How Much Does a Complete PSA 10 Base Set 2 Cost? (2026): The Cheapest WOTC Set to Finish
A complete PSA 10 Base Set 2 costs $69,396 as of July 10, 2026 — the cheapest complete-set project in all of WOTC-era Pokémon, and the one our full WOTC set-cost guide calls the most realistic complete-set project of the era. Base Set 2 is the 2000 reprint of Base Set and Jungle: the same Charizard, Blastoise, and Venusaur artwork, no 1st Edition stamp, no Shadowless variant — one printing per card, priced here from real eBay and Fanatics sold comps at roughly 8% of what the original Base Set costs.
The total is computed live by our Base Set 2 market index and moves with every verified sale — this article re-prices monthly. Its population twin is the Base Set 2 pop report, and the census context across all fifteen sets lives in the full WOTC pop report.
How Much Does a Complete PSA 10 Base Set 2 Cost?
$69,396. That is the live basket value of the 12 Base Set 2 holos our index tracks with verified comps — and it is the lowest complete-set number of any WOTC set we price. It has not been standing still: the basket is up 77% since February. Here is the same basket over the last six months:
The jump from $39,176 in March to $62,216 in April is mostly one card: a verified $32,400 Charizard sale on March 29 repriced the biggest line on the bill. That is what a thin market looks like — a handful of sales move the whole set. For how few of these gems exist at all, see the Base Set 2 pop report.
What Does Every Base Set 2 Holo Cost in PSA 10?
The itemized bill, all twenty holos in one column — no printings to compare, because Base Set 2 has exactly one. A dash means no verified PSA 10 sale is in the archive: eight of the twenty holos (Alakazam, Blastoise, Clefable, Clefairy, Hitmonchan, Nidoqueen, Pidgeot, Wigglytuff) have no recent gem comp at all. Those are real gaps in the market, not gaps in the data — nobody graded this set, so on nearly half the checklist there is simply no PSA 10 tape to price from. The true all-twenty number is higher than the footer total.
| # | Card | PSA 10 | % of set | PSA 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Alakazam | — | — | $105 |
| #2 | Blastoise | — | — | $372 |
| #3 |  Chansey | $6,475 | 13.4% | $152 |
| #4 |  Charizard | $16,200 | 33.6% | $1,795 |
| #5 | Clefable | — | — | — |
| #6 | Clefairy | — | — | $97 |
| #7 |  Gyarados | $425 | 0.9% | $164 |
| #8 | Hitmonchan | — | — | $148 |
| #9 |  Magneton | $250 | 0.5% | $79 |
| #10 |  Mewtwo | $4,440 | 9.2% | $210 |
| #11 |  Nidoking | $7,500 | 15.5% | $100 |
| #12 | Nidoqueen | — | — | $115 |
| #13 |  Ninetales | $504 | 1.0% | $115 |
| #14 | Pidgeot | — | — | $149 |
| #15 |  Poliwrath | $625 | 1.3% | $65 |
| #16 |  Raichu | $8,100 | 16.8% | $91 |
| #17 |  Scyther | $1,620 | 3.4% | $181 |
| #18 |  Venusaur | $1,300 | 2.7% | $200 |
| #19 | Wigglytuff | — | — | — |
| #20 |  Zapdos | $800 | 1.7% | $110 |
| Complete set | $48,239 | 100% | $4,248 | |
One honest caveat on the two headline numbers: the itemized bill foots to $48,239 while the live index carries the basket at $69,396. The gap is the bid-ask of a thin market. Charizard's most recent verified sale was $32,400, but its fair market value across the last three comps is $16,200— when a card trades three times a year, "the price" is a range, and the index carries recent prints that sit above some cards' median. Treat $48,239–$69,396 as the honest quote.
Why Is Base Set 2 the Cheapest WOTC Set to Complete?
Because the market prices the stamp, not the artwork — $69,396 buys the same holo run that costs $819,708 in Base Set, a 11.8x discount for cards that look identical in the slab. Base Set 2 is a reprint, and reprint stigma has kept both prices and grading submissions low for twenty-six years. The set's cost structure is also far less top-heavy than the original's: Charizard is 23% of the Base Set 2 bill, and the top five cards together are 61% — almost exactly the share of Base Set's total that its single 1st Edition Charizard commands. Here is the top of the bill, live:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 3 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
View live data on CardboardSniper →The practical read: this is the one WOTC chase run where the Charizard does not hold the rest of the project hostage. At $16,200 it is the biggest line, but the rest of the set still carries 77% of the total — a completion project, not a one-card position. The Base Set 2 investing guide ranks every holo by the same numbers.
How Much Does a PSA 9 Base Set 2 Cost Instead?
$4,248 for the 18 holos with verified PSA 9 comps — less than a single PSA 10 Base Set 2 Mewtwo ($4,440). That is not a typo; it is the entire premise of this set in one comparison. In PSA 9, Base Set 2 holos are two-figure and low-three-figure cards; in PSA 10, the same cards can be worth nearly ninety times more — Raichu is $91 in PSA 9 and $8,100 in PSA 10 — because gem-grade supply barely exists. The PSA 9 vs PSA 10 guide covers when that spread is a gift, and the PSA 10 value calculatorprices any single card's premium.
What Is the Cheapest Way to Complete Base Set 2?
$4,248 in PSA 9 — or a few hundred dollars raw. Three builds, in ascending order of pain:
- Raw 130-card set — a few hundred dollars. Base Set 2 was printed in volume and never carried a collectibility premium raw. This is the nostalgia build; the cost lives entirely in grading.
- PSA 9 holo run — $4,248. All 18 holos with verified 9 comps, most under $200 each. The same artwork as a six-figure Base Set project for the price of one mid-tier slab.
- PSA 10 holo run — $48,239+. The real project. Only 12 of 20 holos even have a live gem comp; the other eight almost never surface, so budget patience alongside money. Sleepers hide in plain sight — Chansey is quietly the fourth-most-expensive card in the set:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 2 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
View live data on CardboardSniper →Whichever build you pick, the live deal feed surfaces below-market graded Base Set 2 inventory across Collector Crypt, Courtyard, and Phygitals, and the live deal feed is where the scanner surfaces the copies set-builders are hunting.
Base Set 2 Cost FAQ
Does Base Set 2 have 1st Edition cards?
No. Base Set 2 was printed as a single unstamped run in 2000 — no 1st Edition, no Shadowless. Every card has exactly one printing, which removes the stamp-premium ladder that drives Base Set pricing and is a big part of why the complete set costs 8% of the original.
How much is a complete Base Set 2 in PSA 9?
$4,248 for the 18 holos with verified PSA 9 comps — less than one PSA 10 Base Set 2 Mewtwo at $4,440. The gem-mint premium in this set is condition scarcity, not card scarcity.
How many cards are in Base Set 2?
130 cards, of which the first twenty are holos — the chase run this page prices. The set reprints Base Set and Jungle cards with identical artwork; a full raw set is a few hundred dollars, and the cost lives almost entirely in the holos once grading enters the picture.
Is a complete PSA 10 Base Set 2 a good investment?
The basket is up 77% since February ($39,176 to $69,396), but on thin comps — a single $32,400Charizard sale in March repriced the whole index. Low populations cut both ways: gems reprice fast when attention arrives and sit illiquid when it doesn't. The Base Set 2 investing guide ranks every holo by the numbers. Nothing here is financial advice.
Keep the number live: the Base Set 2 index re-prices this entire page daily, the WOTC set-cost guide puts all fifteen sets side by side, and the Base Set 2 pop report counts how many of these gems exist at all.
