Lugia Pokémon Cards: Every Card and Its Value (2026)

Every Lugia Card, Ranked by Price

The table ranks every English card with Lugia in its name that has a TCGplayer market price, 49 cards on 1 November 2026: Lugia ex, Lugia-EX, Lugia GX, Lugia V and VSTAR, Lugia LEGEND, Lugia BREAK, Shining Lugia, Crystal Lugia, promos, stamped versions and reprints. Each card appears once, at its most valuable printing. For example, the Neo Genesis row shows the 1st Edition price, which is higher than the Unlimited one.

TCGplayer market prices for ungraded English cards, updated November 2, 2026. We scan every set on TCGplayer (220 sets) and list every Lugia card with a market price, by its most valuable printing. Links to TCGplayer are affiliate links.

1. 1.Lugia EX (Team Plasma) (134 Full Art)Plasma Storm$2,717
2. 2.Lugia exEX Unseen Forces$2,500
3. 3.LugiaNeo Genesis$1,300

#	Card	Set	Printing	Price
1	Lugia EX (Team Plasma) (134 Full Art) 134/135 · Ultra Rare	Plasma Storm	Holofoil	$2,717
2	Lugia ex 105/115 · Ultra Rare	EX Unseen Forces	Holofoil	$2,500
3	Lugia 009/111 · Holo Rare	Neo Genesis	1st Edition Holofoil	$1,300
4	Lugia 149/147 · Secret Rare	Aquapolis	Holofoil	$500
5	Lugia HGSS02 · Promo	HGSS Promos	Holofoil	$486
6	Lugia V (Alternate Full Art) 186/195 · Ultra Rare	Silver Tempest	Holofoil	$460
7	Lugia 14/132 · Holo Rare	Secret Wonders	Holofoil	$433
8	Lugia Legend (Top) 113/123 · Ultra Rare	HeartGold SoulSilver	Holofoil	$423
9	Lugia 29/115 · Rare	EX Unseen Forces	Reverse Holofoil	$400
10	Lugia GX (Secret) 227/214 · Secret Rare	SM - Lost Thunder	Holofoil	$370
11	Lugia 002/017 · Rare	POP Series 5	Normal	$357
12	Lugia Legend (Bottom) 114/123 · Ultra Rare	HeartGold SoulSilver	Holofoil	$329
13	Lugia EX (94 Full Art) 94/98 · Ultra Rare	XY - Ancient Origins	Holofoil	$275
14	Lugia 20/64 · Rare	Neo Revelation	1st Edition	$254
15	Lugia 15/95 · Holo Rare	Call of Legends	Holofoil	$190
16	Lugia EX (Team Plasma) 108/135 · Ultra Rare	Plasma Storm	Holofoil	$159
17	Lugia 149/147 · Classic Collection	30th Celebration Classic Collection	Holofoil	$156
18	Lugia (Pokemon Rocks America) 029/115 · Promo	Miscellaneous Cards & Products	Normal	$128
19	Lugia GX (Full Art) 207/214 · Ultra Rare	SM - Lost Thunder	Holofoil	$126
20	Lugia ex (Hiroki Yano) 105/115 · Ultra Rare	World Championship Decks	Normal	$121
21	Shining Lugia SM82 · Promo	SM Promos	Holofoil	$118
22	Lugia EX (Team Plasma) BW83 · Promo	Black and White Promos	Holofoil	$76
23	Lugia EX (Team Plasma) 102/113 · Ultra Rare	Legendary Treasures	Holofoil	$70
24	Lugia (EX Unseen Forces) 029/115 · Holo Rare	Deck Exclusives	Holofoil	$65
25	Lugia XY156 · Promo	XY Promos	Holofoil	$53

