Magnemite #53 — Base Set

Magnemite (#53/102) is a Common Lightning-type Pokémon with 40 HP. 3 cards in the set share that cohort, and Keiji Kinebuchi drew this one.

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No completed public sale for Magnemite 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
53 / 102
Rarity
Common
Card type
Pokémon · Lightning
HP
40
Holofoil
No
Illustrator
Keiji Kinebuchi

48 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 40. Its binder neighbours are Machop (#52) and Metapod (#54). Magnemite was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 53 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder.

Which printing you are holding

Which Magnemite 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 Magnemite will be priced three times over, not once: a blended median across the three would be a figure nobody paid.

Walk the set

Machop (#52) before, Metapod (#54) after.

Also in Base Set

Tangela, Pokédex, Fire Energy, Machamp, Dugtrio and Raticate — 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 Common Lightning-type Pokémon cards

3 in the cohort; nearest by number:

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