Pokémon · Diamond & Pearl
Piplup
Majestic Dawn · #72 · Common · 2008
Listings
No active listings
From
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Market reference
$5.92
TCGPlayer
Current listings on The Game Traders
No active listings for this card right now.
Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 72 / 100
- Release year
- 2008
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 50
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Prinplup
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Naoyo Kimura
- Pokédex #
- 393
- Series
- Diamond & Pearl
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Also does
Strategy & play
How Piplup plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- A Basic — hits the board turn 1 with no evolution tax.
- Needs Water Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Water type, weak to Lightning ×2 — a Lightning attacker doing ≥25 effectively one-shots it.
- Seen in 0% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 2 copies.
How to beat Piplup
- Exploit its Lightning weakness — ≥25 damage one-shots it.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 0% of decks
- 1.61 copies on average · 251 decks
- Match win rate
- 45.6%
- -1.8 pts vs the 47.3% field average
Plays well with
Cards most often run alongside this one in tournament decks over the last 180 days — ranked by how distinctive the pairing is.
Prinplup
in 20% of decks · 50 seen
Empoleon ex
in 100% of decks · 251 seen
Steven's Metang
in 70% of decks · 175 seen
Steven's Beldum
in 70% of decks · 176 seen
Steven's Metagross ex
in 70% of decks · 176 seen
Dialga
in 41% of decks · 102 seen
Deoxys
in 17% of decks · 43 seen
Mega Skarmory ex
in 59% of decks · 148 seen
More by Naoyo Kimura
This card was illustrated by Naoyo Kimura.
Building around Piplup?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
WSplatter
Choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 10 damage to that Pokémon. This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance.
Pecha Berry: If Piplup is Poisoned, remove the Special Condition Poisoned from Piplup at the end of each player's turn.
Weakness:L+10
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
This printing of Piplup has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Piplup — Phantasmal Flames
Played in 71 recent decks
Pricing reference
Latest snapshot from the upstream catalog. Actual marketplace prices fluctuate by condition, edition, and grade — use this as a reference, not a quote.
TCGPlayer (USD)
Updated 2026/07/03| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $27.00 | $69.99 | $96.94 | $5.92 | $96.94 |
| Reverse Holofoil | $64.49 | $74.16 | $77.00 | $46.24 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/01| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.91 |
| 7-day average | €0.71 |
| 30-day average | €0.89 |
| Low | €0.05 |
| Trend price | €1.06 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.20 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.50 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €5.00 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €4.37 |
| reverseHoloSell | €4.93 |
| averageSellPrice | €1.00 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €3.16 |
| Reverse holo trend | €3.80 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Piplup is real?
Piplup is not on our list of commonly-counterfeited cards, but counterfeits exist across every set. Check the back-light test (real cards have a black inner layer that blocks light; counterfeits glow through), the rosette dot pattern on the back under magnification, font weight and kerning on the card name, and the holofoil pattern if applicable. For high-value copies we recommend submitting to a professional grader (PSA, BGS, CGC) for tamper-evident authentication.
What is Piplup worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Piplup is $5.92; there are no active listings on The Game Traders right now. Actual value depends on condition, grading, edition and printing variant — graded high-condition copies (PSA 9–10) trade at a substantial premium over raw copies.
What set is Piplup from?
Piplup is from the Pokémon set "Majestic Dawn" in the Diamond & Pearl series, released in 2008.
What rarity is Piplup?
Piplup is a Common card in the Majestic Dawn set.
Other Piplup printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
