Team Magmas Groudon EX
Quick take
- nagimiso's first illustrated Pokemon card, shared with the Kyogre EX counterpart
- From Double Crisis, a 34-card collector-focused XY-era release
- Full-art scene featuring Groudon with Magma admins Courtney and Tabitha
- One of the two cards that gate a complete Double Crisis master set
Collector's readWhat it means for your master set
Set landscapeWhere this card sits in Double Crisis
VariantsCard variants
Holofoil 15/34 · $475.78 — the only variant this card was printed in (no reverse holo or special pattern), so a master set needs just this one copy.
The storyAn artist's debut card that anchors the Double Crisis set
This is the card nagimiso illustrated first. Team Magma's Groudon EX and its sister card, Team Aqua's Kyogre EX, were the artist's introduction to the Pokemon TCG back in 2015. That gives it a footnote in card history, and the footnote has grown louder as nagimiso's later work earned a serious following.
“nagimiso's first illustrated Pokemon card, shared with the Kyogre EX counterpart”
Double Crisis itself was a small, collector-leaning release. The set ran only 34 cards and leaned into the Hoenn villain teams, Magma and Aqua, with full-art treatments that broke from the usual EX template. Groudon does not stand alone here. The scene packs in Team Magma admins Courtney and Tabitha plus a cluster of the team's Pokemon, which makes the card read more like a story panel than a battle portrait.
For master-set builders, the dc1-15 full art is one of two cards that decide how hard the whole set is to finish. Everything else in Double Crisis is comparatively easy. These two are not.
By the numbersMarket analysis
Raw copies sit in the strong two-figure to low three-figure range depending on condition, with the Aqua Kyogre counterpart usually tracking just ahead of it. Graded gem-mint examples carry a clear multiple over raw. The live market price on this page is the number to trust.
Both Double Crisis EX cards climbed sharply from late 2024 into 2025. Kyogre started moving in the back half of 2024, and Groudon's run kicked in around the start of 2025. The driver is age plus scarcity, not a reprint or a tournament shift.
The case here is supply, not hype. A small, aged set with no reprint path tends to dry up, and the recent run reflects that. The usual caveat applies. The spike was fast, so a cool-off would not be a surprise. The artist-debut angle and the matched-pair demand give it more support than a generic XY EX.
Gem-mint grades command a meaningful premium over raw, and the gap widens for centered, clean-surface copies. Full-art EX cards from this era show edge wear and holo scratching easily, so high grades are scarcer than the raw population suggests.
Double Crisis predates the modern Scarlet and Violet rarity ladder, so the clean per-pack odds quoted for newer sets do not apply. It came as a small, fixed-content release rather than standard boxes of randomized boosters, which is part of why clean copies are now hard to source. The practical takeaway is supply. This is a decade-old short-printed set, and the two team EX full arts are the scarce end of it. Treat availability, not a printed pull rate, as the limiting factor.
Within Double Crisis, the bulk of the 34 cards are easy to find. The Groudon and Kyogre full-art EX pair sit well above everything else and account for most of the cost and difficulty of completing the set.
ArtworkWhy the art matters
nagimiso is a Japanese illustrator who entered the Pokemon TCG with Double Crisis in 2015. This card and Team Aqua's Kyogre EX were the debut. The artist went on to a long and well-regarded run across later sets, which has sent collectors circling back to where it all started.
A full-art layout with Groudon dominating the frame, set against the Team Magma leaders Courtney and Tabitha and several of the team's Pokemon. It plays as an ensemble scene rather than a solo creature shot, which suits the villain-team theme of the set.
Full-art EX card with holofoil across the entire face. The art bleeds to the borders in the full-art style, and the foiling sits under the illustration rather than confined to a window. Number 15 of 34 in the set.
It is a debut card for an artist collectors now seek out, and it is built as a paired piece with the Kyogre EX. Owning one tends to make you want the other, which is the dynamic pushing both prices.
BackgroundAbout Team Magmas Groudon EX
Groudon is the Legendary Ground-type at the center of Hoenn's mythology, the land counterpart to Kyogre's sea. Double Crisis frames it through Team Magma, the group obsessed with expanding the land, so the card ties the creature to its in-universe antagonists rather than presenting it as a neutral Legendary.
- ›Groudon is a marquee Legendary with steady cross-generation appeal
- ›The Magma versus Aqua rivalry is one of the franchise's most recognized
- ›Hoenn nostalgia among collectors who grew up on Ruby and Sapphire
- ›The matched Groudon and Kyogre pairing drives completionist buying
- ›Core Legendary of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire and their remakes
- ›Primal Groudon featured heavily across the XY-era Hoenn revival
Own it wellCollector guide
Full-art EX cards from the XY era scuff and chip readily. Check the holo surface under raking light for scratches, inspect all four corners, and look at edge whitening along the dark borders, which shows fast on these.
Worth grading if the copy is clean and well centered, since the gem-mint premium is real for this card. For lower-grade or visibly worn copies, the grading fee often eats the upside, so keep those raw. Read the grading guide →
Sleeve and toploader at minimum. For anything you would not want to replace, use a sealed semi-rigid holder or a graded slab, and keep it out of direct light and humidity to protect the foil. See the storage guide →
For meaningful money, buy graded from a reputable seller. This set's top cards are among the more faked vintage targets, so for raw copies authenticate before paying full price. Run a light test to confirm the black core layer inside the card stock, feel for the correct surface texture, check that the holo behaves like genuine full-art foil, and inspect the back's blue swirl gradient against a known-good card. If a raw price looks too good, it usually is. See the singles buying guide →
Genuine cards show a dark core layer when held to light, a consistent factory surface texture, holo movement that matches other authentic full arts, and a clean back swirl gradient with no fuzziness in the print. Counterfeits commonly fail the light test or show off-color, blurry backs. When in doubt, buy slabbed.
Protect your card
High Chase Score — protect and consider grading. · Amazon affiliate links · Storage guideWord on the streetCommunity sentiment
Collectors treat the Groudon and Kyogre full arts as the faces of Double Crisis and often discuss them as a set you complete together. The artist-debut angle gets cited regularly now that nagimiso is a known name.
- ›Hobby press reported both Double Crisis EX cards climbing in value across late 2024 into 2025
- ›Graded gem-mint copies trade at a clear premium over raw, with the Kyogre counterpart usually leading the Groudon slightly
The 2024 to 2025 price run drew coverage and chatter, with hobby outlets flagging the pair as decade-old cards that jumped in a short window. Most of the conversation centers on scarcity and whether the gain holds.
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