Charizard 151: Every Variant, PSA-10 Values, and SPC Promo

The Pokémon Card 151 / SV 151 set shipped four distinct collector-grade Charizard ex variants when it launched June 16, 2023 in Japan and September 22, 2023 in English — the 006/165 Double Rare regular ex, the 183/165 Ultra Rare Full Art, the 199/165 Special Illustration Rare with the now-iconic miki kudo "fire-tornado" artwork, and the Japan-only SV2a 201/165 Special Art Rare — plus the SVP 056 Black Star Promo that came in the October 4, 2024 Charizard ex Super-Premium Collection. The top of the charizard 151 SERP in 2026 is a wall of retailer pages for the 199/165 SIR alone, one Bulbapedia entry for the 006/165 Double Rare, a Reddit thread, and Bleeding Cool's whole-set monthly value-watch. Not one organic result unifies every variant. This is the guide that does — PullMarket, operated by SKYCOAST CAPITAL LLC, walks all five card numbers in order, decodes which rarity tier you're actually holding, cites real PSA-10 economics from Sports Card Investor and Card Ladder, and answers the single most-confused question the SERP refuses to: no, there is no gold Hyper Rare Charizard ex in 151.

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The SV 151 Set Context (Just Enough Charizard Collectors Need)

The Pokémon Card 151 / SV 151 expansion launched June 16, 2023 in Japan (set code SV2a, "Pokémon Card 151") and September 22, 2023 in English ("Scarlet & Violet — 151"). The set ships 165 regular cards plus 45 secret rares — a total of 210 cards in the Japanese set and 207 in the English print run — and revives the original Gen 1 / 151-Pokémon roster as the entire checklist. That nostalgia-driven theme is why 151 has been the highest-demand modern Scarlet & Violet release in repeat collector polls and why the 199/165 SIR sits at the top of nearly every "best modern Charizard ex" list. The set was popular enough that The Pokémon Company has reprinted SV 151 boosters multiple times across 2024–2025, which compressed secondary singles pricing and gives this article its monthly trajectory data downstream.

Every 151-Set Charizard Variant at a Glance (the Master Table)

The fastest way to know which 151 Charizard you have is one row per variant — card name, card number, rarity tier, art notes, and the booster or sealed product the card ships in. Every cell below cross-references Bulbapedia and the matching Pokémon.com card-database entry as of the brief date (2026-05-31); the rarity-tier classification follows The Pokémon Company's published rarity-symbol convention.

Two table notes the SERP gets wrong constantly. First, the regular Double Rare ex in SV 151 is 006/165 — full stop. Bulbapedia's canonical entry (Charizard_ex_(151_6)) confirms 006/165; Ahrefs shows charizard 006/165 carrying real US search volume (250/mo, KD 0). Some legacy guides cite 125/165 for the SV 151 regular ex — that card does not exist and returns zero search volume. If you see a listing or guide citing 125/165 as the SV 151 regular ex, it's misclassified — the Double Rare lives at 006/165. Second, 199/165 is the SIR — not the Full Art. The Elite Fourum thread that currently ranks at SERP position 13 for charizard 151 titles 199/165 as "Full Art" when it's actually the Special Illustration Rare; the Full Art is 183/165 (silver border, PLANETA art). Treat any listing that flips those two as misclassified and verify the cert or image before paying graded prices.

Charizard ex 006/165: the Regular Double Rare (the Playable Copy)

The 006/165 Double Rare ex is the mass-pull "playable" copy of Charizard ex in the SV 151 set — the standard orange-frame ex with PLANETA Mochizuki's art on the art panel, the HP / attack / Pokémon-ex retreat block fully visible, and the orange Double Rare rarity treatment around the frame. This is the card a SV 151 booster box is statistically most likely to deliver in the ex slot, the card most TCG players want as a deck copy, and the card most binder collectors want as a set-completion piece. It is not the secret-rare chase, and that's exactly why it carries a clean, well-understood value profile.

