Wartortle #8 value & price
Reviewed by Mumbles · Updated 20 Aug 2026Related Wartortle & chase cards
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Wartortle is the kind of card that reminds you why the middle evolutions often get overlooked, and why that's a mistake. This particular Wartortle, card #8 from the Japanese Expansion Pack set released in 2023, is an Uncommon illustrated by kantaro, and it carries a Wartortle value that most people never expect to see for a card of this rarity. Raw copies sit at $3, which is exactly where a lot of collectors first stumble into the deeper story this card has to tell.
Price history
InteractiveRaw value is $6.00, up 86% over the past year, with an all-time high of $21 in May 2022.
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Wartortle price at every grade
Market value at each grade, with how many exist (population). 967 graded, only 275 are PSA 10.
| Grade | Value | Population |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 (Gem Mint) | $510 | 275 |
| PSA 9 | $70 | 391 |
| PSA 8 | $40 | 129 |
| PSA 7 | $28 | 62 |
| PSA 6 | $22 | 36 |
| PSA 5 | $18 | 42 |
| PSA 4 | $15 | 14 |
| PSA 3 | $13 | 8 |
| PSA 2 | $12 | 6 |
| PSA 1 | - | 4 |
| Raw / Ungraded | $6.00 | - |
Prices & population from PriceCharting. Value shown is the PSA-grade market price; population is split by grading company.
Card details
- Card number
- 8
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Type
- Water
- HP
- 100
- Stage
- Stage1
- Weakness
- Lightning ×2
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Illustrator
- kantaro
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?
Here's the honest math on Wartortle price once you start talking about grading: a raw copy is $3, a Grade 9 comes in at $391, and a PSA 10 sits at $275, which works out to roughly 84.9 times what the ungraded card sells for. That's a real jump, and it's tempting to send every copy you own off to get slabbed. But gem mint is genuinely hard to hit, corners soften, edges chip, centering shifts, and grading isn't free or fast. Before you spend the money and wait the weeks, look at your copy under good light and ask yourself honestly if it's PSA 10 material, because a Grade 9 result still pays well here but a lower grade might not cover what you put into it.
How rare is Wartortle?
Across every copy that's been sent in, only 967 Wartortle cards have been graded in total, and of those, 275 came back a PSA 10. That's a meaningfully high slice landing at the top grade, which tells you this card isn't impossible to find in great condition if you've got a clean copy to start with. Still, with fewer than a thousand graded examples on record altogether, Wartortle sits in that sweet spot of being scarce enough to matter without being so rare that the market never gets a chance to prove what it's worth.
Where can you pull Wartortle?
This is where PackSpy earns its keep, because we don't just quote a price guide, we track actual pulls across real pack sites. Wartortle has been pulled 200 or more times across courtyard, mnstr, collector-crypt, tilt-rips, and packs, with the biggest recorded pull value hitting $440. If you're chasing this one yourself, it's shown up in the Pokémon Starter Pack, Pack 5, the Elite Pokémon Gacha Pack, the Pokemon Dime Pack, and the Legendary Pokémon Gacha Pack. Worth saying plainly though: opening packs is gambling, most rips lose money, and Wartortle showing up that often across sites means it's more attainable through packs than plenty of chase cards, but there's still no guarantee.
Questions people ask
How much is Wartortle worth?+
A raw or ungraded Wartortle from the Japanese Expansion Pack set is valued at $3. Once graded, the number changes fast, with a Grade 9 worth $391 and a PSA 10 worth $275, so condition really does the talking here.
Is Wartortle worth grading?+
It can be, since a PSA 10 sells for about 84.9 times the raw price. That said, gem mint copies are genuinely hard to pull off, and grading costs money and time, so it's worth being honest about your copy's condition before you send it in.
How much is a PSA 10 Wartortle worth?+
A PSA 10 Wartortle is valued at $275. Out of 967 total graded copies on record, 275 have come back at that top grade, so gem mint is achievable but far from guaranteed.
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