Dark Blastoise 3/82

Set: Team Rocket Released: Apr 24, 2000
Pokémon: Blastoise Water Type Rare Holo Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita Pull Rate: 1 in 54.2 packs (1.8%) Evolves From: Dark Wartortle

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Dark Blastoise #3/82 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Dark Blastoise #3/82 from Team Rocket — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Over the last 30 days, an ungraded Dark Blastoise has moved up 5.8% to $482.16. PSA 10 copies are up 129.4% over the same period.

Dark Blastoise #3/82 appears roughly 1 in 54.2 packs, which works out at 1.8% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Team Rocket.

Dark Blastoise #3/82 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Team Rocket.

At $482.16 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $15,479.64, giving a net return of +$12,957.13 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$630.57 and PSA 8 returns +$37.77, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 9,074 copies of Dark Blastoise #3/82, of which 228 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 2.5%, or roughly 1 in 40 graded copies.

Yes. At a 2.5% gem rate, Dark Blastoise grades worse than the Team Rocket average by 9.3 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Dark Blastoise #3/82 was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, who has illustrated 1418 Pokémon cards in total.

Dark Blastoise #3/82 was released on 24 April 2000 as part of Team Rocket. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.