"What Should I Do With This?" Shadowless Charizard Owner Asks What To Do With $10,000+ Pokémon TCG Card

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A Reddit user turned to the community for help after discovering he had a Shadowless Charizard card. While there are a handful of cards that are more expensive, the holy grail for many Pokémon card collectors is a Shadowless Charizard card. The card gets its moniker because the frame around the Charizard card art has no shadow. Only first edition cards and a subsequent limited print run are shadowless, with all other Base Set Charizard cards containing a drop shadow on the right side of its frame.

Recently, on the r/PokemonTCG community on Reddit, a user named Alec3369 showed off their recent discovery of a Base Set Shadowless Charizard card. In a post titled the user shows off the card in a binder of other Base Set cards. In the comments, the user explained how they had a card in apparently great condition. "," the user said on Reddit.

Because few Shadowless Charizard cards were made and even fewer are made in good condition, the Reddit user's card (assuming that the back of the card was free of damage) is probably worth a lot of money. An ungraded Shadowless Charizard card is worth around $3,500, and PSA-graded cards are selling for $10,000 or more. Based on the condition of the card, the user likely had a Grade 8 or higher, which sells for about $11,000 on secondary markets like eBay. PSA 10 Shadowless Charizard cards are currently selling for $235,874, partially because PSA has only given 125 cards a perfect grade.

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Because of the quality of the card, other Redditors recommended that the user cut the card out of the binder instead of pulling it from the top. While the binder will be ruined, pulling a card out of a binder where it has sat for 20+ years runs the risk of damaging it. Several users also recommended finding a card show at a PSA booth to have the card graded instead of mailing it in, to minimize the risk of the