Mega Greninja ex SAR (Ninja Spinner): price, English version, fakes

The Japanese Mega Greninja ex SAR (メガゲッコウガex, 114/083, Ninja Spinner) sells raw for a median of $155 on PokeInvest (65 eBay sales) and $125.35 on PriceCharting; a PSA 10 is about $185 to $230. That is as of 25 October 2026, and Japanese shops listed it at ¥17,800 (about $113) on 26 October. TCGplayer’s $224.57 “market price” is the odd one out, and it is explained below.

What is the Mega Greninja ex SAR and why do people want it?

It is the Special Art Rare (SAR) print of Mega Greninja ex from the Japanese expansion Ninja Spinner (拡張パック「ニンジャスピナー」, set code M4), released 13 March 2026 at ¥180 for a 5-card pack (pokemon-card.com). The card is 114/083, a secret-rare number above the set’s 83 base cards, illustrated by Susumu Maeya. It is the only one of the four Japanese Mega Greninja ex prints with a different artist: the regular, SR and gold prints are by takuyoa (official database, via Samurai Sword Tokyo).

The game text is shared by all four prints: a Stage 2 Water Pokemon with 350 HP, an Ability ひっさつしゅりけん (discard a Basic Energy from your hand to put 6 damage counters on one of your opponent’s Pokemon) and an attack ニンジャスピナー (120 damage, plus 80 more if you return an Energy attached to it to your hand). As a Mega Evolution ex, it gives up 3 Prize cards when Knocked Out (official card page).

Nobody publishes pull rates for Japanese packs, so how scarce it is in a box is unknown. What the data does show is how many have been graded: 22,743 PSA submissions by 25 October 2026 (PokeInvest, republishing PSA population).

How much is the Mega Greninja ex SAR worth?

Each line is a median of completed sales, a marketplace price or a shop’s listed price, with the sample and date. Prices move daily; read these as a late-October 2026 snapshot, with yen converted at ¥158 to the dollar (Federal Reserve H.10, 19 October 2026).

Why does TCGplayer read higher than a PSA 10?

Its $224.57 market price is above both PSA 10 medians, and above its own mid price of $184.47 and lowest listing of $120.91 on the same day. We cannot see how many sales sit behind it (TCGplayer blocks fetching), but the gap points to thin trading on that site, where a few high sales can lift the figure. eBay sold medians and Japanese shop prices agree with each other far better, so $113 to $155 is the range to expect for a near-mint raw copy, and $225 is the high end.

Is a PSA 10 worth grading for?

Rarely. PSA graded 22,743 copies and 21,281 of them (93.6%) came back a 10, so the slab is not scarce. PokeInvest’s calculator on 25 October 2026 showed a loss of about $33 per card after a $60 grading fee. Fees and turnaround are in grading Japanese Pokemon cards.

Other graders trade thinner: a CGC Pristine 10 had a median of $375.60 across 8 sales, down 44% on the prior 90 days, and a CGC 10 (Gem Mint) $110.80 across 7 sales (PokeInvest, 25 October 2026).

Mega Greninja ex SAR vs the English SIR: what is the difference?

The English print is Mega Greninja ex 116/086, a Special Illustration Rare in Mega Evolution—Chaos Rising, released 22 May 2026 (pokemon.com). It carries the same Susumu Maeya illustration, according to Limitless TCG as reported by Samurai Sword Tokyo; pokemon.com does not publish card-by-card pairings. The two differ in number, language, set and, above all, in what a PSA 10 costs.

All figures are 25 October 2026; medians and populations are from PokeInvest, market prices from TCGplayer.

The pattern matches the other MEGA-era cards: raw prices are close, but the English PSA 10 costs about twice the Japanese one because a third of English submissions miss the 10. If you want the artwork cheaply, the Japanese card is the route; if you want the scarce slab, it is the English one. Why the two languages gem so differently is in Japanese vs English Pokemon cards.

