Japanese Umbreon ex SAR 217/187: Raw -2.4%, PSA 10 Comps +21.7%
The Japanese Umbreon ex Special Art Rare (217/187) from Terastal Fest ex (SV8a) has come up before in our market tracking — it’s one of the higher-value SARs we follow — and over the last 16 days it’s given us a genuinely unusual pattern to dig into: the raw market price eased, the PSA 10 grade’s own sale price eased too, yet the number of PSA 10 sales we’re seeing recorded kept climbing. In our own store, the same card sold for the highest price of any single-card transaction we’ve tracked in weeks, and searches for it have been building. Here’s what our first-party data and daily market tracking actually say — including the part that doesn’t fit a simple “up” or “down” headline.
A quick note on how we report: this article deliberately combines two lenses — demand signals from our own store (what collectors search for and buy at JariseStore) and market-wide prices and sale counts we track daily. One shop’s data alone can mislead; together, the two give a more reliable picture. Where the numbers point in different directions — as they do here — we show all of them rather than pick the one that tells the cleanest story.
What is Umbreon ex SAR 217/187?
Terastal Fest ex (SV8a) is a Japanese High Class Pack released on December 6, 2024, built around Tera-form “ex” Pokémon. What made the set an instant favorite with collectors, though, wasn’t its main mechanic — it was a subset of nine Special Art Rares (SARs) turning every Eeveelution, from Vaporeon to Sylveon, into a full-art Tera Pokémon ex, alongside a run of Master Ball–pattern mirror variants and God Packs built to contain several of them at once. Umbreon ex (217/187) is one of those nine, and — consistent with Umbreon’s long-standing status as one of the most collected Eeveelutions in the hobby — it’s the one that has traded at the highest price in our own tracking of the set.
As a game piece, Umbreon ex is a Darkness-type Tera Pokémon with a straightforward kit, but nobody is chasing 217/187 to play it. This is a collector card, and the report below is about collector demand and market behavior, not competitive value.
Card profile
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Card | Umbreon ex |
| Number / Rarity | 217/187 · SAR (Special Art Rare) |
| Set | Terastal Fest ex — SV8a (Japanese) |
| Release | December 6, 2024 (Japan) |
| Type | Darkness · Tera Pokémon ex |
| TCGplayer product ID | 602681 |
What our store data shows: quiet, targeted interest
We sell Japanese single cards to collectors worldwide, and we track (anonymously and in aggregate — never at the level of individual customers) what people search for, view, and buy. For this card, two signals stand out, and neither looks like a typical browsing spike.
1. Views are low in volume but unusually focused
Over the past 30 days this listing drew 47 product-page views across 46 sessions — enough to place it among our more-viewed single cards, but the more telling number is the shape of that traffic. Across our whole catalog, a session that views this page views an average of 1.96 product pages before it ends. Sessions that landed on the Umbreon ex SAR page averaged just 1.02 — almost exactly one page and nothing else.
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Umbreon ex SAR page | 1.02 |
| Sitewide average | 1.96 |
That pattern reads less like casual browsing and more like a visitor who already knew exactly which card they wanted before they arrived.
2. Search interest tripled, and the card sold for our highest price in weeks
”Umbreon” searches in our store went from 2 in the week of July 8–14 to 6 in the week of July 15–21 — a small base, but a real tripling, and one of the larger week-over-week moves among search terms that aren’t already the subject of one of our other price watches.
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 8–14 | 2 |
| Jul 15–21 | 6 |
That search interest lines up with a real sale: on July 9, 2026, a Near Mint copy of this exact card sold in our store for ¥71,565 (≈US$442A$632NZ$759C$620S$570AED 1,622) — the highest price any single card has sold for in our store in recent weeks. One honest caveat: that’s a single transaction, not a price series, so we’re not treating it as a trend on its own. What it does confirm is that real buyers are paying up for a verified, well-photographed copy of this specific card right now.
Raw market price: down 2.4%, without much drama
We track this exact printing — the Japanese SAR, product ID 602681 — daily against TCGplayer market price and eBay sold data. Over the 16 days we’re reporting on, the raw Near Mint price moved down in small, steady steps rather than one sharp drop:
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 7 | $455.68 |
| Jul 12 | $454.77 |
| Jul 18 | $453.61 |
| Jul 19 | $450.85 |
| Jul 21 | $444.85 |
| Jul 22 | $444.85 |
From US$455.68 on July 7 to US$444.85 on July 22 — a decline of 2.4%, with no single day accounting for most of the move. For a card trading in the mid-$400s, that’s a mild pullback, not a correction.
PSA 10 and PSA 9: the price eased too, but sales kept climbing
This is the part of the report we want to be careful and specific about, because it’s easy to read “PSA 10 activity is up” as “PSA 10 prices are up” — and here, that would be wrong. Over the same 16 days, the PSA 10 eBay sold price itself also eased, moving around more than the raw price did along the way. It started at US$702.50 on July 7, dropped further than the endpoint suggests — down to US$586.38 in the middle of the window (July 16–19) — before recovering to US$672.17 by July 20–22. Net change over the 16 days: −4.3%.
What moved in the opposite direction is the number of PSA 10 sold comps behind that price — the sample the price is calculated from. That rose from 336 to 409 over the same window, a +21.7% increase:
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Jul 7 | 336 |
| Jul 16 | 342 |
| Jul 22 | 409 |
Put plainly: more PSA 10 copies are changing hands, at a slightly lower price than two weeks ago. That’s a real, if unusual, combination — rising trading activity doesn’t always come with a rising price, and here it didn’t. We tracked a sharper version of the same split on Mewtwo AR 183/165, where raw fell 14% while the PSA 10 median rose 19%.
Raw vs. graded — the same 16 days (Jul 7 → Jul 22, 2026)
| Metric | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw NM market price | US$455.68 | US$444.85 | −2.4% |
| PSA 10 eBay sold price | US$702.50 | US$672.17 | −4.3% |
| PSA 10 sold-comps count | 336 | 409 | +21.7% |
| PSA 9 eBay sold price | US$337.78 | US$347.50 | +2.9% |
| PSA 9 sold-comps count | 60 | 72 | +20.0% |
PSA 9 moved the opposite way to PSA 10 on price — up 2.9% — while also gaining sold comps. We don’t have a confirmed explanation for why PSA 9 firmed while PSA 10 softened over the same window; it may simply reflect which specific copies happened to sell in each grade during these 16 days, which is exactly the kind of thing a bigger sample resolves and a small one can’t. We’re showing the numbers rather than guessing at a story that fits them too neatly.
We were not able to obtain a verified PSA population count for this card from a primary source, and we don’t use resale marketplaces as a data source, so we’re not going to estimate one. Treat the sold-comps counts above as a measure of trading activity, not a population figure.
How this compares: a slower, higher-value market than some cards we track
Across the past 90 days, our tracking recorded 81 raw market transactions for this card as of July 22 — roughly one every 1.1 days. (Our N’s Zekrom AR report, published two days earlier, put this card’s trailing 90-day count at 79 in the same liquidity comparison; a rolling 90-day window naturally shifts a little from one snapshot to the next, which accounts for the small difference.) That’s meaningfully less frequent than a low-cost, high-volume card like N’s Zekrom AR itself (785 transactions in 90 days, at a fraction of the price). That’s the trade-off with a card in the mid-$400s: fewer transactions, but each one carries far more weight, which is part of why a swing like the PSA 10 sold-comps jump above is worth paying attention to rather than dismissing as noise.
A note on stock: the copy we sold on July 9, 2026 was our only recent sale of this exact printing, and we don’t have a confirmed current listing to point you to as we publish this — check current Umbreon ex listings →. We also regularly carry other Eeveelution singles, including printings like the Sylveon V CSR we covered in a separate report — browse Eeveelution cards → Stock turns over quickly on cards like this one; follow @jarisestore for restock alerts.
Why condition matters on a card like this
At a raw price in the mid-$400s, the gap between a true Near Mint copy and a Lightly Played one is real money, and a SAR’s textured, full-art surface hides scratches from a head-on photo that only show up at an angle. At JariseStore every card is inspected and classified into four grades — NM, LP, MP, HP — and any flaw we find is shown in the listing photos. No stock images: the photo in a listing is the exact card you’ll receive. On a card where PSA 10 and PSA 9 currently sell within roughly US$325 of each other, that surface-level honesty is most of what you’re paying a specialist for. (Weighing a submission of your own? Our PSA grading guide for Japanese cards covers the process end to end.)
