Squirtle #63 — Base Set
Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated 19 of the 102 Base Set cards. Squirtle, at number 63, is one of them: Common, Water-type Pokémon with 40 HP.
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The sold-comp ledger contains zero rows for Squirtle. 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
- 63 / 102
- Rarity
- Common
- Card type
- Pokémon · Water
- HP
- 40
- Holofoil
- No
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita
Squirtle was printed without a holofoil panel; 16 of the 102 cards carry one. By checklist position it is 63 of 102, which puts it in the middle third of the binder. Its binder neighbours are Sandshrew (#62) and Starmie (#64). 48 Base Set cards print a higher HP than its 40.
Which printing you are holding
Squirtle 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. Each printing of Squirtle therefore gets its own cell here, never one blended number.
Walk the set
Sandshrew (#62) before, Starmie (#64) after.
Also in Base Set
Pokémon Breeder, Fighting Energy, Gyarados, Dragonair, Haunter and Gastly — 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 Water-type Pokémon cards
4 in the cohort; nearest by number: