HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards — how many are there and what are they worth?
There are 25 HGSS Black Star Promos cards on file, 25 of them with a price, and the typical one costs $37.65.
Set · 25 cards · 25 with a price · $5.75 to $1,400.00 · read August 14, 2026
How much is a HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon card worth?
The typical HGSS Black Star Promos card costs $37.65. Across the 25 of them that carry a price, the cheapest is $5.75 and the dearest is $1,400.00 — Tropical Tidal Wave HGSS18, at $1,400.00. That spread is why the group price is a starting point and not a valuation of any one card.
Card facts are read from openly published card files; prices are read once a day from public marketplace listings into this site's own archive. Figures on this page were read on August 14, 2026.
HGSS Black Star Promos 25 cardsSet
HGSS Black Star Promos price summary
25 with a price · $5.75 to $1,400.00 · No. 9 of 145 sets by typical price · +118.5% in 11 months · 80 HP on average · weak to Fighting
136 sets cost less than this one
What stands out about HGSS Black Star Promos cards
- Scale 25 cards carry this set — 0.1% of the 20,444 English cards on file.
- Price Half of the priced cards cost under $37.65, but the dearest reaches $1,400.00 — a gap of 37×.
- Place By typical price this is No. 9 of 145 sets; 136 of them cost less.
- Record 25 of the 25 cards have a price on file. The rest are counted but left out of every price figure rather than guessed at.
How 20,444 English cards narrow down to these 25
Full bar = that step's denominator · filled = what carries over- English cards on file 20,44420,033 cardsonly cards that record a set remain · 98.0% of 20,444
- Cards with a set 20,03325 cardsonly HGSS Black Star Promos remain · 0.1% of 20,033
- The 25 cards on this page25 cards0.1% of every English card on file
The middle step counts every card that records a set, including sets too small to have a page of their own. That is why its figure is larger than the totals on the set list, which only counts the groups it can open.
HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards at a glance
- What this group is. 25 cards share the set hsp. A set is the expansion a card was printed in, and every card in the card files this site reads names exactly one. Sorting by set puts each release back together the way it was sold, so a card can be read next to the cards it shared a pack with.
- What they cost. The typical card is $37.65. Across the 25 priced cards the range runs $5.75 to $1,400.00.
- Where it stands. No. 9 of 145 sets by typical price, with 136 of them cheaper.
- What the cards are like. They average 80 HP and 47 maximum damage, and are most often weak to Fighting.
- What is listed below. Every one of the 25 cards that carries a price, each with its own price page. The other 0 are counted in the total but have no published price, so they are not listed.
- When it was read. Every figure on this page comes from the archive as it stood on August 14, 2026.
Every HGSS Black Star Promos card with a price on file
Market $117.65Lugia [HGSS02]3
Market $97.96Latias [HGSS10]4
Market $82.58Latios [HGSS11]5
Market $72.61Feraligatr [HGSS07]6
Market $72.59Entei [HGSS20]7
Market $60.50Suicune [HGSS21]8
Market $55.06Typhlosion [HGSS09]9
Market $49.13Raikou [HGSS19]10
Market $47.94Shuckle [HGSS15]11
Market $47.39Meganium [HGSS08]12
Market $47.03Ho-Oh [HGSS01]13
Market $37.65Pikachu [HGSS03]14
Market $36.98Minun [HGSS17]15
Market $35.33Smoochum [HGSS13]16
Market $32.75Lapras [HGSS14]17
Market $28.93Plusle [HGSS16]18
Market $22.13Hitmonchan [HGSS24]19
Market $21.88Cleffa [HGSS12]20
Market $18.91Hitmonlee [HGSS25]21
Market $17.64Porygon [HGSS22]22
Market $16.03Porygon2 [HGSS23]23
Market $12.32Noctowl [HGSS06]24
Market $11.93Wobbuffet [HGSS04]25
Market $5.75Hoothoot [HGSS05]The 25 most expensive HGSS Black Star Promos cards on file, dearest first. The badge on each card is its market price.
0 of the 25 cards on file carry no published price, so they are counted in every total on this page but are not drawn here rather than shown with a guessed figure.
The grid above runs dearest first. This list runs in printing order — by card number inside the set — so a card can be found the way it sits in a binder rather than by what it costs.
Each row opens that card's own price page.
1Ho-Oh#HGSS01 · Promo$47.03Fire2Lugia#HGSS02 · Promo$117.65Water3Pikachu#HGSS03 · Promo$37.65Lightning4Wobbuffet#HGSS04 · Promo$11.93Psychic5Hoothoot#HGSS05 · Promo$5.75Colorless6Noctowl#HGSS06 · Promo$12.32Colorless7Feraligatr#HGSS07 · Promo$72.61Water8Meganium#HGSS08 · Promo$47.39Grass9Typhlosion#HGSS09 · Promo$55.06Fire10Latias#HGSS10 · Promo$97.96ColorlessShow the rest of the list15 more cards in printing order+15
11Latios#HGSS11 · Promo$82.58Colorless12Cleffa#HGSS12 · Promo$21.88Colorless13Smoochum#HGSS13 · Promo$35.33Psychic14Lapras#HGSS14 · Promo$32.75Water15Shuckle#HGSS15 · Promo$47.94Fighting16Plusle#HGSS16 · Promo$28.93Lightning17Minun#HGSS17 · Promo$36.98Lightning18Tropical Tidal Wave#HGSS18 · Promo$1,400.0019Raikou#HGSS19 · Promo$49.13Lightning20Entei#HGSS20 · Promo$72.59Fire21Suicune#HGSS21 · Promo$60.50Water22Porygon#HGSS22 · Promo$17.64Colorless23Porygon2#HGSS23 · Promo$16.03Colorless24Hitmonchan#HGSS24 · Promo$22.13Fighting25Hitmonlee#HGSS25 · Promo$18.91FightingAre HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards going up in value?
