Wartortle #171 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 22 Oct 2026Related Wartortle & chase cards
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Wartortle #171 is one of those illustration rares that stops you mid-scroll, Mitsuhiro Arita's artwork giving this classic starter a softer, more painterly feel than you're used to seeing. It comes from the Scarlet & Violet 151 set, released in 2023, a set that leaned hard into nostalgia by revisiting the original 151 Pokemon with this kind of special art treatment. If you're trying to pin down Wartortle value right now, a raw copy sits at $57, which feels about right for an illustration rare with this kind of collector demand behind it.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $55, up 83% over the past year, with an all-time high of $64 in May 2026.
Recent pulls of Wartortle
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$60PSA MINT 9Elite Pokémon Gacha PackCollector Crypt · 5m ago
$60PSA MINT 9Elite Pokémon Gacha PackCollector Crypt · 8m ago
$75GradedtrainerLastpack · 12m ago
$104PSAPokémon ReserveTrove · 27m ago
$11CGC 9 MINTWildcard Basic PackCourtyard · 30m ago
$30GradedrookieLastpack · 36m ago
$72GradedchallengerLastpack · 48m ago
$15CGC 8.5 NM-MT+Wildcard Basic PackCourtyard · 50m ago
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Wartortle 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) | $375 | - |
| PSA 9 | $75 | - |
| PSA 8 | $55 | - |
| PSA 7 | $48 | - |
| PSA 6 | $23 | - |
| PSA 5 | $18 | - |
| PSA 4 | $15 | - |
| PSA 3 | $13 | - |
| PSA 2 | $12 | - |
| PSA 1 | - | - |
| Raw / Ungraded | $50 | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company.
Card details
- Card number
- 171 of 207
- Rarity
- Illustration rare
- Type
- Water
- HP
- 100
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- 2023
Attacks
- Free DivingWater
Put up to 3 Basic {W} Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand.
- Spinning Attack50Water · Water
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The collector's take on Wartortle
Is Wartortle worth grading?
So is Wartortle worth grading? Here's the honest math: a raw copy runs $57, a Grade 9 comes in at $75, and a PSA 10 jumps all the way to $399, which works out to roughly 7.0 times the raw price. That's a real gap, and it's tempting. But gem mint is called gem mint for a reason, corners, edges and centering all have to line up just right, and plenty of nice-looking copies come back as a 9 instead of a 10. Add in grading fees and turnaround time, and you're taking on genuine risk for that multiplier. If you've got a clean copy and you're patient, it can pay off. If you're on the fence, it's fine to just enjoy the raw card and let someone else take that gamble.
Where can you pull Wartortle?
This is where PackSpy's tracking actually earns its keep. We've recorded Wartortle pulled 200 or more times across sites like collector-crypt, courtyard and mnstr, so it's not some mythical chase card, it does show up if you're opening in the right places. It's turned up in the Water Pack, the Elite Pokemon Gacha Pack, the Pokemon Starter Pack, the Pokemon Master Pack and the Pokemon Basic Pack, and one lucky pull was recorded at $740. That said, opening packs is still a gamble, most rips don't come close to that number, so treat any pull as a bonus rather than an expectation.
Questions people ask
Is Wartortle worth grading?+
It can be, given a PSA 10 sells for about 7.0 times the raw price of $57. Just know that gem mint copies are hard to land, and grading takes time and money, so it's worth it mainly if your copy is already sharp.
What set is Wartortle from?+
Wartortle #171 comes from the Scarlet & Violet 151 set, released in 2023. It's an illustration rare featuring artwork by Mitsuhiro Arita, part of what made that set such a hit with collectors chasing the original 151.
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