The 8 Most Desirable Modern Pokemon Cards 

I pulled the Moonbreon out of an evolving skies booster pack about 5 months ago! Was so happy when I did! Have not bought any cards since. I felt my mid life pokemon crisis was healed lol.

I bought the Latios/Latias GX for $180CAD raw. I sent it in for grading and came back a 10 😊

There's honestly a lot to unpack there when you start the video with "these cards are reasonable on some level" and then mention $2k and $6k cards later on. Sorry man but I disagree that those are reasonably obtainable cards at those prices. The average collector is not going to spend basically the price of a small used vehicle on one Pokemon card lol.

Great video! Love seeing stuff like this from you and would love more :)

This is so cool! I'm glad I saw your videos on the beauty looking back card and got it when I did. Next I'm going for Giratina V!

yo Jake - would love a video series on top 5 or so cards you think are a good buy at different price points..like $100, $500, $1000, $5000. could be a good series

I think it’s a great list! That said we can’t ignore the grail Trainer card being the full art Lillie from Ultra Prism. The card in Itself is absolutely beautiful

The Mario Pikachu is so cool!

I had the Latios & Latios in a PSA 10, couldn’t resist to sell it. The price was insane and I bought it a few years back for just 60 bucks. Thought is was a very underrated card at that time

I like your personal selection of these cards! As someone who enjoys collecting but isn’t super passionate right now, two cards I would personally add to the list are some variation of a rainbow card (for me the rainbow rare lugia GX from lost thunder) since those rainbows won’t be made anymore, along with the crown zenith vstar charizard/mewtwo card since it’s pretty iconic for the set! Love the content, keep up the great work!

Really enjoy vids like this! Perhaps next one could be some sleeper picks that are less than 50$ that you think have value potential

Glad to have a Moonbreon and a CRAZY story to boot!

6k is so far outside the realm of reason that it’s almost comical haha

Very nice list of cards to collect. I would love to have the mario pikachu in my collection as well, maybe I should take a look at the PSA9s for this one considering the price.

Discovered your channel some days ago and it's very interesting from a stranger's point of view, i have starting collecting pokemon card this month (i'm not coming from nothing , was a competitive yugioh player so i kinda know the card market in my country) . What amaze me the most is the price for your cards , i know english cards are cheaper than french ones but still that's very impressing

when I first got back into the hobby I always felt like the ADP statue was so beautiful and still do. Glad I was able to get one

Great list! Also, new camera?!

What a great video one of your best🎉

Nice thanks dude 😎👍🏾

Really surprised you left out blaziken alt art from chilling reign. Great video!

Man I hope I can get the Mario and Luigi Pikas at some point. Those are such cool cards. I can't even think of a close contender.

great picks

Great set list here for sure. Looking to get the Pikachu stamp card one day...if I get a third job. Lol

I had been chasing the umbreon alt since the set dropped never pulled it and 2 days ago I was blessed and won a copy in a raffle I spent 20 bucks on. Blessed

There was a time when the Latios&Latias was worth about the same as Test Tube Mewtwo. Since then the 2 cards have diverged greatly in price despite the Mewtwo being my favourite of the 2 cards. The market obviously disagrees, but I still think the price gap will narrow again eventually.

I have multiple versions and of all of these cards in a 10.. and I would NEVER spend over $1,000 on a card. The gym heroes Eevee boxes were so easy to pick up for about $250 a couple years ago. You got two Eevee Heroes BB's, a flimsy cheap deck box, some cool sleeves, and a sealed copy of the Espeon. Being Japanese, they generally all score 10's. I pulled a few Moonbreons, and even have a BGS 10 auto one. Pulled 4 Giratinas, those usually will be pulled in 9's.. that's why the 10 is pricier. Beauty Pikachu postage boxes were like $175/ea.. and they generally all grade in 10's.. but no reason to PSA those, as without any holofoil, many will score black labels or MANA flawless labels. No foil makes for easy peasy grading. Same with Cramorant. English, sure get the easy PSA 10. Japanese cards, go for a Black Label, or even more prestigious, a MANA flawless with perfect attributes. 46/50 centering can still score a BGS Black label.. but you need 51/49 or better, all around, to score a Flawless. If you have a true 50/50, 50/50 with 0.00000000% damage, those go for astronomical amounts of money 🤙

the latios and latias.... gawd so cute

If you think these cards will sell at those price point...think again! Cards at those price will sit for months, if not years on any sellers site. Trading cards in general is slowly declining, which is both good and bad for consumers.💯

My grail card is Shining Gyarados from Awakening Legends. I remember pulling it as a child from a booster pack gifted from my mother, then I gave it to someone for other cards... I was a child. After months of chasing, this summer I purchased a copy of it in psa7. My gem card, with a personal history.

Pulled the Latias Latios Tag Team back in 2019, sold it for roughly $30.....good to see the $2k price tag now. Recently pulled the Hidden Fates Shiny Zard GX. You win some, you lose some!

Pulled a moonbreon 2 years ago from a random single booster for 3.99. best purchase of my life

I started collecting again sometime at the beginning of last year. Starting with evolving skies. On my 4th pack I pulled the moonbreon. That's my cool story lol

I pulled two moonbreon in the same year, one from a target blister , and one from the zekrom pikachu box from GameStop. The GameStop one was epic, both my friend I pulled one from the same product at the same time while streaming pack pulls on discord .

golden box in the Background ❤️

Now do this list with a cap of $100! I'm poor. haha.

