Top 10 Most Valuable Pikachu Cards

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Lizardon Mega Battle Trophy · No. 2 Trainer (Japanese)

Released

1998 (Japanese)

The silver trophy card, awarded to second-place finishers at the 1998 Lizardon Mega Battle, from the first wave of Pokémon championship prizes. Its record PSA 10 copy sold at Goldin in September 2023, three years before the 2026 trophy-card explosion, which makes this the oldest record still standing anywhere on this list.

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EX Holon Phantoms · 104/110

Released

2006 (English)

The franchise mascot given the Gold Star treatment, from the EX era’s hardest pull category, with art by Masakazu Fukuda. There are 119 copies in PSA 10, so this price is demand, not rarity: the card’s tracked high was $174,999.99 on eBay in June 2026, and the September Fanatics Collect result, on 24 bids, nearly tripled it.

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Art Academy Competition Promo · Spanish Print

Released

2015 (Spanish)

The Spanish winner of the 2015 Art Academy competition: Lily-Chan’s winking Pikachu in a blue-and-gold winter outfit, under a pastel sky. The artist received just 100 copies and the card was never sold at retail. PSA lists only eight copies in PSA 10, and the October 18, 2026 Fanatics Collect auction drew 55 bids to reach this figure.

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Art Academy Competition Promo · English Print

Released

2015 (English)

The British winner of the same competition: Meli’s Pikachu dressed as a pâtissier, in a white chef’s coat, presenting a tray of cupcakes. Like every Art Academy winner card, 100 copies went to the artist and none were retailed. Its October 11, 2026 Fanatics Collect sale drew 34 bids and landed on exactly the same $660,000 as the Lily-Chan card one week later; it ranks ahead on the strength of two independent reports.

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Legendary Collection · 86/110 · Reverse Holo

Released

2002 (English)

The fireworks card: the reverse holo pattern covers the whole card body outside the art window, over Ken Sugimori’s Base Set Pikachu. Only 35 copies have graded PSA 10, and its 2026 climb is the steepest on this list: $204,000 at Fanatics Collect in June, $264,000 two weeks later, then $780,000 in September on 32 bids.

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Kamex Mega Battle Trophy · No. 3 Trainer (Japanese)

Released

1998 (Japanese)

The bronze trophy from the 1998 Kamex Mega Battle held the record for any Trophy Pikachu from May 2026 until the gold No. 1 trophy passed it in October 2026. PSA has graded only five copies of it and exactly one is a PSA 10, so condition scarcity, not tournament placement, set this price.

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First Official Tournament Trophy · No. 1 Trainer (Japanese)

Released

1997 (Japanese)

The gold trophy of Pokémon’s first official tournaments, and the first championship prize the game ever produced. Goldin records eight copies of this card in the PSA census. A PSA 8 copy sold at Goldin on October 26, 2026 for $3,080,500 including the buyer premium, on a $2,525,000 winning bid with 32 bids, the highest price ever paid for a Trophy Pikachu. A different PSA 8 copy of the same card had sold at Goldin in March 2026 for $982,100. The same trophy’s 1998 printing has a record of its own at $450,000 for a PSA 9 at Heritage in December 2025.

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CoroCoro Comics Promo · Glossy, Marketing Variation (Japanese)

Released

1996 (Japanese)

Among the first Pokémon cards ever printed: the glossy Pikachu that peeled out of 1996 CoroCoro Comics sheets, before the Japanese Base Set existed. This is the early marketing variation, a prototype-style printing with the art shifted off-center and a greenish tinge to the fur, of which CGC has certified only two copies. The CGC 8.5 copy, pedigreed to The Card Bound Collection, sold privately in August 2026 through broker Nostalgix to collector John Nelson, for the highest price ever paid for a CGC-certified card.

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Art Academy Competition Promo · XY-P (Japanese)

Released

2015 (Japanese)

Fujishima’s winner in the “Dress Up Pikachu” category: Pikachu in a red hooded raincoat, holding a yellow-orange umbrella. The artist received 100 copies and the card was never sold at retail. This record needs its context printed next to it: the same card in the same grade sold at Heritage in June 2026 for $156,250, and a PSA 10 copy resold at Goldin in October 2026 for $1,037,000, and another PSA 10 copy sold at Goldin in October 2026 for $274,500. The Fanatics Collect result stands as the record public auction price for the card in the audited sales dataset, whose rule is that auction results are never excluded on price.