Meltan cards
Every Meltan card we could find. The priciest one we price is the Temporal Forces one at $6.57, and the cheapest is $0.16.
- The Hex Nut Pokemon. Meltan is #808 in the National Pokedex.
- First English card. SM Black Star Promos, February 3, 2017.
- Type. Steel in the video games, which is printed as Metal on a card. The eleven card types.
- Generation 7, Alola. Flagged Mythical in the Pokedex, the event-only category.
- Size. 0.2m (0ft 8in) and 8.0kg (18lb).
- Capture rate 3 of 255. Higher is easier to catch. This is one of the hardest things in the games to catch.
Artwork and Pokedex data from pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. Pokemon and Pokemon character names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc.
Priciest first
Every Meltan we price
6 of the 22 printings we can name are in sets we hold prices for. Tap a card to see it full size.
Prices are pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, read August 31, 2026. A guide value is computed across the sales PriceCharting tracks, which is a wider set of venues than any one marketplace. 2 cards of the 5,396 priced here are not listed by PriceCharting and keep their TCGplayer market price via TCGdex instead. Where a card comes as a normal, holo and reverse holo at different prices, the figure is the priciest of them. Prices move daily, so treat these as a ballpark. Search every card.
Evolution
The Meltan line
Meltan, which becomes Melmetal. Each one has its own page and its own cards. The evolution chart draws every line in the Pokedex.
- Meltan#808 • 22 cards
Melmetal#809 • 29 cards
Evolution line from the National Pokedex, pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. What each evolution actually takes differs between generations, so it is not stated here. Card counts are every printing we can name, in every language.
See these packs opened
We have filmed 16 rips of the 3 sets that print Meltan
Garbage Rips 585 is a Pokemon card pack opening channel out of Rochester, New York. We film every pack we open, hit or no hit.
Everywhere else
Every other Meltan printing we could name
16 more from sets we do not price, English and Japanese. 12 have a scan and are pictured below. The other 4 we can name but not show. No price on these: we only quote what we can source. Printings whose name we could not translate are left out rather than shown under a name we guessed at.
Named, with no scan to show
- Meltan Mega Rising • 173 One Diamond
- Meltan スカーレット&バイオレット プロモカード • 078 Promo • Japanese
- Meltan スタートデッキ100 バトルコレクション • 516 Japanese
- Meltan スタートデッキ100 バトルコレクション • 517 Japanese
Card list from the TCGdex card database, read September 1, 2026. A snapshot, not a live feed.
In the video games
What beats Meltan
Damage taken by a Steel Pokemon, computed from the type chart. Everything not listed does normal damage.
- x2Fire, Fighting and Ground
- ½xNormal, Grass, Ice, Flying, Psychic, Bug, Rock, Dragon, Steel and Fairy
- 0xPoison, no effect at all
This is the video game chart, not the card game. The Pokemon TCG has eleven types and no type chart at all: Weakness and Resistance are printed on each individual card, and two cards of the same Pokemon can print different ones. What the card actually says. Type relations from pokeapi.co, read August 17, 2026.