You need to adopt a dynasty mindset. And you need to do it now. If you are a Pokemon cards collector, you need to understand something really important. In the future, people will be fighting over having a PSA 2 (or other low grades) of the key vintage Pokemon cards. Not fighting over getting a PSA 10, I’m talking even low grades. Owning any of these cards, in any grade, will be practically unobtainable for most collectors within 20 years or less. Do you understand what that means now? Stop trying to time the market with buying the essential vintage cards, like a 1996 No Rarity Symbol Charizard or Pikachu, or the 1996 CoroCoro Pikachu Ivy Glossy and Jigglypuff Glossy. Stop trying to get a PSA 9 when there is a PSA 3 listed for a reasonable amount and you cannot probably afford the PSA 9. Your future self will thank you. Do you understand that in the future a PSA 9 or 10 of these cards will have fractionalized ownership because they will be so rare and valuable, where hundreds or thousands of people will own small percentages of that card and that such ownership will be normalized? Wouldn’t you want to own one of those vintage grails by yourself? Dynasty mindset, now.

Gengar's first TCG card is not the 1999 Fossil 1st Edition. It is the Japanese Mystery of the Fossils holo, No. 094, released June 21, 1997. Over TWO YEARS before Wizards of the Coast put him in English. The market has not properly priced the debut. PSA has graded 9,313 Japanese Fossil Gengars and awarded 568 tens, a 6 percent gem rate. Those tens have traded between roughly $7,000 and $10,000 all summer, with a $12,493 sale in June and $9,000 on September 14. The English 1st Edition Fossil Gengar PSA 10 sits at a pop of 183 and sold for $59,999 on September 10. Every Pokemon rookie was printed in Japan first. The hobby already learned this lesson once. The No Rarity Symbol Charizard, the Japanese first print, sold for $1.7 million in March. The English 1st Edition record is $550,000. Charizard was the proof. Gengar is the move.

First ever English Pokemon collectible cards. Publicly shared this with you guys over six months ago, now look where we are.

Vintage Pokemon cards alpha: the Pokemon KFC cards released in November 1998 are the first ever English Pokemon collectible cards released to the public. This is not a debate, here is the timeline: The KFC cards drop November 1998 → WOTC “Demo Game” Plastic Packs trickle into TCG conventions and local TCG stores in December 1998 as a limited promotional item → First Edition Base Set English WOTC TCG doesn't hit shelves until January 1999. So the KFC set predates all of it. These cards are graded by PSA and have extremely low POP counts. To put in perspective, the first ever English Charizard collectible card has a POP of around 100 in PSA 10. For English cards, this is like the Japanese 1996 Pokemon Carddass Green Part 1 cards I previously posted about, except instead of obviously not the first ever Japanese Pokemon collectible cards, it’s the first ever English Pokemon collectible cards. Very few listings of these on ebay, and severely underrated in my opinion.