How Much Does a Complete PSA 10 Gym Challenge Set Cost? (2026): Every Holo, Both Printings
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A complete PSA 10 Gym Challenge set costs $141,938 as of July 10, 2026 — every tracked chase card across both printings (1st Edition and Unlimited), priced at gem-mint fair market value from real eBay and Fanatics sold comps. At 36 tracked printings it is the deepest itemized bill of any set page in this series: what all twenty holos cost in PSA 10 per printing, why Blaine's Charizard is the anchor but not most of the bill, and what the same set runs in PSA 9 for a seventh of the price.
The total is computed live by our Gym Challenge market index and moves with every verified sale — this article re-prices monthly. It is one chapter of the full WOTC set-cost guide, its population twin is the Gym Challenge pop report, and the other Gym set has its own bill in what a complete PSA 10 Gym Heroes set costs.
How Much Does a Complete PSA 10 Gym Challenge Set Cost?
$141,938. That covers the 36 Gym Challenge printings our index tracks with live comps: the full twenty-holo chase run in 1st Edition, plus the 16 Unlimited printings that still have a verified gem market. It is not a static estimate — here is the same basket over the last six months:
The basket is up 73% in six months — from $82,054 in February to $141,938 in July — with almost all of the move landing between February and April, when the trainer-owned gym cards repriced as a class. Since May the line has gone flat: a re-rating, then a plateau, not a mania. For the supply side of the same move — how few of these gems exist, especially in Unlimited — see the Gym Challenge pop report.
What Does Every Gym Challenge Holo Cost in PSA 10?
The itemized bill: twenty holos — sixteen trainer-owned Pokémon plus the four Gym Leader trainer holos — in both printings, side by side. Every card links to its live price page; the footer row is the complete-run total. A dash means that printing has no tracked PSA 10 comp in the archive — four Unlimited holos (Blaine'S Arcanine, Giovanni'S Gyarados, Koga'S Beedrill, Misty'S Golduck) trade so rarely in gem mint that no verified 10 has crossed the tape recently. Those are real gaps in the market, not gaps in the data — and they mean the true all-twenty Unlimited number is higher than the footer total.
| # | Card | 1st Ed 10 | Unlimited 10 | 1st Ed 9 | Unlimited 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  Blaine'S Arcanine | $4,680 | — | $900 | $259 |
| #2 |  Blaine'S Charizard | $18,600 | $5,499 | $3,100 | $1,230 |
| #3 |  Brock'S Ninetales | $2,130 | $1,110 | $348 | $130 |
| #4 |  Erika'S Venusaur | $10,200 | $2,700 | $1,100 | $350 |
| #5 |  Giovanni'S Gyarados | $3,240 | — | $366 | $240 |
| #6 |  Giovanni'S Machamp | $2,160 | $575 | $339 | $86 |
| #7 |  Giovanni'S Nidoking | $1,732 | $1,050 | $350 | $106 |
| #8 |  Giovanni'S Persian | $10,500 | $1,560 | $350 | $180 |
| #9 |  Koga'S Beedrill | $2,500 | — | $185 | $66 |
| #10 |  Koga'S Ditto | $2,040 | $1,035 | $380 | $70 |
| #11 |  Lt. Surge | $2,408 | $790 | $103 | $110 |
| #12 |  Misty'S Golduck | $6,000 | — | $360 | $126 |
| #13 |  Misty'S Gyarados | $5,040 | $2,520 | $840 | $198 |
| #14 |  Rocket'S Mewtwo | $6,300 | $6,300 | $1,770 | $390 |
| #15 |  Rocket'S Zapdos | $2,880 | $1,899 | $500 | $156 |
| #16 |  Sabrina'S Alakazam | $3,360 | $1,399 | $630 | $145 |
| #17 |  Blaine | $211 | $103 | $74 | $98 |
| #18 |  Giovanni | $470 | $138 | $55 | $81 |
| #19 |  Koga | $470 | $179 | $128 | $39 |
| #20 |  Sabrina | $450 | $598 | $250 | $150 |
| Complete run | $85,371 | $27,455 | $12,128 | $4,210 | |
One row earns a highlight: Unlimited Rocket's Zapdos's verified gem sale — $1,899 on July 5, 2026 — put a thin, modeled-pop Unlimited printing more than ten times above its own $156PSA 9. And notice two rows where the table quietly previews the pop story: Rocket's Mewtwo prices identically in both printings ($6,300each), and Sabrina's Unlimited ($598) actually clears its 1st Edition ($450). The pop report explains why: the Unlimited printings are the rarer gems almost across the board.
