This shiny Charizard Pokemon Card simply sold For Over $10,000

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each Pokemon card collector will recognize that the rarest cards can fetch a small fortune, and sometimes they even get lost in the mail. however what's ordinary about the latest card to have the group abuzz is that it's from a group barely two weeks old, and yet has already fetched a sum of over $10,000 on eBay.

Hidden Fates is the latest growth in the Pokemon buying and selling Card video game, but this one is particular. The leading set is comparatively small at simply sixty eight playing cards, compared to the couple of hundred we'd see in most different expansions. however, Hidden Fates has a 'brilliant Vault,' a ninety four card subset of bright Pokemon which is sending collectors into a frenzy. Hidden Fates isn't offered like other Pokemon cards, both, as you gained't locate single booster packs on sale in your native gaming save. in its place the set is being released in a couple of boxed products, such because the Mewtwo and Mew Pin assortment packs, and the upcoming Elite coach field featuring legendary chicken trio Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno as a different Tag group card.

The holy grail of Hidden Fates is Charizard-GX, a reprint from solar & Moon Burning Shadows, however this time Charizard is shiny, in black and crimson as a substitute of its commonplace orange. It's essentially the most sought-after card within the set by way of a protracted manner, and the normal reproduction goes for upwards of $400. however that's now not the limit on how a good deal this card can sell for. An eBay seller has no longer best pulled a shiny Charizard from a Hidden Fates pack, however they have had the cardboard assessed by using professional grading enterprise Beckett, who returned the cardboard with the legendary 'black label', meaning the card is pristine.

Bidding ended at a whopping $10,one hundred, which isn't the most a Pokemon card has offered for, however since this set has simply come out it's an exquisite crazy determine. Hidden Fates is already challenging to find in the wild, with collectors buying dozens of containers at a time, which has only improved the hype for the set amongst fanatics. There are greater Hidden Fates products on the way, so you're nevertheless in with a chance to tug that vivid Charizard for your self, but when you're probably the most fortunate few to have caught the fiery lizard, you can be sitting on a small fortune.

We recently spoke to legendary Pokemon card artist Mitsuhiro Arita—whose art facets in Hidden Fates—about the idea and hidden reviews at the back of each and every card. And in case you'd want to recognize extra about how Pokemon cards are made, we had the opportunity to take a firsthand examine Creatures, Inc in Tokyo, Japan.

Pokemon hype will most effective continue to develop over the coming weeks, as the subsequent installments in the video video game sequence, Pokemon Sword & shield, arrive on Nintendo swap later this year. be sure to keep an eye fixed on GameSpot.com for all of the largest Pokemon information.