CHARIZARD #4/102 - BASE SET

ABOUT THIS CARD

Charizard is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Base Set, card 4 of 102, released January 9, 1999 in the Base series. The illustration is by Mitsuhiro Arita.

Charizard from the 1999 Base Set is the single most recognizable Pokémon card ever printed. In the early game its Fire Spin — 100 damage for four Fire Energy, discarding two — was the biggest attack number a kid could put on a table, even though its Stage 2 setup cost kept it out of serious tournament decks. As a collectible it defined the hobby twice: once in 1999 playgrounds, and again in the 2020 collecting boom, when graded copies became the reference asset for the whole vintage Pokémon market. Shadowless and 1st Edition printings sit above the unlimited print run in scarcity and price.

VALUE

What is Charizard #4 from Base Set worth?

Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Charizard #4 (Base Set) carries a market reference of $869.02 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 - documented public sales on file for this card run from $93000.00 (CGC 10, 2026-02-15) to $954800.00 (PSA 10, 2026-02-15), each listed with its source below. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $1381.00 (PSA 4).

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.

PULL RATE

What are the odds of pulling Charizard #4?

From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Base Set boosters. With 16 cards sharing that slot, pulling Charizard specifically works out to roughly 1 in 48 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $200.00 machine right now, 1 of 900 loaded cards is this card - about 0.11% 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.

IN OUR MACHINES

Is Charizard #4 in a Rip Station machine?

Yes. 1 graded copy of Charizard is loaded in the $200.00 machine; 2 graded copies of Charizard are loaded in the $250.00 machine; 8 graded copies of Charizard are loaded in the $500.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.

• $200.00 machine: 1 of 900 loaded cards (0.11% per rip). Rip this machine
• $250.00 machine: 2 of 491 loaded cards (0.41% per rip). Rip this machine
• $500.00 machine: 8 of 519 loaded cards (1.54% 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 (5): documented public results, each linked to its source in the value section above - auctionreport.com, dexerto.com, intelligentcollector.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.