Pokémon TCG — Dark Gyarados 1st Edition & Deoxys ex, BGS

Two vintage Pokémon cards from two of the most collected periods of the TCG, both graded by Beckett and sealed in their original slabs.

Dark Gyarados, 8/82 from Team Rocket in Italian, printed in 2000, graded BGS 8.5 Near Mint+. The Team Rocket expansion remains one of the defining sets of the Wizards of the Coast era, and Dark Gyarados is among its most recognisable holographics — a card whose visual language is inseparable from the set it belongs to.

The second is Deoxys ex, 98/107 from EX Deoxys, 2005, also in Italian and graded BGS 9 Mint. The EX era is valued for its illustrations and for the Pokémon ex mechanic, which reshaped how the game was played; this example comes from a set that has become a benchmark for that period.

Together the pair spans the transition from the Wizards era to the EX era, in the same language and under the same grading standard — the kind of pairing that gives a vintage collection its coherence.