Expedition Base Set · #24 · 2002
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.
$44.99
Steady · 23dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 11, 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 $156,000 · PSA 9 $3,000 · CGC 10 $278
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 Expedition Base Set
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Holofoil
$44.99 (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 Poliwrath trades at $44.99 for the Holofoil printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the 49th most valuable of Expedition Base Set's 165 priced cards. (Dragonite leads the set at $950.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 1.1% — from $44.49 to $44.99. Over the last year it's fallen 14.8%, from $52.82 to $44.99. The 90-day move: down 39.7%, $74.66 to $44.99. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $78.85 in May 2026; its lowest, $27.47 in December 2024. That's the Holofoil printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $44.50. On Cardmarket, the European printings of this card go for about €47.22.
By Printing
By printing: Holo: The artwork shines with a foil pattern. A separate printing from the plain card, and in vintage sets often worth many times more. $44.99 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $44.50
TCGplayer prices each printing on its own — the Holofoil printing is the headline number on this page. Same card, same number — the print run or foil treatment is what changes.
Poké-Power Plunge
Once during your turn (before your attack), if Poliwrath is on your Bench, you may flip a coin. If heads, take all Energy cards attached to your Active Pokémon, if any, and attach them to Poliwrath. Then switch Poliwrath with your Active Pokémon.
Water Punch40+
Cost: Water, Water, Colorless, Colorless
Flip a number of coins equal to the amount of Water Energy attached to Poliwrath. This attack does 40 damage plus 10 more damage for each heads.
About $44.99 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Holofoil printing, updated Oct 11, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $156,000 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 11, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $44.99 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 40% over the last 3 months — from $74.66 to $44.99 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's down 15%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $78.85 — 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.
The European printings list around €47.22 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $44.99 on TCGplayer. Two marketplaces, two currencies — so watch both numbers instead of converting one into the other.
eBay is the easiest place — this page links straight to the live listings for Poliwrath (Expedition Base Set #24). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $44.99 today.
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