
Blastoise

- Number
- 002/102
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Artist
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- Jan 9, 1999
Sold price movement
- 12 months ago
- $810.57£610.07€713.84
- Today
- $1,206£907.97€1,062
- Change
- +$395.80+£297.90+€348.57 (+48.8%)
Market activity
| Price type | Pop share | PopulationPop | Sold 90d | Median | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | – | 18 | $1,217£915.59€1,071 | $1,206£907.97€1,062 | |
| PSA 1 | 95 | 1 | – | $1,185£891.89€1,044 | |
| PSA 2 | 121 | – | – | $850£639.75€748.57 | |
| PSA 3 | 211 | 10 | $1,345£1,012€1,185 | $1,350£1,016€1,189 | |
| PSA 4 | 356 | 9 | $1,575£1,185€1,387 | $1,532£1,153€1,349 | |
| PSA 5 | 572 | 15 | $2,100£1,581€1,849 | $2,100£1,581€1,849 | |
| PSA 6 | 573 | 11 | $2,400£1,806€2,114 | $2,500£1,882€2,202 | |
| PSA 7 | 518 | 4 | – | $3,586£2,699€3,158 | |
| PSA 8 | 634 | 11 | $4,650£3,500€4,095 | $4,687£3,528€4,128 | |
| PSA 9 | 718 | 7 | $9,600£7,225€8,454 | $8,438£6,351€7,431 | |
| CGC/BGS 9.5 | – | – | – | $10,374£7,808€9,136 | |
| PSA 10 | 101 | 2 | – | $73,810£55,553€65,002 |
About these prices
2.6% of copies sent to PSA come back a 10. Sold and median are 90 days of PSA sales. The 9.5 is a CGC and BGS grade, so it carries no PSA population. A PSA 1 selling above a PSA 2 is the market, not a slip: the cheapest slabbed copy of a card people want is its own thing to want.
Priced from 3,648 completed sales, updated Sep 12, 2026.
Price history
Recent sales
3,648 completed listings on eBay, Fanatics Collect, Heritage Auctions
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PSA has graded 11,742 copies. Where they landed:
Why the verdict weights the odds
Only 1.2% of copies reach a 10, which is why the top price is the wrong number to plan around. Weighting each grade’s PSA price by these odds, a submission is worth $3,863£2,908€3,402 on average against $4,225£3,180€3,721 for the card plus $2,999£2,257€2,641 at Premium 3, the cheapest level PSA will insure it at. That loses $361.98£272.44€318.78, so a copy is worth more raw.
Card facts
- Card number
- 002/102
- Rarity
- Holo Rare
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Set released
- Jan 9, 1999
- PSA population, all printings
- 11,742
- Printings priced
- 2
- Set value
- $15k£11k€13k
- 7 day move
- +0.5%
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The same card in other sets
What moves the price of this card
The Blastoise on this page is the 1st Edition Holofoil printing from Base Set (Shadowless), and it trades at $1,300£978.44€1,145 in near mint condition. The other 1 printing of the same card sits lower, which is normal: the scarcer print run always carries the premium.
Graded, it runs PSA 1 $400£301.06€352.27, PSA 2 $210£158.06€184.94, PSA 3 $1,156£870.06€1,018, PSA 4 $314.99£237.08€277.40, PSA 5 $401.22£301.98€353.34, PSA 6 $485£365.03€427.12, PSA 7 $3,586£2,699€3,158, PSA 8 $4,687£3,528€4,128, PSA 9 $8,438£6,351€7,431, CGC/BGS 9.5 $10,374£7,808€9,136, PSA 10 $73,810£55,553€65,002. PSA has graded 11,742 copies of it. 3,648 completed sales are on file.
What is a PSA 10 Blastoise worth?
A PSA 10 Blastoise from Base Set (Shadowless) sells for $73,810. 2.6% of the copies PSA has graded came back a 10, so that price is the best case rather than the one a submission should expect.
Is Blastoise from Base Set (Shadowless) worth grading?
On the numbers, yes. The average submission is worth $5,301 with every grade weighted by how often this card comes back at it, against $1,206 for a raw copy plus $3,019 to send it through PSA Premium 3, so it clears $1,076.
Condition does most of the work below the surface. A copy with soft corners or a print line off centre trades well under the market price shown here, and a copy clean enough to grade trades well above it, which is why the PSA 10 sits at $73,810£55,553€65,002. Before you value your own copy, look at the corners under a light and check the centring on the back, where most cards give themselves away.
What Blastoise does
Stage2, evolves from Wartortle · 100 HP · retreat 3
As often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may attach 1 Water Energy Card to 1 of your Water Pokémon. (This doesn't use up your 1 Energy card attachment for the turn.) This power can't be used if Blastoise is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
Does 40 damage plus 10 more damage for each attached Water Energy attached to Blastoise but not used to pay for this attack's Energy cost. Extra Water Energy after the 2nd doesn't count.
Weak to Lightning ×2. Tournament legal in neither standard nor expanded.
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