More Than Half A Million Pokémon Cards Sold On eBay Last Year, Here Are The Most Expensive

Cool. Really enjoyed the trading card game on gbc. Wouldn't mind an updated game on Switch.

@RupeeClock Anyone who actually played the game knew the card was only popular for the art. It was actually extremely bad. It took 4 turns just to set up and then sure, it did 100, and discarded several energy. And then you had to sit there for another couple turns before you could do anything again.

Imagine spending more money than a significant percentage of the population make in a year on a few pieces of cardboard.

Capitalism is dope.

@cmk8 YES!

@RupeeClock Fair enough, it's Friday night here and I'm drinking.

I was hoping to see images of the cards themselves..!

Best card game ever hands down.

I have SO many vintage mint condition cards. I just don’t know where to turn to get the appraised. Any suggestions for here in North America?

Unfortunately, eBay is a cesspool of fake cards. I wouldn’t be surprised if more than half of those were fake.

@Andymad Try the TCGPlayer app. It’ll scan your cards in and automatically detect them in most cases. You can sell them through the app too, but even if not you at least have a ballpark sense of their value

@Heavyarms55 you forgot it has the ability to change any energy type into fire energy. So you could technically put Charizard (base set by the way) in almost any deck. The trade off not being able to use charmander or charmeleon's better attacks.

Considering how many cards there are, half a million seems a small number

@traceman That's a thing, and I have seen people pair it with Blastoise to play energy faster, which is the main issue. But that means setting up two stage 2 Pokemon at the same time, and that's just way too slow. Even with Pokemon breeders, having your main strategy be setting up two different stage 2 Pokemon might be fine vs the AI in the Game Boy game, but it just did not work against human players back in the day. The best decks would just use Gust of Wind to drag out your Charmanders and Squirtles and kill them with fast hard hitting Pokemon like Hitmonchan.

There's a reason cards like Gust of Wind got kicked out of the game or nerfed to a coin flip. And even with the coin flip, they still see play.

Sold all mine a few years back for about £90 in total, nothing like those crazy amounts haha

The footnote on all these kind of articles is always that the cards have to be mint condition for them to be worth that price. As in, sealed away unused and no fading in the colour from being exposed to light over many years. It's unlikely you'll stumble such expensive cards in your own collection unless you're a collector who already knows the value of a card and you store it appropriately.

@Heavyarms55 Fair point, though I will admit it was amusing watching the smug confidence of a seemingly easy win just suddenly vanish.