The 10 Most Valuable Scarlet & Violet Black Star Promos Cards

The 'Van Gogh Pikachu.' Made for the 2023 Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum collaboration (the museum's 50th anniversary), it reimagines Pikachu in the style of Van Gogh's 1887 'Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat,' illustrated by Naoyo Kimura. You could only earn it by completing a 'Pokémon Adventure' walk through the Amsterdam museum, or as a bonus with collaboration merch — and demand got so intense the museum had to scale back distribution. Even with a large print run, it has stayed one of the most-traded Pokémon cards on the secondary market ever since.

MINAMINAMI Take drew Charmander pressed flat against a window, both paws on the glass, glaring out at a Pidgey sitting on the sill — and that face got out. Cropped and captioned, the narrow-eyed stare became the internet's picture of congratulating someone you are quietly furious at: "congrats", "happy for you", "nice", posted under somebody else's big pull while looking exactly like that. It is the Obsidian Flames Elite Trainer Box promo, so it never came out of a pack — the only routes to it are the box or the single. It trades around $65, several times any other ETB promo and more than the box cost at MSRP. The joke is doing the pricing, not the print run.