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Check your printing9 different Charmander printings exist — is this your card? Crystal Guardians #48
Charmander Crystal Guardians #48 Pokémon card
Common

Charmander

Crystal Guardians · 48/100 · Illustrated by Atsuko Nishida
50 HPFirePokémonBasic

Market value · ungraded · Normal

$6.51 11.5% · 30d
Confidencemedium
Sales · 90 days2
Last sale$183 Raw · 17 Jun 2026
Range$4$7
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
$6.51

What this price is based on

Low confidence

Only 1 sale in the last 90 days.

Median · Raw$1831 sale
Trimmed mean$183outliers removed
Range$183$183lowest to highest sale
Sales rate2.7/mo16 recorded

Recent Raw sales

  • Jun 17, 2026eBay — POKEMON CHARMANDER EX CRYSTAL GUARDIANS SIGNED: MICHAEL HAIGNEY PSA AUTHENTIC$183

By grade

  • CGC 9$12.005 sales
  • PSA 9$2152 sales
  • CGC 8.5$29.402 sales
  • Raw$1831 sale
  • PSA 6$16.001 sale
  • PSA 10$4,0801 sale
  • Lot$8.401 sale
  • CGC 4.5$8.401 sale

From 16 completed sales recorded between Feb 9, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026. Sold prices only — asking prices are never counted.

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NOT WORTH IT

Based on 14 graded sales and 1,305,862 pop-report entries for a near-mint copy.

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Charmander is a Common Pokémon card from Crystal Guardians (#48), illustrated by Atsuko Nishida. It's a Basic Fire-type Pokémon with 50 HP, weak to Water ×2. Its current blended market value is $6.51 ungraded, with a PSA 10 worth around $128 — a gem-mint grading premium of roughly 20× 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.

0.4%
Played in 0.4% of competitive decks — 13 of 3,174 decklists across the last 41 Standard tournaments.

The receipts

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Price history · Raw

1 Sept 202320 Aug 2026
Latest
$6.51
Period high
$6.51
Period low
$1.86
Change
108.0%
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Verified sales history12 in 90 daysreal completed listings

Last sold
$236
CGC 10 · 21 Jun 2026
Sales · last 90 days
2
How often it sells
Rarely sells
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
26 Jul 2026PSA 8$23.31#97833029
19 Jul 2026PSA 9$16.01#97833030
11 Jul 2026PSA 8$125.01#50546654
25 May 2026PSA 9$30.00#141375967
6 May 2026PSA 8$35.10#97833028
27 Apr 2026PSA 10$215.50#97833031
19 Apr 2026PSA 7$30.00#82644987
30 Mar 2026PSA 6$14.99#132536213
28 Mar 2026PSA 6$16.00#132536213
23 Mar 2026PSA 8$26.00#135711045

Demand & liquidity

Thin · Rarely sellsDemand 37/100
Sales · 30d0
Sales · 90d2
Price momentum+12%
Hype🔥 Heating

Last sold $236 · CGC 10 · 21 Jun 2026

Should you grade it?

$48

Expected return across every likely grade, after fees — the realistic average, not the best case. Only 16.2% of copies gem (PSA 10 best case +$50); most land at PSA 9 or below.

Gem rate (est.)16.2%
Expected return$48
PSA 10 best case+$50
Break-evenPSA 10+
VerdictNot worth it

The odds

Charmander is a Commoncard — a guaranteed slot in every pack, not a rarity gamble, so there's no pull-odds figure for it.

PSA 10 (gem mint)16.2%25 of 154
PSA 940.3%62 of 154
PSA graded so far154
Gem Mint 1025
Total graded154

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$127.75$71+$5019.6×
PSA 9$16.00$70$612.5×
PSA 8$14.00$70$632.2×

⚖️ Risk-adjusted return

Best case isn't the whole story. Weighting every grade by how often it actually happens, across 154 PSA-graded copies:

Likely outcomeChanceValue
PSA 1016.2%$128.00
PSA 940.3%$16.00
PSA ≤843.5%$7.00

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 16% of 154 PSA-graded Charmander copies are a gem-mint 10 (25 of 154) — the rest grade lower.

PSA154 gradedPSA 10 · 25 · 16% gem
1025
962
8.51
839
712
68
54
41
31
11
CGC1,148 gradedCGC 10 · 168 · 15% gem
10168
9.544
9386
8.5250
8106

Real graded population from PSA, CGC & BGS — a lower gem rate means a Charmander 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)$6.51
PSA graded price estimates by grade
GradeRelative valuePrice
PSA 10pop 25$128$109$147
PSA 9pop 62✓ 5 cert-verified$16$15$21
PSA 8pop 39$14$12$16
PSA 7pop 12$10$9$12
“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
Reverse Holofoil · live market via TCGplayer
NMNear Mint$6.51
LPLightly Played$3.98
MPModerately Played$2.82
HPHeavily Played$0.98
7-dayflat
30-day 3.1%
90-day 17.4%
All-time high$7
All-time low$2
Other printingsNormal · $5.35
What NM / LP / MP actually mean — and how much they cost

For context: a graded PSA 6 slab of this card sells for about $15 (cert-verified) — a heavily-played raw copy shouldn't cost much more than that.

Price by printingBase vs reverse holo vs 1st edition — priced separately

Price by variant

Reverse Holo$65
Normal$7

TCGplayer market price per printing — reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.

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

Market signal

Momentum · 30dRising +12%

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

🇪🇺 Cardmarket price · Europe

69% cheaper than the US
Cardmarket · Europe's largest card market$2

🔥 Trending in the community

#92 on the radar
Mentions this week2

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

What people are saying: My Daughter's Grandmaster Charmander Set. Was the main idea behind my other Daughter's Clefairy Grandmaster set. · 89↑

Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Retaliate10×
Colorless

Does 10 damage times the number of damage counters on Charmander.

Flame Tail20
Fire · Colorless
Weakness Water ×2Retreat 1
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Lizard PokémonGEN ICharmanderCharmeleonCharizard

Obviously prefers hot places. When it rains, steam is said to spout from the tip of its tail.

Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Number#48
RarityCommon
SupertypePokémon
SubtypesBasic
TypeFire
HP50
WeaknessWater ×2
Retreat cost1
National Pokédex#4
Card IDex14-48
SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Charmander cards

There are 9 different Charmander printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Crystal Guardians #48 (Common).

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Frequently asked questions

How much is Charmander (Crystal Guardians #48) worth?

As of 20 August 2026, Charmander from Crystal Guardians is worth approximately $6.51 ungraded (near-mint), and around $128 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 Charmander?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Charmander from Crystal Guardians is worth around $128 — roughly 20× the raw ungraded value of $6.51.

Should I grade my Charmander?

A PSA 10 sells for about $128 versus $6.51 raw — roughly a 20× 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 Charmander rare?

Charmander is a Common card from Crystal Guardians (card #48), illustrated by Atsuko Nishida. Its current blended market value is $6.51 ungraded.

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