Ancient Origins Pokémon cards — how many are there and what are they worth?
There are 101 Ancient Origins cards on file, 101 of them with a price, and the typical one costs $1.04.
Set · 101 cards · 101 with a price · $0.17 to $1,069.91 · read August 14, 2026
How much is a Ancient Origins Pokémon card worth?
The typical Ancient Origins card costs $1.04. Across the 101 of them that carry a price, the cheapest is $0.17 and the dearest is $1,069.91 — M Rayquaza-EX 98, at $1,069.91. 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.
Ancient Origins 101 cardsSet
Ancient Origins price summary
101 with a price · $0.17 to $1,069.91 · No. 92 of 145 sets by typical price · +38.7% in 11 months · 122 HP on average · weak to Fire
53 sets cost less than this one
What stands out about Ancient Origins cards
- Scale 101 cards carry this set — 0.5% of the 20,444 English cards on file.
- Price Half of the priced cards cost under $1.04, but the dearest reaches $1,069.91 — a gap of 1,029×.
- Place By typical price this is No. 92 of 145 sets; 53 of them cost less.
- Record 101 of the 101 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 101
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 20,033101 cardsonly Ancient Origins remain · 0.5% of 20,033
- The 101 cards on this page101 cards0.5% 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.
Ancient Origins Pokémon cards at a glance
- What this group is. 101 cards share the set xy7. 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 $1.04. Across the 101 priced cards the range runs $0.17 to $1,069.91.
- Where it stands. No. 92 of 145 sets by typical price, with 53 of them cheaper.
- What the cards are like. They average 122 HP and 62 maximum damage, and are most often weak to Fire.
- What is listed below. The 50 most expensive of the 101 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 Ancient Origins card with a price on file
Market $1,069.91M Rayquaza-EX [98]2
Market $454.62Primal Kyogre-EX [96]3
Market $327.29Primal Groudon-EX [97]4
Market $211.85Lugia-EX [94]5
Market $146.81Giratina-EX [93]6
Market $125.96Hex Maniac [75a]7
Market $120.02M Sceptile-EX [85]8
Market $115.78M Tyranitar-EX [92]9
Market $105.36Tyranitar-EX [91]10
Market $78.30M Ampharos-EX [88]11
Market $65.30Gyarados [21]12
Market $62.82Sceptile-EX [84]13
Market $50.04Hoopa-EX [89]14
Market $47.35Ampharos-EX [87]15
Market $39.71Steven [95]16
Market $37.66Kyurem-EX [86]17
Market $29.30M Tyranitar-EX [43]18
Market $28.30Machamp-EX [90]19
Market $27.37Giratina-EX [57]20
Market $21.62Energy Retrieval [99]21
Market $19.84M Sceptile-EX [8]22
Market $17.76M Ampharos-EX [28]23
Market $16.87Lugia-EX [68]24
Market $14.97Tyranitar-EX [42]25
Market $11.53Entei [15]26
Market $9.36Metagross [50]27
Market $8.16Gardevoir [54]28
Market $7.89Sceptile-EX [7]29
Market $7.01Hoopa-EX [36]30
Market $6.72Trainers' Mail [100]31
Market $5.85Machamp-EX [37]32
Market $5.77Ampharos-EX [27]33
Market $5.56Lucky Helmet [77]34
Market $5.16Flareon [13]35
Market $4.58Jolteon [26]36
Market $4.51Kyurem-EX [25]37
Market $4.50Gyarados [20]38
Market $4.41Hex Maniac [75]39
Market $3.66Porygon-Z [67]40
Market $3.41Magikarp [19]41
Market $3.08Entei [14]42
Market $3.04Golurk [35]43
Market $3.03Volcarona [18]44
Market $2.80Vaporeon [22]45
Market $2.60Goodra [60]46
Market $2.48Wooper [38]47
Market $1.99Vileplume [3]48
Market $1.86Vespiquen [11]49
Market $1.73Eevee [63]50
Market $1.17Beldum [47]The 50 most expensive Ancient Origins cards on file, dearest first. The badge on each card is its market price.
