{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/expedition-base-set-card-prices",
  "slug": "expedition-base-set-card-prices",
  "title": "Expedition Base Set Card Prices: All 165",
  "summary": "Every one of the 165 Expedition Base Set cards carries a price. The set sums to $9,857.67, the median card asks $13.49, and not one card reaches $1,000.",
  "section": "Set economics",
  "published": "2026-09-23",
  "readMinutes": 9,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "165 of 165",
      "measures": "cards carrying a price",
      "basis": "no gaps, on September 23, 2026"
    },
    {
      "value": "$9,857.67",
      "measures": "summed ask for the set",
      "basis": "the same figure its set page reports"
    },
    {
      "value": "$13.49",
      "measures": "median card",
      "basis": "against $2.48 across the EX era that followed"
    },
    {
      "value": "8.1%",
      "measures": "the dearest card's share",
      "basis": "against 48.4% in Dragon Frontiers"
    }
  ],
  "tables": [
    {
      "title": "All 165 Expedition Base Set cards by asking price band",
      "columns": [
        "Band",
        "Cards",
        "Summed ask",
        "Share of set value"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Band": "Under $1",
          "Cards": "5",
          "Summed ask": "$3",
          "Share of set value": "0.0%"
        },
        {
          "Band": "$1 to $4.99",
          "Cards": "36",
          "Summed ask": "$95",
          "Share of set value": "1.0%"
        },
        {
          "Band": "$5 to $9.99",
          "Cards": "29",
          "Summed ask": "$220",
          "Share of set value": "2.2%"
        },
        {
          "Band": "$10 to $24.99",
          "Cards": "32",
          "Summed ask": "$511",
          "Share of set value": "5.2%"
        },
        {
          "Band": "$25 to $49.99",
          "Cards": "18",
          "Summed ask": "$615",
          "Share of set value": "6.2%"
        },
        {
          "Band": "$50 to $99.99",
          "Cards": "19",
          "Summed ask": "$1,435",
          "Share of set value": "14.6%"
        },
        {
          "Band": "$100 to $249.99",
          "Cards": "17",
          "Summed ask": "$2,787",
          "Share of set value": "28.3%"
        },
        {
          "Band": "$250 to $999.99",
          "Cards": "9",
          "Summed ask": "$4,190",
          "Share of set value": "42.5%"
        },
        {
          "Band": "$1,000 and over",
          "Cards": "0",
          "Summed ask": "$0",
          "Share of set value": "0.0%"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The twenty dearest Expedition Base Set cards, September 23, 2026",
      "columns": [
        "#",
        "Card",
        "No.",
        "Rarity",
        "Ask",
        "Share of set",
        "Gem rate",
        "PSA 9 sold median"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "#": "1",
          "Card": "[Dragonite](/card/ecard1-9)",
          "No.": "9",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$799.69",
          "Share of set": "8.11%",
          "Gem rate": "1.50%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$4,450 (7)"
        },
        {
          "#": "2",
          "Card": "[Gengar](/card/ecard1-13)",
          "No.": "13",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$725.50",
          "Share of set": "7.36%",
          "Gem rate": "3.35%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$3,985 (9)"
        },
        {
          "#": "3",
          "Card": "[Mew](/card/ecard1-19)",
          "No.": "19",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$500.00",
          "Share of set": "5.07%",
          "Gem rate": "1.40%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$13,300 (5)"
        },
        {
          "#": "4",
          "Card": "[Mewtwo](/card/ecard1-20)",
          "No.": "20",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$409.05",
          "Share of set": "4.15%",
          "Gem rate": "3.24%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$3,990 (7)"
        },
        {
          "#": "5",
          "Card": "[Charizard](/card/ecard1-6)",
          "No.": "6",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$408.33",
          "Share of set": "4.14%",
          "Gem rate": "1.23%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$6,950 (11)"
        },
        {
          "#": "6",
          "Card": "[Blastoise](/card/ecard1-4)",
          "No.": "4",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$400.00",
          "Share of set": "4.06%",
          "Gem rate": "4.78%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$3,000 (8)"
        },
        {
          "#": "7",
          "Card": "[Feraligatr](/card/ecard1-12)",
          "No.": "12",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$331.83",
