Magikarp cards
Every Magikarp card we could find. The priciest one we price is the Paldea Evolved one at $348, and the cheapest is $0.49.
- The Fish Pokemon. Magikarp is #129 in the National Pokedex.
- First English card. Base, January 9, 1999.
- Type. Water in the video games, which is printed as Water on a card. The eleven card types.
- Generation 1, Kanto. One of the 151 species that generation introduced.
- Size. 0.9m (2ft 11in) and 10.0kg (22lb).
- Capture rate 255 of 255. Higher is easier to catch. This is about as easy to catch as the games get.
Artwork and Pokedex data from pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. Pokemon and Pokemon character names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc.
Priciest first
Every Magikarp we price
7 of the 78 printings we can name are in sets we hold prices for. Tap a card to see it full size.
Prices are pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, read August 31, 2026. A guide value is computed across the sales PriceCharting tracks, which is a wider set of venues than any one marketplace. 2 cards of the 5,396 priced here are not listed by PriceCharting and keep their TCGplayer market price via TCGdex instead. Where a card comes as a normal, holo and reverse holo at different prices, the figure is the priciest of them. Prices move daily, so treat these as a ballpark. Search every card.
Evolution
The Magikarp line
Magikarp, which becomes Gyarados. Each one has its own page and its own cards. The evolution chart draws every line in the Pokedex.
- Magikarp#129 • 78 cards
Gyarados#130 • 95 cards
Evolution line from the National Pokedex, pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. What each evolution actually takes differs between generations, so it is not stated here. Card counts are every printing we can name, in every language.
See these packs opened
We have filmed 33 rips of the 5 sets that print Magikarp
Garbage Rips 585 is a Pokemon card pack opening channel out of Rochester, New York. We film every pack we open, hit or no hit.
- Destined Rivals Pack #12 ⚡ | Can We TOP The Mewtwo?! 😳
- Pokémon GO Pack #12 ⚡ | STILL No Ditto or Mewtwo?! 😬
- Pokémon Rebel Clash Booster Pack #2 ⚡ | Any Better?
- Only Garbage Rips? 😬 | Pokémon 151 Booster Packs
- Only Garbage Rips 😬 | Paldea Evolved Blister Pack #PokemonShorts #PokemonTCG #PaldeaEvolved
- Only Garbage Rips? 😬 | Destined Rivals Pack #11
Everywhere else
Every other Magikarp printing we could name
71 more from sets we do not price, English and Japanese. 50 have a scan and are pictured below. The other 21 we can name but not show. No price on these: we only quote what we can source. Printings whose name we could not translate are left out rather than shown under a name we guessed at.
Named, with no scan to show
- Shining Magikarp Celebrations Classic Collection • CC010 Classic Collection
- Magikarp Dragon Majesty • 19 Common
- Magikarp HS trainer Kit (Gyarados) • 12
- Magikarp HS trainer Kit (Gyarados) • 19
- Magikarp McDonald's Collection 2016 • 4
- Magikarp Mega Rising • 050 One Diamond
- Magikarp Mega Rising • 232 One Star
- Magikarp My First Battle • 29
- Lapras My First Battle • 31
- Magikarp スタートデッキ100 バトルコレクション • 157 Japanese
- Magikarp タッグボルト • 111 Hyper Rare • Japanese
- Magikarp ポケモンカード★web • 035 Rare • Japanese
- Magikarp ホロンの幻影 • 043 Common • Japanese
- Magikarp めざめる伝説 • 022 Secret Rare • Japanese
- Magikarp リーダーズスタジアム • 028 Common • Japanese
- Magikarp ロケット団 • 020 Common • Japanese
- Magikarp 基本拡張パック • 012 Common • Japanese
- Magikarp 拡張パック • 031 Uncommon • Japanese
- Magikarp 神秘なる山 • 026 Common • Japanese
- Magikarp 蒼空の激突 • 023 Common • Japanese
- Magikarp 闇からの挑戦 • 037 Common • Japanese
Card list from the TCGdex card database, read September 1, 2026. A snapshot, not a live feed.
In the video games
What beats Magikarp
Damage taken by a Water Pokemon, computed from the type chart. Everything not listed does normal damage.
- x2Electric and Grass
- ½xFire, Water, Ice and Steel
This is the video game chart, not the card game. The Pokemon TCG has eleven types and no type chart at all: Weakness and Resistance are printed on each individual card, and two cards of the same Pokemon can print different ones. What the card actually says. Type relations from pokeapi.co, read August 17, 2026.