Starmie · Brilliant Stars, what to know.
About the Starmie card
Starmie sits at #55 in Brilliant Stars, released in February 2022. Brilliant Stars is part of the modern English Pokémon TCG era and uses the standard contemporary card frame and rarity tiers. Illustration by Akira Komayama. In the games, Starmie evolves from Staryu, which makes it a late-stage card in the line.
The flavor text on the card reads: "This Pokémon has an organ known as its core. The organ glows in seven colors when Starmie is unleashing its potent psychic powers." 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.
About Starmie in the Pokémon world
The fully evolved Staryu. Two starfishes stacked, faceted center jewel. Fossil Rare with steady demand.
Print variants and how to spot them
Brilliant Stars shipped in Holofoil, Reverse Holo, V, VSTAR, Trainer Gallery, and Rainbow Rare. Trainer Gallery cards are numbered TG01 onwards as a parallel subset. The Charizard VSTAR Rainbow Rare is the headline chase.
Grading and condition
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.
If you are buying this card
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.