The gold cards are not close at all. The Japanese gold Mega Greninja ex MUR 120/083 had a TCGplayer market price of $432.49 against $114.20 for the English Mega Hyper Rare 122/086 (25 October 2026), and sold out at Yuyu-tei at ¥49,800 (about $315) on 26 October.

How do you spot a fake Mega Greninja ex SAR?

No published report of counterfeits of this specific card turned up in our research. The best hands-on account we found is one collector’s breakdown of a fake MEGA-era Japanese SAR (Mega Charizard X), so treat its checks as likely to carry over, not proven for this card. Start with the details printed on the card:

1. The printed details. The number is 114/083 with the SAR code beside it, the illustrator credit reads Susumu Maeya, the HP is 350, and the attack and Ability names are in Japanese (ニンジャスピナー and ひっさつしゅりけん). English text, a different HP or a missing illustrator line is wrong.
2. The other prints. The same art exists once in Japanese. The RR (022/083), SR (098/083) and MUR (120/083) are takuyoa artworks, so a “SAR” with gold etched foil or regular ex framing is one of those or a fake.
3. The foil. On the genuine card in that breakdown the foil pattern ran evenly across the surface, including over the numbering, with a subtle rainbow glitter under light. The fake’s texture stopped before the numbering and its glitter was nearly absent, and a flashlight behind it showed a common card underneath.
4. The graded label. A PSA label for this card reads 114/083; one reading 116/086 is the English card. Look up the certification number with the grader before paying a PSA 10 price.
5. The price. Raw copies mostly sold for $91 to $135 on PriceCharting (PokeInvest’s median is $155), and PSA 10 slabs for $145 to $316. A “PSA 10” far below that deserves a second look.

The same breakdown reports that the fake style was resold mostly on Vinted from AliExpress sources at about €18 to €26 per card, a price that should make any “bargain” suspicious. The full walk-through is in how to tell if Japanese Pokemon cards are fake.

Where do you buy it, and what does delivery to the US add?

In Japan the sticker price is lower: ¥17,800 at Yuyu-tei and Cardrush (about $113), ¥16,300 for condition A- at Cardrush (about $103), and SNKRDUNK lowest asks of ¥14,000 raw and ¥39,000 PSA 10 on 7 October 2026 (asks, not sales). Then add the trip. Shipments from Japan to the US have paid a combined 12.5% duty since 24 July 2026 under the Section 301 action (Holland & Knight), so a ¥17,800 card carries about $14 of duty. Japan Post EMS to the US costs ¥3,900 (about $25) for a parcel up to 500 g, and USPS charges a $9.35 customs clearance and delivery fee per dutiable item on inbound mail that owes duty (Notice 123, effective 4 October 2026).

For a single card at about $113, that is roughly $152 before insurance and any proxy fee, against $125 to $155 from a US eBay seller with no customs paperwork. The saving only appears when you buy several cards in one parcel. The full cost build-up is in shipping from Japan to the US and the seller options in where to buy Japanese Pokemon cards. Readers outside the US pay their own country’s import rules; the Japanese prices are the same.

We don’t sell anything yet. When that changes, our listing will be labeled, and the prices here stay what collectors have paid elsewhere.

What is Ninja Spinner, and which other cards are worth knowing?

Ninja Spinner has 83 regular cards and 37 secret rares, 120 in total: 12 AR, 18 SR, 6 SAR and one MUR (official database, via Samurai Sword Tokyo). It is the fourth MEGA-era expansion and became the English Chaos Rising 70 days later; set pairings are in Japanese sets and their English equivalents. The other cards by price, from TCGplayer market prices on 25 October 2026:

A booster box of 30 packs (TCGplayer’s product data; pokemon-card.com does not state packs per box) had a market price of $76.01 and a lowest listing of $68.50, with single packs at $2.24. At ¥180 a pack, 30 packs list at ¥5,400 (about $34) in Japan. What the rarity codes mean is in Japanese Pokemon card rarity symbols.

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