Plasma Blast · #15 · 2013
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.
$1.98
up5% · 29dvia TCGplayer, updated Oct 15, 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 9 $31.49 · PSA 8 $6.30
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 Plasma Blast
What This Card Trades At
Raw: An ungraded card — no slab, no label, no official score. The market price is the raw benchmark. · Normal
$1.98 (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
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Today's TCGplayer market price for Wartortle is $1.98 for the Normal printing.
Among the 105 priced cards in Plasma Blast, it sits 29th. (Palkia-EX leads the set at $508.) Since we started tracking it on Feb 8, 2024, it's risen 15.1% — from $1.72 to $1.98. Over the last year it's climbed 17.2%, from $1.69 to $1.98. The 90-day move: up 8.2%, $1.83 to $1.98. Its highest point since we started tracking (February 2024) was $2.34 in October 2024; its lowest, $1.53 in August 2025. Over the last 30 days it's touched $2.00 at the top and $1.87 at the bottom. That's the Normal printing — the same card also trades as the Reverse Holofoil at $7.19.
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. $1.98 · Reverse holo: Everything except the artwork is foil — the reverse of a normal holo. It's a separate printing and prices on its own. $7.19
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.
Bubble
Cost: Water
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
Double Spin30×
Cost: Water, Colorless, Colorless
Flip 2 coins. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads.
“It is said to live 10,000 years. Its furry tail is popular as a symbol of longevity.”
About $1.98 for an ungraded copy. That's the TCGplayer market price for the Normal printing, updated Oct 15, 2026. Graded copies in great shape usually sell for more. What grading means →
About $31.49 — the latest PSA 9 sold price we have, as of Oct 7, 2026. For comparison, an ungraded copy trades around $1.98 (TCGplayer market price). Sold data via Card Hedge.
Up about 8% over the last 3 months — from $1.83 to $1.98 (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 $2.34 — that was October 2024. 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 Wartortle (Plasma Blast #15). Check the photos and the seller's rating first. That's the rule.
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