Is Pokémon Card Collecting a Real Investment or Expensive Nostalgia?
Pokémon card collecting is a real investment, but only if you treat it like one — and most people don't.
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Protecting and preserving your Pokemon card collection
Prerelease Raichu: The Card That Was Never Supposed to Exist
The Prerelease Raichu is a Base Set Raichu card that accidentally received a green "PRERELEASE" stamp during a 1999 print run of Jungle expansion Clefable...
Trophymon Cards: What They Are and Why They’re Worth Hundreds of Thousands
"Trophymon Cards" as a standalone collectible card product do not exist. If you landed on this article searching for that term, you were likely looking...
Pikachu Illustrator: The World’s Most Expensive Pokémon Card Explained
The Pikachu Illustrator card is the most expensive Pokémon card ever sold — and as of February 2026, it holds the record for the most expensive trading...
This Pikachu Card Sold for $5.2 Million — Here’s What Made It Different
The Pikachu Illustrator card that sold for $5.275 million in July 2021 earned its record-breaking price because it is, by every meaningful measure, the...
Charizard Prerelease Raichu vs Charizard — Which Card Is Rarer?
The Prerelease Raichu is far rarer than the 1st Edition Base Set Charizard, and it is not particularly close.
The Charizard Card Logan Paul Wore Around His Neck Sold for $6.5 Million
In October 2021, Logan Paul purchased a PSA 10 Base Set 1st Edition Charizard card for $150,000, had it encased in a custom pendant, and wore it around...
Why First Edition Charizard Is Still the Most Valuable Pokémon Card Ever Printed
The 1999 First Edition Base Set Charizard remains the most valuable English-language Pokémon card ever printed because it sits at the intersection of...
This Common Charizard Card Is Worth $300 Raw — Most People Don’t Know
The Base Set Unlimited Charizard, card number 4/102, routinely sells for around $300 in raw, ungraded condition when the card presents in lightly played...
Venture Capitalist AJ Scaramucci Buys Record Breaking Pokémon Card
Venture capitalist AJ Scaramucci just shattered every record in the trading card world by purchasing a PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator card for $16,492,000 at...