Expedition Base Set
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METAPOD 87/165 UNCOMMON EXPEDITION BASE SET POKEMON
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vs raw market $9.82: 8% under
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Expedition Base Set · #87 · 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. · Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card.
$9.82
up5% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 13, 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 $69.99 · PSA 9 $44.99 · CGC 10 $74.99
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
33 ungraded eBay listings · asking from $3.42
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$9.82 (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.
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
33 ungraded Buy It Now listings · asking from $3.42 · median ask $9.49 (33 asks)
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Item prices asked right now for ungraded, Buy It Now copies of this exact card — what sellers want, not what copies sell for. Graded slabs and auctions are left out. The TCGplayer market price above is the sold-side yardstick.
$8.99free shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 99.4% seller
vs raw market $9.82: 8% under
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$9.99+ $1.29 shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $9.82: 15% above
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$8.00
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$30.41+ $5.00 shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $9.82: well above
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$15.00free shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $9.82: 53% above
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$7.00
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$8.87free shipping
Ungraded · Buy It Now · 100% seller
vs raw market $9.82: 10% under
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$5.70
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Listings from eBay as of our last check — some may have sold since.How we compare →
What it actually sells for
Our chart tracks TCGplayer's market price and the asking prices of live eBay listings — what sellers want, not what buyers paid. Completed sale prices live on eBay itself: see recent sold listings for this card →
Right now Metapod trades at $9.82 for the Normal printing (TCGplayer market price).
That makes it the 102nd 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 330.7% — from $2.28 to $9.82. Over the last year it's climbed 140.1%, from $4.09 to $9.82. The 90-day move: up 8.9%, $9.02 to $9.82. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $9.82 in October 2026; its lowest, $2.26 in March 2024. Today's price is the highest we've seen since February 2024. Over the last 30 days it's touched $9.82 at the top and $9.32 at the bottom. That's the Normal printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $79.00. On Cardmarket, the European printings of this card go for about €5.27.
By Printing
By printing: Normal (non-holo): The plain printing — no foil anywhere. Price trackers say “Normal,” collectors say “non-holo”; usually the cheapest version of the card. $9.82 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $79.00
TCGplayer prices each printing on its own — the Normal printing is the headline number on this page. Same card, same number — the print run or foil treatment is what changes.
Poké-Body Exoskeleton
All damage done by attacks to Metapod is reduced by 20 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
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Cost: Colorless
About $9.82 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 13, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $69.99 — the latest PSA 10 sold price we have, as of Oct 12, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $9.82 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 9% over the last 3 months — from $9.02 to $9.82 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 140%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $9.82 — that was October 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 €5.27 on Cardmarket — they share one price there, because Cardmarket prices the physical card across languages. This English print trades at $9.82 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 Metapod (Expedition Base Set #87) (33 right now). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $9.82 today.
