# Charizard #4/130 — Base Set 2

## Summary

Charizard may be the most beloved Pokémon in the hobby, and this is the Base Set 2 reprint of Arita's original design, a set that gave newer players a cheaper road to the dragon. Its Energy Burn made the card a real deck engine, though the pull was never the set's top slot. The modelled guide sits at $418, down 27% over 30 days on 169 copies traded, with 17 days of inventory on the board; PSA has slabbed 24,410 of these and only 70 are 10s, a 0.3% gem rate that makes the raw-to-gem gap the entire trade, with original packs long past any pull-rate math.

## Identity

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Set | Base Set 2 |
| Number | 4/130 |
| Rarity | Rare |
| Era | WOTC |
| Illustrator | Mitsuhiro Arita |
| Release date | 2000-02-24 |
| Image | Unavailable |

## Card details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Card type | POKEMON |
| Stage | Stage2 |
| Evolves from | Charmeleon |
| HP | 120 |
| Types | Fire |
| Ability: Energy Burn | As often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may turn all Energy attached to Charizard into Fire Energy for the rest of the turn. This power can't be used if Charizard is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed. |
| Attack: Fire Spin | cost Fire/Fire/Fire/Fire — damage 100 — Discard 2 Energy cards attached to Charizard in order to use this attack. |
| Weakness | Water ×2 |
| Resistance | Fighting -30 |
| Retreat | 3 |
| Legal | Standard no · Expanded no |
| Pokédex entry | [Charizard #006](https://cardboardalpha.com/pokemon/pokedex/charizard) |
| Finishes | Holo |
| Languages | EN |

## Current stats

- Headline price: **$417.78** (ITEM_MEDIAN; modelled guide price) — as of 2026-10-15T21:38:59.108Z
- Headline basis: MODELLED_GUIDE — The venue’s published daily market guide, which the venue itself declares MODELLED. Nothing is confirmed to have traded at it, no copy is listed at it, and it is not our estimate — it is theirs.
- 24h change: +1.10% · 7d change: +0.60% — as of 2026-10-15T21:38:59.108Z
- Floor delivered ask: $411.15 — as of 2026-10-15T21:38:59.108Z
- Quant score: 43/100, regime ILLIQUID_UNKNOWN — as of 2026-10-15T21:38:59.108Z — 6 of 11 inputs · 61% weight · -20% confidence

## Provenance

- Catalog — observed 2000-02-24T00:00:00Z, confidence 98%
- Guide price (modelled) — observed 2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z, confidence 90%
- Price statistic — observed 2026-10-13T07:59:43.390Z, confidence 90%
- Confirmed sale — observed 2026-10-12T13:30:49.213Z, confidence 85%
- Live ask — observed 2026-10-13T07:59:43.390Z, confidence 80%
- Inventory count — observed 2026-10-13T07:59:43.390Z, confidence 70%
- Population census — observed 2026-10-13T21:22:31.713Z, confidence 60%

## Links

- [View on Cardboard Alpha](https://cardboardalpha.com/pokemon/base-set-2/charizard-4)
- [JSON snapshot](https://cardboardalpha.com/api/terminal/raw~tcgdex%3Abase4-4%3AEN%3AHOLO~NM)