Pokémon · Sun & Moon
Primarina
Sun & Moon · #41 · Rare · 2017
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$0.38
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 41 / 173
- Release year
- 2017
- Rarity
- Rare
- HP
- 150
- Subtype
- Stage 2
- Evolves from
- Brionne
- Retreat cost
- 2 energy
- Illustrator
- Kagemaru Himeno
- Pokédex #
- 730
- Series
- Sun & Moon
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Healing
- Damage efficiency
- 100 damage
- 33.33 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Stage 2
- Needs its evolution line or Rare Candy to set up
Also does
Strategy & play
How Primarina plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- Inflicts Confusion — they must flip to attack (tails fails and deals 30 to themselves). Soft, coin-flip disruption.
- Its main attack (Sparkling Aria) needs 3 Energy — a turn-3 swing on manual attachment — you’ll want Energy acceleration to power it up on time.
- Needs Water Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Water type, weak to Grass ×2 — a Grass attacker doing ≥75 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- A Stage 2 — without Rare Candy you lose ~2 turns setting it up, and it’s gust-bait before it’s online (you must draw Brionne first).
How to beat Primarina
- Exploit its Grass weakness — ≥75 damage one-shots it.
- Gust it before the evolution is set up.
- 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
- 1.43 copies on average · 7 decks
More by Kagemaru Himeno
This card was illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno.
Building around Primarina?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"It controls its water balloons with song. The melody is learning from others of its kind and is passed down from one generation to the next."
WCDisarming Voice — 30
Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Confused.
WWCSparkling Aria — 100
Heal 30 damage from this Pokémon.
Weakness:G×2
Retreat cost:CC
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Recent tournament results
View calendar →Tournaments from the past 30 days where Primarina was legal.
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 2026/07/18| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.20 | $0.44 | $19.98 | $0.38 | $0.25 |
| Reverse Holofoil | $0.31 | $0.77 | $19.98 | $0.77 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/21| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €1.00 |
| 7-day average | €0.47 |
| 30-day average | €0.42 |
| Low | €0.15 |
| Trend price | €0.46 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.15 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €0.19 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €0.34 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.49 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €0.27 |
| Reverse holo trend | €0.33 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Primarina is real?
Primarina 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 Primarina worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Primarina is $0.38; 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 Primarina from?
Primarina is from the Pokémon set "Sun & Moon" in the Sun & Moon series, released in 2017.
What rarity is Primarina?
Primarina is a Rare card in the Sun & Moon set.
Other Primarina printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
