Maintenance #83 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 22 Oct 2026Related Maintenance & chase cards
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Maintenance is one of those quiet trainer cards from the original 1999 Base Set that longtime collectors just have a soft spot for, an uncommon illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi that most people pulled without a second thought back in the day. If you are trying to figure out Maintenance value right now, the short answer is that raw copies sit at $3, which tells you this is very much a card people collect for the history and the set run rather than a quick flip. Base Set nostalgia carries a lot of weight, and Maintenance is a small, honest piece of that story.
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 | $2.89 | - |
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? A raw copy runs $3, a Grade 9 is going for $201, and a PSA 10 comes in at $107, and PackSpy's numbers show a PSA 10 sits at roughly 39.1x the raw price. That kind of jump gets attention, but gem mint is genuinely hard to hit on a card this old, corners and centering from 1999 printing were not exactly precise. Before you send one off, factor in the real cost of grading and the turnaround time, and be honest with yourself about the condition of the copy you are holding. If it already looks clean under a light and a loupe, it might be worth the shot. If it has soft corners or a shadow of whitening, you are probably better off enjoying it raw or ungraded.
Where can you pull Maintenance?
Here is where PackSpy's live tracking actually earns its keep: we have recorded Maintenance pulled 21 times across sites like collector-crypt and courtyard, with the biggest recorded pull landing at $69. It has turned up in the Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, the Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack, and The Amazing Chase Encore, so if you are chasing one through packs rather than buying it outright, those are the names to watch. Just remember that opening packs is a gamble no matter how you slice it, most rips do not beat what you paid, so treat any pull of Maintenance as a nice bonus rather than something to bank on.
Questions people ask
How much is a PSA 10 Maintenance worth?+
A PSA 10 Maintenance is currently valued at $107. That is well above the $3 raw price, though interestingly a Grade 9 copy is currently valued higher at $201, which shows how much grading demand can shift market prices.
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