Pokémon cards spiked 20% in value over the past few months. Here’s why

The Pokémon card boom is getting bigger, with overall value of cards rising recently—and some individual cards increasing by as much as 150%.

It might sound a little silly that there’s an entire subgenre of influencers who offer investment advice around Pokémon trading cards. Probably because it is a little silly. The idea of some YouTube Jim Cramer breathlessly warning viewers that “Surging Sparks is setting a fire under collectors and investors” is the stuff Saturday Night Live sketches are made of.