Step into the enchanting world of Pokemon, where fantasy meets reality through Pokemon cards. Turning imagination into a tangible experience, these cards allow fans to step into the shoes of real-time trainers, engaging in battles and collecting cherished creatures. With various tournaments and championships catering to players and collectors alike, these cards come with unique abilities, ranging from rarity and power to value. In this article, we unveil the top 20 timeless Pokemon cards that are sure to capture your interest and elevate your gaming experience.
Best Pokemon Cards 2023
20. Blastoise
Value: $10 – $40,000
Card Type: Pokemon (Stage 2)
Illustrator: Ken Sugimori
Abilities: Rain Dance
It is a water-type Pokemon card and has a weakness to electricity-type Pokemons. Its appearance is like a tortoise with pressurized jets on its shell and is used for high-speed tackles. The rain dance ability allows the player to attach extra energy cards of the same water-type Pokemon.
19. N
Value: $13.17
Card Type: Trainer card
Illustrator: Ken Sugimori
Abilities: Supporter
This card changed the course of the whole game when it was released. The player who holds this card has an advantage as both the players can shuffle their decks of cards and both of them can draw a card from each other. It is one of the powerful trainer cards that is available out there.
18. Rayquaza Star
Value: $1,843
Card Type: Dragon Type
Illustrator: Masakazu Fukuda
Abilities: Spiral Rush, Holy star
The card has a star symbol which makes it special and has a high status. It does a great deal of damage to the opponent. But it is better to play with the deck suitable for Rayquaza because the card alone does not hold much power, but when with its deck it is of great value. It is important to use this card wisely and correctly.
17. Chansey
Value: $16.04
Card Type: Colorless Type Basic Pokemon
Illustrator: Ken Sugimori
Abilities: Double Edge
Chansey has an ability to heal its allies, which makes it an important card during battle. It is mostly used for its high Hit points and double edge attacks which gives a great deal of damage. Using a Chansey card is like providing a shield for your deck by buying time to come up with strategies during the battle.
16. Poliwrath
Value: $16.13
Card Type: Water type or fighting type
Illustrator: Ken Sugimori
Abilities: Spilt Spiral Punch
This card’s weakness is Ex-Fire Red and Leaf Green. They are known for their strong water type attacks. If your deck strategy is water type, then this pokemon card can deal a great amount of damage. This card even has the ability of Mega Throw, where it does 50 damage plus 30 extra damage.
15. Tapu Lele GX
Value: $6.77
Card Type: Psychic type
Illustrator: 5Ban Graphics
Abilities: Wonder Tag
The main ability of this card is it allows the player to search for supporter cards in the deck. IT gives an upper hand to the player to display the right card. It can even heal 2 pokemon from benched decks, but the drawback is that the player can’t use this more than once. Its weakness is SM – Guardian Rising.
14. Charizard Star
Value: $5
Card Type: Fire type
Illustrator: Masakazu Fukuda
Abilities: Rotating claws
This is a very powerful card which allows the player to discard the opponents energy cards. Its ability rotating claws gives the player an advantage to discard an energy card of choice and also attach an energy card which can be useful during the play. It has another ability called Dark swirl where the opponent has to discard all his energy cards and his top 3 cards from the deck.
13. Charizard Ex
Value: $81.87
Card Type: Darkness type
Illustrator: Hiromichi Sugiyama
Abilities: Burn Down
Its weakness is water and electricity type pokemon. All the energy cards attached to this charizard ex are increased in its HP. When this card is played, 5 ultra energy cards are discarded by the opponent. This card won’t be affected by any other card such as poke powers and poke bodies.
12. Lucario and Melmetal GX
Value: $26.24
Card Type: Metal type
Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita
Abilities: Full Metal wall GX
This card allows the player to attach a steel energy card. For the rest of the game the player takes 30 less damage from any kind of attacks from the opponents. If this card is attached to any steen energy card, the opponent must discard all his active pokemon. But this GX card can be used only once.
11. Pikachu VMax
Value: $34.34
Card Type: Lightning type
Illustrator: Aky CG Works
Abilities: GMax Volt Tackle
When this card is knocked out by the player’s opponent, the opponent wins three prize cards. The ability GMax Volt Tackle allows the player to discard all the energy cards but it does 150 more damage to the opponent. It evolves from Pikachu V, and its weakness is fire type pokemons.
