The Best Pokémon Cards for Halloween: 22 Spooky Picks

Pokémon has had ghosts since Gastly in 1996, and the card game has spent 30 years drawing them in haunted houses, graveyards and candlelit halls. These are the 22 cards we would pick for Halloween, from a $16.51 Lampent to a $2,063.55 Gengar & Mimikyu, chosen for how spooky the art is rather than how they play. Prices are TCGplayer market prices on 2 October 2026, with sterling at $1 = £0.7575.

Halloween 2026: what is out this month

There is no new Halloween product on shop shelves yet. Pokémon released a Trick or Trade BOOster Bundle of stamped mini packs every autumn from 2022 to 2024, skipped 2025, and has not announced one for 2026. The Halloween cards this year come from Pokémon League instead:

Last year’s equivalent was a single pumpkin-stamped Spiritomb (Mega Evolution 087) handed out at Pokéween events. Find your nearest League with the Play! Pokémon event locator before the end of the month.

Spooky cards under $50

The Scarlet & Violet era’s illustration rares are where Halloween collecting gets good on a budget. Two sets have a whole evolution line drawn as one story: Shrouded Fable’s Duskull, Dusclops and Dusknoir, all by James Turner, and White Flare’s Litwick, Lampent and Chandelure. Each trio costs about $111 together.

Lampent

White Flare · 102/086Illustration Rare

$16.51 £13

Lampent hangs in a gothic arched hallway like a lamp someone forgot to put out. The cheapest card in this guide.

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Greavard

Scarlet & Violet · 214/198Illustration Rare

$19.53 £15

A candle-headed ghost puppy on a rug, with a Gastly in the corner. Its attack is called Graveyard Gamboling.

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Litwick

White Flare · 101/086Illustration Rare

$25.15 £19

A lone candle flame under a full moon beside an ivy-covered stone wall. Naoyo Kimura’s art is the quietest card here.

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Cofagrigus

White Flare · 123/086Illustration Rare

$28.42 £22

The Coffin Pokémon, all gold sarcophagus and grasping shadow hands, against a mottled red and teal backdrop.

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Dusclops

Shrouded Fable · 069/064Illustration Rare

$30.34 £23

The middle of James Turner’s three-card Duskull story: a flat, comic-style night scene in teal.

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Dusknoir

Shrouded Fable · 070/064Illustration Rare

$32.13 £24

The end of the Duskull story, now in deep purple. Its Ability is Cursed Blast.

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Sinistcha ex

Twilight Masquerade · 210/167Special Illustration Rare

$34.82 £26

A dusty attic of old books and teaware, with Sinistcha perched in its pot. The cheapest special illustration rare in the guide.

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Mismagius

Paldea Evolved · 212/193Illustration Rare

$37.19 £28

Pokémon’s witch, hat and all, framed in an ornate arch like a portrait in a haunted house.

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Haunter

Mega Evolution Black Star Promos · 027Illustration Rare promo

$41.72 £32

Haunter grinning out of dense jungle leaves, the kind of face you see once and then can’t stop seeing.

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Duskull

Shrouded Fable · 068/064Illustration Rare

$49.06 £37

Duskull drifting down an empty street of houses at night. The first card of James Turner’s trio, and the dearest of the three.

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$50 to $200

Spend a little more and you get the best haunted-house card of the decade, an original 1999 holo and the nightmare Pokémon itself.

Haunter

Fossil · 6/62Holo Rare (1999)

$51.82 £39

The 1999 original, fading into a starry purple void. Its Pokémon Power, Transparency, could make an attack pass straight through it. Unlimited price shown; 1st Edition is $169.82.

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Houndoom

Shrouded Fable · 066/064Illustration Rare

$57.96 £44

Almost black and white: a snarling hellhound stepping out of the dark.

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Chandelure

White Flare · 103/086Illustration Rare

$69.35 £53

The chandelier ghost lit up in a grand candlelit hall. With Litwick and Lampent it makes a three-card Halloween line for about $111.

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Mega Froslass ex

Ascended Heroes · 275/217Special Illustration Rare

$69.55 £53

Froslass is based on the yuki-onna, the snow-woman ghost of Japanese folklore. Here she rides a storm of red and gold.

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Gastly

Temporal Forces · 177/162Illustration Rare

$96.44 £73

A Meowth runs for its life down an alley while a mob of Gastly, Haunter and Gengar pours out after it. If you buy one card for Halloween, make it this one.

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Ceruledge ex

Prismatic Evolutions · 147/131Special Illustration Rare

$99.55 £75

The Fire and Ghost swordsman, wrapped in purple flame and shattered crystal.

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Dragapult ex

Prismatic Evolutions · 165/131Special Illustration Rare

$103.08 £78

The Dragon and Ghost Stealth Pokémon in a burst of stained-glass colour. Its attack is Phantom Dive.

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Mega Darkrai ex

Pitch Black · 116/084Special Illustration Rare

$163.27 £124

Darkrai is the Pokémon of nightmares, and this card looks like one: almost colourless smoke, and one pink eye.

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The Halloween grails

Three of the four most expensive cards here are Gengar. For the full ranking of Gengar cards, see the 10 most expensive Gengar cards.

Giratina V

Lost Origin · 186/196Alternate Art

$847.15 £642

Giratina rising out of the Distortion World, the upside-down realm it rules, drawn as a dense black-and-gold maze.

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Mega Gengar ex

Ascended Heroes · 284/217Special Illustration Rare

$851.40 £645

The newest Gengar grail: Mega Gengar bursting out of a riot of red, green and violet.

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Gengar VMAX

Fusion Strike · 271/264Alternate Art

$1,024.03 £776

Gigantamax Gengar’s mouth opens into a pink vortex that is swallowing other Pokémon whole. The attack is G-Max Swallow Up.

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Gengar & Mimikyu GX

Team Up · 165/181Alternate Art

$2,063.55 £1,563

Two of the game’s favourite ghosts, grinning side by side. Its GX attack is called Horror House GX, which settles the argument.

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Trick or Trade: Halloween’s own cards

Trick or Trade BOOster Bundles were made to hand out instead of sweets: small packs of three cards, sold in bundles, released in the US, Canada and the UK. Each year’s set is 30 Halloween-themed Pokémon reprinted from recent expansions. They keep their original set numbers, with a small Pikachu jack-o’-lantern stamped in the bottom right of the artwork.

The singles are cheap: the most expensive stamped card on TCGplayer is the 2024 cosmos holo Gengar at $3.85, and most sell for under 50 cents. That makes them the best cards here for actually giving to trick-or-treaters. The 2024 packs are not random either: each is one of ten pre-sorted packs with no overlap, so ten packs make a complete set. Bundle prices above are TCGplayer market prices for sealed bundles, which rose after they left shops; retailers re-stocked older bundles in 2025, so check high-street shops before paying those prices.

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