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FAQ
Is Umbreon ex SAR (Terastal Fest ex) going up or down in value?
We don’t make price predictions. As of July 22, 2026: the raw Near Mint market price is down 2.4% over the past 16 days (US$455.68 → US$444.85), and the PSA 10 eBay sold price is also down over the same window (−4.3%, with a dip to US$586.38 in between) — but the number of PSA 10 sales we’re seeing recorded rose 21.7% (336 → 409 sold comps). Prices softened slightly while trading activity picked up; both are true at once.
What’s the difference between raw and PSA 10 pricing for this card?
As of July 22, 2026, a raw Near Mint copy trades around US$444.85 versus roughly US$672.17 for a PSA 10 sold comp — a gap of a little over US$225. That gap narrowed earlier in our tracking window (the PSA 10 price briefly fell to US$586.38) before widening back out. We could not confirm an official PSA population count for this card, so we’re not estimating how rare a PSA 10 actually is.
Is this the same card as Umbreon VMAX CSR from VMAX Climax?
No — they’re different cards entirely. This article covers Umbreon ex, SAR 217/187, from Terastal Fest ex (SV8a), released December 2024. Umbreon VMAX is a separate card (Character Super Rare 245/184) from the earlier VMAX Climax (S8b) set. If you’re comparing the two, check the card number and set name, not just the character name.
Is this the same card as the famous “Moonbreon”?
No. “Moonbreon” refers to the English-language Umbreon VMAX Alt Art from Evolving Skies — a completely different card, set, and language. This article covers the Japanese Umbreon ex Special Art Rare from Terastal Fest ex, a separate, more recent card.
Is grading a Japanese Umbreon ex SAR worth it?
The premium is real but has been unstable in our tracking window: PSA 10 sold comps ran from US$702.50 down to US$586.38 and back up to US$672.17 over 16 days, against a steadier raw price near US$445–456. We can’t tell you whether grading pays off — that depends on grading fees, turnaround time, and the risk of a lower grade, none of which we can price for you — but we’d note that a market moving around this much over two weeks is one where locking in a number before you submit is harder than usual.
How do I buy Japanese Pokémon cards from Japan?
Order from a Japan-based specialist that ships internationally. At JariseStore, every order ships from Japan within 2 business days with tracking; estimated delivery is 1–2 weeks to Australia, 1–3 weeks to the US, and 1–4 weeks elsewhere. Every card is individually photographed and condition-graded, so what you see is exactly what arrives.
Methodology & data sources
Store view and search figures come from our own site analytics (GA4), aggregated over the stated windows (views: sessions with a view_item event, June 22 – July 21, 2026; searches: July 8–21, 2026). Our own sales figures are reported only in aggregate and by date; we never publish customer-level information, and the July 9 sale figure reflects a single transaction, not a price series. Market prices, PSA 10 / PSA 9 sold-comps prices and counts, and the 90-day transaction count come from our in-house daily tracking of live market prices and sold listings for the Japanese SAR printing (TCGplayer product 602681), covering July 7–22, 2026; some values are unchanged between consecutive tracking days, which reflects the update cadence of our data feed rather than daily figures being recalculated from scratch each day. No verified PSA population count was available to us from a primary source (the PSA official population report was inaccessible at the time of writing), and we do not use resale marketplaces as a data source. Prices shown in your currency are converted at the official reference exchange rate of July 15, 2026 — the most recent published reference rate available to us at the time of writing; USD figures are the original source values. Figures are rounded for readability. Last updated: July 22, 2026.
About JariseStore
JariseStore is a Japan-based specialist in Japanese Pokémon single cards, shipping to collectors worldwide. Every card we sell is sourced in Japan, individually photographed, and honestly graded — no surprises, what you see is what you get. Questions about a card or shipping? Reach out on Instagram @jarisestore.
Prices and trends shown reflect data available as of July 22, 2026 and can change quickly in the trading card market. This article is for informational purposes only and is not investment advice. Pokémon and all card names are trademarks of their respective owners; JariseStore is an independent reseller and is not affiliated with The Pokémon Company.
