Cinccino ex 119/086 (Chaos Rising): Grading Data, Pull Rarity and Why Everyone Is Searching for It
Some cards announce themselves as chase cards from the reveal. Others sneak up — and Cinccino ex 119/086 from Chaos Rising is firmly the second kind. It has quietly become one of the most-searched secret-rare cards on TCGrader, and enough copies have now been graded on the platform to say something real about it.
The card
Cinccino ex, card 119/086 — a secret-rare numbered beyond the base Chaos Rising set count of 086. Secret rares in the /086 numbering block are the set's premium pulls, and Cinccino's art treatment made it an instant collector favorite despite not being the set's marquee Mega.
What the grading data says
Thirty copies of Cinccino ex have been graded on TCGrader in the last 90 days:
- Average grade: 8.88 — comfortably above the platform-wide average of 8.67, and above the Chaos Rising set average of 8.65.
- That puts a typical pack-pulled copy on the boundary between a 9 and a 9.5 — genuinely good odds by modern standards, where only 24.4% of all cards hit 9.5+.
For context within the set: Chaos Rising's headline card, Mega Greninja ex, averages 8.57 across 135 graded copies. Cinccino is grading better than the chase — likely because it sits later in print sheets less prone to the centering drift that has bothered some Greninja pulls.
What to check before you submit
Based on the graded population so far:
- Centering first. Chaos Rising secret rares vary; hold the card square and compare borders. It's the difference between the 9s and the 9.5s in the data.
- Textured surface. The etched treatment hides light scratches well but check under angled light anyway — texture also hides dirt that photographs as surface noise.
- Dark edge whitening. The card's darker frame shows edge whitening clearly. A loupe pass on all four edges takes thirty seconds.
Worth grading?
At an 8.88 average, Cinccino ex is one of the safer modern grading bets in Chaos Rising — but "safer" still means roughly half of copies land below 9. The play: photograph yours and get the AI estimate first. If it estimates 9.5 or better, it's a strong submission candidate; at 9 or below, hold it raw or sleeve it for the binder until you've compared prices on the marketplace.
Pulled something else from the set? See how the whole of Chaos Rising is grading in our most-graded cards roundup.