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8 other Magnemite printings exist — is this your card? Plasma Storm 42/135 ↓
Magnemite — Plasma Storm #42

CommonPlasma Storm42/1352013Illustrated by Shigenori Negishi

Magnemite 42/135 · Plasma Storm price & value

Raw · near mint

$0.23

Updated

GradedFull ladder ↓

  • PSA 10$39167×
  • CGC 9$28.7×
  • Ungraded$0
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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 →

  • NMheadline

    Near Mint

    $0.23

    —

  • LP

    Lightly Played

    $0.16

    −30%

  • MP

    Moderately Played

    $0.10

    −57%

  • HP

    Heavily Played

    $0.10

    −57%

  • DM

    Damaged

    $0.10

    −57%

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Copies for sale right now

Asking prices, not sales — the headline above is what copies actually sold for. Stock as of 2026-09-15T20:51:20.348Z.

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Every grade, priced

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

  • PSA 10pop 1modelled$39167× raw
  • CGC 9pop 3modelled$28.7× raw
  • Ungraded$0

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

20%

1 of 5

PSA 9

20%

1 of 5

Total PSA graded

5

every grade, all time

  • PSA 5 graded
  • CGC 8 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

Magnemite is a common card — a guaranteed slot in every pack rather than a rarity gamble, so there is no pull-odds figure for it.

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 0 graded sales and a population of 1,305,862 · fees as of 2026-09-16.

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More Magnemite and more from Plasma Storm

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 Plasma Storm #42/135, 2013. 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

9% apart
  • TCGplayer$0
  • PriceCharting$0

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.

About Magnemite

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

Magnemite is a Common Pokémon card from Plasma Storm (#42, released 2013), illustrated by Shigenori Negishi. It’s a Basic Lightning-type Pokémon with 60 HP, weak to Fighting ×2.

#34 most valuable Magnemite of 46#136 most valuable in Plasma Storm of 138

Card text

Metal Sound

Colorless

Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.

Electro Ball20

Lightning · Colorless

Weakness Fighting ×2Retreat 1

“The electromagnetic waves emitted by the units at the sides of its head expel antigravity, which allows it to float.”

The Pokémon

Magnet PokémonGEN I

Magnemite → Magneton → Magnezone

Uses anti-gravity to stay suspended. Appears without warning and uses THUNDER WAVE and similar moves.

Card details

Set
Plasma Storm
Number
#42
Rarity
Common
Released
2013
Pokémon
All Magnemite cards
Generation
Gen I · Kanto
Artist
Shigenori Negishi
Supertype
Pokémon
Subtypes
Basic
Type
Lightning
HP
60
National Pokédex
#81
Card ID
bw8-42
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Frequently asked questions

How much is Magnemite (Plasma Storm #42) worth?

As of 16 September 2026, Magnemite from Plasma Storm is worth approximately $0 ungraded in near-mint condition, and around $39 in PSA 10 gem mint. Blended from real completed sales and live market prices, updated daily.

What is the PSA 10 price for Magnemite?

A PSA 10 (gem mint) Magnemite from Plasma Storm is worth around $39 — roughly 167× the raw ungraded value of $0.

Is Magnemite rare?

Magnemite is a Common card from Plasma Storm (card #42), released in 2013.