10. Ancient Mew
Value: $29.91
Card Type: Psychic type basic pokemon
Illustrator: Ken Sugimori
Abilities: Trainer
This card may not have as many abilities than other cards and may also not be costly. But it gained its significance because of its aesthetic appearance. Every collector wishes to have this card in their deck and it is one of the rarest cards out there. It is not legally accepted in tournaments.
9. Arceus Vstar
Value: $20.50
Card Type: Colorless type
Illustrator: 5Ban Graphics
Abilities: Starbirth
The stabirth ability allows the player to look for 2 cards in the deck and put them in hand. But the rule for this card is that, if it gets knocked out the opponents can win 2 prize cards. No more than 1 Vstar card is allowed in the deck. It even allows a move called Trinity Nova where the player can search the deck for 3 energy cards and can attach them.
8. Zoroark GX
Value: $43.99
Card Type: Darkness type
Illustrator: 5Ban Graphics
Abilities: Trade
The trade ability of this card allows the player to discard this card before his turn but can draw 2 cards after discarding. The Riotous Beating allows the player to do 20 damage for each of the pokemon in the game. If the player chooses the Trickster GX attack it allows the player to choose the opponent’s attack and use it on him. This attack can be used only once.
7. Arceus and Dialga and Palkia GX
Value: $22.50
Card Type: Dragon type
Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita
Abilities: Tag Team
3 Basic energy pokemon cards are searched in the card and are attached to these cards. If the Tag Team is knocked out the opponent wins 3 prize cards. When this card is played it does 30 more damage to the opponents all active pokemons for the rest of the game. More than 1 Gx card is not allowed to be used in the game.
6. Charizard GX
Value: $1,700
Card Type: Fire type
Illustrator: 5Ban Graphics
Abilities: Wing attack, Crimson Storm
This card evolved from Charmeleon. The wing attack does 70 more damage to the opponent’s active pokemon. Crimson Storm makes the opponents discard 3 energy cards from this pokemon. Raging out GX allows the player to drop 10 cards from the opponent’s deck. But when this card is knocked out, opponents win 2 prize cards.
5. Lysandre’s Trump Card
Value: $10.21
Card Type: supporter type
Illustrator: Hitoshi Ariga
Abilities: Trainer Supporter
This card allows the player to shuffle all the cards in the deck except for this card. It is one of the most powerful cards which allows both the player and the opponents to get back the discarded card into the deck. This single card could change the whole gameplay and strategy of the players. It was banned later from the tournaments.
4. Pikachu Illustrator
Value: $900,000
Card Type: Electric type
Illustrator: Hitoshi Ariga
Abilities: Illustrator
A total of 39 copies were released and only 12 of them are found to be in good condition. When the card was first released it was sold at a price of $74,000 in an auction in late 2016. Over the years the price has increased and Logan Pual is known to break the record of the most expensive card purchased by buying this card at a cost of $5,275,000.
3. Mewtwo and Mew GX
Value: $43.22
Card Type: Psychic type
Illustrator: Mitsuhiro Arita
Abilities: Perfection
This card allows the player to use any attack from any of the cards that are in the deck or discarded. The suitable energy cards are still needed for this card to work. When this card gets knocked out the opponent gets 3 prize cards. Along with the suitable energy cards, if there is an extra energy card it can also be used to heal the other pokemons.
2. Shaymin EX
Value: $5.78
Card Type: Grass type
Illustrator: Ayaka Yoshida
Abilities: Set Up
This card allows the player to draw 6 cards to hand. The ability sky return allows the opponent to return this card along with the energy cards attached to it. Its weakness is electricity type pokemon cards and resistance is fighting type pokemon cards. If this card has been knocked out the opponent wins 2 prize cards.
1. Base Set Shadowless Charizard
Value: $1,009
Card Type: Fire type
Illustrator: 2019 Pikachu Project
Abilities: Roaring Resolve
The ability of this card allows the player to put 2 damage counters on the pokemon. If the player is using this ability they have to attach 2 fire energy cards to this card. It can also do an attack called Continuous Blaze Ball which does 50 more damage to the pokemon and also discards all the fire energy cards of the opponent.
Conclusion
The world of Pokemon has offered a great chance to fans and provided them with the joy and feel to participate in the battles. These cards have a great value to the collectors and also to the fans and have attracted many hearts. The Pokemon TCG is advancing in the world of pokemon and players and collectors are anticipating for more new pokemon cards.
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