Charmander 1st Edition #15 value & price
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Charmander needs no introduction, it is the little orange lizard that got a generation of kids hooked on Pokemon, and this particular printing carries some real history with it: 1st Edition #15 from the Japanese Advent of Arceus set, released back in 2009, illustrated by Suwama Chiaki. It sits at common rarity, so if you are wondering about Charmander value, know that the appeal here is less about scarcity of the character and more about the print, the era, and what collectors are willing to pay to own a piece of that early Arceus set.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $5.35, up 7% over the past year, with an all-time high of $6.56 in July 2026.
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Charmander price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 99 graded, only 44 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $202 | 44 | 38 / 6 |
| PSA 9 | $60 | 37 | 27 / 10 |
| PSA 8 | - | 12 | 5 / 7 |
| PSA 7 | - | 2 | - / 2 |
| PSA 6 | - | 1 | - / 1 |
| PSA 5 | $16 | 2 | 2 / - |
| PSA 4 | $13 | 1 | - / 1 |
| PSA 3 | $11 | - | - / - |
| PSA 2 | $10 | - | - / - |
| PSA 1 | - | - | - / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $5.35 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Card number
- 15
- Rarity
- Common
- Type
- Fire
- HP
- 60
- Stage
- Basic
- Weakness
- Water +10
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Suwama Chiaki
Attacks
- Call for FriendsColorless
Search your deck for a Fire Basic Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
- Steady Firebreathing20Fire · Colorless
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The collector's take on Charmander
Is Charmander worth grading?
Here is the honest math: a raw, ungraded Charmander sits at $7, a Grade 9 comes in at $27, and a PSA 10 tops out at $38, which works out to about 5.8 times the raw price. That jump looks tempting on paper, but gem mint is genuinely hard to hit, corners soften, edges wear, centering shifts, all the little things that keep a card out of that top grade. Grading fees are real money too, so before you send this one off, think about whether the potential PSA 10 payout justifies the cost and the wait, especially on a card that starts out modest in raw form. For a lot of collectors, this is a card you grade because you love it, not because the spreadsheet demands it.
How rare is Charmander?
Only 98 copies of this card have been graded in total, and of those, 44 have come back PSA 10. That is a notable chunk landing in gem mint, which tells you the card tends to survive well when it is handled carefully, but the overall population is still small. With numbers this tight, every graded copy carries a bit more weight, and it is part of why the PSA 10 price sits where it does relative to the raw version.
Where can you pull Charmander?
PackSpy has tracked this Charmander getting pulled 200 or more times across sites like collector-crypt, tilt-rips, courtyard, mnstr and packs, so it is far from a card you only see listed on the secondary market. It has shown up in Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, Pokemon Dollar Pack, Rookie Pack, Pokemon Dime Pack and Wildcard Basic Pack, and the biggest recorded pull value we have logged for it sits at $369. That is the kind of real, cross-site pull data a static price guide just cannot give you, and it is worth remembering that most pack openings do not land a hit like that, so treat ripping packs as entertainment first and a possible bonus second.
Questions people ask
How much is Charmander worth?+
A raw, ungraded copy of this Charmander is valued at $7, while a Grade 9 sits at $27 and a PSA 10 reaches $38. So the answer really depends on condition and whether it has been graded, but even in raw form there is steady collector demand for it.
Is Charmander worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth about 5.8 times the raw price, jumping from $7 up to $38. That said, only 44 out of 98 total graded copies have hit that PSA 10 mark, so gem mint is not guaranteed, and it is worth weighing grading costs against the modest starting value before you send it in.
Why is the Charmander 1st Edition #15 print worth more than the standard one?+
1st Edition prints generally carry a premium because they represent the earliest run of a set, which collectors see as historically significant and harder to come by over time. We do not track pricing on a non-1st Edition version of this card here, but that early-print appeal is generally what separates 1st Edition value from a standard reprint across the hobby.
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