It was a promo card in 1998 for the “Trade Please” campaign. As only 50 TCG players participated in the event each year, the promotional cards distributed at the tournament are some of the rarest out there! One Tropical Mega Battle Trainer Card depicting Psyduck was reportedly sold for $10,000.Īs long as it is first edition and graded 9 or higher, it will sell for over $300. The Pokemon Tropical Mega Battle was a TCG tournament that took place every year between 19 in the Hawaiian city of Honolulu. First-edition versions of this card have been known to fetch around $1000 on the second hand market. The Shining Charizard card was part of the Neo Destiny expansion pack and was the first shiny Pokemon that was featured on a Pokemon card.
They are being sold for minimum $150 and can go as high as $300 per card. There were only 18 cards (2 sets of 9) printed which makes them hard to find and known as Rainbow and Tropical Island sets.
They were once valued at $300 until the cards became more easily available in the US.įor this set to be valuable, it has to be an original with its collectible folder, not the promo cards. Released with the Gen 2 and after the Gold and Silver sets, the Shining Cards, first edition in mint condition will sell for over $150 each. However, graded Gold Stars can be sold for as much as $150. The first of many shiny Pokémon trading cards that sells today anywhere from $30 to $80.
Not all Full Art EX Cards are worth a lot of money or hard to find but there are a few like the Mew EX and the Lugia EX cards that are now being sold for as much $26 and the Diox (Deoxys) EX card that has sold for over $37. Members of the official Japanese “Daisuki Pokemon Fan Club” could exchange 50,000 fan club points for this special Espeon, making the Japanese print of this card extremely rare.
This God Star Espeon card was originally part of the POP Series 5 promotional set of Pokemon cards.
This eventually led to trading card collectibles and the top 15 rarest Pokémon cards. The following year, the Game Boy trading card game was launched and took the trading game to a whole new dimension and global success. in 1999 but as the cards began to gain popularity, Pokémon Company decided to publish the cards themselves. In the beginning, Pokémon trading cardswere made by Wizards of the Coast in the U.S. This article was updated in October 2019.