Blastoise 2/102 Value by Print Run: 73 Real Sales

A beaten-up Shadowless PSA 8 sells for $1,400. A clean Unlimited PSA 9 sells for $1,091, 1.3 times less. On this card the print run is worth more than the grade, and here are the 73 sales that show it.

Three cards, one number

Blastoise 2/102 exists as 1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited. Same artwork, same number, wildly different money. Below: 73 verified eBay sales, 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-12, split by print run and cleaned with the same filter our app uses.

The print run beats the grade

Read that again, because it inverts the instinct everyone has. Chasing a higher grade inside the wrong print run is the expensive mistake. Identifying the print run correctly is worth more than every grade on the scale put together.

Where the grade does pay

Inside Unlimited, the version most people actually own, the one step worth paying for is PSA 8 to PSA 9: $411 to $1,091, +165%. Every other step on that scale is smaller.

At the bottom the scale flattens out: the lowest grades sell within a few tens of dollars of each other, because down there you are buying the card, not the condition.

One more thing that will skew your search

Watch the phrase "Base Set 2/102". In most titles that 2 is the card number, not the set called Base Set 2, and reading it the wrong way sends you to an entirely different print run. If a price sits far off every chart above, check that before you believe it.

So: solid investment?

The card trades constantly. 73 sales in this window alone, so liquidity is not the question. The question is which of the three you are buying, and whether the seller knew. Shadowless copies are 3 times the money at the same grade, which is exactly why the title of a listing deserves more of your attention than the photo.

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