Venusaur #15 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 23 Oct 2026Related Venusaur & chase cards
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Venusaur #15 is one of those Base Set cards that just feels like Pokemon to a lot of collectors, that classic 1999 Rare with Mitsuhiro Arita's artwork bringing the big grass-type to life. If you are searching Venusaur value or Venusaur price, the short answer is that a raw copy sits at $64, while a sharp graded example climbs a lot higher, which is exactly what we will walk through here.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $75, up 63% over the past year, with an all-time high of $80 in February 2026.
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Venusaur price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 12 graded, only 3 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population | PSA / CGC |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $4.8k | 3 | - / 3 |
| PSA 9 | $588 | 3 | 1 / 2 |
| PSA 8 | $252 | 4 | 2 / 2 |
| PSA 7 | $179 | 1 | 1 / - |
| PSA 6 | $119 | - | - / - |
| PSA 5 | $108 | - | - / - |
| PSA 4 | $86 | - | - / - |
| PSA 3 | $74 | 1 | - / 1 |
| PSA 2 | $67 | - | - / - |
| PSA 1 | $124 | - | - / - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $75 | - | - |
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
- 15 of 102
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Grass
- HP
- 100
- Stage
- Stage2
- Weakness
- Fire ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- 1999
Attacks
- Solarbeam60Grass · Grass · Grass · Grass
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The collector's take on Venusaur
Is Venusaur worth grading?
So is Venusaur worth grading? A PSA 10 currently books at $3,533, which works out to about 55.2 times what the raw card sells for at $64. That is a real gap and it explains why so many people send Base Set cards in for grading. But here is the honest part: hitting a true gem mint 10 on a card from 1999 is genuinely tough, corners soften, centering shifts, and print lines show up more than you'd expect. A Grade 9 lands at $625, which is still a nice jump from raw but nowhere near PSA 10 money, and that's the more realistic outcome for most submissions. Factor in grading fees and turnaround time before you send one off, and only do it if the card is already sharp in hand.
How rare is Venusaur?
Venusaur carries the Rare tag from Base Set, a set that was printed in huge numbers back in 1999 but has thinned out considerably over twenty-plus years of play, trading, and cards just getting lost to time. Rare doesn't mean scarce in the way a modern chase card is scarce, it means Venusaur was never as common in packs as the basic commons, and clean surviving copies from that era are what really drive the price gap between raw and graded. That's the story behind the jump from $64 raw to $3,533 for a PSA 10, it's less about how many exist and more about how few have survived in gem condition.
Where can you pull Venusaur?
This is where PackSpy's own data comes in, because we track real pulls across pack-opening sites rather than just guessing. We've recorded Venusaur pulled 19 times across collector-crypt and courtyard, with the biggest recorded pull value at $84. It has turned up in the Starter Pokémon Gacha Pack, the Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, the Pokémon Starter Pack, and the Pokémon Pro Pack. Worth saying plainly: pack odds are still a gamble and most rips don't come close to covering their cost, but if you're chasing a Venusaur pull specifically, those are the packs where our data shows it actually showing up.
Questions people ask
How much is Venusaur worth?+
A raw, ungraded Venusaur #15 currently sits at $64. Once you get into graded copies the price rises fast, with a Grade 9 at $625 and a PSA 10 reaching $3,533. So how much your Venusaur is worth really comes down to condition and whether it's been graded.
Is Venusaur worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 is worth 55.2 times the raw price of $64. The catch is that gem mint 10s are hard to pull off with a Base Set card from 1999, so weigh the grading cost against the realistic chance of landing a 9 at $625 versus a 10 at $3,533 before you submit.
What set is Venusaur from?+
Venusaur #15 comes from Base Set, the original Pokemon TCG set released in 1999. It's a Rare card illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, one of the artists most associated with that early era of the game.
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