Charizard #4 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 5 Aug 2026Related Charizard & chase cards
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If you've ever wondered what makes Pokemon collecting feel like a real hobby and not just a fad, Charizard is usually the reason. This Rare card from the 2000 Base Set, illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, is the card that built the whole hobby's reputation, and if you're checking Charizard value right now, a raw copy sits at $370, which tells you it's still very much in demand a couple decades later.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $345, up 37% over the past year, with an all-time high of $403 in August 2026.
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Charizard price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 99,255 graded, only 490 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $13k | 490 | 486 / 4 |
| PSA 9 | $3.2k | 8,457 | 8,455 / 2 |
| PSA 8 | $1.4k | 15,932 | 15,931 / 1 |
| PSA 7 | $733 | 16,981 | 16,980 / 1 |
| PSA 6 | $545 | 17,851 | 17,851 / - |
| PSA 5 | $418 | 16,102 | 16,102 / - |
| PSA 4 | $360 | 10,192 | 10,192 / - |
| PSA 3 | $326 | 5,581 | 5,580 / 1 |
| PSA 2 | $280 | 3,573 | 3,573 / - |
| PSA 1 | $350 | 4,096 | 4,096 / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $345 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Set
- Base Set
- Card number
- 4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Fire
- HP
- 120
- Stage
- Stage2
- Weakness
- Water ×2
- Retreat cost
- 3
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
Attacks
- Fire Spin100Fire · Fire · Fire · Fire
Discard 2 Energy cards attached to Charizard in order to use this attack.
Where to pull Charizard
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The collector's take on Charizard
Is Charizard worth grading?
Here's the honest math on Charizard price by grade: a raw copy runs $370, a Grade 9 jumps to $3,325, and a PSA 10 sits at $30,100, which works out to about 81.3x what the raw card is worth. That's a huge gap, and it's tempting to send every copy you own straight to grading. But gem mint is genuinely hard to hit on a card this old, corners soften, centering drifts, and print lines show up more than people expect from Base Set stock. Grading costs money and takes time, and there's no guarantee your copy comes back a 10, so it only really makes sense if the card already looks clean to your eye under good light before you commit.
How rare is Charizard?
Charizard carries the standard Rare designation from Base Set, not an ultra-rare subset, so it isn't scarce in the way some modern chase cards are. What makes it valuable is age and survival: a card printed in 2000 has spent over twenty years getting shuffled, sleeved late, traded across playgrounds, and stored in shoeboxes, and very few of those copies stayed sharp enough to grade high. That gap between how many exist and how many still look gem mint is exactly why the price climbs so steeply as the grade goes up.
Where can you pull Charizard?
This is where PackSpy's data actually earns its keep, because we track real pulls across pack sites rather than guessing. Charizard has been pulled 200 or more times across mnstr, tilt-rips, courtyard, collector-crypt, packs, and lastpack, with the biggest recorded pull on our tracker coming in at $2,800. We've also seen it show up in Pack 2, Pokemon Premium Pack, Pokemon Expert Pack, Pokémon: The Amazing Chase Day 1, and Pokémon Starter Pack. So it's not some myth you only read about, it genuinely gets pulled, though it's worth remembering that opening packs is a gamble and most rips don't come close to covering what you spent.
Questions people ask
How much is Charizard worth?+
A raw, ungraded Charizard from Base Set is worth $370 right now. Graded copies climb fast from there, with a Grade 9 at $3,325 and a PSA 10 reaching $30,100.
Is Charizard worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth roughly 81.3x the raw price. But gem mint copies are genuinely tough to land on a card this age, so only send it in if the corners, centering, and surface already look strong to your eye.
What set is Charizard from?+
Charizard #4 comes from the Base Set, released in 2000, and was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. It carries a Rare rarity designation on the card.
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