The 10 Most Valuable 30th Celebration Secret Rares, Ranked
A countdown of the ten priciest cards numbered past 128/128 in 30th Celebration, from the cheapest of the group up to the card that carries over a third of their combined value.
2026-09-17
A secret rare is any card numbered higher than the stated size of the set — so in a 128-card set, anything from 129 onward.
30th Celebration has 30 of them sitting past the main run, and the ten here are the ones holding the most value. Combined they come to $3,461.79. The top card alone is 36% of that, and the top two together are 57%, which tells you most of what you need to know about how this set's value is distributed.
The spread is wide. The cheapest card in this group sits at $73.81 and the median is $224.99. Below, from tenth up to first.
10. Hisuian Zorua
Hisuian Zorua
30th Celebration · #145/128 · Illustration Rare
Illustrated by 0313
$73.81
The entry point to this list, and an Illustration Rare from 0313 — an illustrator whose name alone makes me want to look twice at a card. Hisuian Zorua is a small, strange Pokémon and it suits the Illustration Rare treatment, where the art gets the full card and the Pokémon does not have to pose for the camera.
It is the cheapest of the ten, which in a set like this means it is the easiest of these to actually put in a binder.
9. Alolan Meowth
Alolan Meowth
30th Celebration · #139/128 · Illustration Rare
Illustrated by OKUBO
$98.90
OKUBO's Alolan Meowth lands just above Hisuian Zorua, close enough that the two are effectively trading in the same bracket. Alolan Meowth is a good subject for illustration art — it has a personality you can draw, which is more than can be said for a lot of Pokémon that get this treatment.
If you are building the Illustration Rare run rather than chasing the top of the set, this is one of the ones you pick up early.
8. Morpeko
Morpeko
30th Celebration · #135/128 · Illustration Rare
Illustrated by Yoshimi Miyoshi
$99.98
Yoshimi Miyoshi on Morpeko. Morpeko's whole gimmick is having two moods, and that is a gift to an illustrator working with a full-art frame.
Value-wise it sits with the Alolan Meowth and just under the Maushold — the three of them form a tight cluster near the bottom of this ranking.
7. Maushold
Maushold
30th Celebration · #146/128 · Illustration Rare
Illustrated by osare
$134.80
osare's Maushold is the most expensive Illustration Rare in this group. Maushold is a family of mice, so the card has multiple subjects to arrange, and that kind of composition problem is where Illustration Rares earn their place over a standard print.
It is the last of the Illustration Rares before this list moves up into the Special Illustration Rares, and there is a visible step in price at that boundary.
6. Greninja ex
Greninja ex
30th Celebration · #148/128 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by GIDORA
$149.50
GIDORA's Greninja ex is the cheapest Special Illustration Rare here, and the first ex card on the list. Greninja carries a lot of goodwill as a Pokémon, and GIDORA's work on it is the kind of card people buy because they want to own the art, not because they want a fifth Greninja.
Still sits below the set's median, which says something about how top-heavy the rest of this ranking is.
5. Jirachi ex
Jirachi ex
30th Celebration · #155/128 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by AKIRA EGAWA
$224.99
AKIRA EGAWA's Jirachi ex sits exactly on the median for this group at $224.99 — the halfway point of the ten. Jirachi is a wish Pokémon, and a 30th anniversary set is about the most on-theme place it could possibly appear.
This is the card in the middle of the list where the price starts climbing properly. Everything above it is in a different conversation.
4. Pikachu ex
Pikachu ex
30th Celebration · #150/128 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by kantaro
$344.50
The second of kantaro's two Pikachu ex Special Illustration Rares, and the cheaper of the pair — though only just. Two Pikachu ex SIRs from the same illustrator in the same set is an unusual bit of set design, and it means anyone completing the run has to buy both.
kantaro is the name I would be paying most attention to in this set. Two cards from one illustrator holding the third and fourth spots on a value ranking is not nothing.
3. Pikachu ex
Pikachu ex
30th Celebration · #149/128 · Special Illustration Rare
Illustrated by kantaro
$369.50
The other kantaro Pikachu ex, and the higher of the two by a small margin. Pikachu on a 30th anniversary set is the obvious headline act, and the set gives it two Special Illustration Rares rather than one.
The gap between these two Pikachu cards is small enough that if you only want one, buy whichever one you prefer looking at. That is genuinely the right way to choose here.
2. Mewtwo ex
Mewtwo ex
30th Celebration · #157/128 · Futuristic Rare
Illustrated by YOSHIROTTEN
$706.24
YOSHIROTTEN's Mewtwo ex is a Futuristic Rare — a print treatment unique to this set, and one of only two cards on this list carrying it. It is the second most valuable card in the group, and together with the Mew ex it accounts for 57% of the combined value of all ten.
YOSHIROTTEN is a graphic artist rather than a conventional Pokémon card illustrator, and the Futuristic Rares look like it. These are not soft painterly scenes. They are design objects, and they sit apart from everything else in the set.
1. Mew ex
Mew ex
30th Celebration · #158/128 · Futuristic Rare
Illustrated by YOSHIROTTEN
$1,259.57
The most expensive card in 30th Celebration, and by a clear margin — it alone is 36% of the combined value of these ten. The second YOSHIROTTEN Futuristic Rare, and the highest-numbered card on this list.
Mew as the final secret rare of a 30th anniversary set is a neat bit of design logic, and pairing it with Mewtwo across the two Futuristic Rares gives the top of the set an obvious shape. If you only buy one card from this set, you already know which one it is — and you already know it will cost you more than the other nine on this list put together do individually.
The shape of this set is simple: two Futuristic Rares at the top doing most of the heavy lifting, two Pikachu ex behind them, and then a long tail of Illustration Rares that are actually attainable. If you want the art without the outlay, start at the bottom of this list and work up. If you want the set's signature card, there is only one answer and it is not cheap.
Prices shown are the market values recorded when this article was written on 2026-09-17. Each card page carries the current figure.