The 25 Most Valuable Pokémon TCG Cards In The New Lost Origin Set

Price: $5 - $8

We kick off with an actual playable Pokémon, but of course in its Full Art form. Electrode is always a fun character to play, his habit of self-destruction put to good use here. Tantrum Blast lets you do 100 damage per Special Condition affecting him, such that you want him poisoned and the like as soon as possible. Or you can do a basic 120 damage for only two Energy, except that he loses them both after only one use. I love the art on this one, the way he looks like he’s shattered the card itself.

Price: $5 - $8

The first card in the list to use Lost Origin’s Lost Zone mechanic, Colress’s ill-advised experiment is to let you look at the top five cards in your deck, keep three of them, but then cast the other two into the eternal fires of the Lost Zone. Still, his bonkers hair has never looked finer than in rainbow colors.

Price: $6 - $7

Goodness me, it’s a playable Pokémon! The only VMAX in the set, Kyurem’s V-olution (I just made that term up) is ridiculously powerful. 330 HP, a chance each turn to attach another Water Energy, and the opportunity to boost its 120 attack with 50 more for each Water Energy you discard.

Price: $7 - $8

Possibly one of the daftest Pokémon cards of all time, the Lost Vacuum is a vital part of the Lost Zone in this set. For the price of ditching another card from your hand into the Lost Zone, it lets you then also grab a Stadium card or Tool attached to an opponent’s card (or your own, if for some reason you wanted to) and chuck it into the Lost Zone too. It’s a sweet move, if your opponent is infuriatingly using their Stadium to keep healing, or blocking attacks with a Tool. It’s even sweeter when it’s all shiny and golden.

Price: $7 - $14

The Secret Rare version of Lady is one of three versions of the card in the set. There’s your regular Trainer card, a superbly pretty Full Art (coming up), and this Rainbow Rare. All three are the traditionally super-useful cards that let you pull out a huge four basic Energies from your deck and put them right into your hand.

Price: $7.50 - $8

Fantina’s Full Art card is a gorgeous swirl of purples, and part of Lost Origin’s Lost Zone cards. She’s a tricky one to play, however, requiring an enormous 10 cards in the Lost Zone before she can even be played, and only protects against incoming damage from an opponent’s V cards. Which sounds far more trouble than it’s worth to me.

Price: $7.50 - $9

Dark Patch’s gold card was once fetching over $10 ungraded, but seems to have fallen out of favor as the set’s sales have gone on. Still, get it pack-fresh and pay for a PSA grading and you could get that up as high as $90. The card lets you pull an Energy from your discard pile and attach it straight to a benched Pokémon, so it’s useful in play, if not anything stunning.

Price: $8 - $8.50

The fantastic shattered crystal style of the Kyurem V makes for a lovely design, and a surprisingly decent price given its relative ordinariness. It’s a very playable card, of course, that Rapid Freeze letting you load up your card with Energies, then the Frost Smash dishing out 140 damage a turn for no penalties. It’s a pretty regular fixture in my own TCG Online deck, although sadly not in this lovely full art form.

Price: $8 - $11.50

Another Rainbow Rare (which are almost guaranteed to fill these top spots, unless for some reason dramatically over-printed), Arezu lets you pop three Evolution Pokémon into your hand. However, she won’t get you any Vs or GXs, which is a pain.

Price: $9 - $13

We enter the more significant sums with one of the prettiest cards I think Pokémon has ever made. It’s just so subtle, the simple blue and orange of Lady, and then the subtle, washed-out background of a summer’s day. Yet I still wish there weren’t a card called “Lady”! There’s no card called “Man”! The poor anonymous woman goes back as far as FireRed & LeafGreen in 2005, but only started showing up in the TCG with 2018's Sun & Moon - Forbidden Light. Someone, please, ask the poor person her name.

Price: $10 - $17

That 240 damage for three Energy seems like such a good deal, until you notice this half-art Rainbow Rare Aerodactyl requires you also ditch the top three cards from your deck into the abyssal Lost Zone. Ouch, surely that’s never worth it? It can also stop your enemy from using abilities the entire time it’s in play, but I’m bemused why anyone would want this. Other than, you know, that it’s a Rainbow Rare VSTAR. Yeah, that bit.

Price: $11 - $12

A case, like Lady, where the Full Art is more valuable than the Rainbow Secret Rare. This often proves the case, because collectors simply prefer the color and background detail of these cards over the much more plain presentation of those rainbows. I know I do. My son—he has different, but strong opinions. So while this Azeru barely gets an extra 50c over her refracted sister, it’s currently proving the more popular.

Price: $11 - $13

A far better VSTAR than the previous Aerodactyl (and yet, while having a higher bottom price, not reaching the dino’s top prices), the Hisuian Goodra deals a hefty 200 damage, and protects itself from 80 damage in the next turn. The price is needing both Water and Metal Energy, along with a Colorless, to be able to trigger. Oh, and once per game you can heal all its damage for free.