Show the other 24 Lugia cards

#	Card	Set	Printing	Price
26	Lugia BREAK 79/124 · Rare BREAK	XY - Fates Collide	Holofoil	$50
27	Lugia V 138/195 · Ultra Rare	Prize Pack Series Cards	Holofoil	$48
28	Lugia V SWSH301 · Promo	Sword & Shield Promo Cards	Holofoil	$45
29	Lugia (XY Fates Collide) 078/124 · Holo Rare	Deck Exclusives	Holofoil	$44
30	Lugia GX 159/214 · Ultra Rare	SM - Lost Thunder	Holofoil	$43
31	Lugia (Prerelease) SWSH069 · Promo	Sword & Shield Promo Cards	Holofoil	$42
32	Lugia VSTAR (Secret) (202) 202/195 · Secret Rare	Silver Tempest	Holofoil	$39
33	Lugia 131/181 · Holo Rare	SM - Team Up	Reverse Holofoil	$29
34	Lugia EX 68/98 · Ultra Rare	XY - Ancient Origins	Holofoil	$29
35	Lugia VSTAR (Secret) (211) 211/195 · Secret Rare	Silver Tempest	Holofoil	$27
36	Lugia VSTAR 139/195 · Ultra Rare	Prize Pack Series Cards	Holofoil	$24
37	Lugia V (Full Art) 185/195 · Ultra Rare	Silver Tempest	Holofoil	$16
38	Lugia 78/124 · Rare	XY - Fates Collide	Reverse Holofoil	$15
39	Lugia V 138/195 · Ultra Rare	Silver Tempest	Holofoil	$14
40	Lugia ex (Prismatic Evolutions Stamped) 082/131 · Double Rare	Miscellaneous Cards & Products	Holofoil	$8
41	Lugia VSTAR 139/195 · Ultra Rare	Silver Tempest	Holofoil	$7
42	Lugia V (Gabriel Fernandez) 138/195 · Ultra Rare	World Championship Decks	Normal	$6
43	Lugia VSTAR (Gabriel Fernandez) 139/195 · Ultra Rare	World Championship Decks	Normal	$5
44	Lugia 140/189 · Rare	Darkness Ablaze	Reverse Holofoil	$3
45	Lugia 132/185 · Holo Rare	Vivid Voltage	Reverse Holofoil	$3
46	Lugia ex 017/034 · Classic Collection	Trading Card Game Classic	Holofoil	$2
47	Lugia ex 082/131 · Double Rare	Prismatic Evolutions	Holofoil	$1
48	Lugia 022/025 · Holo Rare	Celebrations	Holofoil	$1
49	Lugia 121/128 · Rare	30th Celebration	Holofoil	$0

A few rows need context:

• Lugia EX (Team Plasma) (134 Full Art) is the full-art Lugia-EX from Plasma Storm. "Team Plasma" is TCGplayer's tag for the Team Plasma card design, not a separate card.
• Aquapolis 149/147 is Crystal Lugia, a secret rare whose type changes for the turn when you attach a basic Fire, Water or Psychic Energy to it. Its market price of $500 rests on old sales: on 1 November 2026 the cheapest copy listed on TCGplayer was about $10,000. Treat the $500 as stale.
• 30th Celebration Classic Collection 149/147 is a 2026 reprint of Crystal Lugia, with the same number. It sells for about $165, not the price of the 2003 card.
• Lugia Legend (Top) and (Bottom) are the two halves of the HeartGold SoulSilver Lugia LEGEND (113/123 and 114/123), played side by side. Each half sells on its own, for about $423 and $329.
• Lugia (Pokemon Rocks America) is the Unseen Forces Lugia (029/115) with a promo stamp from the 2005 Pokémon Rocks America tour.
• Deck Exclusives are theme-deck versions of the Unseen Forces Lugia (029/115, about $65) and the Fates Collide Lugia (078/124, about $44).
• World Championship Decks cards are reprints from the yearly Worlds decks, with a player's signature and a different card back, and can't be played in tournaments: the 2006 Lugia ex "Hiroki Yano" is about $121, and the Lugia V and VSTAR "Gabriel Fernandez" about $6 and $5.
• Prize Pack Series Cards are reprints with a Play! Pokémon stamp. The stamped Lugia V sells for about $48 and the stamped VSTAR for about $24, against about $14 and $7 for the normal Silver Tempest cards.
• Rarely traded cards can move a lot between updates, because a single sale can set the market price. On 1 November 2026 the full-art Lugia GX (207/214) had a market price of about $126, but the cheapest copy listed was about $700.

