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Release date, card count, chase cards, value and how it compares with the PCG era.
Random Constructed Starter Decks (Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise) is a deck product from the PCG era of the Japanese Pokémon TCG, released on March 19, 2004. It sits between the Metagross Constructed Starter Deck, which came out on January 16, 2004, and the Deoxys Constructed Starter Deck on July 1, 2004. The card list runs to 52 printings, built around the three Kanto starter lines. Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle each appear twice, and the headline cards are Charizard ex and Venusaur ex, with Meowth, Squirtle and Growlithe close behind in value.
Random Constructed Starter Decks (Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise) was released March 19, 2004.
Random Constructed Starter Decks (Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise) has 52 cards.
Random Constructed Starter Decks (Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise) is part of the PCG era.
The draw here is the pair of ex cards from the starter lines rather than a deep rarity ladder, as a constructed deck product prints far fewer special cards than a booster set. Charizard ex is the most valuable card, followed by Venusaur ex, then Meowth, Squirtle and Growlithe. Value is heavily concentrated: the top five cards hold 79 percent of the total card value in Random Constructed Starter Decks (Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise), so the two ex cards define most of what this release is worth. The remaining cards are mostly the evolution lines needed to build the decks.
As of October 2026, Random Constructed Starter Decks (Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise) holds the 2nd highest total card value of the 4 comparable PCG sets, about 1.3 times the era median, and its Charizard ex ranks 2nd among the era's single most valuable cards. It is 4th for trading activity in the era and 14th by total card value across the 110 comparable sets in the Japanese Pokémon TCG. Both neighbours are decks, the Metagross Constructed Starter Deck before it and the Deoxys Constructed Starter Deck after it. English collectors will know 45 of these cards from FireRed & LeafGreen, which arrived 5 months later in September 2004, so the Japanese release came first.
Written from market data as of October 22, 2026; the tables update live.
| Measure | This setRandom Constructed Starter Decks (Venusaur/Charizard/Blastoise) | Median of 4 deck productsPCG median | Previous setMetagross Constructed Starter Deck | Next setDeoxys Constructed Starter Deck |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release date | Mar 19, 2004 | — | Jan 16, 2004 | Jul 1, 2004 |
| Cards | 52 | 22 | 19 | 16 |
| Master set value | ≥ $371.38 | $286.70 | ≥ $51.97 | ≥ $81.84 |
| Most valuable card price | $125.98 | $97.74 | $29.99 | $49.99 |
| Priced cards | 26 of 52 | 17 | 8 of 19 | 7 of 16 |
The full run is 52 printings, and 26 of them are priced, so about half the card list carries a market value at all. Because the top five cards hold 79 percent of the set's value, the cost of a complete set depends mostly on landing Charizard ex and Venusaur ex, while the rest of the run is made up of lower-value starter-line cards such as Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle. The unpriced half of the list is worth checking card by card before treating any total as final.
Charizard ex, at $125.98, as of October 23, 2026.