Price: $12 - $14

The crazy thing is, this rainbowy version is fetching more than twice as much as the far more pretty regular Full Art version, a few pages back. What silly sausages people are. Being a regular player of the Kyurem V in my all-conquering water battle deck, I really would rather like to stumble upon this card in any of its forms.

Price: $12 - $14

Tragically, no, your first reading wasn’t right. It’s not Tickling Curse, even though it clearly should be. Look at it, reaching out those tickly fingers. Instead, this powerful card lets you do 50 damage for every Pokémon in play that has taken damage. Just the thing to use if your opponent is forever attacking your benched monsters.

Price: $10 - $16

I told you his hair looked better in rainbow form. This is one of those occasions where it makes far less sense for the Full Art to out-perform the Rainbow Rare, given it’s just so astoundingly boring. Would you like some blue-gray with your blue-gray?

Price: $16 - $17

What’s more valuable than a rainbow? It’s the gold you find at the end of it, of course! You are silly. Such it is that Hisuian Zoroark’s VSTAR in gold fetches a few bucks more than the one a couple of pages back. It maintains the same abilities, including the opportunity to ditch your hand and replace it with seven new cards, but only the once. Which is a bit rubbish.

Price: $16 - $18

Lost Origin was launched as a Giratina-forward set, so it’s no wonder we’re seeing the Legendary’s first appearance quite so high up. And it’s the first of many. It’s interesting that this regular version of the VSTAR lands below it’s V’s full art, but only just. We’ll get into its attacks later, because this card is going to show up a bunch.

Price: $19

Not Rainbow, not Gold, not even a VSTAR. Just a solid Basic V, with a solid 220 HP, and a neat way to quickly load up the Lost Zone for other tricks you have that need the cards in there. Then it dishes a hefty 160 damage, no matter what effects your opponent might have set up. Also, it looks utterly amazing. But we’ve got a lot more Giratina to go...

Price: $27 - $31

The VSTAR to the previous slide’s V, and indeed the rainbow version of the slide before that, bumps that attack up to an extraordinary 280 for the same three energy (although you have to lose two of them to the Lost Zone now). However, you might want to do that, because once you’ve got 10 cards in that Zone, you can just instantly knock out your opponent’s card, no matter the situation, with Star Requiem. Yikes. I’m looking forward to seeing some Giratina decks in league play, to see if this proves effective.

Price: $35 - $37

Yup, it’s the same card again, but this time all sparkly and golden. And it genuinely looks epic, far better than the washed out rainbow, even if it’s absolutely identical to play in battle. Given you can pick up the regular Giratina V, which is so damn close to being full-art itself, for just $5, that makes this and the rainbow version infuriatingly expensive for someone wanting them in their battle deck. With the chances of pulling so low, you can see why they’re fetching the price of nine more booster packs each.

Price: $40 - $42

I pulled this one I pulled this one I pulled this one...AHEM. Sorry, professional. But have I mentioned I pulled this one? And if I can ever prise it from my son’s binder, it’ll be the first card I ever get graded, because at $40 pack fresh, it’s fetched almost $190 at PSA 10. My future riches aside, it’s a neat card for battle, with 200 HP, a single Energy attack to draw three cards, and then a two-Energy follow-up that does 20 times the number of cards in your hand. Oh please let there be a VSTAR or VMAX in Silver Tempest!

Price: $50 - $60

I know I said the Lady full art was the prettiest card in this set, but damn, the Rotom V alt art comes so close. It’s quite the opposite, really, in the sense that it’s a mad clutter of very unsubtle color, but it’s utterly lovely, a card you can pore over for ages, spotting more and more tiny details. Honestly, the alt art in Lost Origin is consistently stunning, and this is my favorite. It’s a mean one to play though! You can draw three cards, but your turn ends, or you can can do 40 damage, boosted by a further 40 for every Tool card in your discard pile that you sacrifice to the Lost Zone.

Price: $124 - $155

Nope, that’s not a typo. The price really did just jump from sixty bucks to $155. This gorgeous card was once thought to be the one that would peak the prices in Lost Origin, but you’ll soon see that’s miles off now. Yet, this alt art V is absolutely colossal. A PSA 10 has sold for a monstrous $875. Which is all just nuts when you realize it’s such an ordinary card to play! A nice 40 for Bite, and a decent-ish 120 for Rock Crush, but with the bonus that you get to discard an opponent’s Energy.

Price: $230 - $250

Yup, Giratina is back, and good grief. This toughest of pulls fetches a blistering $250 ungraded, and went for an eye-watering $1,226 at PSA 10. Honestly, these prices are so high I’m bewildered there weren’t runs on this set in stores, yet it remains still easily purchased. Of course, it’d be a lottery-level gamble to pull this card—one I think is astonishingly ugly! I mean, I think a lot of the artistry is fantastic, and the volume of detail is epic, but it just looks like a frenzied clutter to me in which the Giratina gets lost.

But there you have it. The Alt Art V, not the Rainbow or Gold Secret Rares, is the one that’s emptying people’s pockets this set. If you’ve pulled this, it would be absolute madness not to get it graded, given PSA 10s are regularly fetching over $750 on eBay.