The Most Expensive Lugia Cards Ever Sold

On 24 September 2026, a PSA 10 1st Edition Neo Genesis Lugia sold for $654,000 at Alt after 35 bids, the highest price ever paid for a Lugia card. Every record sale is a graded card, and all of the ones below are PSA 10s, the top grade. The table shows the highest paid sale we found for each card, from the auction houses' own records.

The Call of Legends Lugia sold after 49 bids in Goldin's Pop Culture auction, which closed on 9 and 10 September, according to Auction Report. Ungraded, the same card sold for about $190 on TCGplayer on 1 November 2026.

Crystal Lugia sold after 45 bids, according to ComicBook.com, which counted 138 PSA 10 copies. A copy sold for $336,000 the week before. ComicBook.com says the 18 October sale matched a $360,000 sale earlier in October, but that earlier lot isn't in Fanatics Collect's sales history, so the table uses the 18 October one.

The Neo Genesis Unlimited Lugia, the print without the 1st Edition stamp, sold for $192,000 in Fanatics Collect's Premier Auction. Only 15 copies had received a PSA 10, fewer than the 1st Edition's 45. Outside English cards, a PSA 10 Japanese Crystal Lugia from Wind from the Sea (#90) sold for $96,000 at Fanatics Collect on 26 October 2026.

What is the rarest Lugia card?

Among English Lugia cards, the hardest to find ungraded is Crystal Lugia, the Aquapolis secret rare (149/147) from 2003: on 1 November 2026 the cheapest copy listed on TCGplayer was about $10,000. In PSA 10, the scarcest of the cards in the record table above is the Neo Genesis Unlimited Lugia, with 15 copies at that grade, followed by the full-art Plasma Storm Lugia-EX and the Call of Legends reverse holo, with 21 each, according to Fanatics Collect's listings. The 1st Edition Neo Genesis Lugia has 45 PSA 10s, and Crystal Lugia 138, the count ComicBook.com reported in October 2026.

What about the $660,000 Plasma Storm Lugia-EX?

You may have seen $660,000 quoted as the Lugia record, including in Google's AI answers. That figure is the closing price of a PSA 10 full-art Plasma Storm Lugia-EX (134/135) in Fanatics Collect's weekly auction that ended on 11 October 2026. The lot page shows it as sold after 20 bids, and Wargamer reported it as a $660,000 sale, adding that bidding had at one point passed $10 million with what looked like bogus bids.

On 1 November 2026, though, the sale is missing from Fanatics Collect's sales history, which says it removes any sale that isn't paid for. The history already lists sales from 26 October, so a delay doesn't explain it. The only PSA 10 copies of the card it lists sold for $24,600 (December 2025), $5,040 (September 2024) and $3,650 (March 2021). Until the sale shows up as paid, we don't count $660,000 as the Lugia record. Paid PSA 9 copies of the same card sold for $6,600 to $16,800 at Fanatics Collect between September and October 2026.

The 1st Edition Neo Genesis Lugia, From $22,800 to $654,000

Neo Genesis came out in English in December 2000, and its Lugia (9/111) was the first English Lugia card. The holo art is by Hironobu Yoshida. It comes in 1st Edition and Unlimited prints, about $1,300 and $527 ungraded on TCGplayer on 1 November 2026.

Clean copies are scarce. On 1 November 2026 PSA had graded 45 copies of the 1st Edition card a 10, against 613 a 9, 104 an 8.5 and 1,850 an 8, according to Alt's population figures. The PSA 10 price rose almost thirtyfold in under three years:

The 2020 sale came in the 2020–21 Pokémon card boom. After a $76,100 sale in January 2021, prices fell back to between $22,800 and about $47,500 from September 2021 to 2024. Other graders' top copies rose too: a CGC Pristine 10 sold for $100,100 on eBay on 18 March 2026, a record for a CGC-graded copy, according to CGC. Only 7 of the 1,275 copies CGC had graded got that grade.

