Pidgey #57 — Base Set

Pidgey sits between Onix and Pikachu in binder order. The fetched record gives it as a Common Colorless-type Pokémon with 40 HP, drawn by Ken Sugimori.

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The sold-comp ledger contains zero rows for Pidgey. 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
57 / 102
Rarity
Common
Card type
Pokémon · Colorless
HP
40
Holofoil
No
Illustrator
Illustrated by Ken Sugimori

Pidgey was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 57 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder. Its binder neighbours are Onix (#56) and Pikachu (#58). 48 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 40.

Which printing you are holding

Pidgey 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. Each printing of Pidgey therefore gets its own cell here, never one blended number.

Walk the set

Onix (#56) before, Pikachu (#58) after.

Also in Base Set

Clefairy Doll, Bill, Water Energy, Ninetales, Arcanine and Bulbasaur — 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 Colorless-type Pokémon cards

3 in the cohort; nearest by number:

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