Surging Sparks Pokémon cards — how many are there and what are they worth?
There are 252 Surging Sparks cards on file, 252 of them with a price, and the typical one costs $0.31.
Set · 252 cards · 252 with a price · $0.08 to $293.55 · read August 14, 2026
How much is a Surging Sparks Pokémon card worth?
The typical Surging Sparks card costs $0.31. Across the 252 of them that carry a price, the cheapest is $0.08 and the dearest is $293.55 — Pikachu ex 238, at $293.55. 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.
Surging Sparks 252 cardsSet
Surging Sparks price summary
252 with a price · $0.08 to $293.55 · No. 130 of 145 sets by typical price · +40.9% in 11 months · 128 HP on average · weak to Fighting
15 sets cost less than this one
What stands out about Surging Sparks cards
- Scale 252 cards carry this set — 1.2% of the 20,444 English cards on file.
- Price Half of the priced cards cost under $0.31, but the dearest reaches $293.55 — a gap of 947×.
- Place By typical price this is No. 130 of 145 sets; 15 of them cost less.
- Record 252 of the 252 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 252
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 20,033252 cardsonly Surging Sparks remain · 1.3% of 20,033
- The 252 cards on this page252 cards1.2% 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.
Surging Sparks Pokémon cards at a glance
- What this group is. 252 cards share the set sv8. 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 $0.31. Across the 252 priced cards the range runs $0.08 to $293.55.
- Where it stands. No. 130 of 145 sets by typical price, with 15 of them cheaper.
- What the cards are like. They average 128 HP and 92 maximum damage, and are most often weak to Fighting.
- What is listed below. The 50 most expensive of the 252 cards that carry a price, each with its own price page. Cards without a price are counted in the total but are not listed.
- When it was read. Every figure on this page comes from the archive as it stood on August 14, 2026.
Every Surging Sparks card with a price on file
Market $293.55Pikachu ex [238]2
Market $175.13Latias ex [239]3
Market $129.38Milotic ex [237]4
Market $95.05Pikachu ex [247]5
Market $36.84Durant ex [236]6
Market $36.55Hydreigon ex [240]7
Market $34.66Latios [203]8
Market $32.73Alolan Exeggutor ex [242]9
Market $28.73Pikachu ex [219]10
Market $27.31Lisia's Appeal [246]11
Market $25.54Ceruledge [197]12
Market $21.60Jasmine's Gaze [245]13
Market $12.94Slakoth [212]14
Market $12.66Mesprit [204]15
Market $11.82Archaludon ex [241]16
Market $11.60Alolan Exeggutor ex [248]17
Market $11.45Gravity Mountain [250]18
Market $9.97Spheal [199]19
Market $9.63Kecleon [213]20
Market $9.62Night Stretcher [251]21
Market $9.60Skarmory [209]22
Market $9.59Feebas [198]23
Market $9.11Phanpy [205]24
Market $8.88Alolan Dugtrio [208]25
Market $8.60Clemont's Quick Wit [243]26
Market $8.47Castform Sunny Form [195]27
Market $8.33Appletun [211]28
Market $7.96Drayton [244]29
Market $7.57Exeggcute [192]30
Market $7.32Latias ex [220]31
Market $6.85Clobbopus [207]32
Market $5.81Latias ex [76]33
Market $5.17Braviary [214]34
Market $5.07Hydreigon ex [223]35
Market $5.06Vivillon [193]36
Market $4.68Jet Energy [252]37
Market $4.60Flapple [210]38
Market $3.98Lisia's Appeal [234]39
Market $3.89Pikachu ex [57]40
Market $3.68Shiinotic [194]41
Market $3.56Precious Trolley [185]42
Market $3.53Enriching Energy [191]43
Market $3.13Vibrava [206]44
Market $2.86Flygon ex [222]45
Market $2.74Larvesta [196]46
Market $2.74Bruxish [200]47
Market $2.71Cetitan [201]48
Market $2.68Counter Gain [249]49
Market $2.29Milotic ex [217]50
Market $2.27Cyrano [230]The 50 most expensive Surging Sparks cards on file, dearest first. The badge on each card is its market price.
0 of the 252 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.
1Pikachu ex#57 · Double Rare$3.89Lightning2Latias ex#76 · Double Rare$5.81Psychic3Precious Trolley#185 · ACE SPEC Rare$3.564Enriching Energy#191 · ACE SPEC Rare$3.535Exeggcute#192 · Illustration Rare$7.57Grass6Vivillon#193 · Illustration Rare$5.06Grass7Shiinotic#194 · Illustration Rare$3.68Grass8Castform Sunny Form#195 · Illustration Rare$8.47Fire9Larvesta#196 · Illustration Rare$2.74Fire10Ceruledge#197 · Illustration Rare$25.54FireShow the rest of the list40 more cards in printing order+40
11Feebas#198 · Illustration Rare$9.59Water12Spheal#199 · Illustration Rare$9.97Water13Bruxish#200 · Illustration Rare$2.74Water14Cetitan#201 · Illustration Rare$2.71Water15Latios#203 · Illustration Rare$34.66Psychic16Mesprit#204 · Illustration Rare$12.66Psychic17Phanpy#205 · Illustration Rare$9.11Fighting18Vibrava#206 · Illustration Rare$3.13Fighting19Clobbopus#207 · Illustration Rare$6.85Fighting20Alolan Dugtrio#208 · Illustration Rare$8.88Metal21Skarmory#209 · Illustration Rare$9.60Metal22Flapple#210 · Illustration Rare$4.60Dragon23Appletun#211 · Illustration Rare$8.33Dragon24Slakoth#212 · Illustration Rare$12.94Colorless25Kecleon#213 · Illustration Rare$9.63Colorless26Braviary#214 · Illustration Rare$5.17Colorless27Milotic ex#217 · Ultra Rare$2.29Water28Pikachu ex#219 · Ultra Rare$28.73Lightning29Latias ex#220 · Ultra Rare$7.32Psychic30Flygon ex#222 · Ultra Rare$2.86Fighting31Hydreigon ex#223 · Ultra Rare$5.07Darkness32Cyrano#230 · Ultra Rare$2.2733Lisia's Appeal#234 · Ultra Rare$3.9834Durant ex#236 · Special Illustration Rare$36.84Grass35Milotic ex#237 · Special Illustration Rare$129.38Water36Pikachu ex#238 · Special Illustration Rare$293.55Lightning37Latias ex#239 · Special Illustration Rare$175.13Psychic38Hydreigon ex#240 · Special Illustration Rare$36.55Darkness39Archaludon ex#241 · Special Illustration Rare$11.82Metal40Alolan Exeggutor ex#242 · Special Illustration Rare$32.73Dragon41Clemont's Quick Wit#243 · Special Illustration Rare$8.6042Drayton#244 · Special Illustration Rare$7.9643Jasmine's Gaze#245 · Special Illustration Rare$21.6044Lisia's Appeal#246 · Special Illustration Rare$27.3145Pikachu ex#247 · Hyper Rare$95.05Lightning46Alolan Exeggutor ex#248 · Hyper Rare$11.60Dragon47Counter Gain#249 · Hyper Rare$2.6848Gravity Mountain#250 · Hyper Rare$11.4549Night Stretcher#251 · Hyper Rare$9.6250Jet Energy#252 · Hyper Rare$4.68Which Surging Sparks cards share a name across several printings?
Pikachu ex4 printings · 1 set
Latias ex3 printings · 1 set
Milotic ex2 printings · 1 set
Hydreigon ex2 printings · 1 set
Alolan Exeggutor ex2 printings · 1 set
Lisia's Appeal2 printings · 1 set
Are Surging Sparks Pokémon cards going up in value?
What one Surging Sparks card cost over the readings on file
Middle price of one card · 13 readings · latest $0.31How Surging Sparks Pokémon card prices are spread
An average hides the shape of a set. These points say where the money actually sits among Surging Sparks cards.
The two ends of that spread are both Surging Sparks cards. Put side by side, they show what you are actually paying for.