The same run on other Lugias

The Neo Genesis card wasn't alone. Each of these PSA 10 Lugias rose tenfold or more between late 2024 and October 2026, all figures from Fanatics Collect's sales history:

• Aquapolis Crystal Lugia: $10,500 (December 2024), $36,000 (October 2025), $120,000 (July 2026), $336,000 and $360,000 (October 2026)
• Secret Wonders Lugia: $2,640 (September 2024), $9,000 (August 2025), $15,000 (March 2026), $312,000 (5 October 2026)
• HGSS02 promo: $1,110 (February 2025), $7,500 (February 2026), $144,000 (August 2026), $200,000 (6 October 2026)
• Unseen Forces Lugia ex: $4,680 (December 2024), $38,400 (March 2026), $156,000 (28 September 2026)
• Plasma Storm Lugia-EX 108/135: $1,249 (March 2026), $40,800 (19 October 2026)

Several fell back in late October. The 1st Edition Neo Genesis went from $654,000 to $514,080, the Unseen Forces Lugia ex from $156,000 to $120,000 (26 October), and the Call of Legends reverse holo from $78,000 on 5 October to $24,600 on 26 October, about a third of its price three weeks earlier. The Eevee card guide tells the same story for the Legendary Collection reverse holo Eevee, which reached $615,000 in October 2026.

The Valuable Lugias, Era by Era

The prices below are TCGplayer market prices for ungraded cards on 1 November 2026. The table above has this week's prices.

Wizards of the Coast era (2000–2003): Neo Genesis and Crystal Lugia

• Neo Genesis (December 2000), 9/111: the first English Lugia, a holo rare illustrated by Hironobu Yoshida. About $1,300 in 1st Edition and $527 in Unlimited.
• Neo Revelation (2001), 20/64: a non-holo rare, about $254 in 1st Edition and $69 in Unlimited.
• Aquapolis (January 2003), 149/147: Crystal Lugia, a secret rare illustrated by Naoyo Kimura. The $500 market price is stale; the cheapest copy listed was about $10,000.

EX era (2003–2007): the Unseen Forces Lugia ex

• EX Unseen Forces (August 2005): Lugia ex (105/115), illustrated by Hikaru Koike, about $2,500, though the cheapest copy listed was about $1,500. The regular Lugia (29/115) is about $400 as a reverse holo and $31 without foil.
• POP Series 5 (2007), 2/17: about $357.
• World Championship Decks (2006): the Lugia ex "Hiroki Yano", about $121.

Diamond & Pearl to Black & White (2007–2013): Lugia LEGEND and Lugia-EX

• Secret Wonders (November 2007), 14/132: a holo Lugia, about $433, and $223 as a reverse holo. It sold for $312,000 in PSA 10.
• HGSS Black Star Promos (2010): HGSS02, illustrated by Takashi Yamaguchi, about $486.
• HeartGold SoulSilver (February 2010): Lugia LEGEND, in two halves (113/123 and 114/123), about $423 and $329.
• Call of Legends (February 2011), 15/95: a holo Lugia, about $190 ungraded but $367,220 in PSA 10.
• Plasma Storm (February 2013): Lugia-EX, illustrated by Toyste Beach. The full art (134/135) is about $2,717, the most valuable ungraded Lugia. The regular card (108/135) is about $159.
• Black & White Promos and Legendary Treasures: the Lugia-EX promo BW83 (about $82) and the Legendary Treasures reprint 102/113 (November 2013, about $70). A PSA 10 of the Legendary Treasures card sold for $9,900 at Fanatics Collect on 26 October 2026.

