The prerelease Raichu card of myth and legend has been certified by grading company CGC Cards. The card has often been called the “holy grail” of English Pokemon cards because so few are said to exist.
As many longtime fans know, the card was said to have been accidentally created in the late ’90s when Wizards of the Coast was printing the prerelease Clefable promos for Pokemon Leagues. The story goes that some Raichu cards were accidentally mixed in with Clefable at the printing factory and were supposed to be destroyed, but some Wizards of the Coast employees pocketed a few of them (one account says 11 copies were saved from the factory, though the exact number isn’t known). Over the years some employees showed off their copies at Pokemon events, but a photo of one didn’t surface until April 2006. This was when...
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