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Charmeleon, Expedition Base Set #73 (Uncommon)

Charmeleon

Expedition Base Set · #73 · Uncommon · Vintage · 2002

Live market value
3,237 Sparks / $32.37

Pulling Charmeleon in an Expedition Base Set pack is about 100% (Uncommon slot). Published, provably-fair odds you can verify.

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Charmeleon market value

Charmeleon (Expedition Base Set #73) has a live market value of 3,237 Sparks, about $32.37 at the latest market price. That market price for Charmeleon was last updated on July 10, 2026. On PackLab one Spark equals one cent of card value, so 3,237 Sparks is the figure shown for Charmeleon in the set browser, on this page and in your vault after you pull it. If you pull Charmeleon, you can sell it back instantly at 85% of market value, which comes to 2,751 Sparks at the current price. Sparks have no cash value and are only used on PackLab. An Expedition Base Set pack is 23,150 Sparks; this card's market value is 3,237 Sparks. Among the 165 priced cards in Expedition Base Set, Charmeleon is the 53rd most valuable. The median priced card in the set is 1,136 Sparks, and the most valuable card is Dragonite at 79,969 Sparks.

How to pull Charmeleon

In an Expedition Base Set pack, the Uncommon slot shows an Uncommon card about 100% of the time. Charmeleon is one of 38 priced Uncommon cards in Expedition Base Set that can fill that result, so landing this exact card is less likely than the rarity figure. These are the published odds for Expedition Base Set: the full slot-by-slot table is on the Expedition Base Set page, and the odds page explains how each set's rates are built. Every Expedition Base Set box commits its card order before the first pack is sold, so each rip can be checked once the box sells out.

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Rarity and era

Charmeleon is an Uncommon card, number 73 in Expedition Base Set. Expedition Base Set lists 38 Uncommon cards out of 165 cards in total, about 23% of the set list. Among the 38 priced Uncommon cards, market values run from 67 Sparks to 3,237 Sparks, and Charmeleon ranks 1st of them. Expedition Base Set is part of the E-Card 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 Expedition Base Set

Expedition Base Set was released on September 15, 2002 and lists 165 cards on PackLab, 165 of them with a live market price. Together, the priced cards in Expedition Base Set carry a combined market value of 924,607 Sparks. By market value, Charmeleon sits just below Poliwrath (3,276 Sparks) and just above Magikarp (2,885 Sparks).

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