CHARIZARD #6/165 - EXPEDITION BASE SET
- Set
- Pokemon Expedition Base Set (E-Card series)
- Number
- 6/165
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon - Stage 2 (Fire)
- Artist
- Hiromichi Sugiyama
- Released
- (2002-09-15)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $408.33 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
- 2 Rip Station marks, 1 cited public sale - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 1 in the $500.00 machine
RIP IT
Charizard is in the $500.00 machine right now - PSA 3 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $500.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Charizard is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Expedition Base Set, card 6 of 165, released September 15, 2002 in the E-Card series. The illustration is by Hiromichi Sugiyama.
Expedition's Charizard holo comes from the first e-Reader set, whose oversized frames and dot-code borders make the era instantly recognizable. Low print volumes at the end of WOTC's license mean e-Card era holos are much scarcer than Base era equivalents.
VALUE
What is Charizard #6 from Expedition Base Set worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Charizard #6 (Expedition Base Set) carries a market reference of $408.33 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, $26500.00 for a PSA 10 on 2025-08-05, listed with its source below. Both are references, not offers. The graded copy in our machine carries a Rip Station estimated slab value of $460.00 (PSA 3).
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-09 | PSA | 1 | $410.00 |
| 2026-07-09 | PSA | 3 | $429.00 |
| Date | Grader | Grade | Printing | Sale price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-05 | PSA | 10 | Unlimited | $26500.00 | Fanatics Collect Sold Items - Buy Now realized price |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Charizard #6?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Expedition Base Set boosters. With 32 cards sharing that slot, pulling Charizard specifically works out to roughly 1 in 96 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $500.00 machine right now, 1 of 519 loaded cards is this card - about 0.19% per rip.
Source: Bulbapedia: Booster pack (TCG). Per-card figure derived as slot odds x 32 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PSA | 3 | 1 |
| PSA | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 2 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Charizard #6 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 1 graded copy of Charizard is loaded in the $500.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $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 - 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.