The pokemon cards they beat again records. 2021 was already plagued by card sales at astronomical prices. Also more than one scammer took advantage of the madness to sneak in the occasional batch of unopened Pokémon cards that turned out not to be real. Everything indicates that 2022 will follow the same path, especially with rare Pokémon cards like pokemon illustratorone of the rarest cards in existence, which has tripled in price in just twelve months.
Exclusive Pikachu card breaks new record
It is not the first time that we talk about the letter Pikachu Illustrator Holo from 1998. It is one of the strangest collector’s items that exist within the world of Pokémon. Like most exclusive Pokémon cards, they didn’t come out of packs, but from Pokémon face-to-face events in Japan, organized by the legendary CoroCoro magazine. Pikachu Illustrator was the card that the finalists of the 1998 drawing tournament in Japan were awarded. The participants had to design their own Pokémon card. There was free reign for creativity and even writing the powers and abilities of the card. The winners took home a real copy of their creations, which was pretty cool.
However, the finalists got an extra prize: the Pikachu Illustrator card. A card designed by Atsuko Nishida, who was the original artist and designer of Pikachu. At that time, the letter had symbolic value, but little else. After all, all the weight of the first generation of Pokémon was carried by Ken Sugimori.
Final Sale Price: $900,000
An all-time record public sale for any Pokémon card. pic.twitter.com/BgO9yPA42I
— Goldin (@GoldinCo) February 24, 2022
What makes Pikachu Illustrator special?
However, it is estimated that there were only 40 or 41 Pikachu Illustrator cards. Knowing that they were given to children, it is very likely that there are less than a dozen left in good condition. On february 2021 a record was already broken, when one unit was sold for $375,000. Since then, this piece has been on everyone’s lips. It was obvious that the moment another appeared on the market, its price would break a new record.
And so it has been. Unlike other times, this new sale of Pikachu Illustrator corresponds to a different card from 2021. The qualification was carried out by PSA, as in the previous case, and obtained the same score. However, on this occasion, cartoonist Pikachu has been sold for a whopping amount of $900,000a complete savagery, almost touching the million dollars.
However, it must be made clear that we continue to think that this type of buying and selling does not make any sense. The Pokémon card market is inflated in a way never seen before. However, we would not be surprised to see a sale that exceeds a million dollars before we see the explosion of the bubble. Unless we discover a new rare card, that sale could only be for three different cards: a tared first-gen Charizard Holo, a new Pikachu Illustrator being released, or one of the two backless Blastoise cards from the one unit was already sold last year for more than a third of a million dollars.
