Pikachu #58 — Base Set
Pikachu sits between Pidgey and Poliwag in binder order. The fetched record gives it as a Common Lightning-type Pokémon with 40 HP, drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita.
CATALOGUED · NOT YET PRICED
We hold no verified sold lot for Pikachu 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
- 58 / 102
- Rarity
- Common
- Card type
- Pokémon · Lightning
- HP
- 40
- Holofoil
- No
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita
Pikachu was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 58 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder. Its binder neighbours are Pidgey (#57) and Poliwag (#59). 48 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 40.
Which printing you are holding
Pikachu 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. Priced, Pikachu would carry one cell per printing — blending three print runs into one median states a price no one paid.
Walk the set
Pidgey (#57) before, Poliwag (#59) after.
Also in Base Set
Computer Search, Energy Removal, Alakazam, Poliwrath, Charmeleon and Caterpie — 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 Lightning-type Pokémon cards
3 in the cohort; nearest by number: