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8 other Magby printings exist — is this your card? Expedition Base Set 52/165 ↓
Magby — Expedition Base Set #52

RareExpedition Base Set52/1652002Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita

Magby 52/165 · Expedition Base Set price & value

Raw · near mint

$11.48

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • CGC 10$17715×
  • PSA 10$11510×
  • PSA 9$353.0×
Sales recorded
70
every grade, since 2025
Last 90 days
24 raw · 37 all
4 in the last 30, every grade
Confidence
High
24 sales in 90 days, closely clustered.
Latest sale
14d ago
raw · any grade 10d ago
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Sold prices, not asking. Near Mint estimate from 41 completed sales of this exact card, each adjusted for the condition it sold in. An estimate, not an appraisal. How we price →

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What's your copy worth?

The headline above is Near Mint. Most copies that actually change hands are not — here is the same card at every condition it is realistically held in. How the grades are judged → How we price played copies →

  • ✦ PF

    Pack fresh

    $19.50

    +70%

  • ✦ GC

    Grading candidate

    $13.93

    +21%

  • NMheadline

    Near Mint

    $11.48

    basis

  • LP

    Lightly Played

    $8.11

    −29%

  • MP

    Moderately Played

    $7.34

    −36%

  • HP

    Heavily Played

    $4.51

    −61%

  • DM

    Damaged

    $3.52

    −69%

And here is what an ungraded copy has actually done. The line ends on the Near Mint price above — the same number, not a second one.

Raw · latest

$11▼ 29%over 6 years

2021-01-01 → 2026-09-20

$0
$10
$20
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Our recorded ungraded price for this card. The line closes on the Near Mint figure shown above — the chart and the headline are the same number by construction, never two.
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Estimated value · Pack fresh
Based on 24 sold sales

Estimated. This card has enough sales to price the top 15% but not the top 5%, so pack-fresh is projected from the gap we measure between those two tiers on cards that do — about 1.4x on vintage, 1.2x on modern. $35.84. That's about +212% over a typical Near Mint copy.

ⓘ How do we work this out?

We take every real sale of this exact card over the last 12 months (24 sales), sort them by price, and read off the top 15% and top 5%. No multipliers, no guesses — the prices cleaner copies actually fetched.

Why cleaner copies cost more: buyers can see condition in the photos and pay for it. Listings sellers describe as pack fresh or gem mint land in this top band 1.7× more often than ordinary ones — the premium follows the card, not the hype.

Copies in this band are also the ones collectors send to grading: far more likely than a typical binder copy to be submitted at all — and to come back with the strong grade that carries the PSA prices shown on this page. That prospect is part of what buyers are paying for here.

These are read straight off this card's own completed sales — sort them by price and take the top 15% and top 5%. Whether your copy qualifies is a judgment made by looking at the card.

Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-12T16:04:47.589Z.

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Cheapest raw copy $4 — 65% below our near-mint estimate of $11 · 5 copies whose seller declares wear left out of that comparison

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What the sales actually show

The counts are in the hero; this is how the card trades — the range, the pace, where, and what each grade has actually fetched. Figures that name a grade cover that grade alone; the rest count every grade.

Range

$3 – $26

Raw — lowest to highest sale

Sales rate

10.8/mo

every grade, whole record

Where it sells

100% eBay

Raw — last 90 days

Demand

56/100

Liquid — sales rate, trend & buzz

What each grade sold for

  • Raw$741 sales · 24 in 90d, sells often
  • PSA 10$557 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 8$195 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
  • CGC 10$305 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
  • PSA 9$324 sales · 3 in 90d, occasional
  • PSA 7$133 sales · 2 in 90d, rare
  • CGC 9$163 sales
  • CGC 9.5$181 sale · 1 in 90d, rare

Medians of completed sales at that grade — not the ladder above, which prices every grade including the ones that have never traded here. Where the two differ, this one is what changed hands and the ladder is what it is worth.

Every sale we can show you

Completed sales from our own sold ledger, PSA’s certified-sale feed and the eBay comps, in one list, newest first — Fanatics, Goldin and eBay between them. Filter by grade: a raw copy and a graded slab are different objects, and averaging them is how a raw market comes to look wild. We hold 70 sales for this card going back to 2025; the ledger names its most recent eight per grade, which is what the table below can link to.

Item soldGradeVenueDateCertificatePrice
2002 Pokemon Expedition Magby #52 CGC 10 GEM MINTCGC 10Fanatics2026-09-11—$47.00
MAGBY - 52/165 - Expedition Base Set - Rare - Pokemon Card - NMRaweBay2026-09-07—$26.00
2002 Pokemon Expedition Magby #52 CGC 9.5 GEM MINTCGC 9.5Fanatics2026-09-07—$18.00
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Magby 52/165 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayBestOffer2026-08-2573789813$35.00
2002 Pokemon Expedition Magby - Non Holo rare #52 PSA 9 MintPSA 9eBay2026-08-24—$35.00
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Magby 52/165 · PSA 9PSA 9eBayAuction2026-08-18156410009$23.50
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Magby 52/165 · PSA 8PSA 8eBayAuction2026-08-18156410011$17.50
2002 Pokémon Expedition Base Set Magby 52/165 · PSA 8PSA 8eBayAuction2026-08-18156410013$11.51

1–8 of 53 sales · 22 carry a PSA certificate, checkable on psacard.com.