          "Share of set": "3.37%",
          "Gem rate": "3.20%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "not recorded"
        },
        {
          "#": "8",
          "Card": "[Tyranitar](/card/ecard1-29)",
          "No.": "29",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$311.00",
          "Share of set": "3.15%",
          "Gem rate": "3.40%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$1,420 (13)"
        },
        {
          "#": "9",
          "Card": "[Pichu](/card/ecard1-22)",
          "No.": "22",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$305.00",
          "Share of set": "3.09%",
          "Gem rate": "3.83%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$1,200 (7)"
        },
        {
          "#": "10",
          "Card": "[Alakazam](/card/ecard1-1)",
          "No.": "1",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$233.32",
          "Share of set": "2.37%",
          "Gem rate": "5.94%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$600 (5)"
        },
        {
          "#": "11",
          "Card": "[Typhlosion](/card/ecard1-28)",
          "No.": "28",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$203.33",
          "Share of set": "2.06%",
          "Gem rate": "3.75%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "not recorded"
        },
        {
          "#": "12",
          "Card": "[Venusaur](/card/ecard1-30)",
          "No.": "30",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$199.85",
          "Share of set": "2.03%",
          "Gem rate": "8.19%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$592 (9)"
        },
        {
          "#": "13",
          "Card": "[Gengar](/card/ecard1-48)",
          "No.": "48",
          "Rarity": "Rare",
          "Ask": "$180.88",
          "Share of set": "1.83%",
          "Gem rate": "15.63%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "not recorded"
        },
        {
          "#": "14",
          "Card": "[Meganium](/card/ecard1-18)",
          "No.": "18",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$180.01",
          "Share of set": "1.83%",
          "Gem rate": "4.36%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "not recorded"
        },
        {
          "#": "15",
          "Card": "[Butterfree](/card/ecard1-5)",
          "No.": "5",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$180.00",
          "Share of set": "1.83%",
          "Gem rate": "2.37%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "not recorded"
        },
        {
          "#": "16",
          "Card": "[Ampharos](/card/ecard1-2)",
          "No.": "2",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$175.00",
          "Share of set": "1.78%",
          "Gem rate": "2.54%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "not recorded"
        },
        {
          "#": "17",
          "Card": "[Raichu](/card/ecard1-25)",
          "No.": "25",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$174.99",
          "Share of set": "1.78%",
          "Gem rate": "5.03%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$1,000 (4)"
        },
        {
          "#": "18",
          "Card": "[Charizard](/card/ecard1-39)",
          "No.": "39",
          "Rarity": "Rare",
          "Ask": "$169.54",
          "Share of set": "1.72%",
          "Gem rate": "18.20%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "$309 (8)"
        },
        {
          "#": "19",
          "Card": "[Pidgeot](/card/ecard1-23)",
          "No.": "23",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$158.31",
          "Share of set": "1.61%",
          "Gem rate": "5.79%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "not recorded"
        },
        {
          "#": "20",
          "Card": "[Clefable](/card/ecard1-7)",
          "No.": "7",
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Ask": "$157.65",
          "Share of set": "1.60%",
          "Gem rate": "5.03%",
          "PSA 9 sold median": "not recorded"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Expedition Base Set by catalogue rarity",
      "columns": [
        "Rarity",
        "Cards",
        "Summed ask",
        "Median card",
        "Share of set value"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Rarity": "Holo Rare",
          "Cards": "32",
          "Summed ask": "$7,081",
          "Median card": "$174.99",
          "Share of set value": "71.8%"
        },
        {
          "Rarity": "Rare",
          "Cards": "40",
          "Summed ask": "$1,716",
          "Median card": "$21.39",
          "Share of set value": "17.4%"
        },
        {
          "Rarity": "Common",
          "Cards": "55",
          "Summed ask": "$730",
          "Median card": "$6.37",
