Pikachu #4/53 from Pokemon Wizards Black Star Promos (1999)

PIKACHU #4/53 - WIZARDS BLACK STAR PROMOS

Set
Pokemon Wizards Black Star Promos (Base series)
Number
4/53
Rarity
Promo
Card type
Pokémon - Basic (Lightning)
Artist
Ken Sugimori
Released
(1999-07-01)
Raw card reference RAW / UNGRADED
$41.54 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
3 Rip Station marks - per grader and grade, see the chart.
In our machines
2 in the $200.00 machine
When several of these Pokémon gather, they attract so much electricity that they can cause lightning to strike.

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Pikachu is in the $200.00 machine right now - PSA 9, CGC 10 loaded. A pack reveals one random card from that machine.

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ABOUT THIS CARD

Pikachu is a promo Pokemon card from Pokemon Wizards Black Star Promos, card 4 of 53, released July 1, 1999 in the Base series. The illustration is by Ken Sugimori.

VALUE

What is Pikachu #4 from Wizards Black Star Promos worth?

Two different numbers answer this, and they are not interchangeable. Raw/ungraded: a loose, ungraded copy of Pikachu #4 (Wizards Black Star Promos) carries a market reference of $41.54 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 $162.60 (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.

100Rip Station marks (all grades) — 2026-06-12: index 100.0Rip Station marks (all grades) — 2026-06-23: index 100.0Rip Station marks (all grades) — 2026-08-15: index 100.02026-06-122026-08-15
Graded slab values only. Indexed to 100 at each grade series' first observation - relative movement, not dollar levels; the tables below carry the dollars. Solid lines are Rip Station marks (first-party estimates). Raw/ungraded reference (not plotted): $41.54 USD (TCGplayer market price, normal, as of 2026-09-11).
Graded slab values - Rip Station marks (first-party estimates, USD). Not raw/ungraded prices.
DateGraderGradeEstimated slab value (USD)
2026-06-12PSA9$160.16
2026-06-23CGC10$189.38
2026-08-15PSA4$25.00

PULL RATE

What are the odds of pulling Pikachu #4?

No published per-card pack odds are documented for Wizards Black Star Promos. Rip Station's machine composition is measurable, though: 2 of 900 cards loaded in the $200.00 machine are this card - about 0.22% 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.

GraderGradeCopies
CGC104
PSA91
PSA41
Total6

IN OUR MACHINES

Is Pikachu #4 in a Rip Station machine?

Yes. 2 graded copies of Pikachu are loaded in the $200.00 machine. A pack from that machine reveals one random card from everything loaded in it.

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.