# Carnivine #5/108 — Dark Explorers

## Summary

Carnivine is a Sinnoh oddity with a small but devoted following, loved for being a Venus flytrap with an attitude in a region full of better-known Grass types. Its disruptive attacks hint at the Black & White era's love of tricky tech, but a plain Rare here is mid-tier, never a chase pull. At a $1.33 modelled guide, with 1 copy traded in 30 days, this printing is almost entirely collector premium, since the same card plays for $0.09 out of Chaos Rising; a PSA 10 guides at $45, 34 times raw, but PSA does not split this card’s population by finish, so no gem rate can be read for it.

## Identity

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Set | Dark Explorers |
| Number | 5/108 |
| Rarity | Rare |
| Era | BW |
| Illustrator | Yukiko Baba |
| Release date | 2012-05-09 |
| Image | Unavailable |

## Card details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Card type | POKEMON |
| Stage | Basic |
| HP | 90 |
| Types | Grass |
| Attack: Lure Poison | cost Grass — Switch the Defending Pokémon with 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. The new Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned. |
| Attack: Spit Squall | cost Grass/Grass/Colorless — Your opponent puts the Defending Pokémon and all cards attached to it into his or her hand. |
| Weakness | Fire ×2 |
| Resistance | Water -20 |
| Retreat | 2 |
| Legal | Standard no · Expanded yes |
| Pokédex entry | [Carnivine #455](https://cardboardalpha.com/pokemon/pokedex/carnivine) |
| Finishes | Normal, Reverse Holo |
| Languages | EN |

## Current stats

- Headline price: **$1.33** (ITEM_MEDIAN; modelled guide price) — as of 2026-11-02
- 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: n/a · 7d change: n/a — as of 2026-11-02
- Floor delivered ask: $2.49 — as of 2026-11-02T00:40:45.145Z
- Quant score: 43/100, regime ILLIQUID_UNKNOWN — as of 2026-11-02T00:40:45.145Z — 3 of 11 inputs · 29% weight · -35% confidence

## Provenance

- Catalog — observed 2012-05-09T00:00:00Z, confidence 98%
- Live ask — observed 2026-10-22T22:19:51.758Z, confidence 90%
- Guide price (modelled) — observed 2026-11-02T00:00:00.000Z, confidence 90%
- Price statistic — observed 2026-10-22T22:19:49.907Z, confidence 90%
- Confirmed sale — observed 2026-08-28T10:52:31.303Z, confidence 85%
- Inventory count — observed 2026-10-22T22:19:49.907Z, confidence 70%
- Population census — observed 2026-09-08T20:40:01.367Z, confidence 60%

## Links

- [View on Cardboard Alpha](https://cardboardalpha.com/pokemon/dark-explorers/carnivine-5)
- [JSON snapshot](https://cardboardalpha.com/api/terminal/raw~tcgdex%3Abw5-5%3AEN%3ANORMAL~NM)