0 of the 101 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.
1Vileplume#3 · Rare$1.99Grass2Sceptile-EX#7 · Rare Holo EX$7.89Grass3M Sceptile-EX#8 · Rare Holo EX$19.84Grass4Vespiquen#11 · Rare$1.86Grass5Flareon#13 · Uncommon$5.16Fire6Entei#14 · Rare$3.08Fire7Entei#15 · Rare Holo$11.53Fire8Volcarona#18 · Rare$3.03Fire9Magikarp#19 · Common$3.41Water10Gyarados#20 · Rare$4.50WaterShow the rest of the list40 more cards in printing order+40
11Gyarados#21 · Rare Holo$65.30Water12Vaporeon#22 · Uncommon$2.80Water13Kyurem-EX#25 · Rare Holo EX$4.51Water14Jolteon#26 · Rare Holo$4.58Lightning15Ampharos-EX#27 · Rare Holo EX$5.77Lightning16M Ampharos-EX#28 · Rare Holo EX$17.76Lightning17Golurk#35 · Rare$3.04Psychic18Hoopa-EX#36 · Rare Holo EX$7.01Psychic19Machamp-EX#37 · Rare Holo EX$5.85Fighting20Wooper#38 · Common$2.48Fighting21Tyranitar-EX#42 · Rare Holo EX$14.97Darkness22M Tyranitar-EX#43 · Rare Holo EX$29.30Darkness23Beldum#47 · Common$1.17Metal24Metagross#50 · Rare$9.36Metal25Gardevoir#54 · Rare Holo$8.16Fairy26Giratina-EX#57 · Rare Holo EX$27.37Dragon27Goodra#60 · Rare Holo$2.60Dragon28Eevee#63 · Common$1.73Colorless29Porygon-Z#67 · Rare Holo$3.66Colorless30Lugia-EX#68 · Rare Holo EX$16.87Colorless31Hex Maniac#75 · Uncommon$4.4132Hex Maniac#75a · Rare Ultra$125.9633Lucky Helmet#77 · Uncommon$5.5634Sceptile-EX#84 · Rare Ultra$62.82Grass35M Sceptile-EX#85 · Rare Ultra$120.02Grass36Kyurem-EX#86 · Rare Ultra$37.66Water37Ampharos-EX#87 · Rare Ultra$47.35Lightning38M Ampharos-EX#88 · Rare Ultra$78.30Lightning39Hoopa-EX#89 · Rare Ultra$50.04Psychic40Machamp-EX#90 · Rare Ultra$28.30Fighting41Tyranitar-EX#91 · Rare Ultra$105.36Darkness42M Tyranitar-EX#92 · Rare Ultra$115.78Darkness43Giratina-EX#93 · Rare Ultra$146.81Dragon44Lugia-EX#94 · Rare Ultra$211.85Colorless45Steven#95 · Rare Ultra$39.7146Primal Kyogre-EX#96 · Rare Secret$454.62Water47Primal Groudon-EX#97 · Rare Secret$327.29Fighting48M Rayquaza-EX#98 · Rare Secret$1,069.91Colorless49Energy Retrieval#99 · Rare Secret$21.6250Trainers' Mail#100 · Rare Secret$6.72Which Ancient Origins cards share a name across several printings?
Lugia-EX2 printings · 1 set
Giratina-EX2 printings · 1 set
Hex Maniac2 printings · 1 set
M Sceptile-EX2 printings · 1 set
M Tyranitar-EX2 printings · 1 set
Tyranitar-EX2 printings · 1 set
M Ampharos-EX2 printings · 1 set
Gyarados2 printings · 1 set
Are Ancient Origins Pokémon cards going up in value?
What one Ancient Origins card cost over the readings on file
Middle price of one card · 13 readings · latest $1.04How Ancient Origins Pokémon card prices are spread
An average hides the shape of a set. These points say where the money actually sits among Ancient Origins cards.