          "Share of set value": "7.4%"
        },
        {
          "Rarity": "Uncommon",
          "Cards": "38",
          "Summed ask": "$331",
          "Median card": "$6.66",
          "Share of set value": "3.4%"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The three e-Card sets against the era that followed",
      "columns": [
        "Set",
        "Cards",
        "Priced",
        "Summed ask",
        "Median card",
        "Dearest card's share",
        "Median gem rate"
      ],
      "rows": [
        {
          "Set": "[Expedition Base Set](/set/expedition)",
          "Cards": "165",
          "Priced": "165",
          "Summed ask": "$9,857.67",
          "Median card": "$13.49",
          "Dearest card's share": "8.1%",
          "Median gem rate": "29.1%"
        },
        {
          "Set": "[Aquapolis](/set/aquapolis)",
          "Cards": "186",
          "Priced": "185",
          "Summed ask": "$17,517.07",
          "Median card": "$17.86",
          "Dearest card's share": "25.7%",
          "Median gem rate": "27.3%"
        },
        {
          "Set": "[Skyridge](/set/skyridge)",
          "Cards": "182",
          "Priced": "178",
          "Summed ask": "$20,620.14",
          "Median card": "$31.39",
          "Dearest card's share": "6.7%",
          "Median gem rate": "37.1%"
        },
        {
          "Set": "All sixteen EX-era sets",
          "Cards": "1,694",
          "Priced": "1,688",
          "Summed ask": "$87,845.77",
          "Median card": "$2.48",
          "Dearest card's share": "n/a",
          "Median gem rate": "9.4%"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "A set built out of its middle",
    "The rarity split, and where the value actually is",
    "This cardboard gems, and the EX era that followed it does not",
    "What would overturn this",
    "What this study cannot show"
  ],
  "method": [
    "Population: all 165 `cards` rows with `lang = 'en'` and `set_name = 'Expedition Base Set'`, deduplicated on `tcg_id`, which collapsed zero rows. Prices are `price_history.price` on day 20719, which is 2026-09-23 and the fullest of the tape's 25 days at 52,378 catalogue rows; all 165 carry a row on it, so nothing is excluded and there is no residual. `price_history` records each product's CANONICAL printing under the shared price rule in `packages/core`, deliberately not the dump's flagship figure, so a multi-printing product is quoted at the printing the market trades rather than at its dearest row. Summed ask is the sum over the 165. Medians take the upper middle value on even samples. Share of set is the card's ask divided by $9,857.67. The set page at `/set/expedition` was fetched on 2026-09-23 and its title read back as \"Expedition Card Prices · $9,858 Full Set\"; the catalogue spelling `/set/expedition base set` returns 404 and is never linked. `/research/set-screen/expedition base set` also resolves. A set page's headline Full Set figure comes from the recorded `sethist2:` value series, which is a different instrument from the daily tape: it happens to agree for Expedition, but `/set/skyridge` titles $20,720 against our day-20719 sum of $20,620.14 and `/set/power keepers` titles $4,794 against $4,352.03, so no set page figure is quoted anywhere in this piece. Comparison-set counts are over the cards carrying a reading on day 20719: 185 of 186 in Aquapolis, where Tyranitar H28 has none, and 178 of 182 in Skyridge, where Gengar H09, Gyarados H10, Moltres H20 and Umbreon H30 have none. All five are holofoils. Gem rates come from `population_snapshots`, latest day per key read across both the catalogue-id and TCGplayer-id keyspaces, and pass `gemRateIsTrustworthy()` from `@cardapp/core/server` with the recorded PSA 10 sold count supplied; the 29.1% figure is the median over the 117 Expedition cards carrying 100 or more recorded submissions, and the bar is stated because the median over all 165 including cards with a handful of submissions is not the same number. PSA 9 and PSA 10 medians come from `graded_snapshots`, latest row per card and grade across both keyspaces with the fresher row taken, and are SOLD medians over verified sales, printed with their sale counts; the cron writes a median only on three or more sales, so \"not recorded\" means fewer than three rather than none. The EX-era comparison column is the same treatment applied to the sixteen sets in [EX Era Pokémon Cards Value](/articles/ex-era-pokemon-cards-value). The sixteen-day change count compares day 20703 to day 20719, both complete days, over all 165 cards, which carry a reading on both. Scripts: apps/web/scripts/vex-build.mts, vex-sets.mts and vex-figures.mts; figures in apps/web/.scratch-vintage-ex/figures.json. Nothing here is investment 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."
}