The few remaining copies are believed to have been given to Wizards of the Coast staff.įor years, Prerelease Raichu was only rumoured to exist, until a copy believed to be genuine surfaced from a former Wizards of the Coast employee in 2006. The game’s English manufacturer, Wizards of the Coast, reportedly destroyed all but a fraction of the copies, leaving 10 or fewer in the wild. So the story goes, a very small number - said to approximately 100 - of Raichu cards from the game’s Base Set were accidentally reprinted with the word “Prerelease” stamped in the bottom-right of the card artwork. Prerelease Raichu was long rumoured to be a card printed by error in the run-up to the English-language release of the Pokémon TCG’s second expansion, Jungle, in 1999. Perhaps the most controversial Pokémon card of all time, Prerelease Raichu may also be the rarest Pokémon card ever made - in fact, it’s so rare that finding out exact details is tricky. Reportedly sold for $10,500 in April 2009 Fact or fiction? Prerelease Raichu may be the rarest Pokémon card of all time - if it's real, that is. We probably wouldn’t recommend trading it in the schoolyard either, unless your friend has a Rolls-Royce to give you in return. It came in a special frame and box marking the anniversary, which you’d hope might keep it safe given the price tag and rarity.Īlthough the card recreates the original Pikachu card - including the Pocket Monsters Card Game logo on the back and its Japanese text on the front - it’s actually not legal for use in tournaments.
If you won, you were given the chance to buy a copy of the limited-edition card for 216,000 yen - or around $2,081/£1,700. The only way to get a copy of the golden Pikachu was to enter a lottery held in 2016. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Aren’t you at least a little curious? There might be a retirement fund waiting in your attic.
Interest in Pokémon and the Pokémon card game has only continued to grow in recent years, with multiple card sales at auction setting new records in 20 alone, so there’s never been a better time to rifle through your collection and see if you own one of the rarest Pokémon cards of all time. That's why we've put together this list of the rarest and most expensive Pokémon cards, so you know for certain what's hiding in your attic. And valuable really is the word, with nearly eight tons of counterfeit cards being recently seized in China - in Short, Pokémon cards are big business.
There's a huge amount of Pokémon out there and even more Pokémon Trading Cards, raging from common pidgeys to rare and valuable legendary cards, or even better.
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