
Updated Augby Tom Bowen: Though many NFTs and cryptocurrencies are beginning to lose their value, the Pokemon TCG bubble remains largely intact. Readers would be wise to go and check their attics after finishing this list, as they might just be sitting on a goldmine. Perhaps had they known then what we know now, they might just have taken better care of them rather than shoving them in their pockets and, heaven forbid, actually using them to play the Pokemon Trading Card game. What makes this all so staggering is that a lot of the rarest and most valuable Pokemon cards today were once fairly common and were owned by children all over the world. RELATED: The Most Expensive Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards (& How Much They’re Going For) It's gotten to the point where many of these cards are worth more than most peoples' homes. The record for the most expensive Pokemon card ever sold has been broken numerous times over the last four years alone and has more than tripled during that time.


Cards that originally cost mere dollars to pick up are now worth tens, or in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Over the past decade or so, the value of Pokemon cards has gone through the roof.
