The Escapist recaps While the Japanese Pokmon TCG Happy Meal series is causing a storm in the community, the most valuable McDonalds cards of all time are those from the original 2002 sets
An annoying life loss trigger for your opponent plus a heavily punishing ward cost should add up to a really powerful card
A horrific one, a terrible one one you never want to fight but an Angel, nonetheless
Before I left, I caught up with 35-year-old store owner, Ben Thyer, who described the current boom as a "perfect storm" created by a rise in Pokmon card streamers, flashy celebrity headlines like Logan Paul's $16 million Pikachu Illustrator record auction, and the fact that 2026 is the 30th anniversary of the card game
Most cards on this list let you double +1/+1 counters, like Kalonian Hydra, since theyre the most common kind, while others let you double any type of counter
Imagine paying 10 life to untap all, lets say eight, of your lands and feed all that mana (minus one) into a massive Exsanguinate