The Bulbasaur 151 Illustration Rare is card 166/165 of Japan’s SV2a set: a Grass-type Basic Pokémon with 70 HP, credited to Yoriyuki Ikegami in the official Pokémon Card Game database. The database page for 166/165 on pokemon-card.com, as of October 2, 2026, lists the card in the enhanced expansion pack 強化拡張パック「ポケモンカード151（イチゴーイチ）」, which the official product page dates to June 16, 2023.
The tier is where the naming gets tangled. The Japanese database marks 166/165 with an AR icon and prints no tier words, pokemon.com names the English 166/165 card Illustration Rare, and the third-party database Limitless TCG calls it Art Rare. Those are three labels for one slot, and they sit on two different cards printed in two languages.
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- Bulbasaur AR is SV2a 166/165, illustrated by Yoriyuki Ikegami. The database shows the AR icon only; Illustration Rare is the English name on pokemon.com.
- Its game text matches the base Bulbasaur 001/165 (Leech Seed, 20 damage, heal 20). The base card is credited to Yuu Nishida.
- The official SV2a page prints no pull rates, no packs-per-box count and no set size. The database lists 210 rows, 18 of them AR.
- For opening the set, the Sealed option of the SV2a booster box is currently listed at ¥44,502 (~$289).
Card facts are from the official Japanese database and the pokemon.com English card page. Marketplace figures are lowest asks on SNKRDUNK, October 2, 2026.
Bulbasaur SV2a 166/165: The Printed Card
The official database entry for フシギダネ 166/165 is short, which makes it easy to state in full. Every field in the table is as printed in the database as of October 2, 2026.
| Field | Printed in the official database |
|---|---|
| Card | フシギダネ (Bulbasaur), SV2a 166/165 |
| Rarity | AR icon (no tier words printed) |
| Stage | たね (Basic) |
| HP and type | 70, Grass |
| Attack | やどりぎのタネ (Leech Seed): Grass + Colorless, 20 damage |
| Attack text | 「このポケモンのHPを「20」回復する。」 (heals 20 damage from this Pokémon, rendering) |
| Weakness / Resistance / Retreat | Fire ×2 / none / two Colorless |
| Pokédex block | No.001, たねポケモン, 0.7 m, 6.9 kg |
| Illustrator | Yoriyuki Ikegami |
| Source product | 強化拡張パック「ポケモンカード151（イチゴーイチ）」 |
The Pokédex block reads 「生まれて しばらくの あいだ 背中の タネに つまった 栄養を とって 育つ。」, which renders roughly as: for some time after birth, it grows on the nutrition packed into the seed on its back. The 「たねポケモン」 on that line is the Pokédex species line (Seed Pokémon). The stage field prints たね separately.
The attack is the whole card. Leech Seed does 20 damage and heals 20 from Bulbasaur itself, and the database lists no Ability, no rule box and no second attack. The printed Weakness is Fire ×2. Those are the numbers on this card, and nothing more should be read into them.
Illustration Rare, Art Rare and AR: Three Labels
Illustration Rare is the label pokemon.com uses for the English 151 card, while the Japanese card is labelled differently; the three sources differ only in wording, not in the slot they describe.
| Source | Label for 166/165 | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| pokemon-card.com database (Japanese) | AR icon | Official; the database prints an icon, not words |
| pokemon.com card database (English) | Illustration Rare | Official English card page, set name printed as “151” |
| Limitless TCG | Art Rare | Third-party database |
So the accurate label for the Japanese card is its AR icon, with Illustration Rare as the English name on pokemon.com. The Japanese database does not print the words “Illustration Rare”. For how the Japanese rarity icons map to tiers across eras, see the Japanese Pokémon card rarities explained article.
166/165 vs 001/165 and the Mirror Print
Bulbasaur appears once in the main SV2a number range and once in the AR range, and mirror-finish versions of the base card circulate under marketplace names. They are easy to confuse in search results and marketplace titles.
| Number | Rarity in the database | Illustrator | Attack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base Bulbasaur | 001/165 | C | Yuu Nishida | Leech Seed 20, heal 20 |
| Bulbasaur AR | 166/165 | AR | Yoriyuki Ikegami | Leech Seed 20, heal 20 |
| Master Ball Mirror (our and SNKRDUNK naming) | 001/165 | Not a separate database row | Yuu Nishida (the 001/165 credit) | Leech Seed 20, heal 20 |
The game text on 001/165 and 166/165 is identical in the database: same HP, same attack, same Fire ×2 weakness and the same retreat cost. What separates them is the number, the rarity icon, the illustrator credit and the finish. A buyer who wants the Ikegami card needs 166/165, not 001/165 in any finish.
