Caterpie

Caterpie sits at #53 in Neo Discovery, the ninth of the Wizards of the Coast print runs. Illustration by Yuka Morii.

The flavor text on the card reads: "For protection, it releases a horrible stench from the antennae on its head to drive away enemies." Pokédex entries from this era are short and often quirky, written by the original Japanese localization team for a specific stat-block layout that no longer exists in modern cards.

The most basic bug Pokémon in the original Pokédex. Used as a tutorial-level catch in the games. A Common card with no special variants. Pack-fresh raw copies are easy to find; centered PSA 10s are not.

Neo Discovery shipped in 1st Edition (stamped) and Unlimited prints. The 1st Edition stamp convention is identical to earlier Wizards sets. No Shadowless variant exists for the Neo era and no widely-recognized error prints.

Commons grade most forgivingly of any tier in the set. Centering is the typical grade cap; the soft Wizards-era cardstock picks up edge whitening easily but the high print runs mean clean copies remain affordable. A first-time grading submission on a Common is the cheapest way to learn what each grading service is actually looking at.

Raw copies of this card are inexpensive enough that the grading math rarely justifies submission unless you have a clearly pack-fresh example. For set completionists, picking up a clean raw copy and sleeving it is the practical move.