What one HGSS Black Star Promos card cost over the readings on file
Middle price of one card · 13 readings · latest $37.65How HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon card prices are spread
An average hides the shape of a set. These points say where the money actually sits among HGSS Black Star Promos cards.
The two ends of that spread are both HGSS Black Star Promos cards. Put side by side, they show what you are actually paying for.
A quarter of the set costs under $21.88.
25 of the 25 cards carry a price at all.
What HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards are made of, and which of them hold the value
The energy types printed in HGSS Black Star Promos. 24 of the 25 cards carry a type; the rest are cards with no energy type printed on them.
Bars are measured against the most printed type. Adding the rows gives 24 cards; the other 1 carry no energy type, which is why the rows do not add up to 25.
A wide spread of types means a set can supply the start of almost any deck. A set that leans on two or three types only helps those decks.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Colorless | 28.0% | 7 cards |
| Lightning | 16.0% | 4 cards |
| Water | 16.0% | 4 cards |
| Fighting | 12.0% | 3 cards |
| Fire | 12.0% | 3 cards |
| Psychic | 8.0% | 2 cards |
| Grass | 4.0% | 1 cards |
A rule box card carries a printed rule that hands the opponent an extra prize card when it is knocked out. 1 of the 25 cards in HGSS Black Star Promos carry one.
The count is read from the printed rule on the card face, so it covers ex, V, GX and every other rule box wording without needing a list of names.
Card kinds read from the card face. A card can carry more than one of these, so the rows are read one at a time against the 25 cards on file rather than as slices of one whole.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Prime | 12.0% | 3 cards |
| Item | 4.0% | 1 cards |
The printing finish of each card, with the middle price inside each finish beside it.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Holofoil | 96.0% | 24 cards |
| Normal | 4.0% | 1 cards |
Basic cards can be played straight from hand; Stage 1 and Stage 2 need the card below them on the board first.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | 76.0% | 19 cards |
| Stage 2 | 12.0% | 3 cards |
| Stage 1 | 8.0% | 2 cards |
- Every card in this line was printed in HGSS Black Star Promos itself, so the whole line can be put together out of the same set.
- The card at the end of the line costs $16.03, against $17.64 for the one it starts from — a gap of 0.9×.
- 5 of the 25 cards listed on this page name an earlier Pokémon they evolve from.
The 8 illustrators with the most cards in this set, out of 10 credited in total.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Kouki Saitou | 16.0% | 4 cards |
| Masakazu Fukuda | 16.0% | 4 cards |
| Wataru Kawahara | 12.0% | 3 cards |
| Noriko Hotta | 8.0% | 2 cards |
| TOKIYA | 8.0% | 2 cards |
| Takashi Yamaguchi | 8.0% | 2 cards |
| match | 8.0% | 2 cards |
| Hideaki Hakozaki | 4.0% | 1 cards |
By energy type the set leans on Colorless with 7 cards, and the thinnest type on file is Grass with 1. A gap of 6 cards between the widest and the narrowest type is what decides whether this set can start a deck of any colour or only feeds two of them.
How much HP and damage HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards print
| Measure | Lowest | Lower quarter | Typical | Upper quarter | Highest | Cards counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 30 | 60 | 80 | 90 | 150 | 24 |
| Biggest attack | 10 | 20 | 50 | 70 | 100 | 21 |
Trainer and energy cards carry no HP or attack, so they are left out of these counts rather than entered as zero. "Biggest attack" is the largest printed damage number on the card, before any condition the attack text adds.
HP printed on the 24 HGSS Black Star Promos cards that carry one. The typical card is 80 HP. Bar length is that HP against the highest in the group.
Half of these cards sit between 60 and 90 HP. The distance between the two ends is what a single average would have hidden.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest | 20.0% of the highest | 30 HP |
| Lower quarter | 40.0% of the highest | 60 HP |
| Typical | 53.3% of the highest | 80 HP |
| Upper quarter | 60.0% of the highest | 90 HP |
| Highest | 100.0% of the highest | 150 HP |
The largest printed damage number on each of the 21 HGSS Black Star Promos cards that print one. The typical card hits for 50. Bar length is that number against the hardest hitter in the group.
