BLASTOISE #2/102 - BASE SET
- Set
- Pokemon Base Set (Base series)
- Number
- 2/102
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon - Stage 2 (Water)
- Artist
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- (1999-01-09)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $224.87 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
- 27 Rip Station marks, 1 cited public sale - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 2 in the $50.00 machine, 3 in the $100.00 machine, 2 in the $150.00 machine, 2 in the $200.00 machine, 2 in the $250.00 machine, 1 in the $500.00 machine
A brutal Pokémon with pressurized water jets on its shell. They are used for high-speed tackles.
RIP IT
Blastoise is in the $50.00 machine right now - PSA 3, PSA 5 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $50.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Blastoise is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Base Set, card 2 of 102, released January 9, 1999 in the Base series. The illustration is by Ken Sugimori.
Blastoise anchored the best-performing archetype of the earliest competitive era: Rain Dance decks used its Pokémon Power to accelerate Water Energy onto the board years before energy acceleration became standard design. It is the second card of the original holo trio, and graded copies trade as one of the three pillar cards of Base Set alongside Charizard and Venusaur.
VALUE
What is Blastoise #2 from Base Set worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Blastoise #2 (Base Set) carries a market reference of $224.87 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, $138880.00 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 $578.00 (PSA 7).
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 | 6 | $144.00 |
| 2026-06-09 | PSA | 2 | $79.99 |
| 2026-06-09 | PSA | 5 | $96.00 |
| 2026-06-09 | PSA | 6 | $151.75 |
| 2026-06-12 | CGC | 8 | $213.50 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 2 | $162.00 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 4 | $103.50 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 5 | $112.50 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 6 | $175.00 |
| 2026-06-17 | PSA | 6 | $140.00 |
| 2026-06-17 | PSA | 7 | $223.50 |
| 2026-06-24 | PSA | 3 | $76.76 |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA | 2 | $79.99 |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA | 3 | $76.76 |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA | 8 | $312.00 |
| 2026-07-09 | CGC | 6.5 | $387.00 |
| 2026-07-09 | PSA | 7 | $370.75 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 5 | $385.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 7 | $394.50 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 8 | $357.00 |
| 2026-08-03 | CGC | 8.5 | $300.00 |
| 2026-08-03 | PSA | 5 | $379.99 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 8 | $357.00 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 9 | $900.00 |
| 2026-08-10 | PSA | 6 | $374.50 |
| 2026-08-24 | PSA | 6 | $400.00 |
| 2026-08-24 | PSA | 8 | $550.25 |
| Date | Grader | Grade | Printing | Sale price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-15 | PSA | 10 | 1st Edition (Logan Paul box-break pull) | $138880.00 | Goldin Auctions; most valuable English Blastoise ever printed per report; incl buyer's premium; Goldin auction ended... |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Blastoise #2?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Base Set boosters. With 16 cards sharing that slot, pulling Blastoise specifically works out to roughly 1 in 48 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $50.00 machine right now, 2 of 1633 loaded cards are this card - about 0.12% 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 | 8 | 1 |
| CGC | 6.5 | 1 |
| PSA | 9 | 1 |
| PSA | 8 | 7 |
| PSA | 7 | 6 |
| PSA | 6 | 10 |
| PSA | 5 | 6 |
| PSA | 4 | 1 |
| PSA | 3 | 2 |
| PSA | 2 | 3 |
| Total | 39 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Blastoise #2 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 2 graded copies of Blastoise are loaded in the $50.00 machine; 3 graded copies of Blastoise are loaded in the $100.00 machine; 2 graded copies of Blastoise are loaded in the $150.00 machine; 2 graded copies of Blastoise are loaded in the $200.00 machine; 2 graded copies of Blastoise are loaded in the $250.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Blastoise is loaded in the $500.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $50.00 machine: 2 of 1633 loaded cards (0.12% per rip). Rip this machine
- $100.00 machine: 3 of 920 loaded cards (0.33% per rip). Rip this machine
- $150.00 machine: 2 of 678 loaded cards (0.29% per rip). Rip this machine
- $200.00 machine: 2 of 900 loaded cards (0.22% per rip). Rip this machine
- $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 - figoca.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.