Kakuna #33 — Base Set

Binder slot 33 belongs to Kakuna: Uncommon, Grass-type Pokémon with 80 HP. The credit on the card reads Keiji Kinebuchi.

CATALOGUED · NOT YET PRICED

The sold-comp ledger contains zero rows for Kakuna. 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: 33 / 102
Rarity: Uncommon
Card type: Pokémon · Grass
HP: 80
Holofoil: No
Illustrator: Illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi

11 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 80. Its binder neighbours are Kadabra (#32) and Machoke (#34). Kakuna was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 33 of 102, which puts it in the first third of the binder.

Which printing you are holding

Which Kakuna 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. Priced, Kakuna would carry one cell per printing — blending three print runs into one median states a price no one paid.

Walk the set

Kadabra (#32) before, Machoke (#34) after.

Also in Base Set

Charmander, Voltorb, Scoop Up, Super Potion, Psychic Energy and Electabuzz — 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 Grass-type Pokémon cards

3 in the cohort; nearest by number: