Dragonair 18/102

Set: Base Set Released: Jan 9, 1999
Pokémon: Dragonair Colorless Type Rare Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita Pull Rate: 1 in 24 packs (4.2%) Evolves From: Dratini Evolves To: Dragonite

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Dragonair #18/102 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Dragonair #18/102 from Base Set — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Dragonair has moved up 13.3% to $19.69. PSA 10 copies are up 14.1% over the same period.

Dragonair #18/102 appears roughly 1 in 24 packs, which works out at 4.2% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Base Set.

Dragonair #18/102 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Base Set.

At $19.69 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $500.26, giving a net return of +$387.54 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$36.42 and PSA 8 returns +$6.16, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 2,495 copies of Dragonair #18/102, of which 312 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 12.5%, or roughly 1 in 8.0 graded copies.

Yes. At a 12.5% gem rate, Dragonair grades worse than the Base Set average by 5.4 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Dragonair #18/102 was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, who has illustrated 1418 Pokémon cards in total.

Dragonair #18/102 was released on 9 January 1999 as part of Base Set. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.