Muk

Muk sits at #127 in Scarlet & Violet, released in March 2023. Scarlet & Violet is part of the modern English Pokémon TCG era and uses the standard contemporary card frame and rarity tiers. Illustration by Haru Akasaka. In the games, Muk evolves from Grimer, which makes it a late-stage card in the line.

The flavor text on the card reads: "It's thickly covered with a filthy, vile sludge. It is so toxic, even its footprints contain poison." Pokédex entries from this era are short and often quirky, written by the original Japanese localization team for a specific stat-block layout that no longer exists in modern cards.

The fully evolved Grimer. Larger sludge mound. Fossil holo Muk is a quietly underrated card. Its Pokémon Power 'Toxic Gas' was a tournament-defining mechanic in 1999, which means surviving high-grade copies are scarcer than the print run suggests.

Scarlet & Violet base shipped in Holofoil, Reverse Holo, ex, Full Art, Special Illustration, and Hyper Rare. The Special Illustration Rare tier uses alternate artwork distinct from the standard ex card and is pulled at low rates. The set introduced the ex mechanic that replaced V and VSTAR.

Modern Uncommons grade cleanly. The secondary market for graded modern Uncommons is mostly set-completionist driven; standalone demand is thin. Useful as a first grading submission to learn the process.

Raw copies of this card are inexpensive enough that the grading math rarely justifies submission unless you have a clearly pack-fresh example. For set completionists, picking up a clean raw copy and sleeving it is the practical move.