Metapod #54 — Base Set
Binder slot 54 belongs to Metapod: Common, Grass-type Pokémon with 70 HP. The credit on the card reads Ken Sugimori.
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The sold-comp ledger contains zero rows for Metapod. A price appears here when at least eight verified sold lots for one exact printing and grade are in the ledger — that is the sample size the median is allowed to be computed from. 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
- 54 / 102
- Rarity
- Common
- Card type
- Pokémon · Grass
- HP
- 70
- Holofoil
- No
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Ken Sugimori
21 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 70. Its binder neighbours are Magnemite (#53) and Nidoran ♂ (#55). Metapod was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 54 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder.
Which printing you are holding
Which Metapod 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. Each printing of Metapod therefore gets its own cell here, never one blended number.
Walk the set
Magnemite (#53) before, Nidoran ♂ (#55) after.
Also in Base Set
Voltorb, Professor Oak, Grass Energy, Magneton, Electabuzz and Seel — 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 Common Grass-type Pokémon cards
7 in the cohort; nearest by number: