Neo Destiny: Shining Charizard, Pokémon card to chase

The chase card of the Neo Destiny set is Shining Charizard. Its price is read every day and the figure above is the latest reading. What is missing is the chance of pulling one from a booster: it is only estimated. Neo Destiny is the last set of the Neo series. It brings together Dark Pokémon and Light Pokémon, and its Shining cards are the attraction. Shining Charizard is the one collectors name first, which explains why its price sits above the rest of the list.

Shining Charizard: why the rate remains an estimate

Boosters from the Neo era reserve a single slot for rarity. Plain rares, classic holos and Shining cards compete for that same place, with different odds. The Shining cards make up the smallest share of that draw, and Charizard is only one of them: the rate for the card is the family's rate, split among all of its cards. The sources are reported box openings and summaries, never a publisher's figure, and they differ on the detail: the confidence is medium, not high.

The Neo Destiny Shining Charizard pull rate

The grid above shows that a booster box does not hold this card, for the most part. Looking for a copy by opening boxes is far from certain. For the card alone, buying it singly gives a clean price, without the other pulls of a box. The condition of the copy moves that price far more than the set does, and a card from that era is judged on its edges, its surface and its centring before anything else.

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For the card itself, the Shining Charizard page details its price. For sealed boosters, these are the seller searches: the Neo Destiny booster, the same booster from a second seller, the booster box and the same box from a second seller.