Every grade, priced

Each row is a blended value for that slab, from real completed sales where we have them.

  • CGC 10pop 372 sold$17715× raw
  • PSA 10pop 44✓ 7 cert-verified$11510× raw
  • PSA 9pop 55✓ 9 cert-verified$353.0× raw
  • CGC 9.5pop 81 sold$221.9× raw
  • CGC 9pop 281 sold$181.6× raw
  • PSA 8pop 28✓ 6 cert-verified$181.6× raw
  • Ungraded$11
  • PSA 7pop 8$11

A badge says what is behind the number. cert-verified means PSA sales each tied to a specific slab you can check by serial; sold means completed eBay or Fanatics listings; modelled means no verified graded sale exists and the figure is derived from the raw price and reference guides — a ceiling to check, not a price to quote. reviewed was set by hand after reading the sales record.

How many exist, and at what grade

PSA's cumulative census for this card — the same population behind the ladder above and the grading verdict below.

PSA 10 · gem mint

32.1%

44 of 137

PSA 9

40.1%

55 of 137

Total PSA graded

137

every grade, all time

  • PSA 137 graded
  • CGC 111 graded
  • BGS 2 graded
  • TAG 2 graded

The census is cumulative and counts resubmissions, so it skews toward nicer copies and overstates the gem rate a first submission should expect. Treat it as the ceiling.

The odds of pulling one

Magby is a Rare in Expedition Base Set— the pack’s hit slot lands on rare 67% of the time, split across 40 of them in the set, so pulling this exact card is roughly 1 in 60 packs.

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Is Magby worth grading?

Every grade weighted by how often this card actually earns it — not the PSA 10 outcome alone.

Verdict

Not worth it

every grade weighted by its census share

Expected net

$-23

after fees, all grades

Best case

$32

PSA 10 only

Grading cost

$71

tier fee + shipping

Best case is the PSA 10 outcome and the number to trust least — it assumes the gem rate the census above shows, which the census itself overstates. Expected net is the honest one.

That is the average submitted copy. Tell us about yours and the verdict re-prices — most cards stop being worth grading here. Not sure? Grade it from a photo →

These are set to a flawless copy — the answer above. Change any of them to re-price it for the card in your hand.

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Trader

Compare graders, and the live market

The verdict above is PSA's — the grader the population, the ROI table and the ladder on this page all use. Trader prices all three graders against each other and adds what the asking market is doing right now.

Trader plan and above →
  • PSA, CGC and Beckett side by side — each on its own population and fees, Beckett scored on the 9.5 its market 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.

Built on 28 graded sales and a population of 1,889,841 · fees as of 2026-09-19.

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More Magby and more from Expedition Base Set

Prices are raw near mint; PSA 10 shown where we have one.

Make sure you have the right card

Every price on this page is for Expedition Base Set #52/165, 2002. Check yours against the tells below before you buy, sell or grade.

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.

Normalpriced on this page
The whole card

No foil anywhere — the non-holo printing.

Market data

Where else this card trades, where the markets disagree, and what the price series says about the last 90 days.

Across the markets

26% apart
  • PriceCharting$7
  • Our raw sold median$7
  • TCGplayer$9

Vendor prices for the same printing beside our own raw sold median — the same figure as the Raw row in the by-grade table. A wide gap is usually thin data on one side rather than an arbitrage; the headline is blended from sales, not from the cheapest of these.

What the series says

Volatility

volatile

90-day band

$3 – $24

Today’s price sits 40% of the way up that band. These are readings of the raw price series above — not separate measurements, and not a forecast.

About Magby

Which card this is — then the attacks and stats as printed, and the species behind them.

Magby is a Rare Pokémon card from Expedition Base Set (#52, released 2002), illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. It’s a Baby Fire-type Pokémon with 30 HP.

#3 most valuable Magby of 10#90 most valuable in Expedition Base Set of 165

Card text

Energy Catch

Fire

Flip a coin. If heads, put a basic Energy card from your discard pile into your hand.

Retreat 1

If your Active Pokémon is a Baby Pokémon and your opponent announces an attack, your opponent flips a coin (before doing anything else). If tails, your opponent's turn ends.

The Pokémon

Live Coal PokémonGEN II

Magby → Magmar → Magmortar

Each and every time it inhales and exhales, hot embers dribble out of its mouth and nostrils.

Card details

Set
Expedition Base Set
Number
#52
Rarity
Rare
Released
2002
Pokémon
All Magby cards
Generation
Gen II · Johto
Artist
Mitsuhiro Arita
Supertype
Pokémon
Subtypes
Baby
Type
Fire
HP
30
National Pokédex
#240
Card ID
ecard1-52
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Magby (Expedition Base Set #52) worth?

As of 20 September 2026, Magby from Expedition Base Set is worth approximately $11 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $115 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Magby?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Magby from Expedition Base Set is worth around $115 — roughly 10× the raw ungraded value of $11.

Should I grade my Magby?

Probably not. Weighted across the grades this card actually earns, expected value after the $71 grading fee is about $-23 — grading it is likely to cost more than it adds.

How often does Magby sell?

CardTrack recorded 37 completed sales of Magby (Expedition Base Set #52) across every grade in the last 90 days, 24 of them raw, the most recent on 2026-09-11. The headline price is a blend of those sales rather than an asking price.

Is Magby rare?

Magby is a Rare card from Expedition Base Set (card #52), released in 2002.