Card Value
Mewtwo Gold Star (Holon Phantoms #103): Card Value, Pull Rate, and the Quiet 7x Run Since 2021
The Mewtwo ★ from Holon Phantoms (card #103/110) trades at $6,000 raw on the Catchinary index, with PSA 10 copies reaching $8,500 at their all-time high. It's one of just three Gold Star cards in Holon Phantoms, the 13th EX-era set released in May 2006, and Catchinary's price tracker shows it's appreciated 742% since January 2021.
Here's what's driving the price, what the pull-rate math looks like, and why this card has quietly become one of vintage Pokémon's most iconic chase pieces.
Key takeaways
- Mewtwo ★ Holon Phantoms (#103) trades at $6,000 raw on Catchinary's daily index.
- PSA 10 graded copies have reached $8,500 at their all-time high (January 2022).
- The card has appreciated +742% since Catchinary started tracking in January 2021, climbing from a $200 floor.
- Holon Phantoms (May 2006) had only 3 Gold Stars total: Gyarados #102, Mewtwo #103, and Pikachu #104.
- Gold Star pull rate ran approximately 1 in 72 packs, averaging one per booster box.
- Holon Phantoms was the last EX-era set to use the box-topper model, making sealed product especially scarce two decades on.
What Holon Phantoms actually was
Holon Phantoms shipped on May 3, 2006 as the 13th main expansion in the EX block, sandwiched between Legend Maker and Crystal Guardians. The set carried 110 cards in the main checklist plus a secret-rare Mew at #111/110 that sat outside the standard print run. Production focused on the Holon-themed mechanic where certain energy cards could function as Pokémon, but the chase tier collectors actually remember was the three Gold Stars.
Catchinary indexes the full Holon Phantoms card list with current TCGplayer market prices on every card in the set.
The Gold Star tier and pull rate
Gold Stars in Holon Phantoms ran at roughly 1 in 72 packs based on community-aggregated pull data from the era. That works out to about one Gold Star per 36-pack booster box on average, slightly looser than the 1:88 rate that became standard in Power Keepers a year later. For a specific Gold Star like Mewtwo, the rate falls to roughly 1 in 216 packs, since the three Gold Stars share the pull slot evenly.
In 2026, with sealed Holon Phantoms boxes themselves climbing past $4,000, the math has fully inverted. A box buyer is now paying more than the average price of any single card the box can contain. Anyone hoping for a clean Mewtwo Gold Star at retail prices is looking at a different kind of expedition.
What the price data shows
The Mewtwo ★ price profile on Catchinary's index breaks down as:
- Raw market: $6,000 (TCGplayer-aggregated, mid)
- PSA 10 all-time high: $8,500 (recorded January 2022)
- PSA 9 high: $2,100 (recorded April 2022)
- Catchinary tracking range: $200 floor (January 2021) to $6,000+ today
- CIV Score: 89 (Elite tier, blending market heat with grading upside)
The grading premium on Mewtwo Gold Star is unusually wide compared to the Flareon Gold Star from Power Keepers a year later. Where Flareon's PSA 10 trades at roughly 1.3x raw, Mewtwo's PSA 10 high recorded near 1.4x raw at its 2022 peak. Graded copies are also far rarer in absolute terms because Holon Phantoms predates the modern grading boom by even longer than Power Keepers does.
Why it climbs so quietly
Three structural reasons stack on top of each other.
The Pokémon market has matured enough that 2006-era sealed product is now firmly treated as vintage. Holon Phantoms boosters fell out of regular retail by 2007, and any sealed product still in collector hands has been there for nearly twenty years. The pool of unsearched packs is small and shrinking.
The print run was small relative to the modern era. Total Holon Phantoms production is estimated at well under 10% of a current SV-era set. The supply of clean Mewtwo Gold Stars is finite and shrinking as cards get damaged, lost, or graded into permanently-sealed slabs.
The Mew and Mewtwo trinity in vintage Pokémon TCG drives persistent buy pressure on this specific set. Collectors building a Mewtwo-themed binder or a complete Gold Star run face the same supply pinch as Eeveelution collectors, but with even fewer cards to chase. Holon Phantoms is the only major vintage Mewtwo Star slot in English Pokémon, and the secret-rare Mew #111 sits beside it, doubling the demand on this set's chase tier.
FAQ
Is the Mewtwo Gold Star price likely to keep going up?
The trajectory has been steep but the floor has held. The Catchinary index shows steady upward movement from $200 in early 2021 to $6,000+ in 2026, with no major drawdowns. Vintage Gold Stars don't typically explode, but Mewtwo specifically has benefited from the Mew-and-Mewtwo trinity demand layered on top of the standard Gold Star scarcity. A continued 1.5-2x rise over the next 5 years is plausible if the broader vintage market holds.
Should I buy raw or graded?
For Mewtwo Gold Star specifically, graded is usually the cleaner buy because raw centering and surface defects are harder to assess at $6,000 price points. PSA 9 has historically traded below raw in this card's data, which is counterintuitive but consistent with the survivorship penalty on graded near-mints. PSA 10 is the resale-defensible position; raw is acceptable if you're buying for collection rather than flip.
How does it compare to the Flareon Gold Star from Power Keepers?
Mewtwo trades at roughly 4x Flareon's raw price ($6,000 vs $1,500) and reflects an older release year (2006 vs 2007). Mewtwo pulls demand from the Mew-Mewtwo trinity rather than the Eeveelution sub-line. Flareon is the better value play; Mewtwo is the icon-status play. Both are Catchinary index members with daily pricing.
Where can I see the live price?
Catchinary tracks Mewtwo ★ Holon Phantoms daily with current market price and price history. Or browse the full Holon Phantoms set for the rest of the chase tier and the lower-numbered holos.