Lugia · 37 cards · 2000–2025
How much is a Lugia card worth?
Ungraded, Lugia cards run from $1 to $2,900 on PriceCharting. Across the 39 priced Lugia cards on this page (a 1st Edition or Shadowless printing counts as its own card), the middle one is about $41 ungraded; 14 are $100 or more and 5 are under $5. The dearest is Lugia, Aquapolis #149 at about $2,900 ungraded and $104,837 in a PSA 10.Prices from PriceCharting, pulled 8 September to 16 October 2026.
There are 37 English Lugia cards, spread over 24 sets between 2000 and 2025. The first was Lugia in Neo Genesis, 16 December 2000, drawn by Hironobu Yoshida in the Neo era. It has carried 9 of the game's card types over the years — EX, GX, V, VSTAR — and a collector will pay wildly different money for each.
Condition decides most of it. The figures above are for ungraded cards. The same card graded is a different market entirely — the dearest Lugia here reaches $104,837 in a PSA 10 slab. A PSA 10 is a flawless grade and it is the exception, not what to expect of a card that has been in a binder — on this page a PSA 10 is a median 28 times the same card ungraded. Every card below shows both ends, raw and graded, so you can see which band yours could sit in.
What we pay is a different number again. These are what collectors pay each other. A buyer pays less than that, because a buyer takes on the waiting, the fees and the risk — which is why you get our number on the phone, in one call, before anything is posted.
Spaced by ratio, not by dollars, so the cheap end stays readable. Tap a handle to jump to that card. Prices from PriceCharting, pulled 8 September to 16 October 2026.
Grade by grade
The 5 dearest Lugia cards, raw to PSA 10
Every grade PriceCharting lists for the 5 Lugia cards with the highest ungraded price, led by Lugia from Aquapolis.
| Grade | LugiaAquapolis #149I have this one | LugiaNeo Genesis #9 · 1st EditionI have this one | Lugia exUnseen Forces #105I have this one | Lugia VSilver Tempest #186I have this one | LugiaCall of Legends #SL7I have this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ungraded | $2,900 | $1,537 | $1,033 | $491 | $421 |
| Grade 1 | $2,702 | $1,509 | $512 | $400 | $289 |
| Grade 2 | $2,621 | $886 | $248 | $43 | $262 |
| Grade 3 | $3,300 | $1,257 | $275 | $48 | $291 |
| Grade 4 | $4,156 | $1,550 | $575 | $57 | $399 |
| Grade 5 | $5,349 | $2,425 | $1,000 | $68 | $485 |
| Grade 6 | $6,585 | $2,756 | $1,313 | $298 | $990 |
| Grade 7 | $9,250 | $3,895 | $1,575 | $300 | $1,429 |
| Grade 8 | $11,998 | $5,200 | $2,750 | $438 | $2,816 |
| Grade 9 | $16,538 | $16,200 | $5,158 | $500 | $12,886 |
| Grade 9.5 | $18,191est. | $17,820est. | $5,674est. | $705 | $14,174est. |
| TAG 10 | – | – | – | $1,463 | – |
| ACE 10 | – | – | – | $901 | – |
| SGC 10 | $62,902est. | $11,664est. | $8,940est. | $424 | $9,278est. |
| CGC 10 | $10,328 | $17,324 | $6,015 | $728 | $9,278est. |
| PSA 10 | $104,837 | $19,440 | $14,900 | $1,300 | $15,463 |
| BGS 10 | $136,288est. | $25,272est. | $19,370est. | $2,588 | $20,102est. |
| CGC 10 Pristine | $18,590 | $87,723 | $14,999 | $1,800 | $16,700est. |
| BGS 10 Black | $681,440est. | $126,360est. | $96,850est. | $13,465 | $100,510est. |
Figures marked est. sit at a fixed multiple of another grade for the same card on PriceCharting — for example SGC 10 at 0.6 times the PSA 10 — so treat them as approximate, not as a separate run of sales. PriceCharting’s Grade 9 is a PSA or BGS 9; its Grade 9.5 is a BGS 9.5.
Every one of them, with a picture
All 37 English Lugia cards, oldest first.
The set name and the number at the bottom of the card are what tell one Lugia from the other 36 — there are 3 different cards called “Lugia-GX” in Lost Thunder alone. Each one shows both ends — what it trades for ungraded, and what it reaches in a PSA 10 slab. Tap a card for the grades in between and what to read down the phone. The 2 Lugia cards from 1st Edition era sets list each printing on its own row — 1st Edition, Shadowless where Base Set had one, and Unlimited — and the picture on those tiles is the 1st Edition.
