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Base Set

38 cards · 7 sealed products · released 1999-01-09

Set value
$2,151.61
Typical card
$2.48
Most valuable
$868.56Charizard

Set value is one of each card at its market price — 101 of 102 cards in this set carry one. It is what the singles would cost at today’s prices, not an appraisal, and it excludes sealed product. The typical card is the median, because one chase card pulls an average far away from what most of the set is worth.

Sealed products

Base Set singles

33 cards in the sample · rebased to 100 at 2024-02-21
30d
+2.1%
90d
+5.5%
1y
+40.3%
All
+103.0%
Level
201.4
2024-02-212026-08-30

Weekly chain-linked index. Each step compares only cards priced in BOTH of the two weeks, so items appearing or delisting cannot move the line — 10.6% of a fixed basket went dark over the last eleven months, and a level computed over whoever reported today would follow that instead of prices. An item must clear $5 in both weeks of a step to count: without a floor, penny rounding dominates. The line is the longest unbroken run of weeks with enough matched pairs — a week too thin to measure truncates it rather than being bridged over. Scoped to this set, using the same construction as the market index. How this is built.

Cards

38 cards
Products with market price, 7- and 30-day change, distance below all-time high, days of recorded history and a 90-day price sparkline
CardMarket7d30d90d
Pikachu058/102
Common
$16.57 +2.2% +132.7%
Squirtle063/102
Common
$7.88 +17.4% +30.7%
Voltorb067/102
Common
$4.39 -2.7% -10.4%
Bulbasaur044/102
Common
$4.28 +34.6% -4.3%
Charmander046/102
Common
$2.93 -6.7% +20.1%
Abra043/102
Common
$1.67 +8.4% -6.2%
Pidgey057/102
Common
$1.61 +1.9% +2.5%
Tangela066/102
Common
$1.27 +8.6% +18.7%
Diglett047/102
Common
$1.21 -8.3% +6.1%
Doduo048/102
Common
$1.20 +1.7% -4.8%
Rattata061/102
Common
$1.12 +14.3% +40.0%
Caterpie045/102
Common
$1.11 +8.8% -6.7%
Koffing051/102
Common
$1.09 +3.8% +36.3%
Gastly050/102
Common
$1.05 -6.3% -14.6%
Onix056/102
Common
$1.05 +8.3% +5.0%
Metapod054/102
Common
$1.04 -11.1% +22.4%
Sandshrew062/102
Common
$1.02 +2.0% +7.4%
Poliwag059/102
Common
$0.97 +15.5% +22.8%
Starmie064/102
Common
$0.89 -16.8% -9.2%
Vulpix068/102
Common
$0.82 -12.8% -18.8%
Magnemite053/102
Common
$0.81 0.0% +9.5%
Drowzee049/102
Common
$0.79 -8.1% -11.2%
Weedle069/102
Common
$0.75 -2.6% +13.6%
Nidoran M055/102
Common
$0.74 -5.1% -15.9%
Psychic Energy101/102
Common
$0.73 +30.4% +40.4%
Staryu065/102
Common
$0.70 -10.3% +4.5%
Machop052/102
Common
$0.67 -5.6% +11.7%
Ponyta060/102
Common
$0.64 -4.5% -16.9%
Energy Removal092/102
Common
$0.57 -10.9% +14.0%
Lightning Energy100/102
Common
$0.55 +3.8% +17.0%
Gust of Wind093/102
Common
$0.54 +22.7% +17.4%
Bill091/102
Common
$0.49 -2.0% +8.9%
Switch095/102
Common
$0.48 +20.0% +26.3%
Water Energy102/102
Common
$0.47 +6.8% -6.0%
Grass Energy099/102
Common
$0.45 0.0% 0.0%
Fighting Energy097/102
Common
$0.44 +2.3% -4.3%
Fire Energy098/102
Common
$0.43 +4.9% -24.6%
Potion094/102
Common
$0.27 -6.9% -18.2%