XY and Sun & Moon (2014–2019): Lugia BREAK, Shining Lugia and Lugia GX

• Ancient Origins (August 2015): Lugia-EX. The full art (94/98) is about $275 and the regular card (68/98) about $27.
• Fates Collide (May 2016): Lugia BREAK (79/124), about $50, and a regular Lugia (78/124), about $15 as a reverse holo.
• XY156 promo: about $53.
• SM82: the Shining Lugia promo, about $117.
• Lost Thunder (November 2018): Lugia GX. The rainbow secret rare (227/214) is about $370, and $2,880 in PSA 10 at Fanatics Collect on 26 October 2026. The full art (207/214) is about $126 and the regular card (159/214) about $43.
• Team Up (2019), 131/181: about $29 as a reverse holo.

Sword & Shield (2020–2023): Lugia V alt art and the gold Lugia VSTAR

• Darkness Ablaze, Vivid Voltage and Celebrations: regular Lugias, each about $3 or less.
• Promos: the SWSH069 prerelease Lugia (about $42) and the SWSH301 Lugia V (about $45).
• Silver Tempest (November 2022), the Lugia set: the Lugia V alternate art (186/195), illustrated by kawayoo, is about $460, the most valuable Lugia from any set released since 2020. The full-art Lugia V (185/195) is about $16, the regular Lugia V (138/195) about $14 and the Lugia VSTAR (139/195) about $7. The rainbow VSTAR (202/195) is about $39, and the gold VSTAR (211/195), the "gold Lugia", about $26.

Scarlet & Violet and Mega Evolution (2023–2026): Lugia ex and the 30th anniversary Lugias

• Trading Card Game Classic: a Lugia ex (017/034), about $2.
• Prismatic Evolutions (January 2025): a Lugia ex Double Rare (082/131), about $1.52, and about $7.61 with a stamp.
• 30th Celebration (September 2026): a regular Lugia (121/128), about $0.28, and the Classic Collection reprint of Crystal Lugia (149/147), about $165. That's down from about $325 at the start of October, according to TCGplayer's weekly price report.

Which Lugia Card Do You Have?

Start with the bottom of the card. The card number and set symbol tell you the set.

Neo Genesis Lugia: 1st Edition or Unlimited

The Neo Genesis Lugia is numbered 9/111, with the illustrator's name, Hironobu Yoshida, at the bottom left and "©1995–2000 Nintendo, Creatures, GAMEFREAK." in the middle. Two prints exist:

There's no Shadowless version: that print exists only for the Base Set. A Lugia with "© 2002 Pokémon / Nintendo" and a number like 149/147 is a different card, Crystal Lugia.

Crystal Lugia or its 2026 reprint

Both are numbered 149/147, with the same art by Naoyo Kimura and the same "© 2002 Pokémon / Nintendo" line. The 2003 Aquapolis card has a yellow border, an e-Reader logo in the bottom-left corner and "ID: D-74" at the end of the line under the art. The 2026 30th Celebration Classic Collection reprint has a gold border and a Pikachu "30" anniversary logo at the left edge of the art. The difference matters: the reprint sells for about $165, while the cheapest 2003 copy listed on TCGplayer on 1 November 2026 was about $10,000.

Lugia ex, Lugia V and the rest

• Lugia ex from Unseen Forces or Worlds? Both are 105/115. The World Championship Decks version has a player's signature in gold and a different card back, and sells for about $121 against about $2,500.
• Modern cards: if the number is higher than the set total, as in 227/214, 202/195 or 211/195, it's a secret rare. For the Lugia V alternate art, look for 186/195 and art that fills the whole card, with Lugia flying through a storm.
• No Lugia VMAX exists. A card sold as a Lugia VMAX is fan-made or fake.

Is Your Lugia Card Worth Money?

Of the 49 English Lugia cards with a TCGplayer market price on 1 November 2026:

• 2 sell for under $1
• 13 sell for under $20
• 24 sell for under $50
• 21 sell for $100 or more
• 4 sell for $500 or more, and 3 for $1,000 or more

The median card sells for about $53. The regular cards from Sword & Shield onwards mostly sell for under $15. The money is in the Wizards and EX-era cards, the Lugia-EX full arts, the Lugia LEGEND, the promos and the Lugia V alternate art.

