Starmie · Skyridge, what to know.
About the Starmie card
Numbered 30 of 182 in Skyridge, released in May 2003, Starmie is a Rare, a Stage 1 Psychic-type carrying 80 HP.
It evolves from Staryu, so Starmie is a later-stage card that set-builders usually slot into a full evolution run rather than buy alone.
Illustrated by Hajime Kusajima.
About Starmie in the Pokémon world
The fully evolved Staryu. Two starfishes stacked, faceted center jewel. Fossil Rare with steady demand.
What is Starmie worth?
Starmie is a non-holo Rare. In Skyridge, value concentrates in the holo rares, so a Starmie trades modestly, though a clean, well-centered 1st Edition copy in PSA 10 is scarcer than the print run suggests and carries a real premium. Check the live price above for the figure by grade.
Print variants and how to spot them
Confirm the print and finish on Starmie before pricing it, since variant and rarity set the market more than the card name alone.
Grading and condition
On Starmie, look at the corners and the framed border first. Non-holo Rares took more handling than the chase holos, so a sharp, centered copy of Starmie in a true PSA 10 is harder to find than the print run suggests.
If you are collecting Starmie
For Starmie, check centering by eye, edge whitening on all four sides, and surface under angled light. Non-holo Rares from this era are cheap enough that a PSA 10 submission on a clean Starmie can make sense.
