charizard golden pokemon card Gold Charizard 1st Edition Pokemon Card and this attack does 90 damage for each card you discarded in this way. The END sent me… 😭

This is the holographic dragon that every kid in 1999 desperately wanted to pull from a booster pack, the card that was worth more than every other card in the set combined in the eyes of schoolyard traders, the card that became synonymous with the Pokemon TCG itself

Gold Pikachu Nothing screams expensive like a flash of gold

Worse, even in a best-case scenario for a print, the actual texturing and color vibrance is usually inferior to the Japanese version of the exact same card

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Kazuma Hashimoto is a freelance writer for IGN.

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