in 1999, Pokemon held a tournament at a secret location in Tokyo called the Super Secret Battle only 9 players were invited and each one had to win their regional tournament across Japan to qualify the invitation itself was the card, a holographic Trainer that worked like a golden ticket the winners were then flown to Hawaii for what is now considered the first ever Pokemon World Championship only 9 copies were ever awarded a PSA 10 sold for $90,000 in 2020 today, a BGS 8.5 is being offered for $300,000

how the hell was this supposed to be a combined artwork from Abyss Eye set?

TCG & Pudgy Penguins? count me in maybe it's not Pokemon or charizards this time, but penguins are part of our culture, in both this space and the outside one so, grab your booster packs, I guess?

in 2009, Pokemon made three cards that you could not buy anywhere they were part of a set called Melee Pokemon Scramble most of the set came in a boxed product but three cards, Pachirisu, Croagunk and Eevee, were locked behind something else you had to beat a Wii game when you finished, the screen showed 20 lines of numbers you entered those numbers into a lottery run by the Pokemon Daisuki Club out of everyone in Japan who tried, only 100 people won the winners got a 3-card pack with those three cards inside you can tell them apart from the rest of the set by a second logo printed in the corner

pokemon cards you've never seen before: Pachirisu Pokémon Scramble 17 Daisaku Club Rumble

it's time to create art with your empty Pokemon packs

in 1999, japan held its national Pokemon championship at a location that is still unknown today it was called the Secret Super Battle players qualified through regional tournaments across the country the ones who placed got a holographic Mewtwo trainer card, and that card came with a promise printed on it: preferential entry into the Secret Super Battle on august 22, 1999, the finalists were taken by bus from a Tokyo hotel to a venue they were never told the name of a screen lit up and called players down by name no tournament report has ever revealed where it was held the top prize card, the No. 1 Trainer, is now one of the rarest in the hobby PSA 10 sold for $90,000 in 2020 BGS 8.5 is being offered for $300,000 in 2026

the rarest Pokemon card of the modern era is a key that does nothing it was handed out at the 2010 World Championships in Hawaii to everyone who qualified to play and only 36 people qualified

i would even be okay with Jake Paul being my brother if i owned a Pokémon collection like this

pokemon cards you've never seen before: Pikachu Libre #247/XY-P

this Shining Mewtwo is one of the best Pokemon cards ever made it's part of the Neo Destiny expansion and it could be part of your binder too if you open an Elite Pack on @TiltRips and win it Mewtwo's lore is already one of the most tragic in Pokemon expressed through attacks like Psyburst, this card captures the raw, chaotic power of a creature that was artificially created and never meant to exist but it exists and is there any reason this banger shouldn't be part of your collection?

this is Mega Charizard, then and now the card on the left is M Charizard EX from XY Evolutions, 2016 (PSA 10 GEM MINT) the right is Mega Charizard X EX from Phantasmal Flames, 2025 (PSA 9 MINT) and you can win both on @DecibelTrade now you simply trade on Decibel and learn tickets based on your trading volume the first $1k gets you a first ticket and each additional one requires $50k more in volume fun fact about these cards? between them, the entire Mega Evolution mechanic disappeared from the Pokemon TCG Mega Evolution debuted in 2014 with the XY video games the cards followed and for three years, Mega Pokemon were the chase format of the TCG then Sun and Moon launched in 2017, the mechanic was retired, and for the next 8 years Mega Evolution didn't exist in the card game at all in 2025, it came back and a brand new Mega Evolution era, kicked off by the same Pokemon it started with and the best part is that there are many more cards you can win on Decibel, and the rotation is changing every week with a new Pokemon gems

a factory worker stole thousands of rare Pokemon cards and tried to bulk sell them in a card shop this happened in 2021 with a Fusion Strike set, and TCW called it the largest return of stolen Pokemon cards on record also, Fusion Strike has some of the worst pull rates in modern Pokemon history some chase cards from the set were estimated to be up to four times harder to pull than equivalents in other expansion Pokemon company has never publicly explained why or whether the theft was connected

is it time to start scalping Lego Pokemon products as well?

now we're talking and i'd rather have banger reprints than lame new cards

"hey [insert AI's name here], let's create a new Pokemon TCG set for the 30th Anniversary, but make sure to include 1st edition Charizard:"

pokemon cards you've never seen before: Illusion's Zorua from the 2010 Pokémon Card Design Contest

just pulled this card on @TiltRips and it's actually one of my favorite cards of all time but you know, every Giovanni is kinda my favorite Pokemon card but maybe it's time to open a Pokemon Elite Pack on their website and try my luck with some dope vintage pieces over there

pokemon cards you've never seen before: No.1 Trainer 2002 Nintendo Pokemon Japanese Promo Spring Battle Road