Base Set 2 · #20 · 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.
$40.83
down7% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 12, 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 $7,000 · PSA 9 $200 · 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
$40.83 (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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Zapdos sits at $40.83 on TCGplayer today for the Holofoil printing.
Inside Base Set 2, that ranks 8th out of 130 priced cards. (Charizard leads the set at $415.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 92.6% — from $21.20 to $40.83. Over the last year it's climbed 68.3%, from $24.26 to $40.83. The 90-day move: up 7.2%, $38.07 to $40.83. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $44.05 in September 2026; its lowest, $20.00 in September 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $44.05 at the top and $40.44 at the bottom.
Thunder60
Cost: Lightning, Lightning, Lightning, Colorless
Flip a coin. If tails, Zapdos does 30 damage to itself.
Thunderbolt100
Cost: Lightning, Lightning, Lightning, Lightning
Discard all Energy cards attached to Zapdos in order to use this attack.
“A legendary bird Pokémon said to appear from clouds while wielding enormous lightning bolts.”
About $40.83 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 12, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $7,000 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 11, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $40.83 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 7% over the last 3 months — from $38.07 to $40.83 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 68%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $44.05 — that was September 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 Zapdos (Base Set 2 #20). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $40.83 today.
Base Set 2
