When he is not being a YouTuber, wrestler or entrepreneur, Logan Paul is a big-time Pokemon collector. And he is likely to be able to let considered one of his most-prized playing cards go.

Paul acquired the cardboard, a rarity referred to as a «Pikachu Illustrator,» in 2021 for about $5.3 million, which the Guinness group has referred to as the most-expensive non-public sale of a Pokemon card ever. In a current video on YouTube—the place Paul has greater than 23 million followers—he stated he is contemplating placing it up on the market.

“I am serious about letting it go, probably exchanging fingers for the appropriate particular person,» he stated. «So if that purchaser is watching, attain out to me.” (The total video is on the backside of this text.)

Paul, identified to put on Pokemon playing cards round his neck, sported this one at his WrestleMania debut and continuously flashes it in movies. He bought it in a swap, exchanging one other Illustrator card—with a decrease grade for its situation—and $4 million, chronicling the deal in a 2022 video.

“Gathering is a component conquest, half funding, half fandom,» toy government Jeremy Padawer, who was featured within the 2022 video, informed Investopedia. «I do know Logan to be pushed by all three issues.»

Paul’s Card Is Thought-about a ‘Grail’ Merchandise

The cardboard is taken into account one of many rarest Pokemon collectibles round.

Illustrators got here to be after a Japanese journal ran a contest by which 39 winners obtained a card drawn by Atsuko Nishida, designer of famously cute Pokemon character Pikachu. (Two different Illustrator playing cards had been launched in 2017.) Paul’s is believed to be in the very best situation of any identified Illustrator card, lifting its worth.

A multimillion-dollar sale of Paul’s Illustrator could be the most recent big-dollar transaction involving collectible playing cards. A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card bought for greater than $12 million is taken into account the costliest piece of sports activities memorabilia ever. A «Magic: The Gathering» card bought for $3 million in April; a current eBay search confirmed a number of Pokemon playing cards listed for greater than $1 million.

Paul, who in his video didn’t say why or how he would promote the cardboard, or the value he would anticipate, didn’t reply to Investopedia’s request for remark. On Instagram, he has referred to as the quantity he paid for his Illustrator “an absurd sum of money for cardboard.”

Nonetheless, Padawer—who considers Paul’s card a «grail merchandise»—says it’s not unusual for prized collector’s gadgets to alter fingers. «Possibly gadgets like this aren’t meant to be loved by only one particular person for a whole lifetime,» he stated.