Arcanine #23 — Base Set

Arcanine is card 23 of 102 in the 1999 Base Set — a Uncommon Fire-type Pokémon with 100 HP, illustrated by Ken Sugimori.

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No completed public sale for Arcanine has been verified into our ledger yet. Until eight verified sales for a single printing-and-grade cell are recorded, there is nothing to take a median of, so this page prints no figure. No estimate, no range, no placeholder.

Identity fetched 2026-09-01 from the pokemontcg.io Base Set checklist; prices and populations are not in that record.

The record we hold

Set
Base Set (1999)
Card number
23 / 102
Rarity
Uncommon
Card type
Pokémon · Fire
HP
100
Holofoil
No
Illustrator
Ken Sugimori

Arcanine was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 23 of 102, which puts it in the first third of the binder. Its binder neighbours are Pidgeotto (#22) and Charmeleon (#24). 2 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 100.

Which printing you are holding

Arcanine was printed three times over, and the three do not trade alike. 1st Edition carries the edition stamp and a flat frame; Shadowless drops the stamp and keeps the flat frame; Unlimited restores the drop shadow. So Arcanine will be priced three times over, not once: a blended median across the three would be a figure nobody paid.

Walk the set

Pidgeotto (#22) before, Charmeleon (#24) after.

Also in Base Set

Magmar, Pidgey, Vulpix, Defender, Bill and Mewtwo — six cards drawn across the checklist by a fixed offset ring, each of which links back.

Also illustrated by Ken Sugimori

Ken Sugimori is credited on 44 cards here; these 4 come off that list by the same offset rule.

Other Uncommon Fire-type Pokémon cards

4 in the cohort; nearest by number:

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