Hi all,
I’ve been watching this card for a little while and trying to understand the crazy price its going for. It’s just a regular AR card in the set. Even NM copies are around like $300-$400.
Is it hard to pull or something? I’m just surprised at the price and was curious if anyone can share some insight.
Regarding the pull rate, I can tell that this Pikachu can only be obtained via a god pack.
About the probability. Estimates are 1:20 cases. Would be nice to hear if someone knows more about these numbers.
Like genchiro said, in vstar it is only obtainable in a god pack along with the other cards from the vignette.
In Crown Zenith it is a regular AR with typical pull rates.
i wouldn’t consider this a crazy price. maybe 2-3x the price of raw which seem less ridiculous than a lot of other cards.
Was not aware, that makes sense then why it has a large premium for a regular AR card. Thanks for sharing. Also that looks awesome as a binder page!
@inertgeometry - Right, I just thought that relative to other AR cards found in SWSH or S&V that it seemed really high even for a NM copy. Now I understand better though based off the “God Pack” being the only way to get a copy and it’s a Pikachu of course. The Pokemon Company really knows how to make a good collectible card.
understandable confusion without the context for sure. it definitely makes collecting all of the ARs a little more difficult price wise. then again, they started adding some more exclusive ARs this year including one that is now more expensive than the pikachu 
Hi all, coming back to this thread nearly a year later. The price on this card has collapsed. Does anyone know why? Re-print or change in the pull rate? Or there’s simply way more of these out there than people realized?
Fair enough! Wow didn’t realize the pop got this high. Definitely makes sense for the price drop. Might have to pick this up at some point then.
1 in 20 cases (how many is that in boxes actually?) and there are still 13,000 graded. Wonder what the print run of VU is and how many more times bigger than the average JP set…
Japanese is crazy cheap right now. English is more expensive right now especially in modern.
This is exactly why there is so much bearish attitude toward modern singles. Doesn’t matter how popular a card is or how hard it is to pull.
I like this thread.
the price of sealed goes up but the price of singles goes down 
as arceus intended
This card had me confused as well until I leaned it came from a god pack (my posts are on the forum somewhere).
The only one I’m still waiting to pick up is bidoof which is £20+ on ebay and cardmarket last I checked. It will have to come down some day. Now I’m left wondering why this is the second highest card next to pikachu, is bidoof a fan favourite that I wasn’t aware of? And … why
Which other AR cards are exclusive? (Sorry I know this post is old!)
Vstar Universe was printed into the floooor jesus
I wonder how the latest 151 reprints will compare to the massive VStar volume. They’re both S-tier sets though, so if history repeats itself it’ll be a case of them being massively available for quite sometime… until they’re not.
