A Reddit user turned to thePokémon Trading Card Gamecommunity for help after discovering he had a Shadowless Charizard card. While there are a handful of cards thatare more expensive, the holy grail for many Pokémon card collectors isa Shadowless Charizard card. The card gets its moniker because the frame around the Charizard card art has no shadow. Only first edition cards and a subsequent limited print run are shadowless, with all other Base Set Charizard cards containing a drop shadow on the right side of its frame.
Recently, on the r/PokemonTCG community on Reddit, a user namedAlec3369showed off their recent discovery of a Base Set Shadowless Charizard card. In a post titled"Found this Charizard 1st edition while going through my childhood card binder. What should I do with it?“the user shows off the card in a binder of other Base Set cards. In the comments,the user explained how they had a card in apparently great condition. “My dad bought me this card when I was a kid and told me never take it out of the sleeve and I listened,” the user said on Reddit.
How Much Does a Shadowless Charizard Cost?
Rare Card Sells For A Minimum Of $3,500
Because few Shadowless Charizard cards were made and even fewer are made in good condition, the Reddit user’s card (assuming that the back of the card was free of damage) is probably worth a lot of money.An ungraded Shadowless Charizard card is worth around $3,500,and PSA-graded cards are selling for $10,000 or more. Based on the condition of the card, the user likely had a Grade 8 or higher, which sells for about $11,000 on secondary markets like eBay. PSA 10 Shadowless Charizard cardsare currently sellingfor $235,874, partially because PSA has only given 125 cards a perfect grade.
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Because of the quality of the card,other Redditors recommended that the user cut the card out of the binderinstead of pulling it from the top. While the binder will be ruined, pulling a card out of a binder where it has sat for 20+ years runs the risk of damaging it. Several users also recommended finding a card show at a PSA booth to have the card graded instead of mailing it in, to minimize the risk of the card getting lost or damaged in the mail.
Our Take: Check Your Parents' Homes For Hidden Treasures
Always Worth Checking On Your Childhood Pokémon Cards
The recent Reddit post is basically every adultPokémonfan’s dream. To find a Charizard card, especially a Shadowless Charizard card, in that kind of condition is absolutely amazing. For someone who didn’t take care of their childhoodPokémoncards, Iwish I had the foresight (or a parent’s foresight) to stick my cards in a binderand leave them there for 20+ years.
If you were an earlyPokémon TCGcollector, it may be worth asking your parents or guardians if they still have your card binder in a box somewhere. Maybe you could have something rare or worth a pretty penny waiting for you as well.
