Pokémon Pikachu — Pokémon Card Festa 2017 Promo, 061/SM-P PSA 10 (Japanese)

Distributed only at the Pokémon Card Festa 2017, the Japanese event built around the trading card game and its collectors, this Pikachu promo never entered retail circulation. It is numbered 061/SM-P and forms, with the Champion's League promo of the same year, the pair of 2017 Japanese Pikachu releases drawn by Naoki Saito — the one handed out at a collectors' festival, the other reserved for the competitive circuit.

Saito's illustration sets Pikachu in a dynamic, forward-leaning pose against a background split by lightning, with the silhouette of Zeraora visible behind the subject, the composition that gave this release its immediate visual identity. On the playable side the card keeps the classic profile of the era: 60 HP and the 10,000,000 Volt attack, which deals 100 damage at the cost of discarding all attached Energy, a nod to the move most associated with the character.

The card has been graded PSA 10 GEM MINT, the maximum of the scale. For event-distributed promos of this period that outcome is not routine: cards handed out at a venue rarely survive with the same protection as product opened from a sealed booster box, which is precisely where the population thins out.