Team Rocket Pop Report (2026): PSA 10 Population for Every Card, Both Printings
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There are 4,261 PSA 10 Team Rocket cards in existence across the 18 printings with resolved population chains — and this page lists every one of them: the PSA 10 population of every resolved Team Rocket printing, 1st Edition and Unlimited, with the gem-mint price next to each count. PSA's own population report now sits behind a login; ours is free, built on exact GemRate population chains, and refreshed monthly. It is one chapter of the full WOTC pop report — and the cost side of the same data lives in what a complete PSA 10 Team Rocket set costs.
This is the Dark Charizard set, and its census has a twist. The Unlimited run was graded in enormous numbers — 18,768 Unlimited Dark Charizards alone, the deepest population in the set — and the 1st Edition stamp carries the price. But in gem mint the table flips: the rarest PSA 10s in Team Rocket are almost all Unlimited, because the stamp drove twenty-five years of submissions while the unstamped cards went unslabbed or failed to gem.
How Many PSA 10 Team Rocket Cards Exist?
4,261 PSA 10s across the 18 printings with resolved chains — 17 of those counts are exact GemRate chains (the one modeled count is marked †), and 10more tracked printings, including the Unlimited Dark Raichu, don't yet resolve to a chain at all. The table below is the full census, scarcest first. The pattern worth noticing before you scroll: every resolved Unlimited printing combined — 448 gems across five cards — is outnumbered by the 555 PSA 10 1st Edition Dark Charizards alone.
How Many PSA 10 Dark Charizards Are There?
555 1st Edition and 176 Unlimited — 731 PSA 10 Dark Charizards in existence, total, across both printings. The 1st Edition is the face of the set, and its count shows why the market treats it as the achievable Charizard grail: 555 exact gems is real, tradeable supply. Here is its full grade pyramid:
11,703 gradings, 555 tens — a 4.7% gem rate, generous by vintage standards. The Unlimited printing is the opposite story: 18,768 gradings, the most-submitted card in the set, and just 176 tens — a 0.9% gem rate. The stamp carries the price; the unstamped card carries the condition scarcity. The stamped card's premium is live here:
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View live data on CardboardSniper →What Is the Rarest Team Rocket Card in PSA 10?
The Unlimited Dark Machamp, at pop 49 — rarer than every 1st Edition card in the set, at $1,830. The Unlimited Dark Arbok (pop 52) and Unlimited Dark Blastoise (pop 65) follow — the entire top of the scarcity table is unstamped. Among 1st Editions the sleeper is Dark Magneton at pop 66 — the rarest stamped card in the set. The pop-49 card, live:
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View live data on CardboardSniper →And the set's most famous card is scarce in a different way. Dark Raichu #83/82 — the first secret rare ever printed, numbered above the set's own /82 range — sits at an exact pop 246 in 1st Edition, while its Unlimited printing has no resolved chain and no tracked PSA 10 comp: functionally a ghost in both the census and the sales tape.
Are 1st Edition or Unlimited Team Rocket Cards Rarer in PSA 10?
Unlimited — in every single card where both printings have resolved counts. Dark Charizard runs 555 stamped gems to 176 unstamped; Dark Machamp 256 to 49; Dark Arbok 296 to 52. Only Dark Gyarados is close, and its 1st Edition count is the modeled one. The side-by-side census — the orange number is the rarer printing:
| # | Card | 1st Ed pop 10 | Unlimited pop 10 | Rarer printing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  Dark Alakazam | 312 | — | — |
| #2 |  Dark Arbok | 296 | 52 | Unlimited |
| #3 |  Dark Blastoise | 228 | 65 | Unlimited |
| #4 | Dark Charizard | 555 | 176 | Unlimited |
| #5 |  Dark Dragonite | 224 | — | — |
| #6 |  Dark Dugtrio | 153 | — | — |
| #8 |  Dark Gyarados | 107† | 106 | Unlimited |
| #10 | Dark Machamp | 256 | 49 | Unlimited |
| #11 |  Dark Magneton | 66 | — | — |
| #13 |  Dark Vileplume | 191 | — | — |
| #15 |  Here Comes | 809 | — | — |
| #16 |  Rocket'S Sneak | 370 | — | — |
| #83 |  Dark Raichu | 246 | — | — |
The mechanism is the same one that shapes every stamped WOTC set: the 1st Edition stamp made cards worth submitting, so stamped populations are deep and well-counted, while Unlimited copies were played, binder-worn, and only slabbed by accident. The market still prices the stamp — a pop-555 1st Edition Dark Charizard trades at $19,200 while the pop-176 Unlimited trades at $4,837. The census says that gap is fame, not rarity.
