Man, radical stuff everybody! It’s awesome to hear all these stories and see the diversity in the cards we started with. Charizard seems to be taking the cake here!
Mine was a PSA 8 Masaki Promo Machamp 
My first ever submission was the free 15 card sub that I got with the platinum membership. These were also the first 15 PSA cards I ever owned. Fun fact: I’ve only ever opened one 1st edition gym challenge pack and that was a pack I bought from Rusty years ago. I luckily pulled a Blaine’s Charizard which you can see graded a 10 below. I now own the entire holo set in PSA 10.
Line # Item # Cert # Grade Description
1 1 26542841 MINT 9 1999 Pokemon Game 2 Blastoise-Holo
2 1 26542842 NEAR MINT-MINT+ 8.5 2000 Pokemon Rocket 83 Dark Raichu-Holo 1st Edition
3 1 26542843 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Rocket 9 Dark Hypno-Holo 1st Edition
4 1 26542844 MINT 9 2000 Pokemon Rocket 5 Dark Dragonite-Holo 1st Edition
5 1 26542845 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Rocket 3 Dark Blastoise-Holo 1st Edition
6 1 26542846 MINT 9 2000 Pokemon Rocket 4 Dark Charizard-Holo 1st Edition
7 1 26542847 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Gym Heroes 18 Misty-Holo 1st Edition
8 1 26542848 MINT 9 2000 Pokemon Gym Heroes 16 Erika-Holo 1st Edition
9 1 26542849 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Gym Heroes 15 Brock-Holo 1st Edition
10 1 26542850 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Gym Heroes 13 Rocket’s Scyther Holo-1st Edition
11 1 26542851 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Gym Heroes 12 Rocket’s Moltres Holo-1st Edition
12 1 26542852 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Gym Heroes 8 LT. Surge’s Magneton Holo-1st Edition
13 1 26542853 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Gym Heroes 6 LT. Surge’s Electabuzz Holo-1st Edition
14 1 26542854 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Gym Heroes 1 Blaine’s Moltres Holo-1st Edition
15 1 26542855 GEM MINT 10 2000 Pokemon Gym Challenge 2 Blaine’s Charizard Holo-1st Edition
PSA 9 1st edition base charizard. I wasn’t really planning on collecting PSA cards beyond that (this was after I completed my 1st edition base through rocket binder collection), but it kind of snowballed from there, and now I’m just a few commons and uncommons from completing a PSA 9/10 mix 1st edition base set.
PSA 9 Zapdos First Edition
Never heard of Grand party card
A PSA 8.5 Shining Charizard off of an eBay seller; they got I think £40/50 and a MP/EX GS Metagross as well as a small profit from grading fees for 10 or so cards I wanted to get protected having just found these wonderful PSA cases that were somehow better than toploaders XD. Things kinda spiralled from there - both my love of shining zards and the PSA pile!
@reinasierpe I have seen that card before actually! The name didn’t ring a bell. Is it a low pop I’m assuming? Super cool 
So I have been collecting the cards since 1998, on and off, with no real goals or anything, just enjoying opening boosters and organizing them. After finding E4 over last summer I realized some of the depths of the hobby, and had been wanting this card for a while. Bid on many but the price always climbed a bit too high for me, and then I won this PSA graded version for less than any I’d seen. I love it and I love that it’s one of my only graded cards (so far 
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It’s popular because of its quality sugimori artwork and unique layout including the pocket monsters logo and double star rarity. The pocket monsters logo and double star are otherwise only present on the original trophy cards.
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1998 POKEMON JAPANESE RED/GREEN GIFT Set BABY PIKACHU 25 PSA 10
My first psa card is master scroll psa 10 
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My first PSA cards (plural instead of singular, since all three were bought from the same seller at once) were the PSA-9 Base Set Pikachus for Chinese 1st edition; Korean 1st edition; and Korean unlimited edition.
I preferred a binder collection at the time, but since I couldn’t find these three Pikachus anywhere I decided to spend a bit more money and buy the PSA-9 graded that had been on eBay for quite a while instead. Now I just buy PSA-graded cards if I can’t find the card unsealed (I currently have 18 PSA-graded (+2 additional duplicates), 4 Beckett-graded, and 1 MAP-graded card in my possession.)
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It’s way too dark in my room right now… 
Greetz,
Quuador
Awesome way to start off a graded collection! Master’s Scroll is just such an impressive holo to see in person. Even more so for a PSA 10.
I love this artwork 
it’s very beautiful, for me one of the best beautiful artwork 
I’ll be that guy…
PSA 9 Evolutions Charizard Holo
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@ozenigma haha do you remember what I submitted first with you ? I honestly can’t recall…
But I know my first major return was some crystal English Charizards. 2 psa 10s.
I think that was maybe my first sub with ozenigma when I was in australia.
You have a good memory my friend 
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Haha I’m surprised you could find it and remember. It was a while ago. You’ve graded so much since then.
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I did a six card submission back in 2015:
Championship Arena
Japanese Mewtwo star
Groudon star
1st Edition Shining Tyranitar
1st Edition Base Ninetales
1st Edition Base Charizard
Average grade was a 9 so I was pleased!