Dratini 38/130

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Dratini has moved up 14.1% to $1.46. PSA 10 copies are up 24.1% over the same period.

Dratini #38/130 appears roughly 1 in 14 packs, which works out at 7.1% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Base Set 2.

Dratini #38/130 is a Uncommon, one of the higher rarity tiers in Base Set 2.

At $1.46 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $173.69, giving a net return of +$121.65 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns −$2.46 and PSA 8 returns −$12.89, so anything below a 10 loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 196 copies of Dratini #38/130, of which 39 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 19.9%, or roughly 1 in 5.0 graded copies.

Yes. At a 19.9% gem rate, Dratini grades worse than the Base Set 2 average by 1.5 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Dratini #38/130 was illustrated by Ken Sugimori, who has illustrated 2072 Pokémon cards in total.

Dratini #38/130 was released on 24 February 2000 as part of Base Set 2. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.