The Pikachu Illustrator card sold for $16,492,000 at Goldin Auctions in February 2026, the most expensive Pokémon card and trading card ever sold at auction.
A complete 2026 guide to video game trading cards, including Borderlands Legacy Collection, Street Fighter Alpha, Saturday Morning Cards, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, and the category's next wave.
I still remember the feeling of ripping open a pack as a kid and not caring whether the card inside had a batting average or box office gross…
I still remember buying my first pack of non-sport cards at a local flea market and thinking the hobby had its own language. The guy next to me…
There are big entertainment card releases, and then there are releases that reset what the category is capable of. Topps Chrome Marvel Studios lands firmly in the second…
It's 2001. You're sitting in a dark movie theater. The Warner Bros. logo fades. John Williams' iconic score swells. And for the first time, you see Hogwarts, real,…
The Stranger Things card market moved fast the moment the finale aired in 2025. A 2025 Topps High Tek 1/1 autograph of Millie Bobby Brown, Eleven herself, sold…
Video game trading cards have had a complicated history in this hobby. Too many releases choked on generic design, thin content, and a complete failure to understand why…
The moment Upper Deck announced its Grateful Dead collaboration in February 2026, my collector brain lit up like a wall of Fender Twins at the Fillmore West. Upper…