
It could be the beautiful artwork, it could be the fire, and it could be that it simply looks the coolest.

all big hitters in the Pokemon universe, so what set Charizard apart and made it the most valuable? the base set included several big name Pokemon already made prominent by the videogames and the anime including Mewtwo, Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard and Raichu. The set released on October 20th of 1996. Long before the height of Pokemania in the western hemisphere which really blew up in about 1999 we go back to Japan in 1996 with the release of the Japanese Base set, this my friends is where the story begins. Now I know there has been some debate over the fact he isn't actually a dragon type, but we all know he probably should be, that aside lets get to it - in this article we are going to delve into the history of Charizard cards in the Pokemon Trading Card Game taking us right back to 1996 right the way through to the present day.

A long time ago in a trading card game expansion released far far away lived a fire breathing Dragon known as Charizard.
