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Check your printing9 different Magneton printings exist — is this your card? Base Set 2 #9
Magneton Base Set 2 #9 Pokémon card
Rare Holo

Magneton

Base Set 2 · 9/130 · Illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi
60 HPLightningPokémonStage 1

Market value · ungraded

$24.48 6.0% · 30d
Confidencemedium
Sales · 90 days12
Last sale$24 Raw · 15 Jul 2026
Range$13$24
Cert-verified10 PSA sales
Sold prices, not asking. eBay + TCGplayer + Cardmarket. Updated 20 August 2026. Estimate, not an appraisalhow we price →

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Estimated value · Near Mint
$24.48

What this price is based on

Medium confidence

146 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely.

Median · Raw$14.00147 sales
Trimmed mean$14.06outliers removed
Range$2.99$70.00lowest to highest sale
Sales rate31.2/mo189 recorded
1st Ed · Shadowless$29.991 sale, priced separately

What each version actually sells for

PrintingNear MintLightly PlayedModerately Played
Common$14.00 78 sales$12.00 11 sales

Every figure is the median of real completed sales whose listing claimed that printing and condition — not a percentage of the headline price. A dash means we haven't seen enough sales of that exact version to publish one.

Recent Raw sales

  • Aug 16, 2026eBay — MAGNETON 9/130 POKEMON BASE SET 2 HOLO RARE LPLP$14.99
  • Aug 16, 2026eBay — Wizards of the Coast Magneton 9/130 Base Set 2 Holo Rare 60 HP 1999 Quality Card$19.99
  • Aug 16, 2026eBay — Magneton 9/130 Gym Challenge Holo Rare 1999 Pokemon TCG Stage 1$12.50
  • Aug 13, 2026eBay — Pokémon Magneton 9/130 Base Set 2 Holo Rare English$6.50
  • Aug 12, 2026eBay — Magneton 9/130 Holo Rare Base Set 2 Near MintNM$29.99
  • Aug 12, 2026eBay — Pokémon SWIRL 🌀Magneton Holo Rare Base Set 2 9/130 English 1999 60 HP Kinebuchi$26.00
  • Aug 12, 2026eBay — Magneton 9/130 Holo Base Set 2 🌀$9.95
  • Aug 12, 2026eBay — Pokémon TCG NM/LP (Partial SWIRL) Magneton 9/130 Base Set 2 Holo Rare EnglishLP$30.00

By grade

  • Raw$14.00147 sales
  • PSA 8$64.996 sales
  • PSA 7$39.996 sales
  • CGC 9$67.996 sales
  • PSA 9$1185 sales
  • CGC 8.5$45.724 sales
  • CGC 7$15.003 sales
  • PSA 6$26.242 sales

From 189 completed sales recorded between Dec 15, 2025 and Aug 16, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted. The median above is computed over the 146 sales of the printing this page lists; 1st Edition and Shadowless copies are real sales of a different card and are shown separately rather than mixed in. The range is wide because these sales span different printings and conditions — 1st Edition, Shadowless and Unlimited copies all carry this card's name, and they trade at very different levels. Each sale above is labelled with what its listing claimed, so you can see which ones describe the same object. Treat the median as the typical copy, not the range.

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NOT WORTH IT

Based on 39 graded sales and 1,892,644 pop-report entries for a near-mint copy.

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Magneton is a Rare Holo Pokémon card from Base Set 2 (#9), illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi. It's a Stage 1 Lightning-type Pokémon with 60 HP, evolving from Magnemite, weak to Fighting ×2. Its current blended market value is $24.48 ungraded, with a PSA 10 worth around $166 — a gem-mint grading premium of roughly 7× the raw value. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 20 August 2026.

0.2%
Played in 0.2% of competitive decks — 6 of 3,174 decklists across the last 41 Standard tournaments.

The receipts

Price history · Raw

1 Sept 202320 Aug 2026
Latest
$24.48
Period high
$24.48
Period low
$4.83
Change
209.5%
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Verified sales history22 in 90 daysreal completed listings

Last sold
$8
Raw · 15 Jul 2026
Typical Raw
$17
Sales · last 90 days
12
How often it sells
Rarely sells
daily · 0 in last 30 days

Real completed eBay sales, refreshed periodically. Grade read from the listing title. Implausibly priced listings (lots, proxies, empty slabs) and wrong-variant sales are filtered out. Links to eBay are affiliate links — we may earn a commission.

DateGradePriceCert
16 Aug 2026PSA 6$22.50#137696923
15 Aug 2026PSA 8$60.97#52762214
14 Aug 2026PSA 8$60.90#43208305
13 Aug 2026PSA 3$16.00#54018221
12 Aug 2026PSA 8$35.00#114441534
12 Aug 2026PSA 8$26.00#111313935
12 Aug 2026PSA 4$27.99#114654321
10 Aug 2026PSA 8$49.99#154115055
10 Aug 2026PSA 8$71.00#28107697
7 Aug 2026PSA 9$176.86#70905490

Demand & liquidity

Thin · Rarely sellsDemand 32/100
Sales · 30d0
Sales · 90d12
Price momentum+6%
Hype🔥 Heating
Raw
$17
RawNM
$21

Last sold $8 · Raw · 15 Jul 2026

Should you grade it?

$54

Expected return across every likely grade, after fees — the realistic average, not the best case. Only 0.9% of copies gem (PSA 10 best case +$70); most land at PSA 9 or below.

