VENUSAUR #15/102 - BASE SET
- Set
- Pokemon Base Set (Base series)
- Number
- 15/102
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon - Stage 2 (Grass)
- Artist
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- (1999-01-09)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $181.26 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
- 17 Rip Station marks, 1 cited public sale - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 2 in the $250.00 machine, 1 in the $500.00 machine
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RIP IT
Venusaur is in the $250.00 machine right now - PSA 8, PSA 1 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $250.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Venusaur is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Base Set, card 15 of 102, released January 9, 1999 in the Base series. The illustration is by Mitsuhiro Arita.
Venusaur completes the original starter trio. Its Energy Trans Pokémon Power let players move Grass Energy freely, which made it a genuine engine piece in early Wigglytuff and Grass toolbox decks. Collectors treat the three Base Set starters as a set; Venusaur is the scarcest of the trio in top grades because of notoriously bad centering on the 1999 print runs.
VALUE
What is Venusaur #15 from Base Set worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Venusaur #15 (Base Set) carries a market reference of $181.26 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, $75640.00 for a PSA 10 on 2026-02-15, listed with its source below. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $374.95 (PSA 6).
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 | 5 | $111.88 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 1 | $139.95 |
| 2026-06-23 | CGC | 4 | $227.00 |
| 2026-06-24 | CGC | 4 | $225.00 |
| 2026-06-24 | PSA | 5 | $111.88 |
| 2026-06-24 | PSA | 6 | $122.71 |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA | 6 | $94.00 |
| 2026-07-09 | CGC | 8.5 | $225.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 7 | $152.50 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 8 | $800.00 |
| 2026-08-10 | PSA | 6 | $419.99 |
| 2026-08-10 | PSA | 9 | $458.00 |
| 2026-08-15 | PSA | 8 | $258.00 |
| 2026-08-15 | PSA | 9 | $458.00 |
| 2026-08-19 | PSA | 6 | $376.67 |
| 2026-08-19 | PSA | 8 | $300.00 |
| 2026-08-24 | PSA | 8 | $300.00 |
| Date | Grader | Grade | Printing | Sale price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-15 | PSA | 10 | 1st Edition (Logan Paul box-break pull) | $75640.00 | Goldin Auctions; highest price ever paid for a Venusaur regardless of language per SI; incl buyer's premium; Goldin a... |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Venusaur #15?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Base Set boosters. With 16 cards sharing that slot, pulling Venusaur specifically works out to roughly 1 in 48 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $250.00 machine right now, 2 of 491 loaded cards are this card - about 0.41% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CGC | 8.5 | 1 |
| CGC | 4 | 2 |
| PSA | 9 | 2 |
| PSA | 8 | 6 |
| PSA | 7 | 6 |
| PSA | 6 | 4 |
| PSA | 5 | 3 |
| PSA | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 25 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Venusaur #15 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 2 graded copies of Venusaur are loaded in the $250.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Venusaur is loaded in the $500.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $250.00 machine: 2 of 491 loaded cards (0.41% per rip). Rip this machine
- $500.00 machine: 1 of 519 loaded cards (0.19% 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 - si.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.