For more articles, check out our guide to the best MTG precon decks, and our picks for the very best MTG commanders.
All cards in this bundle will be Near Mint or better
The gem-mint premium is real on this series, and a slab also settles authenticity questions on a Japanese-only card that English-market buyers cannot easily verify by eye
Only one I'd be concerned about is my Mairsil, so I really just can't get cheap fetches for him
The 226 different cards on offer right now are cannily oriented towards the peak millennial nostalgia years of Pokmon in the early 00s
One important note before we begin: the Pikachu Illustrator card, widely considered the most valuable Pokemon card in existence with confirmed sales exceeding five million dollars, is excluded from our numbered ranking because it exists in a category so far beyond the rest of the market that including it would distort the list entirely