Pokémon card guides

Short, practical guides for collectors and sellers, built on PokeClaw's catalog of every English Pokémon TCG card and its market price, so the examples and numbers stay current. Every species also has its own page listing every print of that Pokémon, oldest first: start at the Pokédex, for example every Charizard card.

• How much is my Pokémon card worth?

  Five steps from the card in your hand to a fair price: set and number, the exact print, condition, the three prices, and whether to grade.

• The most valuable Pokémon cards, set by set

  Every expansion's top card at today's market price, and a top-25 page for each set.

• Pokémon TCG sets in release order

  Every expansion from 1999 to today, series by series, with release dates and card counts.

• Pokémon card grading: PSA, BGS and CGC grades explained

  What each grade means at the three big graders, what they check, and when grading pays.

• Fake Pokémon cards: the common fakes and how to spot them

  Which cards get counterfeited most and the tells that give a fake away, from the font to the foil.

• Kanto Pokémon cards: the original 151 on cards

  The region where the card game began: its sets from 1999 to today, the Kanto cards worth most, the gym leaders and the fossils.

• One of a kind: Pokémon cards with a move printed only once

  The most valuable cards carrying an attack or ability that exists on that card and no other, not even a reprint.

• Pokémon cards under $5: vintage, holos and ultra rares

  The rare cards a collector can still buy for less than $5: vintage prints from 1999 to 2003, holos, and modern ultra and secret rares.

Pokémon by region

Each region's Pokémon on cards: the games and the card era, the sets built around the region and its most valuable cards.

Kanto · Johto · Hoenn · Sinnoh · Unova · Kalos · Alola · Galar · Paldea