The Lugia cards worth grading: ungraded vs PSA 10

For the old Lugias, the grade matters far more than the card. Here is what ungraded copies sell for on TCGplayer, against recent PSA 10 sales:

In PSA 10, the Lugias from 2000 to 2013 sell for between about 50 and 1,900 times their ungraded price, with the Call of Legends holo at the top. Very few copies get that grade: 45 of about 2,600 PSA-graded 1st Edition Neo Genesis Lugias in grade 8 or above. The modern cards run the other way. A PSA 10 Lugia GX rainbow sells for about eight times the ungraded price, and a PSA 10 Lugia V alternate art for under three times.

Most copies won't grade a 10, so don't count on these prices for a card from an old binder. Our grading calculator works out whether grading a card pays.

Condition matters as much as the card. Prices in the table are what ungraded copies have recently sold for on TCGplayer. Scratched, bent or worn copies sell for less.

Watch for fakes. For any card worth more than a few hundred dollars, buy a graded copy or buy from a seller with a clear return policy, and check a graded card's certification number on the grader's website.

Lugia in New Sets

Silver Tempest is the Lugia set, with the Lugia V alternate art as its chase card. Its booster box sold for about $506 on TCGplayer on 1 November 2026, about $14.06 a pack. With the alternate art at about $460, opening packs to chase it costs more than buying the card. The Lost Thunder box, home of the rainbow Lugia GX, sold for about $1,619.

The newest Lugias are in 30th Celebration (September 2026), including the Crystal Lugia reprint. Delta Reign, out on 6 November 2026, has no Lugia card on TCGplayer's list for the set.

Modern sets have many secret rares, so opening packs until you pull one particular Lugia usually costs more than buying that card outright. If you do want to open packs, our Pokémon booster box guide compares what every set's box costs per pack.

Conclusion: Which Lugia to Look For

Citations & Resources

• Alt: 2000 Neo Genesis 1st Edition Holo Lugia #9, PSA 10, sold 24 September 2026 for $654,000 (recent transactions and PSA population)
• Fanatics Collect: Neo Genesis 1st Edition Holo Lugia #9, PSA 10, sold August 2026 for $360,000 (25 bids)
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Neo Genesis Lugia in PSA 10, 1st Edition and Unlimited
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Aquapolis Crystal Lugia in PSA 10
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Secret Wonders Lugia in PSA 10 ($2,640 in 2024 to $312,000 in October 2026)
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Lugia HGSS02 promo
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Unseen Forces Lugia ex and reverse holo Lugia in PSA 10
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Call of Legends Lugia in PSA 10
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Lugia LEGEND in PSA 10
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Plasma Storm Lugia-EX in PSA 10
• Fanatics Collect sales history: full-art Lugia-EX #134 in PSA 10 (no $660,000 sale listed on 1 November 2026)
• Fanatics Collect: Plasma Storm Full Art Lugia EX #134, PSA 10, auction closing 11 October 2026 at $660,000
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Silver Tempest Lugia V alternate art in PSA 10
• Fanatics Collect sales history: Lugia in PSA 10 (Lost Thunder, Legendary Treasures, Japanese Crystal Lugia)
• Goldin: 2011 Call of Legends Holo #15 Lugia, PSA 10
• Auction Report: Pokémon Lugia Sells for $367,220 to Lead Goldin Pop Culture Auction (September 2026)
• ComicBook.com: 30th Celebration Hype Train Continues, Aquapolis Lugia Ties Record Sale With $360k at Auction (22 October 2026)
• ComicBook.com: Two Neo Genesis Pokémon Card Grails Annihilate Records, Combine for Nearly $700k at Auction (6 September 2026)
• Wargamer: Why is Lugia EX suddenly the #5 most costly Pokémon card of all time? (14 October 2026)
• CGC: Another Record! CGC-certified 1st Edition Lugia Realizes $100,100 in eBay Sale (9 April 2026)
• TCGplayer: The Biggest Price Spikes in Pokémon This Week, 2 October 2026 (Classic Collection Lugia)
• Pokémon.com: Lugia Pokédex entry
• TCGdex: card numbers, rarities and illustrators
• tcgcsv.com: TCGplayer market price data

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