Maintenance 1st Edition #83 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 13 Sept 2026Related Maintenance & chase cards
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Maintenance is one of those quiet Base Set trainer cards that longtime collectors have a real soft spot for, an uncommon slip of cardboard from 1999 illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi that doesn't shout for attention but still matters if you're chasing a complete 1st edition run. If you've landed here wondering about Maintenance value, you're in the right spot, because this card actually splits into a pretty wide range depending on condition. It's not a flashy holo, but it's part of Base Set history, and that alone keeps people searching for it.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $10, up 1% over the past year, with an all-time high of $14 in May 2026.
Recent pulls of Maintenance
Real pulls of this card across the tracked pack-opening sites, data no price guide has.
$12CGC 6.5 EX-NM+Wildcard Basic PackCourtyard · 20h ago
$17CGC MINT 9Starter Pokémon Gacha PackCollector Crypt · 1d ago$12CGC 6.5 EX-NM+Wildcard Basic PackCourtyard · 1d ago$12CGC 6.5 EX-NM+Wildcard Basic PackCourtyard · 1d ago$12CGC 6.5 EX-NM+Wildcard Basic PackCourtyard · 1d ago
$15PSA 7 NMWildcard Basic PackCourtyard · 1d ago
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Maintenance price at every grade
Market value at each grade. The population is hidden: PriceCharting shows the same counts for another card, so we cannot tell which card they belong to.
| Grade | Value | Population |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $378 | - |
| PSA 9 | $67 | - |
| PSA 8 | $36 | - |
| PSA 7 | $25 | - |
| PSA 6 | $13 | - |
| PSA 5 | $11 | - |
| PSA 4 | $9.00 | - |
| PSA 3 | $8.00 | - |
| PSA 2 | $7.00 | - |
| PSA 1 | - | - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $10 | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company.
Card details
- Set
- Base Set
- Card number
- 83 of 102
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Illustrator
- Keiji Kinebuchi
- Released
- 1999
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The collector's take on Maintenance
Is Maintenance worth grading?
So, is Maintenance worth grading? Here's the honest answer: a raw copy sits around $12, and a PSA 10 jumps all the way up to $342, which works out to about 29.2 times the raw price. That's a real gap, and if you happen to have a copy sitting in a binder that looks sharp with clean corners and centered borders, it might be worth sending in. But gem mint is genuinely hard to hit on Base Set cards this old, edges wear, print lines shift, and a Grade 9 result currently sits even higher in the market at $821, so grading outcomes here don't always move in the direction you'd expect. Factor in grading fees and turnaround time, and treat it as a calculated bet rather than a guaranteed payout, because plenty of submitted cards come back as a 8 or lower and don't recoup the cost.
Where can you pull Maintenance?
Here's where PackSpy's own tracking comes in handy, because we log real pulls across pack opening sites as they happen, not just secondary market listings. As of now, we haven't recorded Maintenance being pulled on any tracked site, which lines up with it being a card people usually pick up on the secondary market rather than rip open themselves. If you're hoping to add this one to your collection, don't expect to stumble into it through a pack, your better bet is buying a graded or raw copy directly, and we'll update this page the moment our tracking catches a real pull.
Questions people ask
Why is the Maintenance 1st Edition #83 print worth more than the standard one?+
1st edition Base Set cards were only printed for a limited window before the standard unlimited print run took over, so they naturally exist in smaller numbers. That early scarcity is a big part of why collectors specifically hunt for the 1st edition stamp, and why it tends to carry a premium in the market.
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