30th Celebration Hype Sends 23-Year-Old Pokémon Card To Staggering $360,000 Record

By Chris Guest · Polygon · Tuesday, 6 October 2026 at 18:10 (50m ago) · Original article ↗

Some Pokémon TCG cards boast a certain aura. While Base Set Charizard and its myriad reprints might be the most instantly recognizable Pokémon card of all time, its most valuable variants still don’t fetch $8.4 million at auction, as a stupendously rare Pikachu promo card did in late September 2026.

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