The Pokémon TCG is known these days for being an expensive hobby, and these cards only further prove that sentiment.

The crown jewel of Pokémon cards, the Pikachu Illustrator card, was awarded to winners of a CoroCoro magazine art contest in 1997. With its extreme rarity and deep cultural significance ...

Today, if the card is a mint-condition, first-edition Charizard, it could fetch six figures. In 2022, one sold for $420,000 at trading-card marketplace PWCC (now Fanatics Collect ). “In the past year, ...