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GameStop's $68,000 Charizard Pokémon card is already a saga

Polygon.com·Patricia Hernandez·21 days ago
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Published May 11, 2026, 1:48 PM EDT A rare chase card has apparently been repeatedly sold back to GameStop Graphic: Polygon When GameStop announced that it would begin selling $5,000 presorted packs of Pokémon cards , skeptics understandably wondered who in their right mind would buy them. Surely no one would throw away money to the Funko Pop retailer just to get a 0.4% chance to score a rare Pokémon card, right? It turns out, not only are GameStop customers willing to gamble thousands of dollars for Pokémon cards, but people are also reportedly hitting the jackpot. A recap, for those who haven't been following the surrounding circus of all this: GameStop sells various tiers of both physical and digital Pokémon cards . The more you pay, the higher the odds that the pack will contain an item of high value. GameStop advertises a number of "chase" cards in the pool that people might want, like a $52,000 2003 Umbreon or a $61,232 2006 Mewtwo.…

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