CHARMANDER #46/102 - BASE SET
- Set
- Pokemon Base Set (Base series)
- Number
- 46/102
- Rarity
- Common
- Card type
- Pokémon - Basic (Fire)
- Artist
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- (1999-01-09)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $4.04 USD (TCGplayer market, normal, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
- Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
- 12 Rip Station marks - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 1 in the $100.00 machine, 1 in the $250.00 machine
Obviously prefers hot places. If it gets caught in the rain, steam is said to spout from the tip of its tail.
RIP IT
Charmander is in the $100.00 machine right now - PSA 9 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $100.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Charmander is a common Pokemon card from Pokemon Base Set, card 46 of 102, released January 9, 1999 in the Base series. The illustration is by Mitsuhiro Arita.
VALUE
What is Charmander #46 from Base Set worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Charmander #46 (Base Set) carries a market reference of $4.04 USD for the normal 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 - our own graded marks for this card are charted and tabled below, per grader and grade. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $399.00 (CGC 9).
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-09 | PSA | 9 | $75.00 |
| 2026-06-24 | CGC | 8 | $19.00 |
| 2026-06-24 | PSA | 8 | $250.00 |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA | 6 | $19.50 |
| 2026-07-09 | PSA | 8 | $179.00 |
| 2026-07-18 | PSA | 8 | $47.00 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 10 | $305.61 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 7 | $34.99 |
| 2026-08-03 | PSA | 9 | $46.00 |
| 2026-08-07 | CGC | 9 | $417.00 |
| 2026-08-10 | CGC | 9 | $375.00 |
| 2026-08-15 | PSA | 10 | $507.60 |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Charmander #46?
No published per-card pack odds are documented for Base Set. Rip Station's machine composition is measurable, though: 1 of 920 cards loaded in the $100.00 machine is this card - about 0.11% per rip.
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 | 9 | 2 |
| CGC | 8 | 1 |
| PSA | 10 | 2 |
| PSA | 9 | 2 |
| PSA | 8 | 3 |
| PSA | 7 | 3 |
| PSA | 6 | 1 |
| Total | 14 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Charmander #46 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 1 graded copy of Charmander is loaded in the $100.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Charmander is loaded in the $250.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $100.00 machine: 1 of 920 loaded cards (0.11% per rip). Rip this machine
- $250.00 machine: 1 of 491 loaded cards (0.20% 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.
- Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.