
BLAINE'S CHARIZARD #2/132 - GYM CHALLENGE
- Set
- Pokemon Gym Challenge (Gym series)
- Number
- 2/132
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon - Stage 2 (Fire)
- Artist
- Ken Sugimori
- Released
- (2000-10-16)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $699.99 USD (TCGplayer market, 1stEditionHolofoil, as of 2026-09-11)Loose, ungraded copy. Not a graded slab - graded values are charted below.
- Graded slab data GRADED SLAB
- 5 Rip Station marks, 2 cited public sales - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 1 in the $150.00 machine, 1 in the $500.00 machine
RIP IT
Blaine's Charizard is in the $150.00 machine right now - PSA 9 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $150.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Blaine's Charizard is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Gym Challenge, card 2 of 132, released October 16, 2000 in the Gym series. The illustration is by Ken Sugimori.
Blaine's Charizard from Gym Challenge (2000) is the vintage era's second-most-chased Charizard. Its huge, coin-flip Firestorm attack was more spectacle than strategy, but owner-trainer Charizards from the Gym sets are a cornerstone of vintage character collections.
VALUE
What is Blaine's Charizard #2 from Gym Challenge worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Blaine's Charizard #2 (Gym Challenge) carries a market reference of $699.99 USD for the 1stEditionHolofoil 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 $7999.00 (PSA 10, 2026-08-25) to $19200.00 (PSA 10, 2026-08-30), 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 $1300.00 (PSA 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 5 | $405.95 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 7 | $508.00 |
| 2026-08-10 | CGC | 10 | $1441.00 |
| 2026-08-10 | PSA | 9 | $1315.00 |
| 2026-08-15 | PSA | 9 | $1399.00 |
| Date | Grader | Grade | Printing | Sale price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-25 | PSA | 10 | Unlimited | $7999.00 | Fanatics Collect Sold Items - Buy Now realized price |
| 2026-08-30 | PSA | 10 | 1st Edition | $19200.00 | Fanatics Collect Sold Items - Weekly Auction realized price (w/ buyer's premium) |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Blaine's Charizard #2?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Gym Challenge boosters. With 20 cards sharing that slot, pulling Blaine's Charizard specifically works out to roughly 1 in 60 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $150.00 machine right now, 1 of 678 loaded cards is this card - about 0.15% per rip.
Source: Bulbapedia: Booster pack (TCG). Per-card figure derived as slot odds x 20 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 | 10 | 1 |
| PSA | 9 | 2 |
| PSA | 7 | 2 |
| PSA | 5 | 1 |
| Total | 6 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Blaine's Charizard #2 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 1 graded copy of Blaine's Charizard is loaded in the $150.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Blaine's Charizard is loaded in the $500.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $150.00 machine: 1 of 678 loaded cards (0.15% 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 (2): 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.