• How to identify. The card number reads 006/165 in the lower-left corner — 006 is at or below the set total 165, which marks it as an in-set print. The rarity symbol is the Double Rare diamond pair (◆◆), and the orange ex text frame is visible across the art panel.
• Pull rate. Double Rare ex is the most accessible ex tier — community pull-rate aggregators (Bulbapedia and PokéBeach reference) typically cluster Double Rare ex at roughly one per booster box for any S&V-era set, though SV 151's reprint cycles can shift week-to-week.
• Current value. Raw NM trades in the low single digits to ~$15 across normal condition spreads. PSA 10 typically lands in the $30–$70 range on a clean grade — cross-reference Card Ladder for trailing-90 sale-by-sale anchors.
• Should you grade it? Generally no. The PSA-10-vs-raw spread on the 006/165 rarely clears the $15–$25 grading fee plus shipping reliably. Grade only if the pull is pristine and you're a completionist who wants the slabbed copy on the shelf.
• Use cases. The deck copy for TCG play; the binder copy for set completion; the "I pulled a 151 Charizard ex" social-media flex without the four-figure PSA-10 chase.

Hand off: for the broader Double Rare ex framework — why the playable tier carries minimal grading economics across every modern set and how it compares to Full Art and SIR — see the Charizard ex guide.

Charizard ex 183/165: the Ultra Rare Full Art (the Under-Covered Secondary)

The 183/165 Full Art Ultra Rare is the 2,500-monthly-search KD-0 secondary the SERP doesn't deep-dive — every retailer product page covers it as a SKU, but no editorial walks the value math or the SIR-vs-Full-Art disambiguation. This is the textured-silver-border full-body PLANETA Mochizuki version of Charizard ex: the entire card is foiled in a Pokémon-cosmos silver pattern, the full-body Charizard art runs to the edge of the silver border, and there is no text frame overlaid on the art panel itself (that's what makes it "Full Art" and not the in-set regular ex).

• How to identify. Card number 183/165 — the 183 is above the set total 165, marking it as a secret-rare-slot card. The rarity symbol is Ultra Rare. The entire card carries the textured silver foil pattern, and the full-body PLANETA art runs edge-to-edge of the silver border.
• Pull rate. Full Art Ultra Rare lives in the secret-rare-slot pool — community pull-rate aggregators cluster Full Art Ultra Rare around 1-in-100ish booster packs for a typical S&V booster (Bulbapedia + PokéBeach reference), though again 151's reprint cycles can shift the effective pull rate week-to-week.
• Current value. The 183/165 Full Art trades meaningfully below the 199/165 SIR — the SIR carries the chase premium because the storytelling composition is the more memorable art piece. The typical pattern across the SV 151 secondary is the Full Art running at roughly 40–60% of the SIR price at the same grade. Cross-reference Sports Card Investor's per-printing page for the 183/165 Ultra Rare and Card Ladder for trailing-90 sale data before quoting a number.
• Should you grade it? Yes at PSA 10 if the pull is centered with clean corners — a 3x–5x PSA-10-vs-raw spread on a clean Full Art clears the $15–$25 grading fee plus shipping meaningfully. PSA 9 sits closer to breakeven; submit only the cleanest raw copies.

Hand off: for the broader Full-Art-vs-SIR rarity-tier comparison framework across every modern Charizard ex printing (SV 151, OBF, Phantasmal Flames, Ascended Heroes), see the Charizard ex guide.

Charizard ex 199/165: the Special Illustration Rare ("Fire-Tornado")

The 199/165 Special Illustration Rare is the modern grail Charizard ex of the entire Scarlet & Violet era — miki kudo's borderless fire-tornado composition, Charizard charging through a wind-spiral of flame, no border and no text frame, full-card storytelling art that defined what an SIR could do as a rarity tier. Google's knowledge panel locks this exact card as the canonical "Charizard ex" search result, which is why Ahrefs assigns charizard 151 (this card's parent topic) as the parent topic of the head term charizard ex itself. It's the single most-searched individual Charizard card in the modern era — 15,000 monthly searches on charizard 151 alone, 13,000 on charizard ex 151, and a meaningful slice of the 48,000-monthly-search charizard ex head term routes here.