The two ends of that spread are both Ancient Origins cards. Put side by side, they show what you are actually paying for.
A quarter of the set costs under $0.58.
101 of the 101 cards carry a price at all.
What Ancient Origins Pokémon cards are made of, and which of them hold the value
The rarities printed in Ancient Origins, counted across all 101 cards on file.
Each bar is measured against the biggest rarity, Uncommon with 28 cards, so the bars compare the rarities with one another. The percentage on each row is that rarity's share of all 101 cards.
The price on each row is the middle price inside that rarity, not the price of any single card.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Uncommon | 27.7% | 28 cards |
| Common | 22.8% | 23 cards |
| Rare | 12.9% | 13 cards |
| Rare Ultra | 12.9% | 13 cards |
| Rare Holo EX | 10.9% | 11 cards |
| Rare Holo | 7.9% | 8 cards |
| Rare Secret | 5.0% | 5 cards |
The energy types printed in Ancient Origins. 82 of the 101 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 82 cards; the other 19 carry no energy type, which is why the rows do not add up to 101.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grass | 13.9% | 14 cards |
| Colorless | 9.9% | 10 cards |
| Water | 8.9% | 9 cards |
| Psychic | 7.9% | 8 cards |
| Darkness | 6.9% | 7 cards |
| Fighting | 6.9% | 7 cards |
| Fire | 5.9% | 6 cards |
| Lightning | 5.9% | 6 cards |
| Dragon | 5.0% | 5 cards |
| Fairy | 5.0% | 5 cards |
| Metal | 5.0% | 5 cards |
A rule box card carries a printed rule that hands the opponent an extra prize card when it is knocked out. 44 of the 101 cards in Ancient Origins 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 101 cards on file rather than as slices of one whole.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| EX | 24.8% | 25 cards |
| MEGA | 8.9% | 9 cards |
| Item | 5.9% | 6 cards |
| Supporter | 5.0% | 5 cards |
| Pokémon Tool | 4.0% | 4 cards |
| Special | 2.0% | 2 cards |
| Stadium | 2.0% | 2 cards |
The printing finish of each card, with the middle price inside each finish beside it.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 63.4% | 64 cards |
| Holofoil | 36.6% | 37 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 | 42.6% | 43 cards |
| Stage 1 | 21.8% | 22 cards |
| Stage 2 | 7.9% | 8 cards |
- Every card in this line was printed in Ancient Origins itself, so the whole line can be put together out of the same set.
- The card at the end of the line costs $120.02, against $62.82 for the one it starts from — a gap of 1.9×.
- 22 of the 50 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5ban Graphics | 15.8% | 16 cards |
| Ryo Ueda | 8.9% | 9 cards |
| Toyste Beach | 5.9% | 6 cards |
| Eske Yoshinob | 5.0% | 5 cards |
| Kouki Saitou | 3.0% | 3 cards |
| TOKIYA | 3.0% | 3 cards |
| Akira Komayama | 2.0% | 2 cards |
| Ayaka Yoshida | 2.0% | 2 cards |
| Rarity | Cards | Share of the set | Typical price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncommon | 28 | $0.53 | |
| Common | 23 | $0.64 | |
| Rare | 13 | $1.86 | |
| Rare Ultra | 13 | $78.30 | |
| Rare Holo EX | 11 | $14.97 | |
| Rare Holo | 8 | $4.12 | |
| Rare Secret | 5 | $327.29 |
Counted across all 101 Ancient Origins cards on file. "Typical price" is the middle price inside that row.
The most common rarity alone covers 27.7% 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.
Ancient Origins prints 7 rarities, and the top three fill 63.4% of the set between them. The other 4 split the remaining 37 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 Grass with 14 cards, and the thinnest type on file is Metal with 5. A gap of 9 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 Ancient Origins Pokémon cards print
| Measure | Lowest | Lower quarter | Typical | Upper quarter | Highest | Cards counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 30 | 70 | 120 | 170 | 240 | 82 |
| Biggest attack | 10 | 30 | 60 | 93 | 150 | 76 |
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 82 Ancient Origins cards that carry one. The typical card is 120 HP. Bar length is that HP against the highest in the group.
