Great Encounters · #13 · 2008

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.
$1.27
down5% · 19dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 8, 2026
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 Great Encounters
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$1.27 (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.)
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 →
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Today's TCGplayer market price for Beedrill is $1.27 for the Normal printing.
Among the 106 priced cards in Great Encounters, it sits 52nd. (Darkrai LV.X leads the set at $255.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 11.4% — from $1.14 to $1.27. Over the last year it's climbed 16.5%, from $1.09 to $1.27. Zoom in to 90 days and it's flat, holding around $1.27. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $1.33 in August 2026; its lowest, $0.99 in July 2025. Over the last 30 days it's touched $1.33 at the top and $1.27 at the bottom. That's the Normal printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $10.28.
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. $1.27 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $10.28
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.
Band Attack30×
Cost: Grass
Does 30 damage times the number of Beedrill you have in play.
Twineedle50×
Cost: Colorless, Colorless, Colorless
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 50 damage times the number of heads.
“Its best attack involves flying around at high speed, striking with poison needles, then flying off.”
About $1.27 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 8, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $19.00 — the latest CGC 8 sold price we have, as of Oct 7, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $1.27 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Down about 1% over the last 3 months — from $1.28 to $1.27 (TCGplayer market price). Zoom out a whole year and it's up 17%. Prices move a little every day, so the chart on this page has the freshest line.
The highest market price we've logged is $1.33 — that was August 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 Beedrill (Great Encounters #13). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
Cards trading near $1.27 today.