{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/base-set-pokemon-card-price-guide",
  "slug": "base-set-pokemon-card-price-guide",
  "title": "Base Set Pokémon Card Price Guide: All 102 Cards",
  "summary": "One near-mint copy of every priced 1999 Base Set card costs $2,218.19 today. Charizard is 41.5% of that. The median card in the set asks $2.53.",
  "section": "Set economics",
  "published": "2026-09-22",
  "readMinutes": 7,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "$2,218.19",
      "measures": "one near-mint copy of every priced card",
      "basis": "101 of the 102 cards, asks on September 22, 2026"
    },
    {
      "value": "41.5%",
      "measures": "of that total is Charizard",
      "basis": "$919.98 of $2,218.19"
    },
    {
      "value": "$2.53",
      "measures": "the median Base Set card's ask",
      "basis": "69 of 101 ask less than $5"
    },
    {
      "value": "87.3%",
      "measures": "of the set's value is the 15 priced holos",
      "basis": "cards 1 to 16, one of which we cannot price"
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "Base Set asks by price band, September 22, 2026",
      "columns": [
        "Ask",
        "Cards",
        "Share of the 101"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Ask": "Under $1",
          "Cards": "28",
          "Share of the 101": "27.7%"
        },
        {
          "Ask": "$1 to $5",
          "Cards": "41",
          "Share of the 101": "40.6%"
        },
        {
          "Ask": "$5 to $20",
          "Cards": "17",
          "Share of the 101": "16.8%"
        },
        {
          "Ask": "$20 to $100",
          "Cards": "12",
          "Share of the 101": "11.9%"
        },
        {
          "Ask": "$100 and up",
          "Cards": "3",
          "Share of the 101": "3.0%"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The fifteen priced Base Set holo rares, with graded medians where we hold them",
      "columns": [
        "Card",
        "Ask",
        "PSA 9 median",
        "PSA 9 sales",
        "PSA 10 median",
        "PSA 10 sales"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Card": "4 [Charizard](/card/base1-4)",
          "Ask": "$919.98",
          "PSA 9 median": "$1,500.00",
          "PSA 9 sales": "19",
          "PSA 10 median": "not recorded",
          "PSA 10 sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "2 [Blastoise](/card/base1-2)",
          "Ask": "$229.70",
          "PSA 9 median": "$875.00",
          "PSA 9 sales": "13",
          "PSA 10 median": "not recorded",
          "PSA 10 sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "15 [Venusaur](/card/base1-15)",
          "Ask": "$177.74",
          "PSA 9 median": "$552.49",
          "PSA 9 sales": "16",
          "PSA 10 median": "not recorded",
          "PSA 10 sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "10 [Mewtwo](/card/base1-10)",
          "Ask": "$93.16",
          "PSA 9 median": "$347.57",
          "PSA 9 sales": "22",
          "PSA 10 median": "not recorded",
          "PSA 10 sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "14 [Raichu](/card/base1-14)",
          "Ask": "$69.45",
          "PSA 9 median": "$284.09",
          "PSA 9 sales": "12",
          "PSA 10 median": "not recorded",
          "PSA 10 sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "1 [Alakazam](/card/base1-1)",
          "Ask": "$68.44",
          "PSA 9 median": "$375.00",
          "PSA 9 sales": "18",
          "PSA 10 median": "$3,022.35",
          "PSA 10 sales": "6"
        },
        {
          "Card": "3 [Chansey](/card/base1-3)",
          "Ask": "$64.71",
          "PSA 9 median": "$158.49",
          "PSA 9 sales": "11",
          "PSA 10 median": "not recorded",
          "PSA 10 sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "5 [Clefairy](/card/base1-5)",
          "Ask": "$51.67",
          "PSA 9 median": "$185.00",
          "PSA 9 sales": "4",
          "PSA 10 median": "not recorded",
          "PSA 10 sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "16 [Zapdos](/card/base1-16)",
          "Ask": "$49.88",
          "PSA 9 median": "$163.12",
          "PSA 9 sales": "21",
          "PSA 10 median": "$1,499.99",
          "PSA 10 sales": "3"
        },
        {
          "Card": "6 [Gyarados](/card/base1-6)",
          "Ask": "$44.75",
          "PSA 9 median": "$225.25",
          "PSA 9 sales": "22",
          "PSA 10 median": "$2,112.50",
          "PSA 10 sales": "3"
        },
        {
          "Card": "11 [Nidoking](/card/base1-11)",
          "Ask": "$39.36",
          "PSA 9 median": "$211.25",
          "PSA 9 sales": "18",
          "PSA 10 median": "$1,749.99",
          "PSA 10 sales": "4"
        },
        {
