Base Set Charizard price in Australia, and what Blastoise and Venusaur cost beside it

By CardPop Research Team — 2026-11-05 · 9 min read

How this article was produced: drafted with AI assistance from CardPop’s own Australian market price snapshots — every dollar figure traces to a recorded sale — then checked and published by the CardPop team.

Across 120 days of CardPop eBay snapshots to 31 October 2026, raw Base Set Charizard averaged AUD $1,082.78, Blastoise $404.50 and Venusaur $129.37. Here is what the raw and graded numbers support, what they don't, and what a sensible shelf copy costs.

What the snapshots cover

On 31 October 2026, raw copies of Base Set Charizard (4/102) in CardPop's daily eBay AU and US snapshots averaged AUD $1,082.78 across 18 listings. That figure is the most honest place to start on the Base Set Charizard price in Australia. Blastoise (2/102) averaged $404.50 raw across 15 listings. Venusaur (15/102) averaged $129.37 across 19.

The window runs from 4 July to 31 October 2026, which is 120 days. Charizard has 76 daily observations in that window, Blastoise 73 and Venusaur 70. That is four months of data. Nothing below says where these cards sat before July, and none of it should be read as a long-run trend.

Two limits matter before any number. First, these are snapshots of eBay listings converted to AUD. A listing is what a seller is asking, and some listings never sell. Treat the averages as the asking market, which usually sits above what buyers end up paying. Second, the graded figures blend every grade and every grading company into one average. A PSA 3 and a PSA 9 Charizard land in the same bucket. The data does not split them, so this article won't pretend to.

Base Set Charizard price in Australia: the 31 October snapshot

Here is the most recent daily snapshot for all three cards.

The listing counts are the first thing to notice. No card had more than 19 raw listings or 11 graded listings on the day. Averages built on eight slabs move a lot when one listing appears or disappears.

Charizard

The raw average of $1,082.78 sits inside a same-day spread of $255.60 to $2,840. That spread is the condition story in one line. The bottom of it is very likely a creased, heavily played or otherwise compromised copy. The top is a seller asking slab money for a card nobody has graded. Neither end is the price of "a Charizard".

Graded copies averaged $5,341.81 across eight listings, ranging from $709.99 to $17,998.88. That top listing is more than three times the average on its own. With only eight slabs in the snapshot, the average says as much about that one listing as it does about a typical graded copy.

Blastoise

The Base Set Blastoise value on 31 October was $404.50 raw, with a range of $28.40 to $1,846. I would want to see the $28.40 listing before believing it is a complete, genuine holo. A damaged card, or a different printing such as Base Set 2 or Legendary Collection tagged as Base Set, is a more likely explanation than a bargain. At the other end, $1,846 raw is above the graded average of $1,009.21. That could be a seller betting on a high grade. It could also be a Shadowless copy, which can sit in the same search results. The snapshot cannot tell which.

Graded Blastoise averaged $1,009.21 across 11 listings, from $223.55 to $4,299. Its 2.5x graded multiple is the lowest of the three.

Venusaur

The Base Set Venusaur price was $129.37 raw on 31 October, across 19 listings, the most of the three. The range ran from $28.39 to $298.20. Graded copies averaged $1,341.35 across eight listings, from $325 to $4,099.

That graded average is higher than Blastoise's, even though raw Venusaur is about a third of raw Blastoise. I would not read that as Venusaur slabs being worth more. Eight listings against eleven, with grades unknown, is far more likely to reflect which slabs happened to be listed that day.

How the gap between the three moved

From the first observation to the last in each card's window, the snapshots show:

• Charizard: raw up 34.3%, graded up 185.5%
• Blastoise: raw up 50%, graded up 30.4%
• Venusaur: raw down 30.4%, graded up 131.9%

Those figures compare two single days. On thin listing counts, a better guide is how far each raw daily average ranged across the 120 days.

• Charizard raw ranged from $463.67 to $1,739.28. The 31 October average of $1,082.78 sits in the middle of that.
• Blastoise raw ranged from $142.79 to $404.50. It finished on its window high.
• Venusaur raw ranged from $128.89 to $260.36. It finished 48 cents above its window low.

