Pokémon · Gym
Erika's Oddish
Gym Challenge · #70 · Common · 2000
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Market reference
$2.34
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Card facts
Quick reference for collectors and graders.
- Set position
- 70 / 132
- Release year
- 2000
- Rarity
- Common
- HP
- 40
- Subtype
- Basic
- Evolves to
- Gloom
- Retreat cost
- 1 energy
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Pokédex #
- 43
- Series
- Gym
Card analysis
Computed from this card's stats and text — not a reposted price.
- Primary role
- Status Conditions
- Damage efficiency
- 10 damage
- 10 per Energy
- Prize liability
- 1 Prize given up
- Single-prize attacker — favourable prize trades
- Setup
- Basic
- Plays straight down — no evolution needed
Also does
Strategy & play
How Erika's Oddish plays — derived from its stats and the rules of the game, not an opinion.
- A Basic — hits the board turn 1 with no evolution tax.
- Inflicts Sleep — they flip each turn to wake, so it’s a coin-flip lock: disruptive but unreliable on its own.
- Inflicts Confusion — they must flip to attack (tails fails and deals 30 to themselves). Soft, coin-flip disruption.
- Needs Grass Energy to attack — your line must supply that color.
- Grass type, weak to Fire ×2 — a Fire attacker doing ≥20 effectively one-shots it.
- A single-prize attacker — prize-trade-positive against ex / V decks that give up two at a time.
How to beat Erika's Oddish
- Exploit its Fire weakness — ≥20 damage one-shots it.
- On the receiving end of a condition? Retreat, switch, or evolve to wipe it — conditions only stick to the Active.
Competitive performance
From real Standard tournament decks over the last 180 days.
- Meta inclusion
- 0% of decks
- 2.26 copies on average · 70 decks
- Match win rate
- 40.6%
- -6.7 pts vs the 47.3% field average
Plays well with
Cards most often run alongside this one in tournament decks over the last 180 days — ranked by how distinctive the pairing is.
Erika's Vileplume ex
in 100% of decks · 71 seen
Erika's Gloom
in 100% of decks · 71 seen
Erika's Tangela
in 76% of decks · 54 seen
Erika's Bellsprout
in 41% of decks · 29 seen
Erika's Weepinbell
in 41% of decks · 29 seen
Erika's Victreebel
in 41% of decks · 29 seen
Yanmega ex
in 25% of decks · 18 seen
Yanma
in 25% of decks · 18 seen
More by Ken Sugimori
This card was illustrated by Ken Sugimori.
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About this card
GStrange Powder — 10
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused; if tails, the Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
Weakness:R×2
Retreat cost:C
Tournament legality
Current legal status across competitive formats.
Tournament play
This printing of Erika's Oddish has no recent tournament appearances, but a different printing is currently a meta staple.
Erika's Oddish — Ascended Heroes
Played in 37 recent decks
Pricing reference
Latest snapshot from the upstream catalog. Actual marketplace prices fluctuate by condition, edition, and grade — use this as a reference, not a quote.
TCGPlayer (USD)
Updated 2026/07/07| Variant | Low | Mid | High | Market | Direct Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited | $0.60 | $2.00 | $95.93 | $2.34 | $87.70 |
| 1st Edition | $2.25 | $4.23 | $96.85 | $4.02 | $17.99 |
Cardmarket (EUR)
Updated 2026/02/19| Variant | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-day average | €0.97 |
| 7-day average | €1.68 |
| 30-day average | €2.87 |
| Low | €0.15 |
| Trend price | €2.47 |
| Low (excellent+) | €0.40 |
| averageSellPrice | €3.08 |
Frequently asked
How can I tell if my Erika's Oddish is real?
Erika's Oddish is not on our list of commonly-counterfeited cards, but counterfeits exist across every set. Check the back-light test (real cards have a black inner layer that blocks light; counterfeits glow through), the rosette dot pattern on the back under magnification, font weight and kerning on the card name, and the holofoil pattern if applicable. For high-value copies we recommend submitting to a professional grader (PSA, BGS, CGC) for tamper-evident authentication.
What is Erika's Oddish worth?
As of the latest data, the current market reference price for Erika's Oddish is $2.34; there are no active listings on The Game Traders right now. Actual value depends on condition, grading, edition and printing variant — graded high-condition copies (PSA 9–10) trade at a substantial premium over raw copies.
What set is Erika's Oddish from?
Erika's Oddish is from the Pokémon set "Gym Challenge" in the Gym series, released in 2000.
What rarity is Erika's Oddish?
Erika's Oddish is a Common card in the Gym Challenge set.
Other Erika's Oddish printings
Same Pokémon card across other sets and rarities.
