A member is picking their first card for a Charizard collection and narrowed it to two eBay listings: a MEGA GRADED 10 CHARIZARD MYSTERY listing and a Japanese Mega Charizard X ex 223 PSA 10 Gem Mint. Which is the better…
Card-shop crew, let''s talk Costco runs! Costco keeps getting exclusive Pokémon bundles, and when they drop some warehouses have lines before the doors even open. Have you waited in a Costco line for cards, and was it wo…
Before you pay to grade, check the four things graders score: centering, corners, edges, surface. PSA grades on a 1 to 10 scale. For the 1999 Base Set Charizard (#4/102), a 1st Edition stamp or a Shadowless print is wort…
My setup: side-loading 9-pocket binders for sets, penny sleeve plus toploader for anything valuable, and graded slabs only for the cards I'd grab in a fire. Avoid ring binders: the rings can dent the cards closest to the…
Bandai launched the One Piece Card Game in Japan in July 2022 and in English that December. Every deck is built around one Leader card, and the Leader's color shapes how you play. I'm on red Zoro from the very first set.…
Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon (LOB) was the first English Yu-Gi-Oh! booster set, released in North America in 2002. Konami launched the card game in Japan back in 1999. A 1st Edition LOB Blue-Eyes is still one of the…
It was awarded in 1998 to winners of a CoroCoro Comic illustration contest, so very few exist. A PSA 10 copy sold in 2022 for $5,275,000, a Guinness World Record for a Pokémon card at the time. The art is by Atsuko Nishi…