Gem rate (est.)0.9%
Expected return$54
PSA 10 best case+$70
Break-evenPSA 9+
VerdictNot worth it

The odds

Magneton is a Holo / V / ex in Base Set 2 — the pack's hit slot lands on Holo / V / ex 33% of the time, split across 20 holo / v / ex cards in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 61 packs.

Holo / V / ex33%20 cards
PSA 10 (gem mint)0.9%24 of 2,805
PSA 914%394 of 2,805
PSA graded so far2,805
Gem Mint 1024
Total graded2,805

Estimates only. Pack odds come from CardTrack's pack model (the same one behind the pack simulator) — not an official rate. Grading odds are the real cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies, so it overstates the true first-submission gem rate. Full grade-by-grade breakdown below.

Grade-by-grade ROI & risk-adjusted outcomesNet vs raw per target grade, plus the probability-weighted distribution
Target gradeEst. valueGrading feeNet vs rawMultiple
PSA 10$166.44$72+$706.8×
PSA 9$138.25$71+$425.6×
PSA 8$50.00$70$452.0×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 2,805 PSA-graded copies:

Likely outcomeChanceValue
PSA 100.9%$166.00
PSA 914%$138.00
PSA ≤885.1%$24.00

Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-06-28; the paused PSA Value tier is excluded so this isn't overstated. Gem rate is estimated from cumulative PSA population, which skews toward nicer, resubmitted copies — so it overstates the true grade rate. Treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.

Population across gradersPSA, CGC & BGS — every grade, with gem rates

Only 1% of 2,805 PSA-graded Magneton copies are a gem-mint 10 (24 of 2,805) — the rest grade lower.

PSA2,805 gradedPSA 10 · 24 · 1% gem
1024
9394
8.513
8867
7.52
7658
6.51
6417
5306
468
318
220
115

Real graded population from PSA, CGC & BGS — a lower gem rate means a Magneton 10 is harder to pull.

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All grades & conditions

Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
Graded prices
Ungraded (raw)$24.48
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 24$166$166$166
PSA 9pop 394$138$118$159
PSA 8pop 867✓ 9 cert-verified$50$50$75
PSA 7pop 658$28$23$32
PSA 6pop 417$20$15$22
PSA 5pop 306$19$16$25
PSA 4pop 68$19$8$25
PSA 3pop 18$11$11$11
“Sold” = median of real recent sold listings at that grade (eBay or Fanatics Collect — hover a badge to see which). Other figures are blended marketplace estimates. Confidence reflects source backing and price spread — not PSA-official values.
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Raw price by condition
Holofoil · live market via TCGplayer
NMNear Mint$24.48
LPLightly Played$12.25real sales: $15 n3
MPModerately Played$9.86
HPHeavily Played$8.38
DMGDamaged$5.04
7-day 2.4%
30-day 54.9%
90-day 72.5%
All-time high$25
All-time low$10
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost

For context: a graded PSA 6 slab of this card sells for about $43 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.

Market dataCross-market spread, EU price, momentum & community buzz

Cross-market prices

94% spread
Cardmarket · cheapest$13
PriceCharting$13
TCGplayer · dearest$24

Currently 94% cheaper on Cardmarket than TCGplayer. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.

Market signal

Momentum · 30dRising +6%
Cross-marketMarkets disagree 94% gap

Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.

🇪🇺 Cardmarket price · Europe

48% cheaper than the US
Cardmarket · Europe's largest card market$13

🔥 Trending in the community

#182 on the radar
Mentions this week1

Magneton is one of the most-talked-about Pokémon right now across the Pokémon investing & TCG subreddits. See the hype radar →

What people are saying: [US,US]My last attempt to sell those cards [H] Slabs @88% of last sold [W] PPGS · 9↑

Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat

Evolves from Magnemite.

Thunder Wave30
Lightning · Lightning · Colorless

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.

Selfdestruct80
Lightning · Lightning · Colorless · Colorless

Does 20 damage to each player's Bench. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Magneton does 80 damage to itself.

Weakness Fighting ×2Retreat 1

Formed by several Magnemites linked together. It frequently appears when sunspots flare up.

About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Magnet PokémonGEN IMagnemiteMagnetonMagnezone

Formed by several MAGNEMITEs linked together. They frequently appear when sunspots flare up.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#9
RarityRare Holo
SupertypePokémon
SubtypesStage 1
TypeLightning
HP60
Evolves fromMagnemite
WeaknessFighting ×2
Retreat cost1
National Pokédex#82
Card IDbase4-9
SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Magneton cards

There are 9 different Magneton printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Base Set 2 #9 (Rare Holo).

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Magneton (Base Set 2 #9) worth?

As of 20 August 2026, Magneton from Base Set 2 is worth approximately $24.48 ungraded (near-mint), and around $166 in PSA 10 gem mint. Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Magneton?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Magneton from Base Set 2 is worth around $166 — roughly 7× the raw ungraded value of $24.48.

Should I grade my Magneton?

A PSA 10 sells for about $166 versus $24.48 raw — roughly a 7× uplift. Grading is worth it when that premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10. See the "Should you grade it?" estimate above for net profit per grade.

Is Magneton rare?

Magneton is a Rare Holo card from Base Set 2 (card #9), illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi. Its current blended market value is $24.48 ungraded.

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