Poliwag88/130 · Base Set 2 Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint
- PSA 8$143 sold · 90d · pop 39
- PSA 9$263 sold · 90d · pop 120
- PSA 10$671 sold · 90d · pop 53
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Base Set 2 #88/130, 2000. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.
What's your copy worth?
✨ Is it worth it?
An AI market read of this card — value, momentum, grading economics, liquidity. It lays out the data; you decide.
Poliwag is a Common Pokémon card from Base Set 2 (#88, released 2000), illustrated by Ken Sugimori. It's a Basic Water-type Pokémon with 40 HP, weak to Grass ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 8 September 2026.
Poliwag price history & recent sales
Price history · Raw
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence11 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely. · Very liquid — Sells often
8 of 10 verified sales were competitive auctions — this price reflects real bidding, not asking prices. A graded copy trades roughly every day (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$1.5712 sales · 11 in 90d, sells regularly
- PSA 9$23.174 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 8$14.003 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
- PSA 10$70.002 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 7$24.991 sale
- PSA 6$9.501 sale
- PSA 5$25.991 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 8$5.761 sale · 1 in 90d, rare
Is Poliwag worth grading?
Most copies come back PSA 9 — worth $26 against the $71 you put in, a $45 loss. The money is in the 1 in 1 that reach PSA 9 or 10 and sell for $26–$67. Averaged over every outcome that is −$40 a card.
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Compare graders, and the live market
The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population report, the ROI table and the price ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.
- PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and its own fees, with Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market actually pays for.
- Lightly and moderately played — the same expected return for a copy that cannot gem.
- Ask vs sold — what the live listings want, against what copies have really closed at.
- Momentum — the 30-day median against the 90-day, per grade.
- Where it sells higher — the Fanatics-versus-eBay premium, with the sale counts behind it.
- Population history — the weekly PSA census, so you can see how fast 10s are arriving before you post the card.
The odds
Poliwag is a Commoncard — a guaranteed slot in every pack, not a rarity gamble, so there's no pull-odds figure for it.
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 grade | Est. value | Grading fee | Net vs raw | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | $67.00 | $71 | −$4 | 117.5× |
| PSA 9 | $26.00 | $70 | −$45 | 45.6× |
| PSA 8 | $14.00 | $70 | −$57 | 24.6× |
⚖️ Risk-adjusted return
Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 228 PSA-graded copies:
| Outcome | Chance | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 23.2% | $67.00 |
| PSA 9 — typical | 50.4% | $26.00 |
| PSA 8 | 14.5% | $14.00 |
| PSA 7 | 4.8% | $5.90 |
| PSA 6 | 3.5% | $0.57 |
| PSA 5 | 1.8% | $0.57 |
| PSA 4 | 0.4% | $0.57 |
| PSA 3 | 0.4% | $0.57 |
| PSA 2 | 0.4% | $0.57 |
| Other (half grades, authentic) | 0.4% | $0.57 |
Net = graded value − raw value − grading cost (tier fee + ~$20 round-trip shipping), using PSA fees as of 2026-08-26; 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 & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
53 of the 238 PSA-graded Poliwag copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 22%. The rest graded lower.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 238.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 402.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 22.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Poliwag 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Poliwag 88/130 Common Base Set 2 Pokemon Lightly PlayedRaw · eBay$0.99
POLIWAG - 88/130 - BASE SET 2 - - HPRaw · eBay$0.99
Poliwag 88/130 Common Base Set 2 Pokemon Lightly PlayedRaw · eBay$0.99
Poliwag 88/130 Base Set 2 Common NM Pokemon TCGRaw · eBay$0.99
Pokemon Base Set 2 88/130 PoliwagRaw · eBay$0.99
Pokémon TCG Poliwag 88/130 Common Regular WOTC 2000 Base Set 2Raw · eBay$0.99Cheapest raw copy $0.99 — 74% above our near-mint estimate of $1
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 10pop 53 | ✓ 5 cert-verified$67$33–$67 | |
| PSA 9pop 120 | ✓ 6 cert-verified$26 | |
| PSA 8pop 39 | $14$12–$16 | |
| PSA 7pop 11 | modelled$6$6–$6 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
For context: a graded PSA 7 slab of this card sells for about $30 (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
72% spreadCurrently 72% cheaper on TCGplayer than PriceCharting. These are independent market prices for the same card — a wide gap can mean a buying opportunity. Informational only, not arbitrage advice.
Market signal
Derived from this card's 90-day price history, recent trend and cross-market price gap. Informational, not advice.
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Does 10 damage plus 10 more damage for each Water Energy attached to Poliwag but not used to pay for this attack's Energy cost. You can't add more than 20 damage in this way.
“Its newly grown legs prevent it from running. It appears to prefer swimming over trying to stand.”
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Poliwag cards
There are 17 different Poliwag printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Base Set 2 #88 (Common). The most valuable 7 are below.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Poliwag (Base Set 2 #88) worth?
As of 8 September 2026, Poliwag from Base Set 2 is worth approximately $0.57 ungraded (near-mint), and around $67 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 Poliwag?
A PSA 10 (gem mint) Poliwag from Base Set 2 is worth around $67 — roughly 118× the raw ungraded value of $0.57.
Should I grade my Poliwag?
Grading is worth it when the PSA 10 premium comfortably beats the grading fee and the card is clean enough to have a real shot at a 10 — the "Should you grade it?" estimate above works that out per grade, net of the current fee.
Is Poliwag rare?
Poliwag is a Common card from Base Set 2 (card #88).
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