Total 64.8 billion cards produced (March 2024)

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I would recommend reading these two threads.

An elaborate attempt at print run estimation. (WIP) 5-8-18

Elaborating further on what I teased in this post. This is a WIP (work in progress) as I plan to work on it further and refine it hopefully with further community input and more factual sources. By the end my goal is to come up with an actual estimated number for each set released from base set through Sun and Moon and further show the implications of how many chase cards that may result in for each given set. I will try to clearly call out all facts as such and all opinions/assumptions as suc…

1st Edition Base Set - 10,000 of each card printed?!

I saw a video come up in my feed from PWCC talking about the early release of Pokemon in English and they highlight in the video that for 1st Edition Base Set that there could be fewer than 10,000 of each card printed. They did not specify holos, but just each card. Now, I’ve done a little research on this over the years and I also saw this rumour either on the old E4 or possibly from a PSA article. Here’s the video in question, 0:54 in they mention it: [Are My Pokémon Cards RARE? 1st E…