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Houndoom V — Darkness Ablaze #178
Pull rate1 in 338 packs
Cost to pull~$3,414
Released2020-08

Houndoom V

Darkness Ablaze · #178 · FAV
$6.25fair value $6.04
≈ at fairPriced about right.
Demand TighteningDemand is rising as available listings shrink. A description of the data today, not a forecast.
30 daysPrice+5%Sales+25%Listings−9%
Repriced 2026-10-28 · Fair value is descriptive, not a forecast
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Price history

Raw price
Raw
$6.51▲ +$0.50 (+8.3%)past 90 days
$5.72$5.99$6.25$6.51
Aug 1Aug 23Sep 14Oct 5Oct 27
Market price
Latest raw market price · $6.51 · Oct 27, 2026
Raw is the daily TCGplayer market price. Fair value is the model's own daily reading, archived since June 2026.

Grading

Grade ladder

Confidence (High / Med / Low) is how much recorded sale history backs the price. Low means only a few sales, so treat it as directional. Prices are eBay-sold medians; ×raw is the grading premium; sales count the last 30 days.
What this card sells for at each grade, and how many sales back each price.
SkipGrading a raw copy to PSA 10 pencils about −35% expected return.Raw $6.25 → PSA 10 $77.46 · 12.4×
GradePrice× RawLast saleSales 30dConfidence
—Raw$6.25———High
PSA10$77.4612.4×$76.04 · Oct 24High
CGCPristine 10CGC 10 sales whose eBay listing says Pristine. The top CGC grade, so it can sell above a PSA 10. 4.6% of this card's graded CGC slabs are Pristine (population as of Oct 3), across everything CGC has graded, so it isn't the odds for your slab.$45.607.3×$49.20 · Jul 130Low
CGC10Pristine 10 sales are left out and shown on their own line.$22.803.6×$30.00 · Oct 112Med
SGC10$15.602.5×—0Low
Prices are eBay-sold medians; last sale is the most recent single sale; sales count the last 30 days. Confidence reflects the full sale history behind each price. Low-confidence rows rest on few sales, so treat them as directional.

Grade distribution

How copies sent to PSA have come back.
Gem rate64.8%
PSA graded1,378
PSA 10
89364.8%
PSA 9
39128.4%
PSA 8
725.2%
PSA 7
120.9%
6 & below
100.7%
Other graders · as of Oct 2026
CGC577 graded · 36.6% top · 28 Pristine
BGS48 graded · 0% top
SGC22 graded · 40.9% top
PSA population from our own psacard.com read, Oct 4, 2026. Half grades count toward the grade below (a 9.5 is a 9). Other graders as of Oct 2026.

Market

Supply & demand

How many copies are for sale, and how fast they're selling.
Raw
TCGplayer listings133126 sellers · +8% vs 7d
Sold / week11▲ 25.0% vs 30d
Demand pressure8% · soft
softhot
Supply trendsteady · -9%
ClearingBuilding
TCGplayer sales · sold per day
Aug 19Oct 23
Supply is the TCGplayer listing count; demand pressure = weekly TCGplayer sales ÷ listings (soft → hot), a single-venue sell-through read. The supply-trend gauge reads eBay where we have it, with the TCGplayer listings trend surfacing as its history matures. Descriptive market context, not a forecast.

Investment Score

One grade for how durable this card's demand looks today.
Data snapshot, not a forecast
F
32/100Avoid

Houndoom V earns a 32/100 investment score and an F grade (avoid). It's trading 4% above our fair value. It's one of the pricier cards in Darkness Ablaze. Grading it to PSA-10 doesn't pencil at today's prices. It trades thinly.

30-day moven/a
Grading edge-39%
Time window30d
What drives the scoreout of 10, vs. modeled cards
Demand
2.3
Scarcity
2.4
Stability
8.8
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