The mirror print needs its own sentence. The official SV2a page says that, in addition to the regular cards, the set includes premium mirror-finish cards processed with a Monster Ball pattern (「モンスターボール柄の特殊な加工がされた、豪華ミラー仕様のカード」), and it does not use the word Master Ball. SNKRDUNK lists two mirror versions of 001/165, labelled Master Ball Mirror and Monster Ball Mirror, and our listings use the Master Ball Mirror name; the database holds one row per number rather than a separate mirror row.
Ikegami’s Cards and the 18 AR Slots
Yoriyuki Ikegami is credited on three Bulbasaur-line cards in SV2a, and all three are high-rarity prints.
| Number | Card | Rarity icon | Illustrator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 166/165 | フシギダネ (Bulbasaur) | AR | Yoriyuki Ikegami |
| 167/165 | フシギソウ (Ivysaur) | AR | Yoriyuki Ikegami |
| 200/165 | フシギバナex (Venusaur ex) | SAR | Yoriyuki Ikegami |
The three share the same illustrator credit. The database lists no Venusaur AR: Venusaur ex appears in SV2a only as 003/165 (RR), 184/165 (SR, credited to PLANETA Yamashita) and 200/165 (SAR). The line therefore has two AR cards, Bulbasaur and Ivysaur, and one SAR.
Bulbasaur is the first of 18 AR rows in the database, which run from 166/165 to 183/165. The table lists the illustrator credit for each. Sibling cards from the same range are covered in our Charmander, Pikachu 173/165 and Mewtwo 183/165 card guides.
| Number | Card (JP) | Card (EN) | Illustrator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 166/165 | フシギダネ | Bulbasaur | Yoriyuki Ikegami |
| 167/165 | フシギソウ | Ivysaur | Yoriyuki Ikegami |
| 168/165 | ヒトカゲ | Charmander | miki kudo |
| 169/165 | リザード | Charmeleon | miki kudo |
| 170/165 | ゼニガメ | Squirtle | Mitsuhiro Arita |
| 171/165 | カメール | Wartortle | Mitsuhiro Arita |
| 172/165 | キャタピー | Caterpie | Teeziro |
| 173/165 | ピカチュウ | Pikachu | Hiroyuki Yamamoto |
| 174/165 | ニドキング | Nidoking | Misaki Hashimoto |
| 175/165 | コダック | Psyduck | Whisker |
| 176/165 | ニョロゾ | Poliwhirl | Gemi |
| 177/165 | ゴーリキー | Machoke | Tetsu Kayama |
| 178/165 | モンジャラ | Tangela | Oswaldo KATO |
| 179/165 | バリヤード | Mr. Mime | OKACHEKE |
| 180/165 | オムナイト | Omanyte | Yano Keiji |
| 181/165 | カビゴン | Snorlax | GOSSAN |
| 182/165 | ハクリュー | Dragonair | rika |
| 183/165 | ミュウツー | Mewtwo | Bun Toujo |
For the rest of the line, the Bulbasaur and Venusaur cards guide and the Ivysaur guide cover other printings.
The English 151 Counterpart
The English set is called 151, and its Bulbasaur 166/165 carries the same number as the Japanese AR. The pokemon.com card page for it, as of October 2, 2026, gives the details in the table.
| Spec | Japanese SV2a 166/165 | English 151 166/165 |
|---|---|---|
| Tier label | AR icon | Illustration Rare (pokemon.com) |
| Card | フシギダネ, Basic, 70 HP | Bulbasaur, Basic Pokémon, HP 70 |
| Attack | やどりぎのタネ 20 | Leech Seed 20, heal 20 damage from this Pokémon |
| Illustrator | Yoriyuki Ikegami | Yoriyuki Ikegami |
| Release date | June 16, 2023 (official product page) | Not printed on the pokemon.com card page; Limitless TCG lists September 22, 2023 |
| Set size | Not printed on the product page; database lists 210 rows | Limitless TCG lists 207 cards |
Limitless TCG, a third-party database, also lists the card’s other prints. For the English side it names Pokémon 151 #1, Pokémon 151 #166 and Stellar Crown #143. For the Japanese side it names Pokémon Card 151 #1 and #166, plus two entries in the Special Deck Set ex Venusaur & Charizard & Blastoise (#1 and #50). Limitless also lists the Stellar Crown #143 Bulbasaur as an Art Rare credited to Orca, so the Ikegami credit on 166/165 does not carry over to that card.
