most valuable first edition pokemon cards A guide to some of the rarest Pokémon ever made (and how to tell if your cards are worth anything) The Most Valuable Base Set

Before I really did the math, it was hard to resist occasionally picking a Gate Colossus over Smothering Tithe, Mirror March, or Immolation Shaman, etc

This one not only gains value from being nostalgic but also because it comes from a shadowless box set

It wont always be the first green card that you take out of a pack, but a very high percentage of green decks will play Wall of Blossoms pretty happily

It may never have been opened at all, sitting sealed in a warehouse somewhere if the Lord of the Rings set didn't prove popular for one local seller

The cleanest near-mint (NM) copies cap things off with sales as high as $250