The Base Set Charizard reprint leads Celebrations at $148.26 on Cardboard Alpha's October 11, 2026 evaluated prices, and the 25 Classic Collection reprints hold 81.6% of a $555.56 one-of-each run.
The Classic Collection reprint of Base Set Charizard is the highest-priced card in Celebrations. Cardboard Alpha's evaluated price for a raw Near Mint copy was $148.26 on October 11, 2026, ahead of the Umbreon ☆ reprint at $74.29 and the Secret Rare Mew 025/025 at $64.27.
One raw Near Mint copy of all 50 cards, the 25 main-set cards plus the 25 Classic Collection reprints, cost $555.56 that day. The reprints hold $453.26 of it (81.6%), and Charizard alone costs 1.4 times the entire main set.
This guide covers the 25th-anniversary set released October 8, 2021. The 30th Celebration, released September 16, 2026, is a separate set, and the Charizard section sets the two side by side.
The Pokémon Company announced Celebrations on June 24, 2021 for Pokémon's 25th anniversary and launched it from October 8, 2021. Each pack held four cards, all foil and all marked with a 25th anniversary logo.
Main set: 25 cards numbered 001/025 to 025/025, including 4 Pokémon V and 2 Pokémon VMAX per pokemon.com, and one Secret Rare, Mew 025/025.
Classic Collection: 25 "close remakes" of older cards, per The Pokémon Company, running from Base Set to Guardians Rising in Bulbapedia's list. They keep their original printed numbers (Charizard is 4/102), and the catalog files them as a separate set numbered CC001 to CC025.
Bulbapedia counts 50 cards and no reverse-holo parallel, so each card has one holofoil print.
The Pokémon Company says Celebrations packs "will not be sold separately," and its nine-product launch lineup has no booster box. TCGplayer's buyer's guide counts the Celebrations packs in each product.
Product
Celebrations packs
On sale
Mini Tins
2
Oct 8, 2021
Dragapult Prime Collection
2
Oct 8, 2021
Lance's Charizard V and Dark Sylveon V Collections
4 each
Oct 8, 2021
Deluxe Pin Collection
4
Oct 8, 2021
Pikachu V-UNION Special Collection
4
Oct 8, 2021
Collector Chest
6
Oct 2021
Pikachu VMAX Premium Figure Collection
8
Oct 22, 2021
Elite Trainer Box
10
Oct 8, 2021
Ultra-Premium Collection
17
Oct 22, 2021
Pack counts per TCGplayer; on-sale dates per The Pokémon Company's June 24, 2021 announcement.
The top 15 cards, priced
Every figure is Cardboard Alpha's evaluated price for a raw Near Mint copy on October 11, 2026: one number per card per day, built from recorded sales, live asking prices and the card's prior evaluation. Printed numbers follow TCGplayer's product data.
Thirteen of the top 15 are Classic Collection reprints. The two exceptions are Mew 025/025 in third place and Flying Pikachu VMAX, which ties Surfing Pikachu VMAX at $5.90. Birthday Pikachu is TCGplayer's name for the card printed as a blank followed by 's Pikachu.
Of the 50 prices on October 11, 36 include at least one recorded same-day sale: 15 rest on five or more, 17 on two to four and 4 on one. The other 14 rest on a quoted marketplace guide (13) or the midpoint of TCGplayer's lowest and highest sale for the day (1, Gardevoir ex δ), and total $14.96, or 2.7% of the set. Mew's $64.27 rests on one same-day sale, blended with the best asking price, the prior evaluation and earlier sales.
Reprint of the Neo Revelation Shining Magikarp. Evaluated price, raw NM, $31.39 on October 11, 2026.
Classic Collection vs the originals
Fourteen reprints can be set against a plain original (not first edition, shadowless or player-stamped). None of the 14 has a same-day sale print in Cardboard Alpha's ledger: two rest on the midpoint of TCGplayer's lowest and highest sale for the day and twelve on asking prices blended with the prior evaluation.
Nine more originals rest on a quoted guide or a carried-forward price, and two had no evaluated price: Next Destinies Mewtwo-EX and the POP Series 5 Umbreon ☆. TCGplayer notes that Umbreon ☆ was a 2007 promotional release available only through the Pokémon Organized Play System, and that the reprint keeps its illustration. Those 11 reprints are left out of the table.
Weaker evidence agrees: of those nine, eight reprints cost less than their originals, the exception being Mew ex, whose guide-based original reads $1.58 against a $13.73 reprint.
Cardboard Alpha evaluated prices, raw Near Mint, October 11, 2026. Each original is its plain print, ordered by set release.
The median reprint costs 6.5% of its original, from 2.0% (Rocket's Admin.) to 80.1% (Tapu Lele GX). For every original printed from 1999 to 2010 the reprint costs 15.5% or less, and for the three printed from 2014 on it costs 24.8%, 33.0% and 80.1%.
Because none of these originals has a same-day sale print, the ratios are indicative, not exact. The Umbreon price guide across every era covers the original Umbreon ☆, which has no evaluated price here.
Reprint of the Roaring Skies M Rayquaza EX. Evaluated price, raw NM, $35.51 on October 11, 2026.
Charizard: three printings
The Pokémon Company released the 30th Celebration on September 16, 2026, and TCGplayer lists a Charizard numbered 4/102 in the 30th Celebration Classic Collection. The set's Classic Collection reprints are priced beside its main-set chase cards in the 30th Celebration chase ladder.