Charizard's raw average swung by more than $1,200 inside four months. A 34.3% endpoint change on a series that noisy tells you very little. Blastoise closing at its window high and Venusaur closing near its low are cleaner signals. Still, one closing day is one day.

On the 31 October averages, raw Charizard was about 2.7 times raw Blastoise and about 8.4 times raw Venusaur. Raw Blastoise was about 3.1 times raw Venusaur. In relative terms, Blastoise narrowed the raw gap to Charizard across the window, because it rose 50% against Charizard's 34.3%. Venusaur fell away from both.

The graded side needs more caution. Do not read 185.5% as Charizard slabs nearly tripling in four months. With eight listings on the final day, a single $17,998.88 slab entering the snapshot is enough to produce a move that size. What the data supports is narrower: the spread of graded Charizard asking prices on 31 October was very wide, and the top of it was very high.

Condition: a clean raw copy is not a slab

These cards were printed in 1999. Most were played with, traded in schoolyards and stored in shoeboxes. The usual damage is predictable. Scratches across the holo foil. Whitening on the blue back edges. Soft corners. Centering that drifts left or right.

A PSA 9 needs close to none of that. Most raw Base Set holos are not PSA 9 candidates, and many that look clean in a front-on phone photo show their wear in the back edges under direct light. If a seller won't provide back photos, assume the worst.

This is why the raw price of a nice-looking copy is not the price of a slab. On 31 October, the cheapest graded Charizard was listed at $709.99, below the raw average of $1,082.78. The cheapest graded Blastoise, at $223.55, sat well under the raw Blastoise average of $404.50. A raw copy priced at $1,500 because it "looks like a 9" is competing with slabs that have already been authenticated and given a number.

Grading costs add up. There are submission fees, insured Australia Post postage in both directions, a long wait, and a result you don't control. For a typical played Venusaur, with a raw average of $129.37 and a cheapest slab at $325, a submission is unlikely to pay for itself unless the card comes back high. Most won't. Our grading guide covers how to assess a card before you pay to send it.

The graded multiples need the same caution. Venusaur's 10.4x looks like the biggest reward for grading. It isn't, necessarily. The raw basket includes damaged copies and the graded basket mixes every grade. The multiple measures the gap between two mixed baskets, not what grading would add to your copy.

A realistic entry point for the shelf

If the card is for display rather than return, the question changes. You want a genuine copy in decent condition at a fair price. You don't need a high grade.

Venusaur is the easy one. The raw average of $129.37 sits at the bottom of its window range. A tidy played copy at or near that figure is a reasonable shelf buy. Ignore the $28.39 end unless you can confirm exactly what it is.

Blastoise is trickier, because raw finished the window at its high of $404.50. The cheapest slab on the day was $223.55. A low-grade slab near that price gets you an authenticated copy in a hard case for less than the raw average. The grade will be modest. For a shelf, that hardly matters.

Charizard is the most counterfeited card of the three, so authentication matters most here. The cheapest graded copy at $709.99 undercut the raw average by more than $370. A low-grade PSA, BGS or CGC slab is the realistic entry point. A raw Charizard listed near $255.60 is almost certainly damaged, and possibly not genuine.

Priced at the 31 October raw averages, all three come to about $1,617. The three cheapest slabs listed on the same day add up to about $1,259. Those cheapest slabs are probably low grades, but they come with a certificate.

A few practical checks before you pay:

• Look up the certificate number on the grading company's own site and match the photo to the slab.
• Ask for back photos of raw cards, taken under direct light.
• Factor in postage. US listings converted to AUD in these snapshots do not include international shipping, and GST applies to imported goods.
• Prefer Australian sellers where the price gap is small. Domestic tracked postage and an easier return are worth something.

Daily figures for each card sit on the Charizard, Blastoise and Venusaur price pages. Check them on the day you buy. On listing counts this thin, a single week can move the averages more than you would expect.