The 10 Most Valuable Base Cards
Base (Base, 1999) has 102 cards. Here are the ten most valuable by current TCGplayer market price, led by Charizard at around $852. Prices move constantly, so treat this as a live snapshot rather than a fixed ranking.
Prices as of 2026/08/16.
1The card that built the hobby. Mitsuhiro Arita's 1999 Base Set Charizard paired the game's most popular starter with numbers no other early card matched — 120 HP and a 100-damage Fire Spin — sitting in the holo slot of the set everyone opened first. The first-run 1st Edition stamp and the Shadowless printing that followed command the highest prices; the Unlimited version is the affordable classic. A generation of collectors measures every other card against this one.
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Want the rest? See the full Base card list — including the commons and printable checklists to build the set in a binder — or browse all sets.
Prices are TCGplayer market values from our latest data refresh and will change over time. Card images © The Pokémon Company.