The Pokémon Card Bubble: Are We in One Right Now?
No, we are not in a Pokémon card bubble — at least not in the way most people mean when they use that word.
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Japanese Pokemon TCG cards and pricing
Why Pokémon Cards Spiked During COVID and What Happened After
Pokémon cards spiked during COVID because a perfect storm of lockdown boredom, government stimulus checks, millennial nostalgia, and social media hype...
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...
The 10 Most Expensive Pokémon Cards Ever Sold at Auction
The most expensive Pokémon card ever sold at auction is the Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10, which fetched a staggering $16,492,000 at Goldin Auctions in...
The Last Time Pokémon Cards Were This Expensive Was 2021 — What’s Different Now
Pokémon card prices are surging again, and for collectors who lived through the pandemic-era boom, the sticker shock feels eerily familiar.
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...
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...
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...