          "Card": "12 [Ninetales](/card/base1-12)",
          "Ask": "$37.05",
          "PSA 9 median": "$180.00",
          "PSA 9 sales": "26",
          "PSA 10 median": "$1,602.00",
          "PSA 10 sales": "7"
        },
        {
          "Card": "9 [Magneton](/card/base1-9)",
          "Ask": "$36.67",
          "PSA 9 median": "$244.99",
          "PSA 9 sales": "13",
          "PSA 10 median": "not recorded",
          "PSA 10 sales": "0"
        },
        {
          "Card": "13 [Poliwrath](/card/base1-13)",
          "Ask": "$34.87",
          "PSA 9 median": "$149.25",
          "PSA 9 sales": "12",
          "PSA 10 median": "$976.89",
          "PSA 10 sales": "4"
        },
        {
          "Card": "7 [Hitmonchan](/card/base1-7)",
          "Ask": "$18.07",
          "PSA 9 median": "$204.50",
          "PSA 9 sales": "4",
          "PSA 10 median": "not recorded",
          "PSA 10 sales": "0"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Base Set cards with the highest recorded PSA 10 medians",
      "columns": [
        "Card",
        "PSA 10 median",
        "Verified sales",
        "Raw ask"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Card": "[Alakazam](/card/base1-1)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$3,022.35",
          "Verified sales": "6",
          "Raw ask": "$68.44"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Gyarados](/card/base1-6)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$2,112.50",
          "Verified sales": "3",
          "Raw ask": "$44.75"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Nidoking](/card/base1-11)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$1,749.99",
          "Verified sales": "4",
          "Raw ask": "$39.36"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Ninetales](/card/base1-12)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$1,602.00",
          "Verified sales": "7",
          "Raw ask": "$37.05"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Zapdos](/card/base1-16)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$1,499.99",
          "Verified sales": "3",
          "Raw ask": "$49.88"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Poliwrath](/card/base1-13)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$976.89",
          "Verified sales": "4",
          "Raw ask": "$34.87"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Pikachu](/card/base1-58)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$565.00",
          "Verified sales": "13",
          "Raw ask": "$14.07"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Impostor Professor Oak](/card/base1-73)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$367.00",
          "Verified sales": "5",
          "Raw ask": "$24.73"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Squirtle](/card/base1-63)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$344.34",
          "Verified sales": "6",
          "Raw ask": "$5.09"
        },
        {
          "Card": "[Wartortle](/card/base1-42)",
          "PSA 10 median": "$300.00",
          "Verified sales": "4",
          "Raw ask": "$4.63"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "Sixteen cards are the set, and one of them is most of it",
    "Every Base Set holo rare, priced",
    "The highest recorded Base Set 10 in our tape is Alakazam",
    "Most of Base Set is a dollar card",
    "What the set as a whole has done"
  ],
  "method": [
    "Population: the 102 cards of the English Base Set as our catalogue holds them, of which 101 carry a TCGplayer product id and a recorded price. Machamp 8/102 carries no product id in our data and is excluded from every total. Asks are the most recent daily market price recorded per product in our price_history table, dated September 22, 2026, and they are listing prices rather than completed sales. Graded medians are medians of verified completed sales from our graded_snapshots table read on September 22, 2026, with the sample size printed beside each; 'not recorded' means no verified sale landed in our window and must not be read as zero. Medians use the upper-middle value on even samples. Rarity bands use the printed rarity in our catalogue, under which the sixteen holo rares are marked Rare. The set index is the setinfo:v4 series for Base Set, 326 readings from January 27, 2025 to September 20, 2026; the shadowless series is a separate product line and its last recorded reading is dated July 20, 2026. TCGplayer lists the shadowless printing as its own product line, so the Base Set prices here come from the ordinary Base Set line and not from a shadowless or first-edition one. Nothing here is financial advice."
  ],
  "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file."
}