Question 1

Is Blastoise worth grading?

Accepted Answer

So is Blastoise worth grading? Here's the honest math: a raw copy runs $1,419, a Grade 9 jumps to $8,625, and a PSA 10 commands $67,739, which works out to roughly 47.7 times the raw price. That's a serious multiplier, but gem mint 10s are genuinely tough to land, this is a 25-year-old card and the print quality of that era wasn't exactly forgiving of centering or edge wear. Grading costs money and takes time, and there's no guarantee your card comes back a 10 instead of a 9, so if you're sitting on a copy that looks clean to your eye, it can be worth the shot, just go in knowing the difference between a 9 and a 10 is where most of the money actually lives.

Question 2

How rare is Blastoise?

Accepted Answer

Across every grading company combined, there are 4,412 graded copies of this Blastoise on record, and of those, only 126 have earned the perfect PSA 10 label. When you put those two numbers side by side, it's clear just how small the gem mint pool really is relative to the total population that's been submitted over the years. That scarcity at the very top of the grading scale is exactly why the PSA 10 price sits so far above the raw and Grade 9 figures, gem mint copies are rare enough that they trade in a different world entirely.

Question 3

Where can you pull Blastoise?

Accepted Answer

PackSpy has tracked this Blastoise being pulled 74 times across recorded pack sites, with collector-crypt being the source we've logged it from, and the biggest pull we've recorded came in at $7,100. It's also shown up in themed pack lineups like the Water Pack, Mythic Pokémon Gacha Pack, Legendary Pokémon Gacha Pack, Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, and Anime Pop Culture Gacha, so it does surface in the pack-opening world, just not constantly. That's the kind of real, on-the-ground pull data most price guides simply don't track, and it's worth remembering that opening packs chasing a card like this is still a gamble where most rips don't come out ahead financially, even when a card like Blastoise occasionally lands in the mix.

Question 4

How much is Blastoise worth?

Accepted Answer

A raw or ungraded Blastoise 1st Edition #2 is valued at $1,419. Once graded, that number climbs fast: a Grade 9 sits at $8,625, and a PSA 10 reaches $67,739. So the honest answer depends entirely on condition and whether it's been graded.

Question 5

Is Blastoise worth grading?

Accepted Answer

It can be, given a PSA 10 is worth about 47.7 times the raw price. But only 126 out of 4,412 graded copies have hit that PSA 10 mark, so gem mint is far from guaranteed, and grading always carries cost and risk before you know the outcome.

Question 6

What set is Blastoise from?

Accepted Answer

This Blastoise comes from the Base Set, released in 2000, and it's a Rare card illustrated by Ken Sugimori. This particular version is the 1st Edition #2 printing, which is part of why collectors seek it out specifically.

Grade	Value	Population	PSA / CGC
PSA 10 (Gem Mint)	$74k	126	101 / 25
PSA 9	$8.4k	763	718 / 45
PSA 8	$4.6k	764	634 / 130
PSA 7	$3.6k	600	518 / 82
PSA 6	$2.4k	660	573 / 87
PSA 5	$2.0k	663	572 / 91
PSA 4	$1.6k	397	356 / 41
PSA 3	$1.2k	228	211 / 17
PSA 2	$881	127	121 / 6
PSA 1	$1.1k	96	95 / 1
Raw / Ungraded	$1.3k	-	-

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