How Much of the Cost Is Blaine's Charizard?
13% — the $18,6001st Edition Blaine's Charizard is the anchor, not the bill.Add Giovanni's Persian ($10,500), Erika's Venusaur ($10,200), and both Rocket's Mewtwos, and the top five printings are still only 37% of the total. Compare that with Base Set, where one Charizard is 61% of the number: Gym Challenge is the broadest bill in the WOTC binder, a set where completing actually means buying twenty markets, not one grail plus rounding. Here is the face of the set, live:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 10 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
View live data on CardboardSniper →The second tier is where the set gets interesting: Erika's Venusaur is the scarcity story ($10,200on a pop-107 gem — the highest price per unit of gem supply in the set), and Giovanni's Persian at $10,500 is the strangest expensive card of the era — a non-Charizard cat outpricing everything but the Charizard itself.
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 5 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
View live data on CardboardSniper →How Much Does a PSA 9 Gym Challenge Set Cost Instead?
$12,128 for the twenty-holo 1st Edition run in PSA 9 — about a seventh of the gem-mint version — and the Unlimited run in PSA 9 is just $4,210. This is the sane-collector build: same cards, same stamp, one grade down, at a discount that exists because of grading scarcity, not card scarcity. The PSA 9 vs PSA 10 guidecovers when that discount is a gift and when it's fair, and the PSA 10 value calculatorprices any single card's premium.
What Is the Cheapest Way to Complete a Gym Challenge Set?
Three builds, in ascending order of pain:
- Unlimited PSA 10 run — $27,455, but incomplete. Only 16 of the twenty holos have a live Unlimited gem market; the other four have no recent verified 10 at any price. Cheapest on paper, and the hardest hunt in practice — the pop report shows why the unstamped gems barely exist.
- Mixed-printing gem path — $43,727. All twenty holos in PSA 10, taking whichever printing is cheaper card by card — every leg a verified comp.
- 1st Edition PSA 10 run — $85,371. The trophy build, and — unusually for a WOTC set — every one of the twenty holos has a recent verified 1st Edition gem comp. The Charizard is 13% of the budget, so unlike Base Set you can genuinely plan it as one line item among twenty.
Whichever build you pick, the live deal feed surfaces below-market graded Gym Challenge inventory across Collector Crypt, Courtyard, and Phygitals, and the card-by-card numbers behind every line here live in the Gym Challenge investing guide.
Gym Challenge Cost FAQ
How much does a complete PSA 10 Gym Challenge set cost?
$141,938 as of July 10, 2026, across 36 tracked printings spanning 1st Edition and Unlimited, priced from real eBay and Fanatics sold comps and tracked live on the Gym Challenge index.
How much is a complete PSA 10 1st Edition Gym Challenge set?
$85,371 for the full twenty-holo 1st Edition run — and every holo has a recent verified gem comp, so that number has no gaps. The $18,600Blaine's Charizard is 13% of it.
How much does a PSA 9 Gym Challenge set cost?
$12,128 for the twenty-holo 1st Edition run in PSA 9, or $4,210 in Unlimited — the same cards at a fraction of gem-mint cost.
What is the cheapest way to complete a Gym Challenge set in PSA 10?
The mixed-printing path: all twenty holos, cheapest printing per card, for $43,727. A pure Unlimited run lists at $27,455 but is incomplete — four holos have no verified Unlimited 10 on record.
Is a complete PSA 10 Gym Challenge set a good investment?
The basket is up 73% over six months ($82,054 in February to $141,938 in July), and unlike Base Set the move is broad — the top five printings are only 37% of the bill, so returns aren't one card in disguise. The Gym Challenge investing guide ranks every holo by the numbers. Nothing here is financial advice.
Keep the number live: the Gym Challenge index re-prices this entire page daily, the WOTC set-cost guide puts all fifteen sets side by side, and the Gym Challenge pop report shows how many of these gems exist at all.