Half of these cards sit between 70 and 170 HP. The distance between the two ends is what a single average would have hidden.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest | 12.5% of the highest | 30 HP |
| Lower quarter | 29.2% of the highest | 70 HP |
| Typical | 50.0% of the highest | 120 HP |
| Upper quarter | 70.8% of the highest | 170 HP |
| Highest | 100.0% of the highest | 240 HP |
The largest printed damage number on each of the 76 Ancient Origins cards that print one. The typical card hits for 60. Bar length is that number against the hardest hitter in the group.
Half of these cards hit between 30 and 93. Attack text that adds a condition is not counted here — only the printed number.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest | 6.7% of the highest | 10 damage |
| Lower quarter | 20.0% of the highest | 30 damage |
| Typical | 40.0% of the highest | 60 damage |
| Upper quarter | 62.0% of the highest | 93 damage |
| Highest | 100.0% of the highest | 150 damage |
What are Ancient Origins Pokémon cards weak to?
What Ancient Origins Pokémon cards are weak to — 79 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 79 Ancient Origins cards that print a weakness.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Fighting | 24.1% | 19 cards |
| Fire | 24.1% | 19 cards |
| Grass | 10.1% | 8 cards |
| Metal | 10.1% | 8 cards |
| Psychic | 10.1% | 8 cards |
| Lightning | 7.6% | 6 cards |
| Water | 7.6% | 6 cards |
| Fairy | 6.3% | 5 cards |
Which Ancient Origins Pokémon cards print a resistance?
What Ancient Origins Pokémon cards resist
- Psychic41%
- Metal22%
- Darkness19%
- Fighting19%
| Item | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Psychic | 11 | 41% |
| Metal | 6 | 22% |
| Darkness | 5 | 19% |
| Fighting | 5 | 19% |
Resistance cuts incoming damage from that type. Only some Ancient Origins cards print one, which is why this count is smaller than the card total.
How do Ancient Origins Pokémon cards evolve?
How Ancient Origins Pokémon cards evolve
- Basic59%
- Stage 130%
- Stage 211%
| Item | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | 43 | 59% |
| Stage 1 | 22 | 30% |
| Stage 2 | 8 | 11% |
Basic cards are played straight from the hand; the later stages have to evolve from the card before them.
Can you still play Ancient Origins 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 82 Ancient Origins cards that print one.
| Group | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Retreat cost 0 | 2.0% | 2 cards |
| Retreat cost 1 | 29.7% | 30 cards |
| Retreat cost 2 | 20.8% | 21 cards |
| Retreat cost 3 | 18.8% | 19 cards |
| Retreat cost 4 | 9.9% | 10 cards |
29 of the 101 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 | 1 | 1.0% |
| Legal in Expanded today | 98 | 97.0% |
| Cards with an Ability | 14 | 13.9% |
| Cards with a special rule | 44 | 43.6% |
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 101 Ancient Origins 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 | 1.0% | 1 cards |
| Legal in Expanded today | 97.0% | 98 cards |
| Cards with an Ability | 13.9% | 14 cards |
| Cards with a special rule | 43.6% | 44 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. 29 of the 101 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 82 cards. The remaining 19 print no retreat cost at all — they never stand in the active spot, so they never retreat.
Which Ancient Origins Pokémon cards moved most this year
Biggest risers over 12 months
Biggest fallers over 12 months
Counted on the 45 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 Ancient Origins 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 Ancient Origins 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, Ancient Origins is number 92 of 145 sets, with 53 of them cheaper.
These are the sets that sit next to Ancient Origins 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
Primal Clash — 164 cards164 with a pricetypical $1.03
Furious Fists — 114 cards113 with a pricetypical $1.02The three dearest Ancient Origins cards, side by side
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Note: Prices on this page are asking and market prices for ungraded English Ancient Origins 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