Blastoise 1/17

Set: POP Series 3 Released: Apr 1, 2006
Pokémon: Blastoise Water Type Rare Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita Pull Rate: 1 in 70 packs (1.4%) Evolves From: Wartortle

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Blastoise #1/17 FAQs: Price, Grading & Collecting

Answers about Blastoise #1/17 from POP Series 3 — live market value, pull rates, PSA grading returns and tournament legality.

Blastoise #1/17 appears roughly 1 in 70 packs, which works out at 1.4% per pack. That makes it one of the harder cards to pull from POP Series 3.

Blastoise #1/17 is a Rare, one of the higher rarity tiers in POP Series 3.

At $76.99 raw, you need a PSA 10 to profit. A PSA 10 sells for $1,311.77, giving a net return of +$1,036.25 after grading costs and selling fees. PSA 9 returns +$243.00 and PSA 8 returns −$68.60, so a PSA 9 or 10 can profit, while anything below that loses money on this card.

PSA have graded 116 copies of Blastoise #1/17, of which 13 came back as PSA 10. That is a gem rate of 11.2%, or roughly 1 in 8.9 graded copies.

Yes. At a 11.2% gem rate, Blastoise grades worse than the POP Series 3 average by 7.9 points. Clean copies are harder to come by.

Blastoise #1/17 was illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita, who has illustrated 1418 Pokémon cards in total.

Blastoise #1/17 was released on 1 April 2006 as part of POP Series 3. It belongs to the Vintage era and features a Generation 1 Pokémon from the Kanto region.