Defender #80 — Base Set

One of 32 cards this set prints at Uncommon, Defender is number 80 — Trainer card, credited to Keiji Kinebuchi.

CATALOGUED · NOT YET PRICED

No completed public sale for Defender 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: 80 / 102
Rarity: Uncommon
Card type: Trainer
HP: —
Holofoil: No
Illustrator: Illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi

The record carries no HP for it — Trainer cards do not print one. Its binder neighbours are Super Energy Removal (#79) and Energy Retrieval (#81). Defender was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 80 of 102, which puts it in the last third of the binder.

Which printing you are holding

Which Defender you are holding is decided before grade is: the set ran in three printings. 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 Defender will be priced three times over, not once: a blended median across the three would be a figure nobody paid.

Walk the set

Super Energy Removal (#79) before, Energy Retrieval (#81) after.

Also in Base Set

Gust of Wind, Ninetales, Arcanine, Magikarp, Charmander and Voltorb — six cards drawn across the checklist by a fixed offset ring, each of which links back.

Also illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi

Keiji Kinebuchi is credited on 38 cards here; these 4 come off that list by the same offset rule.

Other Uncommon Trainer card cards

11 in the cohort; nearest by number: