Good old venusaur black star 13 was my green whale. My Nintendo Power magazine finally came and the envelope… was already emptied. I literally cut out the image on the envelope and glued it on an energy. I still have it to this day. And unfortunately led to collection of numerous sealed NP magazines now to spite whoever that mail thief was that fateful 90s day.
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There’s Pokémon then there’s that number 1 with that pointed, angular stare gazing just for you.
Yeahyeah Alakazam hits differently.
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For me, it would be the Pichu from the Neo Premium File 2. I remember exactly the moment I found this card. I was looking through Pokemon binders at my local card store after school when I was in middle school and that was the first time I ever saw such a shiny looking pokemon card so I had to buy it and I still have the card in decent condition 
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Well, I was technically correct 
Glad you ignored what I wrote, though, and continued to pursue your dream 
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Japanese Rocket’s Zapdos. Even after quitting, it always stayed with me. Back in the day I lent it to Jorge Figueiredo who procceed to ace one of the Tropical Mega Battle tournaments in Hawaii
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Same! I even got mine laminated to “protect” it 
1st ed scyther holo!
Was my only holo that a friend had given me.
Back when any holo had value on the playground lol
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It was always this card. I collected throughout my life just from packs I’d get from the store, from my parents, etc. but the early-era Japanese cards always fascinated me since they weren’t as easy to get a hold of. That and I loved how they looked with their (later) silver borders.
This was the first graded card I ever purchased and it will be with me forever. I wanted it as a middle schooler so I thought it was only appropriate to get it in its best form possible once I learned more about cards and graded cards in general.
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The holy grail when i was a kid was this mew promo card you got when you go to the movies because i never went so i didnt have it 
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My Charizard which I pulled from a pack for one.
I would also have to say Unown A, since I traded a Chansey for it. Have always liked the occult and the ridiculous.
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base set zard.
now its my least fav graded card i own.
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As a kid, my grail would have been the Arceus subset from Platinum Arceus. Such beautiful art…
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Salamence ex from power keepers. All the ex’s though really were a huge flex. Had no clue gold stars even existed lol.
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Base set Charizard, it was thee card to get. I was in Primary school when Pokemon came out and like today charizard was the chase.
The Fossil Mew was LEGENDARY in my friend circles. I only had the non-holo English Black Star Promo of this mew growing up, and didn’t even know the holo version of the promo existed. I remember one of my friends saying that he heard there was a Mew you could get in Fossil packs that was holo. None of us believed him, but you better believe that we all then went crazy opening up Fossil in a race to get the legendary Mew. The only problem was, we were opening up tons and tons of English Fossil packs haha. This local legend probably went on for about a year. Then one day when I was in a card shop, I was flipping through some sort of Pokemon magazine and saw an article that had a picture of this Mew! Now I understood that all of our hunting was futile. A few years later, after I had pushed Pokemon aside for a bit, I was remembering back to those days, and decided to just pick up this copy on eBay for nostalgia’s sake. I remember paying like $4 for it at the time haha. I still look at this mew today and get all of the childhood excited feels.
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Base Set Shadowless Charizard
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Same. I remember hearing about “Shining Cards” when Destiny came out. Bought a few packs during a grocery run with my mom when I was about 11 and pulled it in Target. Still my favorite card to this day. All of my collecting goals are around shinings to this day lol
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Not technically a card, but the Mewtwo gold card from Burger King. We didn’t eat at BK, so I had no idea what it was, and assumed it was the most valuable card ever made. Traded away my Charizard for it, and a bunch of other random cards. No desire to own it now though, I’m more bitter that I traded away my Charizard lol. I pulled it myself, which is crazy considering I probably only ever opened like 5 packs in my life before buying some modern stuff this past year.
contrary to all expectations, it was not charizard for a buddy. He forgot it outside and it rain a lot. After that his father drove over the Card with a lawn mower.
He wasnt a Pokemonfan but everytime i saw his card something died in me XD
Still cant believe the card was in 1 Piece after all that Trouble but the Surface was close to nonexistent.
Others would have sold their soul for a Charizard, he just didnt care ^^