How can you tell your card is this one?

Look at the bottom of your card: you should read BS 58/102 there. Its illustration is signed Mitsuhiro Arita.

Which set does it come from?

It comes from the Base Set set, released here on 9 January 1999.

Base Set

Pikachu BS 58/102

BSFRCommon

You receive

€5.00

Your offer depends on the card’s printing, edition and condition. We check its condition when it arrives.

How much is your Pikachu worth?

A copy in French, like new: we’ll buy it from you for €5.00 today.

Today · You get

€5.00

The same price as on 23 September

€5.00

23 SeptemberToday

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24 September	€5.00
25 September	€5.00
26 September	€5.00
27 September	€5.00

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Market activity

52out of 100

Intermediate pace

It leaves listings at an intermediate pace among the cards we buy in French.

Copies gone since 3 September: at least 15
For sale on 26 September: 299
For sale on 3 September: 55 or more

From the listings we track. Departures may be sales or withdrawals.

These counts put first edition and unlimited together.

Versions of this card

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What you might be wondering about this card

How much do we pay for Pikachu BS 58/102?: A copy in French, like new: we’ll buy it from you for €5.00 today.
How can you tell your card is this one?: Look at the bottom of your card: you should read BS 58/102 there. Its illustration is signed Mitsuhiro Arita.
Which set does it come from?: It comes from the Base Set set, released here on 9 January 1999.

When it came out

Base Set landed here on 9 January 1999.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP: 40
Type: Lightning
Stage: Basic
Retreat cost: 1
Weakness: ×2
Number: 58/102
Set: Base SetBS
Illustrated by: Mitsuhiro Arita

Its attacks

GnawRogne

Thunder JoltSecousse Tonnerre

Flip a coin. If tails, Pikachu does 10 damage to itself.Lancez une pièce. Si c'est pile, Pikachu s'inflige 10 dégâts.

What to make of it

Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.

A strength
Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.
A strength
It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.
Keep in mind
None of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.
Keep in mind
Weakness Fighting ×2. Against a Fighting Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,392 tournament lists we have read, 1,212 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Who plays it

None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.