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Chasing Cards Guide

Know what to chase next
Chasing Cards Guide

Every card worth chasing, and what it costs.

Pick a budget, pick a Pokémon — we’ll show you what to chase next.

Illustration: Keiko Fukuyama, Stargazing (1999) · © Nintendo / Creatures / Game Freak, courtesy of Hi-Res Pokémon. Found via It’s Nice That.

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One place to decide what you collect next.

Whether you are chasing one card, a species run, or a whole master set, the question is the same: what does it cost, and is it worth it. We answer with real sold comps — every printing priced on its own page, every set laid out to browse, every goal ranked. Currently covering the 1999–2003 Wizards era, and growing set by set. Built by a collector, for collectors. No shop, no paywall.

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Visual Card Lists

Pick a set and browse every card in it. Rarity, printings and prices on each card’s own page.

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Cards Worth Chasing

Every printing ranked by the size of the prize — after the grading fee, not before it.

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Collection Suggestions

Set a budget and see what it actually buys — complete sets, 1st Edition runs, species runs.

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What should you collect next?

Set a budget and see every vintage collection it actually buys — complete sets, 1st Edition runs, grandmaster sets, species collections and graded runs, all priced from real card data. No shop, no guesswork.

— collections fit this budget WotC era (1999–2003) · prices from PriceCharting · ungraded
Visual Card Lists

Have you seen the cards in these sets yet?

15 BOOSTER SETS · 1999–2003

Base Set booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Base Set 1999 Jungle booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Jungle 1999 Fossil booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Fossil 1999 Team Rocket booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Team Rocket 2000 Base Set 2 booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Base Set 2 2000 Gym Heroes booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Gym Heroes 2000 Gym Challenge booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Gym Challenge 2000 Neo Genesis booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Neo Genesis 2000 Neo Discovery booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Neo Discovery 2001 Neo Revelation booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Neo Revelation 2001 Neo Destiny booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Neo Destiny 2002 Legendary Collection booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Legendary Collection 2002 Expedition booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Expedition 2002 Aquapolis booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Aquapolis 2003 Skyridge booster pack, 1999–2003 Wizards era Skyridge 2003

Every set we cover, 1999 onward — fifteen booster sets so far. Open any pack to see every card in it, what each one sells for by grade, and which ones are worth chasing.

Browse every set

Pack artwork cut from PriceCharting's set photos and served from this site. Card artwork © The Pokémon Company. Chasing Cards Guide is an independent, unofficial guide.

How to organize your Pokémon cards.

(the easy way)

Visual Binder Layout • Full Card List • Printable Checklist • Binder Placeholders • Promos & Variants • Binder Size

Deciding what to chase is the hard part. Every master set page lays the rest of it out — what is in the set, what it costs, and the binder to buy.

Pikachu — Reverse Holo Legendary Collection scan #1 · Pikachu — Reverse Holo Legendary Collection $1,306.52 Charizard — 1st Edition Base Set scan #2 · Charizard — 1st Edition Base Set $9,555.50 Gengar — Reverse Holo Legendary Collection scan #3 · Gengar — Reverse Holo Legendary Collection $1,878.08 Gyarados — Reverse Holo Legendary Collection scan #4 · Gyarados — Reverse Holo Legendary Collection $309.97 Mew — Expedition scan #6 · Mew — Expedition $540.94 Chansey — 1st Edition Base Set scan #8 · Chansey — 1st Edition Base Set $400.00

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Master sets by set See one, start to finish

Card scans by PriceCharting. The six shown are the dearest raw (ungraded) cards in the dataset.

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Every card here is priced from real sold comps, and every collection suggestion is a budget you can actually spend. Written by one collector, for people working out what to chase next.

3,718 CARD PAGES · 3,618 CARDS PRICED · 3,540 RANKED · 18 SETS · 251 POKÉMON · UPDATED OCTOBER 2026

Chasing Cards Guide is a fan-made resource for Pokémon card collectors, written and maintained by one collector. It is not an official Pokémon site, and it is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK, or The Pokémon Company International.

Pokémon, Pokémon character names and related names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc. Card names, set names, artwork and card images belong to their respective owners and appear here for identification, reference and commentary. Prices come from public sold-listing data (PriceCharting) and are shown for information only — they are not offers to sell, and they are not a valuation.

Set, card and printing data comes from TCGplayer and pokemontcg.io; prices are PriceCharting sold-listing comps, read on the date shown on the page they appear. Card names, artwork and trademarks belong to their respective owners and are used for identification, reference and commentary.

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