What is your Mt. Rushmore of grading cards? Can be any. Pokémon, Magic, sports etc.
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For me probably prerelease raichu, prerelease clefable, lost origin giratina alternate full art, and an ooyamas pokemon machine for funsies
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Trophy Kangaskhan
1st Edition Base Charizard
1st Edition Neo Genesis Lugia
Gold Star Rayquaza
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'52 Mickey Mantle
O-Pee-Chee Wayne Gretzky Rookie
T206 Honus Wagner
1st ed Base Charizard
Black Lotus
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No 86 fleer Jordan?
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It all began two years ago, when I started exactly in New York one evening while I was alone on the 129th floor of the Central Park Tower asking myself this question: “Marco, but what are the best objects that a private individual can have? What is the real n .1? The real Mt. Rushmore?”
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Nah, I think a Mount Rushmore should have some variety and Base Zard/Black Lotus are probably the two most iconic TCG cards of all time. Mantle and Wagner are the most well-known baseball cards, and I think the Gretzky has more going for it than the Jordan rookie. Plus hockey is just better than basketball.
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Might be interesting to think about the 5 INDIVIDUAL cards (as in specific copies of cards)
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Champion Stamped DCE x4 (playset)
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Look at this Canadian with 5 responses
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gold star greninja
holon transciever
mcdonald’s umbreon
charizard
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There are three types of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can’t.
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1952 Topps Mickey Mantle
Black Lotus
1986 Fleer Michael Jordan
1st Ed Base Charizard
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now we’re talkin
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Not talking about my personal favorite cards but the in my opinion most important cards, I’d say:
TCG in general:
- (Alpha) Black Lotus
- (1st Ed) Base Charizard
- (1st Ed) LOB Blue Eyes White Dragon
- either Illustrator Pikachu or another card of the Power Nine.
Pokémon:
- Base Charizard
- Illustrator Pikachu
- Neo Genesis Lugia
- Gold Star Rayquaza
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My personal Mt. Rushmore of Pokemon cards would probably be Jungle Pikachu, Base Set Dratini, Holographic Base Set Flareon, and Japanese Base Set Kakuna simply because all four have their own core memories that make up some of the early foundations of my Pokemon card collecting.
- Jungle Pikachu - My very first Pikachu card
- Base Set Dratini - My very first Pokemon card in general
- Base Set Holographic Flareon - The first cherished card I ever lost (my cousin stole it and I’m still mad at him about it 20+ years later)
- Japanese Base Set Kakuna - My first Japanese Pokemon card
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Had to double check this wasn’t the unpopular opinions thread.
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