{"id":173012,"date":"2021-01-21T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/pokemon-rare-blastoise-card-auction-most-expensive\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:14:10","slug":"rare-blastoise-pokemon-card-goes-for-a-ton-of-money-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/21\/rare-blastoise-pokemon-card-goes-for-a-ton-of-money-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Blastoise Pokemon Card Goes for A Ton of Money at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Benjamin Franklin once famously said, “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” The increasing value of\u00a0Pokemon<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0trading cards would likely be\u00a0tacked onto that statement were he\u00a0around today, as a particular Water-type card has just sold for the most expensive single Pokemon card, ever.<\/p>\n

Beginning in its native Japan in 1996, the\u00a0Pokemon TCG<\/em>\u00a0came to the United States three years later in 1999. The “Pokemania” craze the franchise created stateside\u00a0more than\u00a020 years ago doesn’t\u00a0seem to have subsided, as a first-edition sealed booster box recently sold for nearly half a million at auction<\/a>. Although that is certainly a massive\u00a0price, the Water-type card in question sold for\u00a0close to the same amount, and that’s for a single card versus an entire deck.<\/p>\n

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Confirmed by auction site Heritage Auctions\u00a0as the highest amount a single card has gone for at auction, the holographic Blastoise card has sold for a whopping $360,000. While this may seem like a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a single Pokemon<\/a> card (or any card, for that matter), the story behind it asserts its ultra-rarity. Created by Wizards of the Coast,\u00a0the original publishers of the Pokemon TCG<\/em>, this was one of two presentation cards used to convince Nintendo about going ahead with the trading card game. As a result, it\u00a0commands a significantly higher value than\u00a0a typical\u00a0first-edition\u00a0Blastoise card.<\/p>\n

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The sale\u00a0is the latest of\u00a0a greater trend in recent months around original Pokemon cards going for extremely high prices. In addition to the Blastoise sale, retired rapper Logic recently purchased a first edition holographic Charizard for almost $200,000<\/a>. Last month, a student paid his med school tuition after selling his card collection for $80,000. The most notable detail of that story, however, is that the student bought the same collection in 2016 for only $4,000, which goes to show the massive increase in value Pokemon cards have had in recent years.<\/p>\n

The majority of 90s kids and Pokemon<\/em> fans when these first editions launched have lost their collections to the sands of time. While the majority of that demographic may not have the ludicrous amounts of money to spend on getting\u00a0their favorites back, fear not, because classic Pokemon cards are getting re-released<\/a> in celebration of the franchise’s 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n

The Pokemon Company appears to be revisiting its past in its quarter-century celebration. In addition to\u00a0the re-release of\u00a0old cards, the company is soon to launch\u00a0New Pokemon Snap<\/em>, a sequel to the original 1999 game on the Nintendo 64. While there are heavy rumors of a\u00a0Pokemon Diamond\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Pearl<\/em>\u00a0remaster coming next month, some fans are hoping for even more titles to make a comeback, like a remake of\u00a0Pokemon Colosseum<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

MORE: New Pokemon Snap Announces Release Date<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Nintendo Life<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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