Poliwhirl #38 — Base Set

Poliwhirl (#38/102) is a Uncommon Water-type Pokémon with 60 HP. 5 cards in the set share that cohort, and Ken Sugimori drew this one.

CATALOGUED · NOT YET PRICED

No completed public sale for Poliwhirl 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
38 / 102
Rarity
Uncommon
Card type
Pokémon · Water
HP
60
Holofoil
No
Illustrator
Ken Sugimori

By checklist position it is 38 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder. Its binder neighbours are Nidorino (#37) and Porygon (#39). 27 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 60. Poliwhirl was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one.

Which printing you are holding

Three Base Set printings exist, and a Poliwhirl from each is a different card to price. 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, Poliwhirl would carry one cell per printing — blending three print runs into one median states a price no one paid.

Walk the set

Nidorino (#37) before, Porygon (#39) after.

Also in Base Set

Koffing, Devolution Spray, Maintenance, Switch, Charizard and Dewgong — 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 Uncommon Water-type Pokémon cards

5 in the cohort; nearest by number:

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