• How to identify. Card number 199/165 — well above the set total, secret-rare slot. The SIR rarity symbol sits on the card. No border, no text frame on the art panel; the art is fully borderless and runs all the way to the card edge. A distinctive horizontal-line SIR foil pattern overlays the art. The miki kudo illustrator credit reads at the bottom of the art panel.
• Pull rate. SIR is the rarest non-Hyper-Rare tier in modern boosters — community pull-rate aggregators put SIR pulls at roughly 1-in-150 to 1-in-180 booster packs for typical S&V boosters. SV 151 reprints have softened that effective rate slightly but it remains the chase tier.
• Current value (May 29, 2026, per Sports Card Investor): raw NM $408.67; PSA 9 14-day average $435; PSA 10 14-day average $1,710. PSA-9-to-PSA-10 spread is approximately 4x — the textbook modern SIR grading-economics case.
• Monthly trajectory (per Bleeding Cool's Pokémon TCG Value Watch: Scarlet & Violet — 151 series). Nov 2024 ~$184.91 → Jan 2025 ~$238.52 → Feb 2025 peak ~$288.23 → Apr 2025 ~$222.39 → May 2025 ~$196.01, then recovering through end-2025 and into Q1 2026 to the current ~$408 raw range. The SV 151 reprint cycles have been the primary price-suppression driver across that window; chase-card demand for the card itself is structural.
• Should you grade it? Yes at PSA 10 on a clean, centered, sharp-cornered pull — the 4x PSA-10-vs-raw spread is the textbook modern SIR case. PSA 9 grades sit near breakeven once $15–$25 in grading fees plus shipping are loaded. A beat-up raw copy is not worth submitting at any grade.

Hand off: for the broader SIR-tier explainer (the rarity tier The Pokémon Company introduced in Scarlet & Violet, how SIRs compare to Full Art Ultra Rares and Hyper Rares across every printing), see the Charizard ex guide. For the cross-Charizard chronology including pre-ex VSTAR, V, GX, and EX-era highlights, see the Charizard set-by-set guide.

Charizard ex 201/165: the Japan-Only SV2a Special Art Rare

The 201/165 is the Japanese-market Special Art Rare from SV2a "Pokémon Card 151" — and it is not simply a Japanese-language reprint of the English 199/165 SIR. It's a distinct card with a distinct print run, distinct distribution, and a different art treatment in the SAR rarity tier. The Japanese SV2a set ships three additional cards the English SV 151 set doesn't include, and the 201/165 Charizard ex is one of them. Combined US search volume on charizard 151 japanese (600/mo) and japanese charizard 151 (400/mo) makes this a meaningful persona — collectors specifically chasing the Japan-only print as a completionist piece or for the SAR art treatment, plus collectors who bought one assuming it was just a JP-language SIR and want to understand what they actually have.

• How to identify. Card number 201/165. Japanese-language card text. SV2a set code. SAR (Special Art Rare) rarity symbol. The art treatment is distinct from the English 199/165 SIR's fire-tornado composition — cross-reference Bulbapedia's SV2a entry and the TCGplayer JP product page before buying.
• Why it matters for English-market collectors. Some English collectors specifically chase the JP SAR for completionism; some assume it's the JP version of the English SIR and are surprised when the art differs. Both personas land on this section.
• Current value. Trades on a different market than the English SIR — typically a lower raw absolute price than the English SIR but with collector premium attached to sealed Japanese SV2a product and to the Japan-only print. Cross-reference PriceCharting's JP card hub for the 201/165 before quoting.
• Should you grade it? Yes at PSA 10 on a clean pull. PSA, CGC, and SGC all accept Japanese cards and grading economics are similar to the English equivalents; the high-end Japanese-market chase is the BGS Japan-only "10 Black Label" tier, which adds a Japan-specific grader premium on top.

Hand off: Japanese SV2a context outside Charizard lives outside this article — for the full SV 151 / SV2a set context including the Japan-only Pikachu cards and the broader chase tier, the SV 151 set / pack guide is the right destination.

The SVP 056 Black Star Promo: the Charizard ex Super-Premium Collection

The SVP 056 Black Star Promo Charizard ex shipped exclusively in the Charizard ex Super-Premium Collection released October 4, 2024, $79.99 MSRP from Pokémon Center. The SPC packed one SVP 056 Charizard ex promo, ten booster packs from various S&V-era sets, two SV 151-numbered Cosmos Holo cards (Charmander 004/165 and Charmeleon 005/165, exclusive to this sealed product), one Charizard card-display figure, and one TCG Live code card. The Cosmos Holo Charmander and Charmeleon matter for 151 completionists specifically: those are 151-set-numbered holos that only exist inside the SPC sealed product, so any "every 151 holo" set-build requires owning the SPC.

The SVP 056 promo itself uses the 151-era SV2a Charizard ex art identity but is technically a separate card from the 006 / 183 / 199 / 201 in-set variants — it sits in the SVP (Scarlet & Violet Promo) Black Star Promos run, not in the SV 151 set itself. Cross-reference Pokémon Center's product gallery and the Cardmarket SVP056 entry before paying premium-secondary on any listing claiming the card.

No, There Is No Gold Hyper Rare Charizard ex in 151

The reason collectors search for a gold 151 Charizard ex anyway is structural: Obsidian Flames shipped its 228/197 gold Hyper Rare two months after SV 151, and every modern ex-mechanic set since (Paradox Rift, Twilight Masquerade, Surging Sparks, Phantasmal Flames, Ascended Heroes) has shipped at least one gold variant for its headline ex Pokémon. Collectors reasonably assume SV 151 follows the same pattern. It doesn't — the SV 151 secret-rare slot for Charizard maxes out at the Special Illustration Rare and the Japan-only Special Art Rare, full stop.

If you specifically want a gold modern Charizard ex, the printings that actually exist are: the Obsidian Flames 228/197 Hyper Rare (the first modern gold Charizard ex; the matched lineup walkthrough lives in the Charizard Obsidian Flames guide); the Phantasmal Flames Mega Charizard X ex gold-tier variants from November 14, 2025; and the brand-new Ascended Heroes Mega Charizard Y ex 294/217 Mega Hyper Rare (a gold-etched new top-rarity tier introduced January 30, 2026, the highest-demand Charizard ex print of 2026 at ~$565 raw per Cardrake / PriceCharting). The full Mega lineup walkthrough lives in the Mega Charizard ex guide; the cross-set rarity-tier framework lives in the Charizard ex guide.

How to Identify Which 151 Charizard Variant You Pulled

If you just ripped a SV 151 booster pack and pulled a Charizard ex, the identification path is six steps and almost always solvable from the card itself before you ever look up a comp:

1. Find the card number in the lower-left corner of the card frame — e.g. 006/165, 183/165, 199/165, 201/165. The first three digits are the print number; the second three are the set total. That pair is the unambiguous identifier.
2. If the first-three is ≤ the set total (006/165), you have the Double Rare regular ex — the playable card with the orange ex text frame.
3. If the first-three is HIGHER than the set total (183/165, 199/165, 201/165), you have a secret-rare-slot variant — Full Art Ultra Rare, SIR, or Japanese SAR.
4. Look at the art and the border. Textured silver border with full-body PLANETA art and no text frame on the art panel = 183/165 Full Art Ultra Rare. Borderless full-card art with no border at all and a storytelling miki kudo "fire-tornado" composition = 199/165 SIR. Japanese-language text plus SAR rarity symbol plus a different art treatment from the English SIR = 201/165 Japan-only SAR.
5. Check the foil pattern. SIR uses a distinctive horizontal-line foil overlaid on the borderless art. Full Art Ultra Rare uses a textured silver cosmos / starburst foil across the whole card. The Japanese SAR uses the SV2a SAR foil treatment.
6. Verify on the canonical source. Pokémon.com's official card database carries the 006/165 entry; Bulbapedia maintains canonical cross-references for all five variants including the SVP 056 promo. For graded copies, cross-check the cert on the grader's own website — PSA cert lookup, CGC cert lookup, SGC cert lookup.

Should You Grade Your 151 Charizard? PSA-9 vs PSA-10 Economics

PSA-9-to-PSA-10 spread drives the entire SV 151 Charizard grading economy, and the answer to "should I submit?" is variant-dependent. Every figure below traces to a linked aggregator at the brief date — values move; this is range orientation, not a quote. PSA Standard service runs roughly $15–$25 per card plus shipping at current public tiers (live pricing on psacard.com); CGC and SGC sit in the same band. The honest sweep across the four English variants plus the JP SAR and the SPC promo, all comps as of May 29, 2026:

006/165 Double Rare regular ex — Raw NM low-single-digits to ~$15. PSA 10 typically $30–$70. PSA-10-vs-raw spread rarely clears the $15–$25 grading fee plus shipping reliably. Don't grade unless pull is pristine and completionist intent.

183/165 Full Art Ultra Rare — PSA-10-vs-raw spread typically 3x–5x on a clean centered pull — clears grading cost meaningfully. Yes grade at PSA 10 on a clean copy. PSA 9 sits closer to breakeven; only the cleanest raw copies are worth submitting.

199/165 SIR — Raw NM $408.67, PSA 9 $435, PSA 10 $1,710 (14-day averages per Sports Card Investor, May 29, 2026). PSA-10-vs-raw spread ≈ 4x — the textbook modern SIR case. Yes grade at PSA 10 on a centered, sharp-cornered pull. PSA 9 grades sit near breakeven after fees and shipping. Beat raw copies aren't worth submitting at any grade.

201/165 Japanese SAR — PSA, CGC, and SGC accept Japanese cards on parity with English. Yes grade at PSA 10 on a clean pull; the JP-market collector premium adds to the PSA-10 spread on top of the standard SIR-tier economics. BGS Japan's "10 Black Label" tier is the high-end Japan-specific chase.

SVP 056 SPC promo — Economics here are sealed-product-driven rather than chase-card-driven. Grade only if you specifically want the slabbed promo display copy for your SPC shelf — the PSA-10 spread doesn't carry the chase-card multiplier the SIR does.

Grading economics, plainly stated. Pull quality matters more than the print across every 151 Charizard variant. A centered, sharp-cornered raw copy is worth submitting if the variant carries enough PSA-10 spread; a beat-up raw copy isn't, no matter how chased the printing. The broader PSA-10 vs PSA-9 grading-economics framework across all Charizards (including vintage and across other modern sets) lives in the parent Charizard set-by-set guide; the per-printing PSA-10 sweep across SV 151, OBF, Paldean Fates, Phantasmal Flames, and Ascended Heroes lives in the sibling Charizard ex guide. Specific dollar figures move weekly — treat any value cited here as a starting point and check Card Ladder and the linked comp sources at decision time.

Decision Aid: Which 151 Charizard Variant Should You Chase?

The four-variants-plus-promo lineup looks dense from the SERP, but the chase logic per variant is actually pretty clean. Honest framing per print:

The honest takeaway: most collectors chase the 199/165 SIR because it's the art, the grail, and the canonical "Charizard ex" on Google. 183/165 Full Art is the under-priced arbitrage pick for collectors who'd rather own PLANETA's full-body Charizard than the storytelling composition. 006/165 is the entry point for binder collectors who want a 151 Charizard ex without the four-figure PSA-10 chase. JP 201/165 is the completionist add for anyone who wants a Japanese-market piece on the wall. The SPC bundles the SVP 056 promo with the Cosmos Holo Charmander + Charmeleon plus a Charizard display figure for $79.99 MSRP — secondary depends on where the Charizard price cycle is sitting.

Hunt a 151 Charizard ex Without Buying a Sealed Booster Box

Three legitimate paths exist for any collector who wants a SV 151 Charizard ex in-hand, and the right one depends entirely on what experience you're actually buying:

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