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Ninetales 21/165

Set: Expedition Base Set Released: Sep 15, 2002
Pokémon: Ninetales Fire Type Rare Holo Illustrator: Atsuko Nishida Pull Rate:1 in 96 packs (1.0%) Evolves From: Vulpix

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Ninetales #21/165 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Ninetales #21/165 from Expedition Base Set — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Ninetales #21/165 appears roughly 1 in 96 packs, which works out at 1.0% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from Expedition Base Set.

Ninetales #21/165 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in Expedition Base Set.

At $134.99 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $8,128.44, giving a net return of +$6,908.75 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$494.65 and PSA 8 returns +$126.65, so PSA 8, 9 and 10 can all return a profit on this card.

PSA have graded 810 copies of Ninetales #21/165, of which 73 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 9%, or roughly 1 in 11 graded copies.

Yes. At a 9% gem rate, Ninetales grades worse than the Expedition Base Set average by 8.8 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Ninetales #21/165 was illustrated by Atsuko Nishida, who has illustrated 802 Pokémon cards in total.

Ninetales #21/165 was released on 15 September 2002 as part of Expedition Base Set. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.