TEAM ROCKET'S MOLTRES EX #229/182 - DESTINED RIVALS
- Set
- Pokemon Destined Rivals (Scarlet & Violet series)
- Number
- 229/182
- Rarity
- Special Illustration Rare
- Card type
- Pokémon - Basic, ex (Fire)
- Released
- (2025-05-30)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $94.38 USD (TCGplayer market, holofoil, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
- Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
- 13 Rip Station marks - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 1 in the $50.00 machine, 2 in the $100.00 machine, 1 in the $200.00 machine, 1 in the $250.00 machine
RIP IT
Team Rocket's Moltres ex is in the $50.00 machine right now - PSA 10 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $50.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Team Rocket's Moltres ex is a special illustration rare Pokemon card from Pokemon Destined Rivals, card 229 of 182, released May 30, 2025 in the Scarlet & Violet series.
VALUE
What is Team Rocket's Moltres ex #229 from Destined Rivals worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Team Rocket's Moltres ex #229 (Destined Rivals) carries a market reference of $94.38 USD for the holofoil printing (TCGplayer market price, as of 2026-09-11). Graded slabs: a graded example is priced per grading company and per grade and can sit far above that raw figure - our own graded marks for this card are charted and tabled below, per grader and grade. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $295.00 (PSA 10).
Graded slab values over time GRADED SLAB
Slab values, per grading company and grade. These are a different market from the raw/ungraded reference in the facts block above - do not read one as the other.
| Date | Grader | Grade | Estimated slab value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 8 | $80.00 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 9 | $82.00 |
| 2026-06-24 | PSA | 9 | $85.99 |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA | 8 | $85.00 |
| 2026-07-09 | PSA | 10 | $335.33 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 9 | $90.00 |
| 2026-08-03 | PSA | 10 | $265.00 |
| 2026-08-18 | PSA | 10 | $265.00 |
| 2026-08-19 | PSA | 10 | $277.00 |
| 2026-08-24 | PSA | 10 | $277.90 |
| 2026-08-31 | PSA | 10 | $234.00 |
| 2026-09-01 | PSA | 10 | $234.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | PSA | 10 | $265.00 |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Team Rocket's Moltres ex #229?
No published per-card pack odds are documented for Destined Rivals. Rip Station's machine composition is measurable, though: 1 of 1633 cards loaded in the $50.00 machine is this card - about 0.06% per rip.
POP REPORT
Rip Station vault population - graded slabs GRADED SLAB
Counts of GRADED copies, by grading company and grade, that have passed through our machines. Raw/ungraded copies are counted separately in the Raw row.
| Grader | Grade | Copies |
|---|---|---|
| PSA | 10 | 12 |
| PSA | 9 | 5 |
| PSA | 8 | 2 |
| Total | 19 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Team Rocket's Moltres ex #229 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 1 graded copy of Team Rocket's Moltres ex is loaded in the $50.00 machine; 2 graded copies of Team Rocket's Moltres ex are loaded in the $100.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Team Rocket's Moltres ex is loaded in the $200.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Team Rocket's Moltres ex is loaded in the $250.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $50.00 machine: 1 of 1633 loaded cards (0.06% per rip). Rip this machine
- $100.00 machine: 2 of 920 loaded cards (0.22% per rip). Rip this machine
- $200.00 machine: 1 of 900 loaded cards (0.11% per rip). Rip this machine
- $250.00 machine: 1 of 491 loaded cards (0.20% per rip). Rip this machine
SOURCES
- Card metadata and image: the open pokemontcg.io dataset.
- Raw/ungraded reference value: pokemontcg.io market snapshot (tcgplayer), as of 2026-09-11. An ungraded single, an estimate, not an offer - and not a graded slab value.
- Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.