2000–2007 · 6 cards · 5 sets
LugiaNeo Genesis · 2000#9pictured: 1st EditionrawPSA 101st Edition$1,537$19,440Unlimited$371$19,651
LugiaNeo Revelation · 2001#20pictured: 1st EditionrawPSA 101st Edition$117$1,613Unlimited$30$641
LugiaAquapolis · 2003#149$2,900raw$104,837PSA 10
Lugia exUnseen Forces · 2005#105$1,033raw$14,900PSA 10
LugiaUnseen Forces · 2005#29$22raw$655PSA 10
LugiaPOP Series 5 · 2007#2$61raw$511PSA 10
2007–2011 · 6 cards · 4 sets
LugiaSecret Wonders · 2007#14$47raw$17,184PSA 10
Lugia LEGENDHeartGold & SoulSilver · 2010#113$180raw$5,034PSA 10
Lugia LEGENDHeartGold & SoulSilver · 2010#114$232raw$3,481PSA 10
LugiaHGSS Black Star Promos · 2010#HGSS02$75raw$76,842PSA 10
LugiaCall of Legends · 2011#15$124raw$8,817PSA 10
LugiaCall of Legends · 2011#SL7$421raw$15,463PSA 10
2011–2015 · 6 cards · 5 sets
Lugia-EXBW Black Star Promos · 2011#BW83$23raw$851PSA 10
Lugia-EXPlasma Storm · 2013#108$51raw$2,475PSA 10
Lugia-EXPlasma Storm · 2013#134$392raw$6,989PSA 10
LugiaXY Black Star Promos · 2013#XY156$34raw$884PSA 10
Lugia-EXLegendary Treasures · 2013#102$33raw$9,032PSA 10
Lugia-EXAncient Origins · 2015#68$13raw$875PSA 10
2015–2018 · 6 cards · 4 sets
Lugia-EXAncient Origins · 2015#94$187raw$6,500PSA 10
LugiaFates Collide · 2016#78$4raw$464PSA 10
Lugia BREAKFates Collide · 2016#79$21raw$852PSA 10
Shining LugiaSM Black Star Promos · 2017#SM82$88raw$2,350PSA 10
Lugia-GXLost Thunder · 2018#159$35raw$628PSA 10
Lugia-GXLost Thunder · 2018#207$115raw$1,690PSA 10
2018–2021 · 6 cards · 6 sets
Lugia-GXLost Thunder · 2018#227$183raw$2,197PSA 10
LugiaTeam Up · 2019#131$19raw$1,064PSA 10
LugiaSWSH Black Star Promos · 2019#SWSH069$39raw$154PSA 10
LugiaDarkness Ablaze · 2020#140$1raw$89PSA 10
LugiaVivid Voltage · 2020#132$3raw$172PSA 10
LugiaCelebrations · 2021#22$2raw$235PSA 10
2022–2025 · 7 cards · 2 sets
Lugia VSilver Tempest · 2022#138$14raw$232PSA 10
Lugia VSTARSilver Tempest · 2022#139$7raw$117PSA 10
Lugia VSilver Tempest · 2022#185$18raw$159PSA 10
Lugia VSilver Tempest · 2022#186$491raw$1,300PSA 10
Lugia VSTARSilver Tempest · 2022#202$41raw$185PSA 10
Lugia VSTARSilver Tempest · 2022#211$27raw$155PSA 10
Lugia exPrismatic Evolutions · 2025#82$2raw$179PSA 10
What decides the number
Five things about your Lugia, in order of how much they matter.
- Which printing. Lugia spans 24 sets, from Neo Genesis in 2000 to Prismatic Evolutions in 2025, and the set symbol beside the picture is what tells one from another before anything else about the card is worth discussing.
- First edition. 2 of the 37 come from sets printed in a 1st Edition run, and on a Lugia of that age the small “1 Edition” stamp left of the art changes the price, often several times over. On PriceCharting the 1st Edition Lugia from Neo Genesis is about $1,537 ungraded against $371 for the Unlimited one, 4 times as much.
- Which card type. A Lugia EX and a Lugia GX are different cards that happen to share a name — Lugia has been printed as 9 types in all, so the word beside Lugia at the top decides which of the 37 you own.
- Promo stamps. 5 of the 37 Lugia cards were promos rather than pack pulls, and a black star, a tournament stamp or a set-launch mark in the corner is what separates one Lugia promo from another with the same picture.
- The Shining one. 1 Lugia card carries the Shining treatment — if the word Shining sits before Lugia on your card, that is the first thing to tell us.
- The commonest rarity among Lugia cards is Rare Holo — 6 of the 37.
- Toyste Beach has illustrated Lugia more than anyone else, 4 times.
- Silver Tempest carries the most Lugia cards of any single set (6).
- Lugia has been printed under 9 card types: EX, GX, V, VSTAR, LEGEND, ex (2003–07), BREAK, Shining, ex (modern).
- 1 of the 37 Lugia cards come from 1999–2000, the printings collectors ask after most.
- 24 different illustrators have drawn Lugia.
- 25 years separate the first Lugia card from the newest.
Want to sell your Lugia? Whether it is Lugia, Aquapolis #149 or one of the other 36, you get a price on the phone from the person who buys it. If your Lugia is one card in a binder of them, how to sell a Pokémon card collection walks through the call, the shipping and the filmed offer. Already slabbed? Here is how selling a graded Lugia card works.
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