
Ariados

- Number
- 2/115
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Artist
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- Aug 22, 2005
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $13.99£10.53€12.32
- Today
- $19.20£14.45€16.91
- Change
- +$5.21+£3.92+€4.59 (+37.2%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | – | – | $19.20£14.45€16.91 | |
| PSA 1 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 4 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 5 | 3 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 6 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| PSA 7 | 11 | – | – | $19.99£15.05€17.60 | |
| PSA 8 | 22 | – | – | $47.99£36.12€42.26 | |
| PSA 9 | 56 | – | – | $57.36£43.17€50.52 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5 | – | – | – | $63£47.42€55.48 | |
| PSA 10 | 8 | – | – | $575.13£432.87€506.50 | |
About these prices
7.8% of copies sent to PSA come back a 10. The 9.5 is a CGC and BGS grade, so it carries no PSA population.
Priced from 289 completed sales, updated Sep 12, 2026.
Price history
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289 completed listings on eBay, Fanatics Collect
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9Grading odds
PSA has graded 276 copies. Where they landed:
Why the verdict weights the odds
Only 8.3% of copies reach a 10, which is why the top price is the wrong number to plan around. Weighting each grade’s PSA price by these odds, a submission is worth $91.00£68.49€80.14 on average against $119.19£89.71€104.97 for the card plus $79.99£60.20€70.44 at Regular, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $28.19£21.22€24.83, so a copy is worth more raw.
Card facts
- Card number
- 2/115
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Set released
- Aug 22, 2005
- PSA population, all printings
- 276
- Printings priced
- 2
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The same card in other sets
What moves the price of this card
The Ariados on this page is the Reverse Holofoil printing from EX Unseen Forces, and it trades at $27.43£20.65€24.16 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.
Graded, it runs PSA 7 $19.99£15.05€17.60, PSA 8 $47.99£36.12€42.26, PSA 9 $57.36£43.17€50.52, CGC/BGS 9.5 $63£47.42€55.48, PSA 10 $575.13£432.87€506.50. PSA has graded 276 copies of it. 289 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Ariados worth?
A PSA 10 Ariados from EX Unseen Forces sells for $575.13. 7.8% of the copies PSA has graded came back a 10, so that price is the best case rather than the one a submission should expect.
Is Ariados from EX Unseen Forces worth grading?
On the numbers, no. The average submission is worth $89.36 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $19.20 for a raw copy plus $99.99 to send it through PSA Regular, so it loses $29.83.
Condition does most of the work below the surface. A copy with soft corners or a print line off centre trades well under the market price shown here, and a copy clean enough to grade trades well above it, which is why the PSA 10 sits at $575.13£432.87€506.50. Before you value your own copy, look at the corners under a light and check the centring on the back, where most cards give themselves away.
What Ariados does
Stage1, evolves from Spinarak · 70 HP · retreat 1
Does 10 damage plus 30 more damage for each Special Condition affecting the Defending Pokémon.
The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep and Poisoned. Before applying this effect, you may switch 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon with 1 of the Defending Pokémon. If you do, the new Defending Pokémon is now Asleep and Poisoned. Your opponent chooses the Defending Pokémon to switch.
Weak to Psychic ×2. Tournament legal in neither standard nor expanded.
Raikou Star
Suicune Star
Lugia ex
Entei Star
Umbreon ex
Tyranitar ex