Its not on the list but I have the magikarp and wailord alt art and its definitely the crown jewel of my collection. I got it when it was like $60 maybe 2 years ago and it was literally my dream card for a long time but I got it and Im so glad

Sold choices 👌

ADP alt beet modern card imo,from the Pokemon featured to the set its in and the time it cane out it shows the peak of Pokemon from this Era and is still the most obtainable of the 8.

I wanna see a vintage version of the video!

Great list I would add Mewtube and Metal Zard PSA10 to the list. I’m short the top 4 from here but they are heavy hitters Mario, mimi, umbreon, lovebirds sigh one day

I pulled the Umbreon Vmax from an etb 2 months ago 🔥

Armoured Mewtwo in PSA 10 is a 💥

Mario Pikachu still my fave

My dads colleague gave him the mimikyu card for free😂 this card was the reason why i started collecting again, i just thought it looked so cool

3 of 8! Let the chase for "Jake's 8" begin! How many do you own? 🚀

Is it just me or is the ADP tag team card really not that nice

Im trying to collect all the big alt arts, just picked up the Lugia and Charizard v alt art

Feel like the Gengar VMax alt art from Fusion Strike is right up there with these!

Just pulled that Giratina V last night out of a random blister pack. I still cant believe it.

Bought a raw copy of the Mimikyu awhile back, graded it a 10 and sold it then bought a psa 9 instead. That said if I ever sell my entire collection the Mario/Luigis are definitely the ones I'm not letting go of and possibly the Alola Friends too which I think might be the most desirable trainer card

I remember in 2022 I pulled 4 moonbreons what a great year .

crazy i actually have 3 out of 8 on this list

I'd like to see a list of modern unicorns with no price ceiling.

I never could pull that dang Moonbreon, so I just took the L and purchased one at a PSA 10. I'm extremely happy to have it in my collection, and maybe one day I'll start grading my other Eeveeloutions. But good lord, unless I somehow win the lottery, I can't see myself spending $6,000+ on a card, that's absolutely crazy! My entire collection ain't even worth that much!🤣 If anything, if I could, I'd get the Japanese Moonbreon instead.

Laboratory Mewtwo is the first alt art and stood out from every S&M set during that first year. It took another two years before alt arts became mainstream, so that Mewtwo is The Modern Card to own, imo!

I pulled moonbreon x2. First I one i sold off. Second i pulled last pack magic, from a mewtwo v union box. Good times

I only have 1 of these cards and I pulled it from a lost origin booster bundle ($25). I want to get it graded but it’s a pain tbh

nice

I would be so happy to have ANY of those cards, LOL... some day!

Battlestyles tyrannitar best modern card

I am just imaging one of his dates going really well and when they go back to his place he busts out the Espeon and makes her stare at it for 30 straight minutes.

Another sleeper is, there is only one card that is live action and the character is high af on R. Charizard from detective pikachu.

Gengar and mimikyu though👻

For 6000 dollars I'd rather have a crappy boat than a piece of cardboard lol

Pulled Moonbreon in my first ever Evolving Skies pack, only 3 weeks back into the hobby… was truly insane. I didn’t even know what I had at the time!

Well my most desirable card is the Japanese's Charizard EX that got vine wrap by Venusaur

Fresh cut

I have the giratina,vmax umbreon, getting the latios latios in the mail, then that’s it

What are the top 10 pokemons in terms of tcg.

idk abt Espeon VMAX but even the japanese ver the price is considered cheap among all those cards u mention

What about shiny Charizard GX? Is the Hidden Fates hype over?

Bro you never bring up rayquaza that shit fire

I still have a umbreon that came back as a psa 8. Should I read it in for a 10?

I have none of these cards. lol. And I opened many packs trying to pull these

If u wanna invest on lost origin.. save ur money.. I already opened 4 booster boxes. Still haven't seen that card.

I have 4 of the 8 that were discussed in this video; Espeon Vmax Alt Art (Japanese & English), Umbreon Vmax Alt Art (Japanese & English), Beauty Looking Back Pikachu, and Giratina V (English).

Yo Jake!

Lol me and wife pulled moon boy hers was in boosterbox on realease date and mine was in the car from a single pack tell the wife i never pull anything good fyi mine was bgs 10 and hers was a solid 9.5 all 10s but centering was 9

Very interesting list. I can think of at least 5 artworks immediately that I would replace half of these with but to each their own I guess.

I want that Munch collection so bad! Definitely my chase collection.

I gave mine away to my brother and you gave it away 😅

Giratina V is lame, man.... I pulled 3 of them and just keep one to put in the binder... Ugly artwork, I didnt know that people pays so much for trash. Mario Pikachu is undoubtedly the number 1! Amazing card! Now we need a Pikachu cosplayed like Link from The Legend of Zelda!

I love your channel but I really don't share your love for the Pikachu promo's. I like the scream promo's but the Mario Pikachu does not appeal to me at all.

Not a fan of the statue one

I hate being part of the herd... liking things that other people like... why can't I like ugly stuff... sigh....

Thanks Jake. I’m going to go ahead and buy all these today. Would you be able to make a list for more expensive cards? $1,000+ a card please?

Primero

I really think this video over-values the worth of graded cards. More and more collectors are shifting towards one-touch display holders or binders for their displaying purposes and companies such as CGC and PSA show that their is no consistency to their grading. You no longer pay for a true gem mint copy and grading is too subjective now. Ace grading is one of the few companies that use software and cameras to grade their cards accurately and consistently but even then I think grading as a whole is a bit of a scam. My whole perception of it was changed over the TCG boom years and I truly see things for what it truly is (and I think a lot of the card market sees that too; hence the rapid decline in card values)