How Much Does a Complete PSA 10 Base Set Cost? (2026): Every Holo, Every Printing
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A complete PSA 10 Base Set costs $819,708 as of July 10, 2026 — every tracked chase card across all three printings (1st Edition, Shadowless, and Unlimited), priced at gem-mint fair market value from real eBay and Fanatics sold comps. That is the number, and the rest of this page is the itemized bill: what every holo costs in PSA 10 per printing, which two cards are most of the total, and what the same set runs if you build it in PSA 9 for roughly a tenth of the price.
The total is computed live by our Base Set market index and moves with every verified sale — this article re-prices monthly. It is one chapter of the full WOTC set-cost guide, and its population twin is the Base Set pop report.
How Much Does a Complete PSA 10 Base Set Cost?
$819,708. That covers the 27 Base Set cards our index tracks with live comps: the full sixteen-holo chase run in 1st Edition and Unlimited, plus the five marquee Shadowless printings that trade often enough to price honestly. It is not a static estimate — here is the same basket over the last six months:
The basket peaked near $902,000 in March, cooled through spring, and has been grinding back up since May. Complete-set cost is a price series, not a demand series — the dips are usually one grail repricing on a thin comp, not sixteen cards falling together. For the population side of the same coin — how many of these gems even exist — see the Base Set pop report.
What Does Every Base Set Holo Cost in PSA 10?
The itemized bill, all sixteen holos, three printings side by side. Every card links to its live price page; the footer row is the complete-run total. A dash means that printing has no tracked PSA 10 comp in the archive — 7 1st Edition holos (Alakazam, Blastoise, Chansey, Machamp, Magneton, Ninetales, Poliwrath) trade so rarely in gem mint that no verified 10 has crossed the tape recently. Those are real gaps in the market, not gaps in the data — and they mean the true all-sixteen 1st Edition number is higher than the footer total.
| # | Card | 1st Ed 10 | Shadowless 10 | Unlimited 10 | 1st Ed 9 | Unlimited 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  Alakazam | — | — | $3,300 | $5,383 | $359 |
| #2 |  Blastoise | — | $18,600 | $8,100 | $10,700 | $1,020 |
| #3 |  Chansey | — | — | $13,200 | $4,854 | $435 |
| #4 |  Charizard | $504,000 | $58,800 | $31,200 | $29,674 | $3,750 |
| #5 |  Clefairy | $1,673 | — | — | $494 | $270 |
| #6 |  Gyarados | $28,800 | — | $2,100 | $4,560 | $264 |
| #7 |  Hitmonchan | $27,000 | — | $2,187 | — | $195 |
| #8 | Machamp | — | — | — | $240 | — |
| #9 | Magneton | — | — | — | $1,860 | $200 |
| #10 |  Mewtwo | $48,000 | $4,440 | $3,720 | $7,800 | $388 |
| #11 |  Nidoking | $20,100 | — | — | $2,200 | $250 |
| #12 | Ninetales | — | — | — | — | $196 |
| #13 |  Poliwrath | — | $10,000 | $1,195 | $1,137 | $150 |
| #14 |  Raichu | $25,800 | — | $2,736 | $5,295 | $335 |
| #15 |  Venusaur | $33,600 | $7,800 | $3,672 | $8,400 | $625 |
| #16 |  Zapdos | $18,000 | — | $1,650 | $2,649 | $200 |
| Complete run | $706,973 | $99,640 | $73,060 | $85,246 | $8,637 | |
Two rows in that table deserve a note. The 1st Edition Venusaur's $33,600 is a verified December 2025 gem sale — the sub-$300 prints that used to circulate for this card were foreign-language 1st Editions polluting the bucket, which is why a "cheap 1st Edition Venusaur" listing is a classic mislabel. And the 1st Edition Blastoise shows a dash because its only recent "1st Edition" sale was a mislabeled Shadowless listing — no clean English 1st Edition gem comp exists in the archive right now.
How Much of the Cost Is Just Charizard?
62% of the entire set cost is one card — the $504,000 1st Edition Charizard. Add the Shadowless and Unlimited Charizards plus 1st Edition Mewtwo and Venusaur, and the top five printings are 83% of the bill. Base Set is the most extreme example of the rule that holds across every WOTC set: complete-set costs are grail-heavy. Here is the card that is most of the number, live:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 21 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
View live data on CardboardSniper →The practical consequence cuts both ways. If you want Base Set exposure, the Charizard is the position and everything else is rounding. If you want the complete-set achievement, you can own fifteen of sixteen 1st Edition holos in PSA 10 for less than $202,973 — and still be 62% short of done by cost.
How Much Does a PSA 9 Base Set Cost Instead?
$85,246 for the sixteen-holo 1st Edition run in PSA 9 — roughly an eighth of the gem-mint version — and the Unlimited holo run in PSA 9 is just $8,637. This is the sane-collector build: the same cards, the same stamp, one grade down, at a discount that exists because of grading scarcity, not card scarcity. The PSA 9 vs PSA 10 guidecovers when that discount is a gift and when it's fair, and the PSA 10 value calculatorprices any single card's premium.
What Is the Cheapest Way to Complete a Base Set?
Three builds, in ascending order of pain:
- Unlimited PSA 10 run — $73,060. Every holo, all gem mint, for about a tenth of the 1st Edition bill. 5 holos have no verified 10 comp, so expect to hunt.
- Shadowless marquees — $99,640 for the five we track.The connoisseur's middle path: Shadowless populations are lower than 1st Edition on the big cards (58 Shadowless Charizard 10s vs 124 1st Edition), but the market prices the stamp, not the scarcity. The full Shadowless story is in the pop report.
- 1st Edition PSA 10 run — $706,973+. The trophy build. Plan the Charizard last: it is 62% of the budget, and everything else in the set is liquidity practice by comparison.
Whichever build you pick, the live deal feed surfaces below-market graded Base Set 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 Cost FAQ
How much is a complete PSA 10 1st Edition Base Set?
The 1st Edition holos with recent verified gem comps total $706,973 in PSA 10; six more holos trade so rarely in gem mint that no recent 10 comp exists, so the true all-sixteen number is meaningfully higher. The $504,000 Charizard is 62% of it.
How much is a complete Base Set in PSA 9?
$85,246 for the 1st Edition holo run, or $8,637 for Unlimited — the same sixteen cards at a fraction of gem-mint cost.
How many cards are in Base Set?
102 cards total, of which sixteen are holos — the chase run this page prices. A full 102-card raw set is a few hundred dollars; the cost lives almost entirely in the sixteen holos once grading enters the picture.
Is a complete PSA 10 Base Set a good investment?
The basket is roughly flat over six months ($853,525 in February to $819,708 in July) and its returns are dominated by one card — owning the Charizard outright gives you most of the exposure with none of the completion risk. The Base Set investing guide ranks every holo by the numbers. Nothing here is financial advice.
Keep the number live: the Base Set index re-prices this entire page daily, the WOTC set-cost guide puts all fifteen sets side by side, and the Base Set pop report shows how many of these gems exist at all.
