Charizard
Base Set 2 · #4 · Rare Holo · Vintage · 2000
Pulling Charizard in a Base Set 2 pack is about 33.3% (Rare slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.
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Charizard market value
Charizard (Base Set 2 #4) has a live market value of 43,398 Sparks, about $433.98 at the latest market price. That market price for Charizard was last updated on October 26, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 43,398 Sparks is the figure shown for Charizard in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Charizard, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 36,888 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. A Base Set 2 pack is 4,875 Sparks; this card's market value is 43,398 Sparks. Charizard is the most valuable of the 130 priced cards in Base Set 2. The median priced card in the set is 122 Sparks, and the next most valuable card is Blastoise at 15,520 Sparks.
How to pull Charizard
In a Base Set 2 pack, the Rare slot shows a Rare Holo card about 33.3% of the time. In other words, about one Base Set 2 pack in 3 lands a Rare Holo card in that slot. Charizard is one of 20 priced Rare Holo cards in Base Set 2 that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Base Set 2: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Base Set 2 page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Base Set 2 box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.
Rarity and era
Charizard is a Rare Holo card, number 4 in Base Set 2. Base Set 2 lists 20 Rare Holo cards out of 130 cards in total, about 15% of the set list. Among the 20 priced Rare Holo cards, market values run from 2,177 Sparks to 43,398 Sparks, and Charizard ranks 1st of them. Base Set 2 is part of the Base series and sits in the Vintage era of the PackLab catalog. Vintage sets come from the early years of the hobby, when holographic rares were the main chase and sealed packs were far fewer.
About Base Set 2
Base Set 2 was released on February 24, 2000 and lists 130 cards on PackLab, 130 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Base Set 2 carry a combined market value of 168,116 Sparks. By market value, Charizard sits at the top of Base Set 2, just above Blastoise (15,520 Sparks).