A quarter of the set costs under $0.25.
252 of the 252 cards carry a price at all.
What Surging Sparks Pokémon cards are made of, and which of them hold the value
The rarities printed in Surging Sparks, counted across all 252 cards on file.
Each bar is measured against the biggest rarity, Common with 88 cards, so the bars compare the rarities with one another. The percentage on each row is that rarity's share of all 252 cards.
The price on each row is the middle price inside that rarity, not the price of any single card.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 34.9% | 88 cards |
| Uncommon | 24.2% | 61 cards |
| Illustration Rare | 9.1% | 23 cards |
| Ultra Rare | 8.3% | 21 cards |
| Double Rare | 7.1% | 18 cards |
| Rare | 6.3% | 16 cards |
| Special Illustration Rare | 4.4% | 11 cards |
| ACE SPEC Rare | 3.2% | 8 cards |
| Hyper Rare | 2.4% | 6 cards |
The energy types printed in Surging Sparks. 207 of the 252 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 207 cards; the other 45 carry no energy type, which is why the rows do not add up to 252.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Psychic | 13.1% | 33 cards |
| Fire | 10.7% | 27 cards |
| Water | 9.9% | 25 cards |
| Colorless | 9.5% | 24 cards |
| Fighting | 9.1% | 23 cards |
| Grass | 7.9% | 20 cards |
| Lightning | 6.7% | 17 cards |
| Dragon | 6.3% | 16 cards |
| Metal | 6.0% | 15 cards |
| Darkness | 2.8% | 7 cards |
A rule box card carries a printed rule that hands the opponent an extra prize card when it is knocked out. 86 of the 252 cards in Surging Sparks 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 252 cards on file rather than as slices of one whole.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ex | 16.3% | 41 cards |
| Tera | 8.3% | 21 cards |
| Supporter | 7.5% | 19 cards |
| Item | 5.6% | 14 cards |
| ACE SPEC | 3.2% | 8 cards |
| Pokémon Tool | 2.8% | 7 cards |
| Ancient | 1.2% | 3 cards |
| Future | 1.2% | 3 cards |
| Stadium | 1.2% | 3 cards |
| Special | 0.8% | 2 cards |
The printing finish of each card, with the middle price inside each finish beside it.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 59.1% | 149 cards |
| Holofoil | 40.9% | 103 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 | 50.0% | 126 cards |
| Stage 1 | 26.2% | 66 cards |
| Stage 2 | 6.0% | 15 cards |
- Every card in this line was printed in Surging Sparks itself, so the whole line can be put together out of the same set.
- The card at the end of the line costs $129.38, against $9.59 for the one it starts from — a gap of 13.5×.
- 17 of the 50 cards listed on this page name an earlier Pokémon they evolve from.
| Rarity | Cards | Share of the set | Typical price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 88 | $0.23 | |
| Uncommon | 61 | $0.30 | |
| Illustration Rare | 23 | $8.33 | |
| Ultra Rare | 21 | $1.72 | |
| Double Rare | 18 | $0.65 | |
| Rare | 16 | $0.31 | |
| Special Illustration Rare | 11 | $32.73 | |
| ACE SPEC Rare | 8 | $0.62 | |
| Hyper Rare | 6 | $10.54 |
Counted across all 252 Surging Sparks cards on file. "Typical price" is the middle price inside that row.
The most common rarity alone covers 34.9% of the set. The thicker that layer is, the less it costs to put a first deck together — the frame gets built out of cards that fall out of packs, and the scarce ones are kept for the slots that decide a game.
Surging Sparks prints 9 rarities, and the top three fill 68.3% of the set between them. The other 6 split the remaining 80 cards, which is the usual shape: the scarcer the tier, the more tiers there are and the fewer cards sit in each.
By energy type the set leans on Psychic with 33 cards, and the thinnest type on file is Darkness with 7. A gap of 26 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 Surging Sparks Pokémon cards print
| Measure | Lowest | Lower quarter | Typical | Upper quarter | Highest | Cards counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 30 | 70 | 110 | 140 | 340 | 207 |
| Biggest attack | 10 | 30 | 75 | 130 | 300 | 196 |
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 207 Surging Sparks cards that carry one. The typical card is 110 HP. Bar length is that HP against the highest in the group.
