ALAKAZAM #1/102 - BASE SET
- Set
- Pokemon Base Set (Base series)
- Number
- 1/102
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon - Stage 2 (Psychic)
- Artist
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- (1999-01-09)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $69.36 USD (TCGplayer market, holofoil, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
- Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
- 13 Rip Station marks, 1 cited public sale - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 1 in the $50.00 machine, 1 in the $100.00 machine, 1 in the $150.00 machine, 2 in the $200.00 machine
Its brain can outperform a supercomputer. Its intelligence quotient is said to be 5000.
RIP IT
Alakazam is in the $50.00 machine right now - PSA 5 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $50.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Alakazam is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Base Set, card 1 of 102, released January 9, 1999 in the Base series. The illustration is by Ken Sugimori.
Alakazam is card number 1 of the set that started the English game. Damage Swap enabled an infamous early stall archetype with Chansey, moving damage counters around to blank the opponent's progress. Its position as #1/102 gives it outsized checklist significance for set collectors.
VALUE
What is Alakazam #1 from Base Set worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Alakazam #1 (Base Set) carries a market reference of $69.36 USD for the holofoil printing (TCGplayer market price, as of 2026-09-11). Graded slabs: a graded example is priced per grading company and per grade and can sit far above that raw figure - one documented public sale is on file for this card, $43200.00 for a PSA 10 on 2026-09-06, listed with its source below. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $154.50 (PSA 8).
Graded slab values over time GRADED SLAB
Slab values, per grading company and grade. These are a different market from the raw/ungraded reference in the facts block above - do not read one as the other.
| Date | Grader | Grade | Estimated slab value (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | PSA | 2 | $76.00 |
| 2026-06-03 | PSA | 5 | $59.99 |
| 2026-06-12 | CGC | 9 | $159.50 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 4 | $120.00 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 5 | $176.47 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 8 | $144.50 |
| 2026-06-23 | PSA | 8 | $303.25 |
| 2026-07-09 | BGS | 9 | $1519.00 |
| 2026-07-09 | PSA | 9 | $330.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | CGC | 10 | $612.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 5 | $49.95 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 8 | $559.99 |
| 2026-08-03 | PSA | 9 | $300.83 |
| Date | Grader | Grade | Printing | Sale price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-06 | PSA | 10 | 1st Edition Shadowless | $43200.00 | Fanatics Collect Sold Items - Weekly Auction realized price (w/ buyer's premium) |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Alakazam #1?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Base Set boosters. With 16 cards sharing that slot, pulling Alakazam specifically works out to roughly 1 in 48 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $50.00 machine right now, 1 of 1633 loaded cards is this card - about 0.06% per rip.
Source: Bulbapedia: Booster pack (TCG). Per-card figure derived as slot odds x 16 eligible cards.
POP REPORT
Rip Station vault population - graded slabs GRADED SLAB
Counts of GRADED copies, by grading company and grade, that have passed through our machines. Raw/ungraded copies are counted separately in the Raw row.
| Grader | Grade | Copies |
|---|---|---|
| BGS | 9 | 1 |
| CGC | 10 | 1 |
| CGC | 9 | 1 |
| PSA | 9 | 4 |
| PSA | 8 | 4 |
| PSA | 5 | 3 |
| PSA | 4 | 1 |
| PSA | 2 | 1 |
| Total | 16 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Alakazam #1 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 1 graded copy of Alakazam is loaded in the $50.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Alakazam is loaded in the $100.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Alakazam is loaded in the $150.00 machine; 2 graded copies of Alakazam are loaded in the $200.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $50.00 machine: 1 of 1633 loaded cards (0.06% per rip). Rip this machine
- $100.00 machine: 1 of 920 loaded cards (0.11% per rip). Rip this machine
- $150.00 machine: 1 of 678 loaded cards (0.15% per rip). Rip this machine
- $200.00 machine: 2 of 900 loaded cards (0.22% per rip). Rip this machine
SOURCES
- Card metadata and image: the open pokemontcg.io dataset.
- Raw/ungraded reference value: pokemontcg.io market snapshot (tcgplayer), as of 2026-09-11. An ungraded single, an estimate, not an offer - and not a graded slab value.
- Reported graded-slab sales (1): documented public results, each linked to its source in the value section above - fanaticscollect.com. Third-party realized prices, not Rip Station estimates.
- Pack odds: cited above per slot.
- Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.