The cardSSP 247/191
Pikachu ex

Surging Sparks

Pikachu ex SSP 247/191

Printed name : Pikachu-ex

SSPHyper rare
Card language
Seller location

On , the French version of Pikachu ex SSP 247/191 was listed from €70.00 in Near Mint. Card language: French. Sellers: Worldwide. Asking prices exclude shipping and import charges.

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Pikachu ex has appeared in several sets: Surging Sparks (SSP 57), Prismatic Evolutions (PRE 179) and Ascended Heroes (ASC 57). It is the same card every time — it plays the same, only the artwork and the price change. Here is what it does once it is on the table.

The market for this printing

EditionWithout a 1st Edition stamp
FinishStandard (not reverse)

Near Mint is a card that is almost new. You have to look really closely to find a flaw.

Standard (not reverse) · Near Mint

Card language: French. Sellers: Worldwide. Asking prices exclude shipping and import charges.

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The cheapest listing in Near Mint: €70.00

· 32 listings

Card language: French. Sellers: Worldwide. Asking prices exclude shipping and import charges. We counted 32 listings in this condition on .

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Its price, up close

Day after day

What the line follows
Over how long

The cheapest Near Mint copy

€70.00€67.50€65.0010 Sept10 Oct

Slide your finger or your mouse along the line to read a day. With the keyboard, each arrow moves one day. Home and End jump to the two ends, and Escape closes the detail.

Each dot is a day we found a price: 28 days, from 11 Sept to 10 Oct. No price recorded before 11 Sept in this period.

Card language: French. Sellers: Worldwide. Asking prices exclude shipping and import charges.

Over the last 30 days, the cheapest Near Mint copy cost between €65.00 and €70.00, depending on the day.

On 10 October, it was €70.00, exactly what it cost on 11 September.

On average it cost €68.75. On an ordinary day, its price sat about 3% away from that average.

The middle price is the one on the listing that lands right in the middle when you line up every listing in this condition from cheapest to dearest.

The cheapest Near Mint copy, day by day
DayPrice
11 September€70.00
13 September€70.00
15 September€70.00
16 September€65.00
17 September€65.00
18 September€65.00
19 September€65.00
20 September€65.00
21 September€70.00
22 September€65.00
23 September€65.00
24 September€69.99
25 September€69.99
26 September€69.99
27 September€69.99
28 September€69.99
29 September€69.99
30 September€69.99
1 October€69.99
2 October€69.99
3 October€69.99
4 October€69.99
5 October€69.99
6 October€70.00
7 October€70.00
8 October€70.00
9 October€70.00
10 October€70.00

On 10 October, in detail

50 and more copies for sale

Card language: French. Sellers: Worldwide. Asking prices exclude shipping and import charges. On 10 October, we observed at least 50 copies in this selection.

We read the fifty cheapest listings, and that day the list went on past them.

One listing can offer several copies, so we count the cards one by one.

Here’s how they split by condition.

  • Mint 15 copies across 15 listings
  • Near Mint 32 copies across 32 listings
  • Excellent 2 copies across 2 listings
  • Good 1 copy across 1 listing

In Near Mint, professional sellers usually ask 5% less than private sellers.

We compared their 11 listings with 21 listings from private sellers, all in this condition.

A professional seller sells cards for a living, often through a shop. A private seller is a collector or a player like you, selling their own cards. These are the prices they put up. The final price of a sale is something we don’t see.

How fast it sells

pokoSCORE

Market activity · cards in French

59out of 100

Intermediate pace

Its copies leave at an in-between pace.

  • At least 15 copies gone since 11 September
  • 50 or more for sale on 9 October

The pokoSCORE looks at how fast copies of this card leave the listings we check every day, where collectors sell cards to each other, and compares that pace with the other cards in French that we follow. It says nothing about the price: a card can fly off the shelf and still be worth three euros.

A copy that’s gone may have sold, or its seller may have taken it down: from the outside, the two look alike. We only count the ones that never came back on sale, hence the “at least”.

“Or more”: the page didn’t show us everything, so more copies may be waiting behind it.

When it came out

Surging Sparks landed here on 8 November 2024.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 18 October 2024, under the code SV8. That is 21 days ahead of us.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
200
Type
Lightning
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
H
Number
247/191
Set
Surging SparksSSPSet guide
Illustrated by
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Its Ability

Resolute HeartCœur Résolu

If this Pokémon has full HP and would be Knocked Out by damage from an attack, it is not Knocked Out, and its remaining HP becomes 10.Si ce Pokémon a tous ses PV et doit être mis K.O. par les dégâts d'une attaque, il n'est pas mis K.O. et il lui reste 10 PV.

Its attacks

Topaz BoltÉclair Topaze

300

Discard 3 Energy from this Pokémon.Défaussez 3 Énergies de ce Pokémon.

What to make of it

Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.

  1. A strength

    Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.

  2. A strength

    It has an Ability, Resolute Heart. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. A strength

    Joltik runs it in 37 of the 37 lists we have read, seen across 34 different tournaments.

  4. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  5. A strength

    Mark H. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

  6. Keep in mind

    It is an ex card. The turn it goes down your opponent takes 2 Prizes instead of one, and games do turn on exactly that.

  7. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 6,656 tournament lists we have read, 1,532 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on October 11, 2026. TCGdex

Every version of this card

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Who plays it

Every printing of Pikachu ex plays the same way at a tournament. So the decks below count them all together, and the last column shows the one players wrote on their list.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Joltik37 of 3734SSP 57
Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex / Fan Rotom24 of 5122SSP 57
Blissey ex8 of 278SSP 57
Toucannon6 of 706SSP 57
Azumarill4 of 414SSP 57
Mega Kangaskhan ex / Bouffalant3 of 753SSP 57
Flareon ex / Noctowl2 of 502SSP 57
Blaziken ex1 of 251SSP 57
Mega Zygarde ex1 of 461SSP 57

The other cards of this Pokémon

Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 185 Pikachu cards on one page, priciest first.

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