Wartortle42/100 · Crystal Guardians Price & Value
Market value · Near Mint · Normal
- PSA 8$312 sold · 90d · pop 12
- PSA 9$472 sold · 90d · pop 28
Make sure you have the right card
Every price on this page is for Crystal Guardians #42/100, 2006. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.
Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.
No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.
The same name and number exists in other sets. The number printed on your card is what separates them — this page prices 42/100.
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.
Wartortle is a Uncommon Pokémon card from Crystal Guardians (#42, released 2006), illustrated by Kouki Saitou. It's a Stage 1 Water-type Pokémon with 70 HP, evolving from Squirtle, weak to Lightning ×2. Prices below are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.
Prices last updated 9 September 2026.
Wartortle price history & recent sales
Graded a PSA 9? See its cert-verified sales and price history → — individual sales PSA tied to a specific slab, each with a cert number you can check.
Price history · Raw
Earlier history is excluded — it tracked a different printing and misstates this card.
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Verified sales history
Medium confidence37 sales in 90 days, but prices vary widely. · Liquid — Sells regularly
Sale mix: 4 auctions, 4 accepted offers, 2 fixed-price. A graded copy trades roughly every 14 days (median gap between cert-verified sales).
By grade
- Raw$3.4953 sales · 37 in 90d, sells often
- PSA 9$37.394 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- CGC 9$12.003 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- CGC 10$31.203 sales · 1 in 90d, rare
- PSA 8$85.592 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
- PSA 10$1962 sales
- Lot$6.001 sale
- CGC 9.5$1001 sale
Is Wartortle worth grading?
Raw $3.99 → graded PSA 9 ≈ $47.00, after ~$70.46 grading fee → 11.8× the raw value.
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
Wartortle is a Uncommoncard — 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 9 | $47.00 | $70 | −$27 | 11.8× |
| PSA 8 | $31.20 | $70 | −$43 | 7.8× |
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. Real outcome depends on the grade achieved; PSA 10 is best-case.
Population across gradersPSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — every grade, with gem rates
12 of the 61 PSA-graded Wartortle copies came back a gem-mint 10 — 20%. 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 61.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 157.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 8.
Bar length is relative to this grader's most common grade; the figure on the right is the share of all 4.
Real graded population from PSA, CGC, BGS & TAG — a lower gem rate means a Wartortle 10 is harder to pull.
Copies for sale right now
Wartortle 42/100 Crystal Guardians RegularRaw · eBay$1.34
Wartortle 42/100 Crystal Guardians Regular Common Pokemon G3 Vintage 2006 NMRaw · eBay$1.49
Wartortle | Crystal Guardians | 42/100 | MPRaw · eBay$1.99
2006 Pokemon, EX Crystal Guardians, #42/100 Wartortle, UncommonRaw · eBay$1.99
Pokemon TCG Crystal Guardians #42/100 Wartortle MP/HPRaw · eBay$1.99
Wartortle | Crystal Guardians | 42/100 | MPRaw · eBay$2.00Cheapest raw copy $1.34 — 66% below our near-mint estimate of $4
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All grades & conditions
Every grade we pricePSA / CGC / BGS ladder with per-grade population
| Grade | Relative value | Price |
|---|---|---|
| PSA 9pop 28 | ✓ 6 cert-verified$47$42–$100 | |
| PSA 8pop 12 | 1 sold$31$27–$36 | |
| PSA 7pop 6 | modelled$12$12–$12 |
Raw condition ladderNM → damaged, with real sold medians where we have them
Price by printingBase vs reverse holo vs 1st edition — priced separately
Price by variant
TCGplayer market price per printing — reverse holo, 1st edition and unlimited often differ sharply.
Card textAttacks, abilities, weakness / resistance / retreat
Evolves from Squirtle.
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
About the PokémonSpecies, generation, evolution line
Card detailsSet, rarity, artist, Pokédex & specs
Other Wartortle cards
There are 18 different Wartortle printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Crystal Guardians #42 (Uncommon). The most valuable 7 are below.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is Wartortle (Crystal Guardians #42) worth?
As of 9 September 2026, Wartortle from Crystal Guardians is worth approximately $3.99 ungraded (near-mint). Values are blended from real Cardmarket, eBay sold and TCGplayer prices and update daily.
Is Wartortle rare?
Wartortle is a Uncommon card from Crystal Guardians (card #42).
How do I know if my Wartortle is Reverse Holo?
The card body, not the picture: Everything except the illustration window is foiled — the mirror image of a normal holo, where only the picture shines.
How do I tell this Wartortle apart from the Base one?
They share a name and a card number but come from different sets, and the number printed on the card tells them apart: this one is 42/100 (Crystal Guardians, 2006) and the other is 42/102 (Base, 1999).
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