Pokémon · EX
Volbeat
Sandstorm · #53 · Uncommon · 2003
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$1.92
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Current listings on The Game Traders
No active listings for this card right now.
Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 53 / 100
- Release year
- 2003
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- HP
- 60
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Kyoko Umemoto
- Pokédex #
- 313
- Series
- EX
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- Damage efficiency
- 20 damage
- 10 per Energy
- 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 Volbeat 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.
- Inflicts Poison — guaranteed chip damage every turn between turns (no coin flip). It stacks with your attack math to cross KO thresholds the attack alone misses.
- Inflicts Sleep — they flip each turn to wake, so it’s a coin-flip lock: disruptive but unreliable on its own.
- Its main attack (Pester) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- Needs Grass Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Grass type, weak to Fire ×2 — a Fire attacker doing ≥30 effectively one-shots it.
How to beat Volbeat
- Exploit its Fire weakness — ≥30 damage one-shots it.
- On the receiving end of a condition? Retreat, switch, or evolve to wipe it — conditions only stick to the Active.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 0% of decks
- 2 copies on average · 9 decks
Building around Volbeat?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
Poké-Body: Uplifting Glow
As long as Illumise is in play, Volbeat's Retreat Cost is 0.
CToxic Vibration
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned. If tails, the Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
GCPester — 20+
If the Defending Pokémon is affected by a Special Condition, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage.
Weakness:R×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
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 2026/07/04| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $1.20 | $2.30 | $26.70 | $1.92 | — |
| Reverse Holofoil | $15.00 | $39.99 | $463.00 | $20.50 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/21| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.80 |
| 7-day average | €0.54 |
| 30-day average | €0.82 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.89 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.35 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.49 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €5.00 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €2.35 |
| reverseHoloSell | €3.25 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.88 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €2.68 |
| Reverse holo trend | €3.13 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Volbeat is real?
Volbeat 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 Volbeat worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Volbeat is $1.92; 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 Volbeat from?
Volbeat is from the Pokémon set "Sandstorm" in the EX series, released in 2003.
What rarity is Volbeat?
Volbeat is a Uncommon card in the Sandstorm set.
Other Volbeat printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