Cardboard Alpha evaluated prices, raw Near Mint, October 11, 2026.
On October 11, 2026, the 30th Celebration reprint priced $2.76 below the 2021 one, and the plain Base Set print was 6.5 times the 2021 reprint. Base Set Charizard by print run covers the original's print runs. The printed marks that separate the three prints are covered in how to tell reprints from originals.
The main set: Mew and the Pikachus
On October 11, 2026, Mew 025/025 carried $64.27 of the main set's $102.30 (62.8%), and the other 24 cards totaled $38.03.
Secret Rare. Evaluated price, raw NM, $64.27 on October 11, 2026.
Mew appears three times: Mew 011/025 at $3.48, the Mew ex reprint at $13.73 and the Secret Rare, which costs 18.5 times the 011.
The five main-set Pikachu cards sat between $3.96 and $5.90 that day: Pikachu 005/025 at $4.99, Flying Pikachu V at $3.96, Surfing Pikachu V at $4.28 and both VMAX cards at $5.90. The Birthday Pikachu reprint, at $31.31, costs 6.3 times Pikachu 005/025.
Holo Rare VMAX. Evaluated price, raw NM, $5.90 on October 11, 2026, tied with Surfing Pikachu VMAX.
Ten main-set cards priced below the lowest-priced reprint, Imposter Professor Oak at $0.36.
Where the value concentrates
Ranked by evaluated price on October 11, 2026, the top card holds 26.7% of the $555.56, the top two 40.1%, the top five 63.7%, the top ten 79.7% and the top fifteen 88.2%. Nineteen of the 50 cards priced under $1.00.
Tier
Cards
Combined
Share
Median
Classic Collection
25
$453.26
81.6%
$5.97
Secret Rare (Mew 025)
1
$64.27
11.6%
$64.27
Holo Rare VMAX
2
$11.80
2.1%
$5.90
Holo Rare V
4
$10.23
1.8%
$2.48
Holo Rare
5
$9.37
1.7%
$0.34
Rare
12
$5.33
1.0%
$0.30
Ultra Rare (Professor's Research)
1
$1.30
0.2%
$1.30
All cards
50
$555.56
100%
$2.99
Cardboard Alpha evaluated prices, raw Near Mint, October 11, 2026. Rarity labels follow the catalog.
What this guide does not price
Graded copies: raw cards only, so no PSA, CGC or BGS price or population count appears.
Pull rates: none quoted. Neither the announcement nor TCGplayer's buyer's guide publishes odds for this set, and how pull-rate studies work covers the method.
Promos, oversize and stamped cards: the promo and oversize cards bundled with the collections sit outside the 50 cards, and two stamped catalog variants of Reshiram and Zekrom had no evaluated price on October 11, so none is priced.
The Classic Collection reprint of Base Set Charizard, printed 4/102. Cardboard Alpha's evaluated price for a raw Near Mint copy was $148.26 on October 11, 2026, ahead of the Umbreon ☆ reprint at $74.29 and the Secret Rare Mew 025/025 at $64.27. Mew is the highest-priced of the 25 main-set cards.
How much does a complete Celebrations set cost?
One raw Near Mint copy of all 50 cards came to $555.56 on Cardboard Alpha's October 11, 2026 evaluated prices. The 25 Classic Collection reprints account for $453.26 of it and the 25 main-set cards for $102.30. Promo cards and oversize cards from the collections are not included.
How does the Celebrations Charizard price compare with the Base Set original?
On October 11, 2026 the reprint's evaluated price of $148.26 was 15.5% of the plain Base Set Charizard 4/102 at $956.85. The original's figure rests on asking prices blended with the prior evaluation, not a recorded same-day sale, so the ratio is indicative. The reprint's own figure rests on three recorded same-day sales.
How can you tell a Classic Collection reprint from the original card?
The Pokémon Company says every Celebrations pack card carries a foil treatment and a 25th anniversary logo. Bulbapedia adds that the reprints keep the original printed numbers and use an etched Confetti Holofoil pattern. TCGplayer's product notes point to the Pikachu symbol on cards such as Venusaur, Garchomp C LV.X and M Rayquaza EX.
Can you buy Celebrations booster packs or a booster box?
Not according to The Pokémon Company, whose Celebrations page says the packs "will not be sold separately" and points buyers to special collections. Its nine-product launch lineup includes no booster box. TCGplayer's buyer's guide counts 10 Celebrations packs in the Elite Trainer Box and 17 in the Ultra-Premium Collection.
Is Celebrations the same set as the 30th Celebration?
No. Celebrations is the 25th-anniversary set released October 8, 2021, and the 30th Celebration launched on September 16, 2026 as a separate set with its own 30-card Classic Collection. Both Classic Collections include a Charizard numbered 4/102: Cardboard Alpha's evaluated prices on October 11, 2026 were $148.26 for the 2021 reprint and $145.50 for the 2026 one.
Rochelle Lee writes price guides and set coverage for Cardboard Alpha. Rochelle works in sales as an account executive serving escrow and mortgage teams, a field where a price means little without comparable sales behind it, and brings that comps-first instinct to cards: what individual cards are worth, how whole sets and eras have held their value, and how a card's sold history differs from what sellers are currently asking. Each guide is built from published pricing and population data first, cites every source inline, and is fact-checked against those sources before it is published.
Rochelle Lee's articles describe card and set values using published pricing and population data. They are informational and are not personalized investment advice.
