Poliwag #59 — Base Set
Poliwag (#59/102) is a Common Water-type Pokémon with 40 HP. 4 cards in the set share that cohort, and Ken Sugimori drew this one.
CATALOGUED · NOT YET PRICED
No completed public sale for Poliwag 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
- 59 / 102
- Rarity
- Common
- Card type
- Pokémon · Water
- HP
- 40
- Holofoil
- No
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Ken Sugimori
48 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 40. Its binder neighbours are Pikachu (#58) and Ponyta (#60). Poliwag was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 59 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder.
Which printing you are holding
Which Poliwag 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 Poliwag will be priced three times over, not once: a blended median across the three would be a figure nobody paid.
Walk the set
Pikachu (#58) before, Ponyta (#60) after.
Also in Base Set
Devolution Spray, Gust of Wind, Blastoise, Raichu, Dewgong and Charmander — 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 Water-type Pokémon cards
4 in the cohort; nearest by number: