# Buff Padding #136/181 — Team Up

## Summary

Buff Padding is a Pokémon Tool built for a narrow job, rewarding exactly the heavy Retreat Cost bodies that most decks avoided, so it never found a home in serious lists. Uncommon trainer filler like this sits in the bulk bin, though Yoshinobu Saito's name is a small draw for completists. A $0.28 modelled guide, flat over 30 days on 5 copies traded, says bulk, with 188 days of inventory on the board, and the economics stop there: a PSA 10 guides at $31, 112 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 | Team Up |
| Number | 136/181 |
| Rarity | Uncommon |
| Era | SM |
| Illustrator | Yoshinobu Saito |
| Release date | 2019-01-31 |
| Image | Unavailable |

## Card details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Card type | TRAINER |
| Subtype | Tool |
| Legal | Standard no · Expanded yes |
| Finishes | Normal, Reverse Holo |
| Languages | EN |

## Current stats

- Headline price: **$0.28** (ITEM_MEDIAN; modelled guide price) — as of 2026-11-04
- 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 2026-11-04
- Floor delivered ask: $1.24 — as of 2026-10-17T21:45:02.614Z
- Quant score: 52/100, regime FLOOR_FORMING — as of 2026-11-02T23:11:36.708Z — 5 of 11 inputs · 55% weight · -22% confidence

## Provenance

- Catalog — observed 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z, confidence 98%
- Live ask — observed 2026-10-20T13:34:41.083Z, confidence 90%
- Guide price (modelled) — observed 2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z, confidence 90%
- Price statistic — observed 2026-10-18T02:16:37.980Z, confidence 90%
- Confirmed sale — observed 2026-10-16T03:42:35.377Z, confidence 85%
- Inventory count — observed 2026-10-18T02:16:37.979Z, confidence 70%

## Links

- [View on Cardboard Alpha](https://cardboardalpha.com/pokemon/team-up/buff-padding-136)
- [JSON snapshot](https://cardboardalpha.com/api/terminal/raw~tcgdex%3Asm9-136%3AEN%3ANORMAL~NM)