Erika's Ivysaur #41 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 2 Sept 2026Related Erika's Ivysaur & chase cards
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Erika's Ivysaur is one of those quietly charming cards from the Gym Challenge set, released back in 2000, with artwork from Ken Sugimori that still holds up today. It's an Uncommon, so it was never meant to be a chase card, but that's part of what makes checking Erika's Ivysaur value kind of fun, it's a card people actually pull and open packs hoping to see rather than one locked away in a vault somewhere. If you're wondering about Erika's Ivysaur price right now, a raw copy runs about $11, which puts it firmly in approachable territory for most collectors.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $9.99, up 43% over the past year, with an all-time high of $16 in January 2021.
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Erika's Ivysaur price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 454 graded, only 75 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $148 | 75 | 47 / 28 |
| PSA 9 | $44 | 140 | 104 / 36 |
| PSA 8 | $40 | 125 | 61 / 64 |
| PSA 7 | $10 | 64 | 33 / 31 |
| PSA 6 | $8.00 | 21 | 10 / 11 |
| PSA 5 | $6.00 | 17 | 13 / 4 |
| PSA 4 | $5.00 | 6 | 3 / 3 |
| PSA 3 | $4.00 | 4 | 3 / 1 |
| PSA 2 | $4.00 | 1 | 1 / - |
| PSA 1 | $65 | 1 | 1 / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $9.99 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Card number
- 41 of 132
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Grass
- HP
- 60
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Fire x2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- 2000
Attacks
- Double Razor Leaf40xGrass · Grass · Grass
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 40 damage times the number of heads.
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The collector's take on Erika's Ivysaur
Is Erika's Ivysaur worth grading?
So is it worth grading? Here's the honest answer: a PSA 10 sits at $149 while a Grade 9 lands at $43, and that top grade is roughly 14.0x what you'd pay for a raw copy. That's a real jump, but gem mint is genuinely hard to hit, especially on an older card like this where corners, edges, and centering all have to line up just right. Grading fees and turnaround time eat into that upside, so if you've got a raw copy that already looks clean under a light, it might be worth sending in, but don't grade a card you're not fairly confident about just chasing that $149 number.
How rare is Erika's Ivysaur?
As an Uncommon from Gym Challenge, Erika's Ivysaur was never printed in the tiny quantities you'd see on a rare holo or secret rare, so it's not a card defined by scarcity in the traditional sense. What actually drives its value is condition scarcity, meaning clean, well centered copies that survived over two decades without soft corners or print lines are the real find, not the card itself. That's why the gap between raw and PSA 10 pricing matters more here than population reports would, condition is doing the heavy lifting.
Where can you pull Erika's Ivysaur?
PackSpy has recorded Erika's Ivysaur pulled 8 times so far, tracked across sites like courtyard and collector-crypt, and it's shown up in packs like the Pokémon Basic Pack and the Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack. The biggest recorded pull came in at $55, which tells you these are usually modest hits rather than headline moments, but that's exactly the kind of real world data no price guide gives you. Worth remembering too, opening packs is gambling in the end, most rips don't beat what you paid, so treat any Erika's Ivysaur pull as a nice bonus rather than the reason you're buying packs.
Questions people ask
How much is Erika's Ivysaur worth?+
A raw, ungraded Erika's Ivysaur is valued at $11 right now. Graded copies climb from there, with a Grade 9 sitting at $43 and a PSA 10 reaching $149, so condition makes a real difference to what it's worth.
Is Erika's Ivysaur worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth about 14.0x the raw price, jumping from $11 to $149. Just know that gem mint copies are tough to land, so weigh the grading cost and risk against how clean your copy honestly looks before sending it in.
How much is a PSA 10 Erika's Ivysaur worth?+
A PSA 10, gem mint Erika's Ivysaur is valued at $149, compared to $43 for a Grade 9 and $11 for a raw copy. That gap is why so many collectors chase the top grade, even though hitting it isn't guaranteed.
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