Bulbasaur Dark Explorers #1

Card #1 · Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita

60 HPGrassPokémonBasic

Market value · ungraded

$44.88

▲ 9.0% · 30d

Blended across TCGplayer
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Estimated value · Near Mint

$44.88

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9 different Bulbasaur printings exist — is this your card? Dark Explorers #1

Bulbasaur is a Common Pokémon card from Dark Explorers (#1), illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. It's a Basic Grass-type Pokémon with 60 HP, weak to Fire ×2. Its current blended market value is $44.88 ungraded. Prices are aggregated across marketplaces — raw and graded, updated daily and shown in your local currency.

Prices last updated 5 July 2026.

#13 most valuable Bulbasaur of 30 #15 most valuable in Dark Explorers of 111

Competitive play · Limitless

Played in 1% of competitive decks — 31 of 3,174 decklists across the last 41 Standard tournaments.

Raw price by condition

Normal · live market via TCGplayer

NMNear Mint$44.24

LPLightly Played$41.52

MPModerately Played$14.39

DMGDamaged$13.81

7-dayflat

30-day▲ 9.0%

90-day▲ 12.7%

All-time high$44

All-time low$19

Price by variant

Reverse Holo$24

Normal$7

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

Graded prices

No graded sales tracked for this card yet — see the raw estimate above.

Price history · raw near-mint

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Recent sold prices

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Population across graders

Only 4% of 146 CGC-graded Bulbasaur copies are a gem-mint 10 (6 of 146) — the rest grade lower.

CGC146 gradedCGC 10 · 6 · 4% gem rate

Full grade breakdown (5 grades)

106

9.52

930

8.544

824

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

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Momentum · 30dRising +9%

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Card text

Tackle10

Grass

Razor Leaf30

Grass · Colorless · Colorless

Weakness Fire ×2Resistance Water -20Retreat 2

“For some time after its birth, it grows by gaining nourishment from the seed on its back.”

About the Pokémon

Seed PokémonGEN IBulbasaur → Ivysaur → Venusaur

A strange seed was planted on its back at birth. The plant sprouts and grows with this POKéMON.

Card details

SetDark Explorers →

Number#1

RarityCommon

PokémonAll Bulbasaur cards →

GenerationGen I · Kanto →

ArtistMitsuhiro Arita →

SupertypePokémon

SubtypesBasic

TypeGrass

HP60

WeaknessFire ×2

ResistanceWater -20

Retreat cost2

National Pokédex#1

Card IDbw5-1

SourceAggregated marketplaces

Other Bulbasaur cards

There are 9 different Bulbasaur printings — make sure you're valuing the right one. This is Dark Explorers #1 (Common).