Base Set 2 · #1 · 2000
Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily. · Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more.
$54.82
down3% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 10, 2026
Graded: Examined by a professional company, scored 1–10, and sealed in a labeled case. Graded copies trade at their own prices, grade by grade. PSA 10 $6,800 · PSA 9 $315 · CGC 10 $420
Set rank: Where this card's market price ranks among the priced cards in its set — #1 is the set's most valuable card. in Base Set 2
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$54.82 (TCGplayer Market price: The going rate for an ungraded copy of this exact printing, from actual sales data — TCGplayer for USD, Cardmarket for EUR. Updated daily.)
PSA: Professional Sports Authenticator, the biggest grading company. Grades 1–10; PSA 10 is Gem Mint, and PSA slabs are the easiest to price and sell.
CGC: Certified Guaranty Company, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10, with a Pristine 10 above Gem Mint 10; CGC slabs often sell a little below PSA.
BGS: Beckett Grading Services, one of the big three graders. Grades 1–10 in half steps; a Black Label 10 is perfect on all four subgrades.
SGC: Sportscard Guaranty — a long-running grader with black-bordered slabs. Grades 1–10 in half steps; fewer Pokémon sales than the big three.
Latest sold prices As of (a date): The price in force on the day we last checked — not a sale that closed that day. Rows marked “sold” carry the real sale day.. PSA and CGC grade on the same 1–10 scale, but the market prices them differently — what grades mean →
Sold data via Card Hedge
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Alakazam sits at $54.82 on TCGplayer today for the Holofoil printing.
Inside Base Set 2, that ranks 6th out of 130 priced cards. The set's top card is Charizard at $415. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $23.84 then, $54.82 now (up 129.9%). A year ago it sat around $36.39; today's $54.82 is 50.6% higher. The last 90 days have been quiet — it's held near $54.82. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $56.63 (May 2026) and as low as $23.46 (February 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $54.82 up to $56.51.
Pokémon Power Damage Swap
As often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may move 1 damage counter from 1 of your Pokémon to another as long as you don't Knock Out that Pokémon. This power can't be used if Alakazam is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
Confuse Ray30
Cost: Psychic, Psychic, Psychic
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.
“Its brain can outperform a supercomputer. Its intelligence quotient is said to be 5000.”
About $54.82 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 10, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $6,800 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 10, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $54.82 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 1% over the last 3 months — from $54.39 to $54.82 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 51%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $56.63 — that was May 2026. We've been writing this card's price down since February 2024, so that's the record on our watch, not an all-time record.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for Alakazam (Base Set 2 #1). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $54.82 today.
Base Set 2
