Vaporeon 1st Edition #12 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 1 Sept 2026Related Vaporeon & chase cards
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Vaporeon from the 1999 Jungle set is one of those cards that just makes sense to love: a calm, water-type Eeveelution rendered by Kagemaru Himeno, sitting at Rare status as card #12 in a set that a lot of collectors consider the true start of the Pokemon TCG boom outside the base set. If you are searching Vaporeon value or Vaporeon price right now, the short version is that a raw copy runs $130, while a graded gem sits in a completely different world of money, and that gap is really what this whole page is about.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $110, up 22% over the past year, with an all-time high of $215 in December 2020.
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Vaporeon price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 5,726 graded, only 130 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $9.6k | 130 | 72 / 58 |
| PSA 9 | $924 | 1,061 | 903 / 158 |
| PSA 8 | $352 | 1,693 | 1,333 / 360 |
| PSA 7 | $228 | 1,092 | 951 / 141 |
| PSA 6 | $156 | 834 | 726 / 108 |
| PSA 5 | $105 | 573 | 508 / 65 |
| PSA 4 | $70 | 215 | 194 / 21 |
| PSA 3 | $68 | 61 | 55 / 6 |
| PSA 2 | $61 | 28 | 27 / 1 |
| PSA 1 | $125 | 39 | 38 / 1 |
| Raw / Ungraded | $110 | - | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company (PSA / CGC).
Card details
- Set
- Jungle
- Card number
- 12 of 64
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Water
- HP
- 80
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Retreat cost
- 1
- Illustrator
- Kagemaru Himeno
- Released
- 1999
Attacks
- Quick Attack10+Colorless · Colorless
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage plus 20 more damage; if tails, this attack does 10 damage.
- Water Gun30+Water · Water · Colorless
Does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each Energy attached to Vaporeon but not used to pay for this attack's Energy cost. Extra Energy after the 2nd doesn't count.
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The collector's take on Vaporeon
Is Vaporeon worth grading?
So is Vaporeon worth grading? Here is the honest math: a raw, ungraded copy is valued at $130, a Grade 9 comes in at $903, and a true PSA 10 gem mint sits at $9,603, which works out to about 73.9 times what the raw card is worth. That jump is real, but so is the risk. Jungle cards from 1999 have had two decades to pick up whitening, print lines, and edge wear, and hitting a PSA 10 is genuinely hard on a card this old. Grading costs money and takes time, and if your copy comes back a 7 or 8 instead of a 10, you may not recoup what you spent. If you already own a sharp-looking copy with clean edges and centering, it can be worth sending in. If it has visible wear, it might be smarter to enjoy it raw or sell as-is.
How rare is Vaporeon?
Right now there are 5,715 total graded copies of this Vaporeon on record, and out of that whole population, only 130 have earned the top PSA 10 grade. That tells you two things. First, this is not a card that is scarce in the raw sense, plenty of people have submitted copies over the years, so there is a healthy population to compare against. Second, gem mint copies are the real bottleneck. When only a small sliver of a large graded population reaches perfect grade, that top tier becomes the thing collectors chase hardest, and it is exactly why the PSA 10 price sits so far above everything else.
Where can you pull Vaporeon?
This is where PackSpy's own data comes in handy, because we track real pulls across live pack-opening sites rather than just price guides. We have recorded Vaporeon pulled 200 or more times across courtyard, tilt-rips, and collector-crypt, with the biggest recorded pull on this exact card reaching $758. It has shown up in Pokemon Pro Pack, Pokemon Dollar Pack, Novice Pack, Pokemon Mini Pack, and Pokemon Master Pack. So it is out there and gettable through packs, but worth saying plainly: opening packs is gambling, and most rips do not come close to covering what you paid. If you are chasing this specific card, buying a known raw or graded copy on the secondary market is the more predictable route, pack pulls are more of a bonus than a plan.
Questions people ask
How much is Vaporeon worth?+
A raw, ungraded Vaporeon 1st Edition #12 from Jungle is valued at $130. Graded copies climb fast from there, with a Grade 9 sitting at $903 and a PSA 10 gem mint reaching $9,603. So the answer really depends on the condition and whether it has been graded.
Is Vaporeon worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth about 73.9 times the raw price of $130. But gem mint copies are tough to pull off on a card this old, and grading costs money with no guaranteed outcome, so it makes the most sense if your copy already looks clean and well centered.
Why is the Vaporeon 1st Edition #12 print worth more than the standard one?+
First edition Jungle cards were only printed for a limited window before the set moved to its unlimited print run, so fewer of them exist relative to overall demand. Collectors tend to value that earlier print history, which is a big part of why 1st edition copies carry a premium over standard prints in general.
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