Base Set 2 · #81 · 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. · Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card.
$0.88
down2% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 9, 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 $50.00 · PSA 9 $20.50 · CGC 10 $10.80
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. · Normal
$0.88 (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.
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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Right now Metapod trades at $0.88 for the Normal printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the 90th most valuable of Base Set 2's 130 priced cards. The set's top card is Charizard at $415. We've logged its price daily since Feb 8, 2024: $0.37 then, $0.88 now (up 137.8%). A year ago it sat around $0.44; today's $0.88 is 100% higher. Over the last 90 days it's up 37.5%, from $0.64. Since February 2024 it's run as high as $0.98 (September 2026) and as low as $0.24 (May 2024). Its 30-day range runs from $0.86 up to $0.98.
Stiffen
Cost: Colorless, Colorless
Flip a coin. If heads, prevent all damage done to Metapod during your opponent's next turn. (Any other effects of attacks still happen.)
Stun Spore20
Cost: Grass, Grass
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
“It is vulnerable to attack because its shell is soft, exposing its weak and tender body.”
About $0.88 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 9, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $50.00 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 4, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $0.88 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 38% over the last 3 months — from $0.64 to $0.88 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 100%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $0.98 — 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 Metapod (Base Set 2 #81). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $0.88 today.
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