Pokémon Charizard GX Rainbow Secret Rare — Burning Shadows 2017, PSA 10

The Rainbow Secret Rare of Charizard GX in Burning Shadows is the card that turned a Sun & Moon set into a landmark. Numbered 150/147, past the end of the base checklist, it belongs to the secret portion of the set, and the rainbow treatment covers the entire illustration in a spectrum finish that shifts with the angle of light. In the modern era it became one of the reference points for what a chase card looks like.

5ban Graphics built the card as a full-face composition with the figure occupying the whole frame, and the statistics behind it are among the heaviest of the period: 250 HP, Wing Attack, Crimson Storm at 300 damage and the Raging Out GX attack. It was played seriously while legal and collected long after it left the format, the combination that sustains demand on a modern Pokémon card.

This copy has been authenticated and encapsulated by PSA at 10 GEM MINT in a sealed holder. Rainbow secrets of this set were opened in quantity but handled by players, so a maximum-grade survivor is a considerably smaller population than the print run implies — the reason it sits at the centre of modern Charizard collections.