Pokémon · Sword & Shield
Celebi
Vivid Voltage · #9 · Amazing Rare · 2020
Listings
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From
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Market reference
$8.73
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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
- 9 / 203
- Release year
- 2020
- Rarity
- Amazing Rare
- HP
- 60
- Subtype
- Basic
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Regulation mark
- D
- Illustrator
- 5ban Graphics
- Pokédex #
- 251
- Series
- Sword & Shield
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Search / Tutor
- Damage efficiency
- 30 damage
- 30 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 Celebi plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- Not a main attacker — its job is search / tutoring. Run it as a consistency hub and protect it, because opponents will target the engine.
- Needs Grass / Lightning / Psychic Energy to attack — note its own type is Grass, so build for the attack cost, not the type.
- Grass type, weak to Fire ×2 — a Fire attacker doing ≥30 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
- Seen in 3% of recent tournament decks that can run it, usually 1 copy.
How to beat Celebi
- Exploit its Fire weakness — ≥30 damage one-shots it.
- KO it to choke their draw / search engine.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 3% of decks
- 1.27 copies on average · 1561 decks
- Match win rate
- 50.3%
- +3.1 pts vs the 47.2% 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.
Budget alternatives
Cheaper cards that fill a similar role in Standard decks. Reference prices — most-played option first.
More by 5ban Graphics
This card was illustrated by 5ban Graphics.
Building around Celebi?
Drop it into the deck builder for a live consistency score, synergy suggestions, and Standard legality checks.
About this card
"This Pokémon has the ability to move through time. Records describing it as a forest deity can be found from many different eras."
GEnergy Press — 30×
This attack does 30 damage for each Energy attached to your opponent's Active Pokémon.
LPAmazing Bloom
For each of your Benched Pokémon, search your deck for a card that evolves from that Pokémon and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck.
Weakness:R×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Upcoming events
View calendar →Tournaments and releases relevant to Celebi or Vivid Voltage.
Recent tournament results
View calendar →Tournaments from the past 30 days where Celebi was legal.
Tournament play
This printing of Celebi has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Celebi — Mega Evolution
Played in 502 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 2026/07/16| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holofoil | $7.70 | $10.00 | $109.21 | $8.73 | $10.12 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/07/01| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €11.88 |
| 7-day average | €17.58 |
| 30-day average | €16.07 |
| Low | €2.90 |
| Trend price | €16.07 |
| Low (excellent+) | €8.00 |
| reverseHoloAvg1 | €15.50 |
| Reverse holo 7-day | €15.92 |
| averageSellPrice | €15.37 |
| Reverse holo 30-day | €16.99 |
| Reverse holo trend | €15.45 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Celebi is real?
Celebi 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 Celebi worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Celebi is $8.73; 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 Celebi from?
Celebi is from the Pokémon set "Vivid Voltage" in the Sword & Shield series, released in 2020.
What rarity is Celebi?
Celebi is a Amazing Rare card in the Vivid Voltage set.
Other Celebi printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