Half of these cards hit between 20 and 70. Attack text that adds a condition is not counted here — only the printed number.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest | 10.0% of the highest | 10 damage |
| Lower quarter | 20.0% of the highest | 20 damage |
| Typical | 50.0% of the highest | 50 damage |
| Upper quarter | 70.0% of the highest | 70 damage |
| Highest | 100.0% of the highest | 100 damage |
What are HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards weak to?
What HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards are weak to — 22 cards counted. Each track is the whole of that count, so a short bar means most of the group sits elsewhere.
An attack of this type does double damage to the card. Counted across the 22 HGSS Black Star Promos cards that print a weakness.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Fighting | 27.3% | 6 cards |
| Lightning | 18.2% | 4 cards |
| Water | 18.2% | 4 cards |
| Psychic | 13.6% | 3 cards |
| Colorless | 9.1% | 2 cards |
| Fire | 4.5% | 1 cards |
| Grass | 4.5% | 1 cards |
| Metal | 4.5% | 1 cards |
Which HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards print a resistance?
What HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards resist
- Fighting44%
- Metal44%
- Water11%
| Item | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fighting | 4 | 44% |
| Metal | 4 | 44% |
| Water | 1 | 11% |
Resistance cuts incoming damage from that type. Only some HGSS Black Star Promos cards print one, which is why this count is smaller than the card total.
How do HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards evolve?
How HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards evolve
- Basic79%
- Stage 213%
- Stage 18%
| Item | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | 19 | 79% |
| Stage 2 | 3 | 13% |
| Stage 1 | 2 | 8% |
Basic cards are played straight from the hand; the later stages have to evolve from the card before them.
Can you still play HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards, and what do they cost to retreat?
Retreat cost is the number of energy cards discarded to move a Pokémon back to the bench. Counted across the 24 HGSS Black Star Promos cards that print one.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost 0 | 8.0% | 2 cards |
| Retreat cost 1 | 48.0% | 12 cards |
| Retreat cost 2 | 28.0% | 7 cards |
| Retreat cost 3 | 12.0% | 3 cards |
3 of the 25 cards on file cost three energy or more to retreat, which is where a Pokémon starts to be stuck in the active spot.
Cards that print no retreat cost at all are not Pokémon, so they never retreat and are counted in "the rest".
| Question | Cards | Share of the group |
|---|---|---|
| Legal in Standard today | 0 | 0.0% |
| Legal in Expanded today | 0 | 0.0% |
| Cards with an Ability | 11 | 44.0% |
| Cards with a special rule | 1 | 4.0% |
Standard and Expanded are the two tournament formats. A card leaves Standard when its set rotates out, so this share moves each year while the card itself does not change.
Each track is the whole of the 25 HGSS Black Star Promos cards on file, so the empty part of a bar is the share the answer does not cover.
These rows are not slices of one whole — a card can be legal in Standard and carry an Ability at the same time, so each bar is read on its own.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Legal in Standard today | 0.0% | 0 cards |
| Legal in Expanded today | 0.0% | 0 cards |
| Cards with an Ability | 44.0% | 11 cards |
| Cards with a special rule | 4.0% | 1 cards |
A card that costs three energy or more to retreat is stuck in practice: paying it empties the board of the energy that was meant to attack. 3 of the 25 cards here sit at that level, which is the argument for packing switch cards alongside them.
At the other end, 2 cards retreat for free. Those are the ones that open a game, because moving them out costs nothing that was going to be spent on an attack.
The rows above add up to 24 cards. The remaining 1 print no retreat cost at all — they never stand in the active spot, so they never retreat.
Which HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards moved most this year
Biggest risers over 12 months
Biggest fallers over 12 months
Counted on the 24 cards that carried a price on both the first and the last reading, so a card that only appeared recently is not in here.
Back to summaryThe cheapest HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards you can buy
Read on the same day as every other figure on this page. A cheap card is not a broken card — most of a set sits down here, which is what makes a set collectable at all.
Back to summaryHow HGSS Black Star Promos compares with the other sets
"Which set is the most expensive" has more than one answer depending on what you measure, so this ladder keeps to one: what an ordinary card in each set costs.
Ranked by what an ordinary card costs, HGSS Black Star Promos is number 9 of 145 sets, with 136 of them cheaper.
These are the sets that sit next to HGSS Black Star Promos on that ladder.
Legendary Collection — 110 cards110 with a pricetypical $80.30
Nintendo Black Star Promos — 40 cards26 with a pricetypical $57.33
Team Rocket Returns — 111 cards92 with a pricetypical $54.85
Aquapolis — 182 cards166 with a pricetypical $36.66
Dragon Frontiers — 101 cards87 with a pricetypical $31.13The three dearest HGSS Black Star Promos cards, side by side
HGSS Black Star Promos Pokémon cards — frequently asked questions
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How these HGSS Black Star Promos figures are collected, and where you can check them
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Before you rely on these figures
Note: Prices on this page are asking and market prices for ungraded English HGSS Black Star Promos cards, taken from a daily snapshot of public marketplace listings read on August 14, 2026. They are not offers, they exclude shipping, duty and marketplace fees, and they move. Counts cover only the English cards this site holds on file. Graded prices, population counts, sealed product values and pack odds are not published on this site because no free commercial source provides them.
Last updated: 2026-08-14