Pokémon · HeartGold & SoulSilver
Horsea
HS—Unleashed · #49 · Common · 2010
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Market reference
$0.47
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Current listings on The Game Traders
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 49 / 96
- Release year
- 2010
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 50
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Seadra
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Shin Nagasawa
- Pokédex #
- 116
- Series
- HeartGold & SoulSilver
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Attacker
- 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
Strategy & play
How Horsea 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.
- Its main attack (Fin Smack) needs 2 Energy — a turn-2 swing on manual attachment.
- 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.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
How to beat Horsea
- 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
- 2.8 copies on average · 5 decks
More by Shin Nagasawa
This card was illustrated by Shin Nagasawa.
Building around Horsea?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"Its big, developed fins move rapidly, allowing it to swim backward while still facing forward."
CBeat — 10
WCFin Smack — 20×
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads.
Weakness:L×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 2026/07/01| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | $0.23 | $0.44 | $19.62 | $0.47 | $0.23 |
| Reverse Holofoil | $2.73 | $39.99 | $49.99 | $2.73 | — |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/22| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.09 |
| 7-day average | €0.41 |
| 30-day average | €0.30 |
| Low | €0.02 |
| Trend price | €0.33 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.02 |
| Reverse holo low | €0.10 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €3.00 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €1.81 |
| reverseHoloSell | €3.25 |
| averageSellPrice | €0.29 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €2.07 |
| Reverse holo trend | €2.19 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Horsea is real?
Horsea 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 Horsea worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Horsea is $0.47; 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 Horsea from?
Horsea is from the Pokémon set "HS—Unleashed" in the HeartGold & SoulSilver series, released in 2010.
What rarity is Horsea?
Horsea is a Common card in the HS—Unleashed set.
Other Horsea printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
