Team Rocket cover card
Team Rocket symbol

Team Rocket

Base · 2000/04/24 · 82/83 cards
A Base-era set with a Pokémon-heavy structure and a balanced rarity spread, defined by traditional and cartoonish illustration. Its dominant playful tone is frequently offset by mysterious accents and dynamic framing.
Cards83
Pokémon68
Trainers11
Energy4
Illustrators9
Unique Pokémon54
Avg art score60.81
Median art score60.00
Priced cards83
Avg market price$17.03
Median market price$5.18
Collector note
With 83 priced cards and a wide spread between median and average market levels, the set mixes broadly accessible cards with a smaller group that tends to concentrate collector attention. Dark Charizard is the clearest value anchor in the dataset.
Visual identity
The set’s visual language favors vibrant, contrasting color with clean, simple compositions that keep subjects legible and centered. Traditional and cartoonish styles lead, producing playful, lighthearted scenes, while intermittent mysterious and intense notes add tension through tighter focus and more dynamic posing.

About Team Rocket

Team Rocket presents a compact, character-forward collection: 83 cards total, led by 68 Pokémon alongside 11 Trainers and 4 Energy. The rarity mix is evenly split across Common and Uncommon, with a substantial layer of Rare and Rare Holo cards plus a single secret rare. Across the set, traditional rendering and cartoonish linework dominate, keeping the gallery approachable while allowing occasional shifts into more enigmatic scenes.

The visual rhythm is driven by simple, focused compositions—often centered or tightly framed—set against vibrant, contrasting color palettes. Playful and lighthearted moods appear most often, but the set repeatedly pivots into mysterious and dynamic moments for contrast. Among the clearest visual highlights are Rainbow Energy and Dark Charizard, which sit comfortably within the set’s bright palette while pushing toward higher drama and intensity. Kagemaru Himeno, Mitsuhiro Arita, Ken Sugimori, and Sumiyoshi Kizuki collectively shape much of the set’s look through consistent character staging and readable silhouettes.

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Takumi Akabane
Ken Sugimori
Mitsuhiro Arita
Ken Sugimori
Mitsuhiro Arita
Mitsuhiro Arita
Kagemaru Himeno
Ken Sugimori
Kagemaru Himeno
Kagemaru Himeno
Mitsuhiro Arita
Ken Sugimori
Kagemaru Himeno
Atsuko Nishida
Kagemaru Himeno
Kagemaru Himeno
Mitsuhiro Arita
Kagemaru Himeno
Kagemaru Himeno
Kagemaru Himeno
Miki Tanaka
Miki Tanaka
Mitsuhiro Arita
Kagemaru Himeno
Shin-ichi Yoshida
Kagemaru Himeno
Ken Sugimori
Mitsuhiro Arita
Kagemaru Himeno
Mitsuhiro Arita
Mitsuhiro Arita
Ken Sugimori
Kagemaru Himeno
Ken Sugimori
Mitsuhiro Arita
Atsuko Nishida
Sumiyoshi Kizuki
Mitsuhiro Arita
Takumi Akabane
Kagemaru Himeno
Mitsuhiro Arita
Mitsuhiro Arita
Kagemaru Himeno
Atsuko Nishida
Ken Sugimori
Mitsuhiro Arita
Mitsuhiro Arita
Sumiyoshi Kizuki