DARK BLASTOISE #3/82 - TEAM ROCKET
- Set
- Pokemon Team Rocket (Base series)
- Number
- 3/82
- Rarity
- Rare Holo
- Card type
- Pokémon - Stage 2 (Water)
- Artist
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- (2000-04-24)
- Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
- $482.59 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
- 10 Rip Station marks - per grader and grade, see the chart.
- In our machines
- 2 in the $150.00 machine, 1 in the $200.00 machine
An aggressive Pokémon that tackles anything it sees.
RIP IT
Dark Blastoise is in the $150.00 machine right now - PSA 5, PSA 6 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.
Rip the $150.00 machineABOUT THIS CARD
Dark Blastoise is a rare holo Pokemon card from Pokemon Team Rocket, card 3 of 82, released April 24, 2000 in the Base series. The illustration is by Mitsuhiro Arita.
VALUE
What is Dark Blastoise #3 from Team Rocket worth?
Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Dark Blastoise #3 (Team Rocket) carries a market reference of $482.59 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 - 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 $398.99 (PSA 5).
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 | 6 | $260.00 |
| 2026-06-12 | PSA | 6 | $159.99 |
| 2026-06-20 | PSA | 7 | $214.99 |
| 2026-06-23 | PSA | 7 | $162.50 |
| 2026-06-24 | PSA | 7 | $199.99 |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA | 7 | $186.45 |
| 2026-07-28 | PSA | 8 | $770.00 |
| 2026-08-03 | PSA | 5 | $290.99 |
| 2026-08-07 | BGS | 9 | $882.00 |
| 2026-08-07 | PSA | 9 | $1402.00 |
PULL RATE
What are the odds of pulling Dark Blastoise #3?
From published pack odds, any holofoil rare appeared about 1 in 3 packs in Team Rocket boosters. With 17 cards sharing that slot, pulling Dark Blastoise specifically works out to roughly 1 in 51 packs, assuming equal seeding. In the Rip Station $150.00 machine right now, 2 of 678 loaded cards are this card - about 0.29% per rip.
Source: Bulbapedia: Booster pack (TCG). Per-card figure derived as slot odds x 17 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BGS | 9 | 2 |
| PSA | 9 | 1 |
| PSA | 8 | 1 |
| PSA | 7 | 4 |
| PSA | 6 | 3 |
| PSA | 5 | 1 |
| Total | 12 | |
IN OUR MACHINES
Is Dark Blastoise #3 in a Rip Station machine?
Yes. 2 graded copies of Dark Blastoise are loaded in the $150.00 machine; 1 graded copy of Dark Blastoise is loaded in the $200.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.
- $150.00 machine: 2 of 678 loaded cards (0.29% per rip). Rip this machine
- $200.00 machine: 1 of 900 loaded cards (0.11% 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.
- Pack odds: cited above per slot.
- Machine availability, composition odds, graded vault population and graded price marks: Rip Station first-party data.