Which Team Rocket Cards Are Hardest to Gem?
The Unlimited Dark Blastoise, at a 0.6% gem rate — 65 tens from 11,137gradings. Gem rate is the other half of a pop report: not how many 10s exist, but what fraction of all submissions earned one. Team Rocket's under-1% club is entirely Unlimited — 2000 print quality without the careful handling the stamp inspired:
| # | Card | Gem rate | PSA 10s / total graded | PSA 10 price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 2000 Team Rocket Unlimited Dark Blastoise #3 | 0.6% | 65 / 11,137 | $348 |
| 2 | | 2000 Team Rocket Unlimited Dark Arbok #2 | 0.9% | 52 / 5,703 | $750 |
| 3 | | 2000 Team Rocket Unlimited Dark Charizard #4 | 0.9% | 176 / 18,768 | $4,838 |
| 4 | | 2000 Team Rocket Unlimited Dark Machamp #10 | 1.3% | 49 / 3,752 | $1,830 |
| 5 | | 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition Dark Magneton #11 | 1.3% | 66 / 4,942 | $252 |
| 6 | | 2000 Team Rocket Unlimited Dark Gyarados #8 | 2.5% | 106 / 4,172 | $2,250 |
| 7 | | 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition Dark Dragonite #5 | 2.6% | 224 / 8,723 | $1,300 |
| 8 | | 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition Dark Blastoise #3 | 2.6% | 228 / 8,819 | $1,300 |
| 9 | | 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition Dark Raichu #83 | 3.2% | 246 / 7,758 | $8,130 |
| 10 | | 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition Dark Dugtrio #6 | 3.5% | 153 / 4,419 | $264 |
Every card on that list under 1% is a card where the PSA 10 is the trophy and the PSA 9 is the market. If you're weighing a raw submission, the PSA 10 value calculator turns these gem rates into expected value.
Is Team Rocket Scarcity Priced In?
Only at the very top. Price divided by PSA 10 population is what the market pays per unit of gem supply, and the pop-49 Unlimited Dark Machamp actually leads the set at $37 per unit — just ahead of the 1st Edition Dark Charizard at $35. Below the marquee names, scarcity gets cheap fast:
| Card | PSA 10 price | PSA 10 pop | Price per pop unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 Team Rocket Unlimited Dark Machamp #10 | $1,830 | 49 | $37 |
| 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition Dark Charizard #4 | $19,200 | 555 | $35 |
| 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition Dark Raichu #83 | $8,130 | 246 | $33 |
| 2000 Team Rocket 1st Edition Dark Vileplume #13 | $5,999 | 191 | $31 |
| 2000 Team Rocket Unlimited Dark Charizard #4 | $4,838 | 176 | $27 |
| 2000 Team Rocket Unlimited Dark Gyarados #8 | $2,250 | 106 | $21 |
The starkest mispricing on this page: the 1st Edition Dark Magneton is a pop-66 card — scarcer than the pop-555 Dark Charizard by a factor of eight — and it trades at $252, about $4 per unit of supply. Attention, not census data, sets vintage prices. The full ranked scarcity list across all fifteen WOTC sets is in the 50 rarest WOTC cards.
Team Rocket Pop Report FAQ
How many PSA 10 1st Edition Dark Charizards are there?
555 as of the July 2026 GemRate snapshot, from 11,703 total gradings — a 4.7% gem rate. The Unlimited Dark Charizard is far rarer in gem mint: 176 PSA 10s from 18,768 gradings, a 0.9% gem rate.
What is the rarest Team Rocket card in PSA 10?
The Unlimited Dark Machamp at pop 49 — rarer than every 1st Edition card in the set — followed by the Unlimited Dark Arbok (pop 52) and Unlimited Dark Blastoise (pop 65). The rarest 1st Edition is Dark Magneton at pop 66.
Is Team Rocket the same set as EX Team Rocket Returns?
No. Team Rocket is the 2000 WOTC set numbered /82, home of the Dark Raichu #83/82 secret rare; EX Team Rocket Returns is a different set from 2004. Every population on this page is for the 2000 set.
Is the PSA pop report free?
PSA's official population report now requires an account login. This page — and the full WOTC pop report it belongs to — is free, exact where GemRate chains resolve, and refreshed monthly.
Trade the census:every population above links to the card's live price page, the Team Rocket index prices the whole set daily, the Team Rocket investing guide ranks the chase cards by the numbers, and the live deal feed is where underpriced supply surfaces.
