Ivysaur 1999-2000 #30 value & price
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Ivysaur has always had a soft spot in Base Set lore, the in-between stage of Bulbasaur that a lot of collectors grew up trading for and never quite let go of. This Uncommon card, illustrated by Ken Sugimori and released back in 1999, sits at #30 in the set. If you are trying to figure out Ivysaur value today, the short answer is that it is an affordable piece of Base Set history, with plenty of room to climb if you land a sharp copy.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $3.99, up 20% over the past year, with an all-time high of $13 in October 2024.
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Ivysaur price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 108 graded, only 24 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $190 | 24 | - / 24 |
| PSA 9 | $54 | 32 | - / 32 |
| PSA 8 | $46 | 32 | - / 32 |
| PSA 7 | $40 | 11 | - / 11 |
| PSA 6 | $32 | 6 | - / 6 |
| PSA 5 | $26 | 2 | - / 2 |
| PSA 4 | $22 | 1 | - / 1 |
| PSA 3 | $19 | - | - / - |
| PSA 2 | $17 | - | - / - |
| PSA 1 | - | - | - / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $3.99 | - | - |
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
- 30 of 102
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Grass
- HP
- 60
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Fire ×2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- 1999
Attacks
- Vine Whip30Grass · Colorless · Colorless
- Poisonpowder20Grass · Grass · Grass
The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.
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The collector's take on Ivysaur
Is Ivysaur worth grading?
Here is where the Ivysaur price story gets interesting. A raw, ungraded copy runs about $3, which is pocket change for a Base Set card. But send a clean copy off and get lucky with a PSA 10, and you are looking at $126, which works out to roughly 41.5 times the raw value. A Grade 9 lands in the middle at $53, so even a near miss on gem mint still pays off nicely. The catch is that gem mint is genuinely hard to hit on a card this old, corners soften and centering drifts over two decades of storage, and grading fees plus turnaround time are real costs you eat whether the card comes back a 10 or a 7. If you already own a copy that looks sharp in hand, edges crisp, centering even, it is worth the gamble. If it has any visible wear, save your money and enjoy it raw.
How rare is Ivysaur?
Across all grading services, only 105 copies of this Ivysaur have been graded, and of those, just 23 have come back a PSA 10. That is a pretty tight window at the top. It tells you that most submitted copies are landing somewhere below gem mint, which is exactly why that top grade commands such a premium over the raw and Grade 9 prices. Scarcity at the PSA 10 level is really what drives the jump in Ivysaur value once a card crosses into that top tier.
Where can you pull Ivysaur?
This is where PackSpy's tracking actually earns its keep, because no price guide tracks live pack pulls the way we do. We have recorded this Ivysaur pulled 200 or more times across collector-crypt, courtyard, mnstr, and tilt-rips, with the biggest recorded pull value hitting $354. It has turned up in a handful of pack products including the Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, Wildcard Basic Pack, Pokémon Pro Pack, Pokémon Master Pack, and Pokémon Starter Pack. Worth remembering though, opening packs is a gamble and most rips do not cover their cost, so if you are chasing this Ivysaur specifically, buying a known graded copy on the secondary market is usually the steadier route.
Questions people ask
How much is Ivysaur worth?+
A raw, ungraded Ivysaur from Base Set is worth about $3. Graded copies climb from there, with a Grade 9 around $53 and a PSA 10 reaching $126, so condition makes a real difference here.
Is Ivysaur worth grading?+
It depends on the copy in front of you. The jump from raw to PSA 10 is about 41.5 times the value, but with only 23 PSA 10s out of 105 total graded copies, gem mint is far from guaranteed, so grading pays off mainly for copies that already look near flawless.
What set is Ivysaur from?+
This Ivysaur is card #30 from the original Base Set, released in 1999. It is an Uncommon card illustrated by Ken Sugimori, part of the very first Pokemon trading card set to hit shelves.
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