In February 2026 , this very Pikachu Illustrator card made headlines again when Logan Paul sold it at auction for an astonishing $16.5 million , setting a new world record for the most expensive Pokmon card and the highestpriced trading card ever sold at auction
This particular moment of time for the Pokmon TCG though eclipses both of those moments by far as witnessed by the data shown by Google Trends: Compared to the other two previous times of higher interest with special consideration for the pandemic years which were considered already to be a pinnacle for the card game then, these last few months have blown both of those out of the water and have understandably led to the confusion and hysteria from long-time fans and collectors in the market that we are seeing today
My personal favorite is still the Mystical Archive because it felt good in Limited formats (mainly being answers, not threats, but still interesting) and some spicy old cards like Channel included
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7) Queen Special Rare $73 Queens five-cost blocker card from the Animal Kingdom Pirates Starter deck originally released in 2022 has stayed relevant through three years of metagame shifts, and so a Special Rare reprint was always going to fetch a pretty penny