The Pokemon Company has released their worldwide sales data for fiscal year 2023/2024 (as of March 31, 2024), and they have sold 11.9 billion Pokemon cards, for a lifetime total of over 64.8 billion cards
#10 -- Charizard VMAX (Shiny, Shining Fates) Shining Fates was one of the most hyped sets of the Sword and Shield era, generating an excitement level that rivaled the pandemic-era frenzy of 2020-2021, and the Shiny Charizard VMAX was its undisputed chase card from the moment the set was announced
For the rarity table below, I have designated the baby shinies as SPa, the Shiny Pokmon-GX as SPb and the Shiny Vault full art Trainers and full-gold cards SPc: image949536 15.6 KB A note on rainbow rare Moltres, Zapdos & Articuno GX: I have no indication it is significantly rarer than the two full art Trainers
It also allows you to fight through very complex stacks or counter wars
As a 7/4 with trample and haste it hits the field like a Ball Lightning with the added bonus of making more human tokens to reduce its cost the following turn
Pokemon TCG Pocket took the world by storm when it was released in October of 2024, with tens of millions of people downloading the game in the first month alone
