Kangaskhan

Kangaskhan is card 21 of 64 in Jungle, released in June 1999, a Rare. It is a Basic Colorless-type with 90 HP.

As a Basic Pokémon, Kangaskhan needs no prior evolution to put into play, which made it a practical card in the era's decks.

Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita. Arita painted the Base Set Charizard and much of the early holo run, and his work has a painterly weight that set the visual tone of the Wizards era.

The card's flavor text gives Kangaskhan a line of lore: "The infant rarely ventures out of its mother's protective pouch until it is three years old."

A parent Pokémon with a baby in its pouch. Famously the parent half of the Mr. Mime father-trade glitch in the games. Jungle holo Kangaskhan has steady collector demand. The famous Family Event holo Kangaskhan (1998) is a separate and much rarer card.

Based on recent eBay sales, raw copies trade from $5.34 to $19 depending on the print and a PSA 10 runs from $100 to $330. The 1st Edition print is the most valuable, with a PSA 10 near $330. The table on this page breaks the price down by print and grade, updated 2026-05-27.

Jungle shipped in 1st Edition and Unlimited, with no Shadowless print. The Edition 1 stamp under the artwork separates the scarcer 1st Edition Kangaskhan from the Unlimited copy. The set also has the famous No Symbol error from its first print run, which adds a premium when the lower-right set symbol is missing.

Non-holo Rares like Kangaskhan are easier on surface but no kinder on centering. Wizards-era cards were less protected than the holos, so high-grade Kangaskhan survivors can be scarcer than expected, with edge whitening the usual cap.

For Kangaskhan, check centering by eye, edge whitening on all four sides, and surface under angled light. Non-holo Rares from this era are cheap enough that a PSA 10 submission on a clean Kangaskhan can make sense.