The English release date is the open item. pokemon.com does not print it on the card page, so no official English date is confirmed as of October 2, 2026. For the general differences between the two languages, our Japanese vs English Pokémon cards article is the reference, and the Special Deck Set ex Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise article covers the product that Limitless lists as the other Japanese source of Bulbasaur prints.
SNKRDUNK Lowest Asks, October 2, 2026
These are lowest asking prices on SNKRDUNK, October 2, 2026, taken from each card’s product page. They are asks, not sales. The grade columns are SNKRDUNK’s own condition and grading labels, and 出品待ち means no ask was listed for that row.
| Card | Headline ask | PSA 10 ask | Other rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| フシギダネ AR 166/165 | ¥2,000 | ¥9,380 | A ¥2,950 · B ¥3,000 · C ¥2,000 · PSA 9 ¥6,000 |
| フシギソウ AR 167/165 | ¥1,900 | ¥8,999 | A ¥2,500 · B ¥1,900 · PSA 9 ¥3,800 |
| フシギダネ C: マスターボールミラー 001/165 | ¥3,500 | ¥14,200 | A ¥7,000 · B ¥3,500 · PSA 9 ¥5,000 |
| フシギダネ C 001/165 (base print) | ¥1,077 | 出品待ち | A ¥1,077 · C ¥1,888 (thin row: only a small number of listings) |
| フシギダネ C: モンスターボールミラー 001/165 | ¥1,000 (SNKRDUNK display floor) | 出品待ち | A ¥1,000 · B ¥1,000 · D ¥1,100 (thin row) |
Read the table by row. The 166/165 AR has a lowest headline ask of ¥2,000 on October 2, 2026, and its PSA 10 row reads ¥9,380. The 167/165 Ivysaur AR shows ¥1,900 and ¥8,999 on the same date. The 001/165 Master Ball Mirror carries the highest PSA 10 ask of the five rows, at ¥14,200. The ¥1,000 figure on the Monster Ball Mirror row is SNKRDUNK’s display floor, not a verified ask, and the base 001/165 row has no PSA 10 ask at all.
No figure here is a sale price, and the table makes no claim about where any ask will move.
PSA 10 Bulbasaur 166/165 as a Back Order
The PSA 10 Bulbasaur AR 166/165 is offered as a PSA 10 back order at ¥9,622 (~$62) — sourced to order; the product page shows the current terms. A back order is not a card on a shelf; the PSA 10 back orders article explains how the process works.
The Master Ball Mirror 001/165 is also offered as a PSA 10 back order at ¥13,386 (~$87). It is a different card from the AR, with a different number and illustrator credit.
PSA 10 back orders are also offered for these SV2a numbers: Ivysaur AR 167/165 at ¥9,006 (~$58), Venusaur SR 184/165 at ¥8,153 (~$53), Venusaur ex SAR 200/165 at ¥23,041 (~$150) and Mewtwo AR 183/165 at ¥10,335 (~$67). Each is a separate product with its own page.
PSA 10 designates Gem Mint condition per PSA’s published grading standards; our PSA 10 meaning article covers the scale. A physical PSA 10 slab of the 166/165 is sold out at the time of this update — sourcing requests go through Quick Order.
What the Official SV2a Page Says
The Bulbasaur AR lives inside a set whose official page is short. The table separates what The Pokémon Company prints from what it does not.
| Item | Status | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Product name | Official | 強化拡張パック「ポケモンカード151（イチゴーイチ）」 |
| Release date | Official | June 16, 2023 (2023年6月16日（金）) |
| Pack price | Official | ¥290 including tax (希望小売価格) |
| Cards per pack | Official | 7, inserted at random (「カードはランダムに封入されています」) |
| Mirror cards | Official | Premium mirror-finish cards with a Monster Ball pattern are included |
| Packs per box | Not confirmed | Not printed on the official page |
| Set size (全N種) | Not confirmed | Not printed on the official page |
| Pull rates | Not published | The official page prints no insertion rate for any card |
| Database rows | Official database | 210 rows, numbered 001 to 210, every row printed /165 |
The 210 rows break down in the database as 165 numbered cards (66 C, 62 U, 25 R and 12 RR) plus 45 above the printed 165: 18 AR (166–183), 16 SR (184–199), 8 SAR (200–207) and 3 UR (208–210). That is the database composition, not a claim the product page makes.
The Pokémon Company also published a notice dated June 13, 2023, titled 「強化拡張パック「ポケモンカード151」受注生産の決定につきまして」, saying the pack would be sold made-to-order at Pokémon Center Online. The notice prints no order window, quantity or ship date.
Opening 151: The Box Route
The official page prints no pull rate for the Bulbasaur AR, so there is no number to quote for how many packs it takes. What the page does print is the format: 7 cards per pack, inserted at random. A booster box is therefore the route for a buyer who wants to open the set rather than buy a single.
The box page offers a Sealed option; the No Shrink option on the same page is sold out at the time of this update. A Damaged Box is a separate product, currently listed at ¥44,041 (~$286); the Sealed vs Damaged vs Grade B box guide explains the differences, and the Pokémon 151 booster box buying guide covers what the box contains.
Every card in the set is on the SV2a card list page, and our Pokémon 151 card list article covers the set card by card.
Buyer Checklist
Run through these checks before you pay for any Bulbasaur described as a 151 AR.
- Check the number. The Ikegami AR is 166/165. A 001/165 is the base card, in any finish.
- Check the language. The Japanese database shows the AR icon and no tier words for 166/165. Illustration Rare is the label pokemon.com uses for the English 151 print.
- Check the illustrator. The Japanese database credits 166/165 to Yoriyuki Ikegami and 001/165 to Yuu Nishida. Stellar Crown #143 is a different Bulbasaur credited to Orca, per Limitless TCG.
- Check the finish name. SNKRDUNK labels 001/165 mirror versions Master Ball Mirror and Monster Ball Mirror, and our listings use Master Ball Mirror; the official page mentions only mirror cards with a Monster Ball pattern.
- Check the grade label. SNKRDUNK’s A, B and C rows are condition labels for raw cards, and the PSA 10 row is a separate row with its own ask.
- Check the status words. Anything about pull rates, packs per box or the English release date that is not on an official page should be read as not confirmed.
For identification help beyond this card, the guide to spotting fake Japanese Pokémon cards covers the print and card-back checks.
Where to Buy Bulbasaur 151 Cards from Japan
The PSA 10 back order for the Bulbasaur AR is currently listed at ¥9,622 (~$62). For opening the set, the Sealed option of the SV2a booster box is currently listed at ¥44,502 (~$289).
Browse graded singles in the PSA 10 collection and the SV2a card list page. Sourcing requests for a specific card go through Quick Order.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many AR cards are in Pokemon Card 151 (SV2a)?
The official database lists 18 AR rows in SV2a, numbered 166/165 to 183/165, starting with Bulbasaur at 166/165 and ending with Mewtwo at 183/165. The product page itself does not print a set size, so the 18 is a database count, not a product-page claim.
What is the Bulbasaur 151 Illustration Rare card number?
It is 166/165. The Japanese SV2a print is フシギダネ 166/165, a Grass-type Basic Pokémon with 70 HP, credited to Yoriyuki Ikegami. The English 151 card page on pokemon.com lists Bulbasaur 166/165 as Illustration Rare with the same illustrator credit, Yoriyuki Ikegami, as the Japanese card.
Is the Japanese Bulbasaur AR called Illustration Rare?
Illustration Rare is the English name printed on pokemon.com for Bulbasaur 166/165. The Japanese database shows only an AR icon and prints no tier words, and Limitless TCG calls the same tier Art Rare. For the Japanese print, the database’s AR icon is the label to use when searching.
When did Pokemon Card 151 release in Japan and in English?
The official Japanese product page gives June 16, 2023 for Pokémon Card 151 (SV2a). The English 151 release date is not printed on the pokemon.com card page; Limitless TCG, a third-party database, lists September 22, 2023, so no official English date is confirmed as of October 2, 2026.
What are the pull rates for Bulbasaur 166/165?
No pull rate is published. The official product page says only that cards are inserted at random, and it prints no insertion rate for any AR. Per-box or per-pack odds quoted elsewhere are not official, and no figure exists to cite for Bulbasaur 166/165.
What is the difference between Bulbasaur 166/165 and the 001/165 Master Ball Mirror?
They are different cards. 166/165 is the AR print credited to Yoriyuki Ikegami; 001/165 is the base Bulbasaur credited to Yuu Nishida. SNKRDUNK lists 001/165 mirror versions labelled Master Ball Mirror and Monster Ball Mirror; neither is a separate database row, and the official page mentions only Monster Ball pattern mirror cards.
Can I buy a PSA 10 Bulbasaur 166/165 from Japan?
A PSA 10 Bulbasaur AR 166/165 is offered as a back order that is sourced on request, with the terms on its product page. PSA 10 designates Gem Mint condition per PSA’s published grading standards. Sourcing requests for other grades or cards go through Quick Order.
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