Half of these cards sit between 70 and 140 HP. The distance between the two ends is what a single average would have hidden.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest | 8.8% of the highest | 30 HP |
| Lower quarter | 20.6% of the highest | 70 HP |
| Typical | 32.4% of the highest | 110 HP |
| Upper quarter | 41.2% of the highest | 140 HP |
| Highest | 100.0% of the highest | 340 HP |
The largest printed damage number on each of the 196 Surging Sparks cards that print one. The typical card hits for 75. Bar length is that number against the hardest hitter in the group.
Half of these cards hit between 30 and 130. Attack text that adds a condition is not counted here — only the printed number.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest | 3.3% of the highest | 10 damage |
| Lower quarter | 10.0% of the highest | 30 damage |
| Typical | 25.0% of the highest | 75 damage |
| Upper quarter | 43.3% of the highest | 130 damage |
| Highest | 100.0% of the highest | 300 damage |
What are Surging Sparks Pokémon cards weak to?
What Surging Sparks Pokémon cards are weak to — 191 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 191 Surging Sparks cards that print a weakness.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Fighting | 18.3% | 35 cards |
| Fire | 17.3% | 33 cards |
| Lightning | 13.6% | 26 cards |
| Water | 13.6% | 26 cards |
| Darkness | 11.5% | 22 cards |
| Metal | 11.0% | 21 cards |
| Grass | 9.9% | 19 cards |
| Psychic | 4.7% | 9 cards |
Which Surging Sparks Pokémon cards print a resistance?
What Surging Sparks Pokémon cards resist
- Fighting72%
- Grass28%
| Item | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fighting | 34 | 72% |
| Grass | 13 | 28% |
Resistance cuts incoming damage from that type. Only some Surging Sparks cards print one, which is why this count is smaller than the card total.
How do Surging Sparks Pokémon cards evolve?
How Surging Sparks Pokémon cards evolve
- Basic61%
- Stage 132%
- Stage 27%
| Item | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | 126 | 61% |
| Stage 1 | 66 | 32% |
| Stage 2 | 15 | 7% |
Basic cards are played straight from the hand; the later stages have to evolve from the card before them.
Can you still play Surging Sparks 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 207 Surging Sparks cards that print one.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost 0 | 1.6% | 4 cards |
| Retreat cost 1 | 37.7% | 95 cards |
| Retreat cost 2 | 29.4% | 74 cards |
| Retreat cost 3 | 11.5% | 29 cards |
| Retreat cost 4 | 2.0% | 5 cards |
34 of the 252 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 | 252 | 100.0% |
| Legal in Expanded today | 252 | 100.0% |
| Cards with an Ability | 39 | 15.5% |
| Cards with a special rule | 86 | 34.1% |
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 252 Surging Sparks 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 | 100.0% | 252 cards |
| Legal in Expanded today | 100.0% | 252 cards |
| Cards with an Ability | 15.5% | 39 cards |
| Cards with a special rule | 34.1% | 86 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. 34 of the 252 cards here sit at that level, which is the argument for packing switch cards alongside them.
At the other end, 4 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 207 cards. The remaining 45 print no retreat cost at all — they never stand in the active spot, so they never retreat.
Which Surging Sparks Pokémon cards moved most this year
Biggest risers over 12 months
Biggest fallers over 12 months
Counted on the 61 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 Surging Sparks 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 Surging Sparks 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, Surging Sparks is number 130 of 145 sets, with 15 of them cheaper.
These are the sets that sit next to Surging Sparks 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
Journey Together — 190 cards190 with a pricetypical $0.31
Fusion Strike — 284 cards284 with a pricetypical $0.31The three dearest Surging Sparks cards, side by side
Surging Sparks Pokémon cards — frequently asked questions
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Note: Prices on this page are asking and market prices for ungraded English Surging Sparks 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