Abra #43 — Base Set
One of 32 cards this set prints at Common, Abra is number 43 — Psychic-type Pokémon with 30 HP, credited to Mitsuhiro Arita.
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We hold no verified sold lot for Abra at any grade. The number that fills this space is a median of verified completed sales for one printing and one grade, and it does not render until eight of them exist. 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
- 43 / 102
- Rarity
- Common
- Card type
- Pokémon · Psychic
- HP
- 30
- Holofoil
- No
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita
63 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 30. Its binder neighbours are Wartortle (#42) and Bulbasaur (#44). Abra was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 43 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder.
Which printing you are holding
Which Abra 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 Abra therefore gets its own cell here, never one blended number.
Walk the set
Wartortle (#42) before, Bulbasaur (#44) after.
Also in Base Set
Onix, Pokémon Trader, Professor Oak, Lightning Energy, Magneton and Ivysaur — six cards drawn across the checklist by a fixed offset ring, each of which links back.
Also illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita
Mitsuhiro Arita is credited on 19 cards here; these 4 come off that list by the same offset rule.
Other Common Psychic-type Pokémon cards
3 in the cohort; nearest by number: