Charizard Card Price History and Values
The PSA 10 1st Edition Charizard sale by sale, from about $220,000 in 2020 to $1,000,952.84 in September 2026, plus October 2026 raw prices and condition ladders.
In October 2020 a PSA 10 1st Edition Base Set Charizard sold for about $220,000 with buyer's premium. In September 2026 one sold for $1,000,952.84. Most Charizards are not that card, so this page sets that headline sale history next to what the Charizards people actually own were selling for raw in October 2026, and shows how much condition moves each one.
The 1st Edition PSA 10, sale by sale
About 125 1st Edition Base Set Charizards have graded a PSA 10, out of roughly 5,400 PSA has graded (pop report mirror), so each public sale is a fair read of the top of the market:
| Sold | Where | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2020 | Iconic Auctions | about $220,000 | $183,812 hammer plus a 20% buyer's premium; the buyer was the rapper Logic |
| Dec 2020 | PWCC (eBay) | $350,100 | Peak of the pandemic boom; the same day an SGC 10 brought $369,000 at Goldin |
| Mar 2022 | PWCC | $420,000 | The record until 2025 |
| May 2025 | Goldin | $213,500 | Half the 2022 price, after the correction |
| Dec 2025 | Heritage | $550,000 | The record at the time for a copy without a famous backstory |
| Feb 2026 | Goldin | $954,800 | Pulled on camera in Logan Paul's box break; the break's Blastoise and Venusaur sold separately for $138,880 and $75,640 |
| Sep 2026 | eBay | $1,000,952.84 | The current record; a copy with no box-break story behind it |
The May 2025 sale at $213,500 came after 2024 sales near $171,000 (GoCollect), so the bottom after 2022 was lower still. When the box-break copy sold for $954,800 in February 2026, the best price for a copy without that story was $550,000, so most of the gap was provenance. Seven months later a PSA 10 with no such history sold for $1,000,952.84 on eBay, above both. The most valuable Charizard is still a Japanese card: a 1996 Japanese Base Set Charizard without a rarity symbol, graded PSA 10, sold for $1.7 million on March 3, 2026. On March 8 a second Japanese Base Set copy, in a PSA holder autographed by its illustrator Mitsuhiro Arita, made $1,232,200.
Raw prices for the Charizards most people own
These are TCGplayer market prices for raw English copies as our price guide recorded them on October 5, 2026: Near Mint unless the row says otherwise, with each card's 30-day move. The unlimited Base Set and Blaine's Charizards are in our WOTC-era guide's set table and in the condition table below, so they are not repeated here. A Charizard missing from this list is most likely a modern regular rare worth a few dollars; check its card number in our price search.
| Card | Year | Raw price | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Set, shadowless | 1999 | $2,257.87, Lightly Played (no Near Mint sale on record) | 0% |
| Shining Charizard 107/105 | 2002 | $1,495, Lightly Played (a last ask) | 0% |
| Legendary Collection 3/110, holo | 2002 | $899.99 (a last ask) | 0% |
| Charizard δ 4/100 | 2006 | $939.50 | +16.1% |
| Charizard GX 150/147, rainbow | 2017 | $806.10 | +10.2% |
| Charizard GX SV49 | 2019 | $768.10 | +0.5% |
| Mega Charizard X ex 125/094 | 2025 | $660.69 | −5.2% |
Rows marked "a last ask" show a price that did not change for 30 days. Read those as a ceiling.
How condition moves a Charizard's price
Our guide keeps a separate price for each condition, and three Charizards show the range:
| Condition | Base Set 4/102 | Blaine's (unlimited) | Hidden Fates SV49 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Near Mint | $910.75 | $584.96 | $768.10 |
| Lightly Played | $523.09 (57%) | $457.54 (78%) | $494.96 (64%) |
| Moderately Played | $376.82 (41%) | $382.71 (65%) | $424.35 (55%) |
| Heavily Played | $261.89 (29%) | $256.95 (44%) | $319.64 (42%) |
| Damaged | $184.00 (20%) | $193.18 (33%) | $296.66 (39%) |
The most famous card loses the most to light wear: a Base Set Charizard gives up over 40% of its value to a little whitening on the back. Yet none of them falls to nothing, and a creased childhood copy was still a $184 card. If you are selling, describe the back honestly. Vintage buyers price from photos of it.
Buying and selling one
Above a few hundred dollars, buy graded or in hand. Charizard is the most counterfeited Pokémon, and our fake-spotting guide covers the tells. Chasing a specific modern Charizard by opening packs almost always costs more than the single. To sell, start from your card's own condition price, check recent sold listings in the same condition, and remember a shop's cash offer sits below these figures because it has to resell at them. Our guide to selling Pokémon cards compares the routes, and slab vs raw covers when grading pays.
None of this is investment advice. The 2022 to 2025 slide in the table at the top is the reminder that a Charizard's price can fall by half and take years to come back.
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