets and 11 credited artists.
Individual cards occupy different parts of the market, reflecting variations in release history, rarity and condition.
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Cloyster card statistics: Catalog and market coverage
The release record covers 15 eras and 3 tracked languages; Expedition Base Set is the most represented set.
- Tracked cards
- 36
- Tracked variants
- 52
- Sets
- 33
- Artists
- 11
- Completed sales (90 days)
- 107
Cloyster card prices and values
The median representative raw price among covered Cloyster cards is $0.90, compared with $223 for PSA 10 examples with usable evidence. Coverage stands at 71% for raw cards and 15% for PSA 10 pricing.
Raw Cloyster card price distribution
More covered raw cards fall in the Under $10 range than in any other displayed price band.
- Under $10
28 28 - $10–$25
4 4 - $25–$100
5 5 - $100–$500
0 0 - $500 or more
0 0
37 measured records.
Best Cloyster cards
The best overall order places Cloyster first, followed by Cloyster and Misty's Cloyster. The leader carries 210 observations in the measured window.
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Most expensive Cloyster cards: The raw market
Cloyster leads the raw-price ranking. The order applies one published methodology to every eligible Cloyster card rather than relying on editorial opinion.
Most expensive graded Cloyster cards
The first position for PSA 10 price belongs to Cloyster, based on the same published measures used for every qualifying card.
#1
#2
#3
Cloyster
- PSA 10 population
- 423
- PSA 10 price
- $262.63
- PSA 10 change (90 days)
- -10.8%
- PSA 10 sales (90 days)
- 6
#4
Cloyster
- PSA 10 population
- 58
- PSA 10 price
- $227.19
- PSA 10 change (90 days)
- 127.2%
- PSA 10 sales (90 days)
- 1
#5
#6
Cloyster
- PSA 10 population
- 64
- PSA 10 price
- $100.02
- PSA 10 change (90 days)
- -0.8%
- PSA 10 sales (90 days)
- 0
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Cloyster rookie cards: The earliest releases
For Pokémon cards, “rookie” is collector shorthand rather than an official designation. The tracked release history begins meaningfully with Cloyster in Mystery of the Fossils.
Highest volume Cloyster cards
The 90-day completed-sale volume leader is Cloyster, which carries 34 qualifying market observations across the ranking window.
Trending Cloyster cards
The leading current trend signal belongs to Misty's Cloyster. Positive readings appear across both measured price windows, after the model's minimum-liquidity rules are applied. Price direction is only one component of the ranking.
#1
Misty's Cloyster
- Raw change (30 days)
- 4.5%
- Raw change (7 days)
- 41.4%
- Raw sales (30 days)
- 18
- Trend score
- 0.38
#2
Cloyster
- Raw change (30 days)
- -11.9%
- Raw change (7 days)
- -1.8%
- Raw sales (30 days)
- 26
- Trend score
- -0.43
Cloyster cards rising in price
The median raw sale price for Misty's Cloyster increased by 22.0% between the two 45-day halves of the 90-day evidence window.
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Cloyster cards falling in price
Cloyster leads the confirmed falling group after its median raw sale price changed by 12.0% across the two halves of the 90-day window.
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Raw vs graded Cloyster cards: How prices compare
A matched sample of 8 cards produces a 3405.8% median premium for PSA 10 prices relative to raw. The figures describe market evidence, not the condition of any individual copy.
- Cards with raw and PSA 10 prices
- 8
- Median PSA 10 premium
- 3,405.84%
Cloyster card sets and artists: Release history
Mitsuhiro Arita is the most frequently credited artist, while Expedition Base Set contributes the greatest number of tracked printings.
Cloyster cards by era
XY has the greatest representation in the tracked Cloyster catalog.
- XY
7 7 - e-Card
6 6 - Scarlet & Violet
6 6 - Base
5 5 - Premade Decks
5 5 - Sword & Shield
5 5 - EX
4 4 - Promos
3 3 - Sun & Moon
3 3 - Diamond & Pearl
2 2 - PCG
2 2 - Amada
1 1 - DP
1 1 - VS
1 1 - XY BREAK
1 1
52 measured records.
Cloyster card guide methodology
US-dollar pricing and completed sales from all supported countries form the evidence base. Rankings exclude anomalies, retain separate raw and graded markets and require minimum observations where applicable.