Vintage Pokémon · 1996–2003
Vintage Card Portfolio

From Tokyo, 1996. To your shelf, today.

The only portfolio tracker built exclusively for vintage Pokémon cards: Japanese originals and their Western counterparts. 61 sets. Live sales data. The precision your collection has been owed for twenty-five years.

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Karpfolio Gym Challenge card grid — Blaine's Arcanine, Charizard, Brock's Ninetales and more
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The gap we set out to close

Every card tracker tries to cover fifty thousand sets. Almost none understand twenty.

When your 1999 1st Edition Shadowless Charizard sits in the same database as last week's Energy commons, something's off. Vintage cards aren't a footnote. They're a distinct market with distinct variants, distinct pricing dynamics, and a community that has stopped expecting software to get it right.

Every other tracker
  • 10,000+ sets you'll never own
  • One price source, often months behind
  • No sales history, just a guess
  • Can't tell 1st Edition from Unlimited
  • Japanese originals? Not really
  • Your vintage cards are an afterthought
Karpfolio
  • 61 vintage sets. Nothing else. Zero noise.
  • Weighted prices from six verified sources
  • Full sales chart per card, per grade
  • 1st Ed · Shadowless · Reverse · Box Topper
  • Japanese originals from 1996 onward
  • Built by a vintage collector. For you.
The Archive

Seven years. .
Two continents. One lineage.

From the first Japanese Expansion Pack (Tokyo, October 1996) to the final print run of Skyridge in May 2003. Six eras across two continents, with Japanese originals and their Western translations held side by side.

1995–1997 Japan

Pre-TCG

プリTCG

Top-Sun gum-card inserts and Bandai Carddass vending cards. These pre-TCG formats sit outside most trackers, so Karpfolio catalogues all six with live prices pulled from eBay and specialist auction houses.

SetsTopsun BlueGreenPrismBattleCarddass 1996Carddass 1997
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Non-TCG formats
1995
First Pokémon card
Pikachu — Topsun Blue, 1995
Topsun Blue · #025 · 1995
Oct 1996–Nov 1997 Japan

Original Series

ポケモンカードゲーム

Media Factory's original four expansions plus every CoroCoro and Fan Club promo. Native Japanese names display alongside their Western equivalents where they exist, with pricing drawn from the Japanese secondary market.

SetsExpansion PackJungleMystery of the FossilsRocket GangPromos
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Japanese expansions
264
Native JP names
Venusaur Holo — Japanese Expansion Pack, 1996
Expansion Pack · #003 · 1996
Jan 1999–Apr 2000 West

Base Series

Wizards of the Coast

The Western run that launched Pokémon outside Japan. Karpfolio tracks every print variant of all 493 cards: 1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited, with live Guide Price aggregated from six verified sources.

SetsBase SetJungleFossilBase Set 2Team RocketBlack Star Promos
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Across every variant
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Print types per card
Charizard Holo — Base Set Shadowless, 1999
Base Set · #4/102 · 1999
Feb 1998–Oct 2000 Japan & West

Gym Series

ジムシリーズ

The Kanto Gym Leaders era, end to end. Karpfolio covers both the Western Gym Heroes / Gym Challenge pair and Japan's six City Gym theme decks, which most trackers ignore entirely.

JapanGym HeroesGym ChallengeSouthern IslandsCity Gyms ×6Vending WesternGym HeroesGym Challenge
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Across both regions
6
JP-only City Gym decks
Blaine's Charizard — Gym Challenge, 2000
Gym Challenge · #2/132 · 2000
Dec 1999–May 2002 Japan & West

Neo Series

ネオシリーズ

Generation 2 in full, both regions side by side. Karpfolio separates Reverse Holo from standard Holo as distinct variants, because the secondary market treats them differently and most tools don't.

JapanNew WorldCrossing the RuinsAwakening LegendsDarkness & LightVSWeb WesternNeo GenesisDiscoveryRevelationDestinyLegendary Collection
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Across both regions
2002
First reverse holo
Lugia Holo — Neo Genesis, 2000
Neo Genesis · #9/111 · 2000
Dec 2001–May 2003 Japan & West

e-Card

ポケモンカードe

The last chapter of the Wizards era. Japan's five e-Card expansions appear alongside their three Western compressions (Expedition, Aquapolis, Skyridge), with Crystal Type cards catalogued as a distinct variant.

JapanBase ExpansionTown on No MapWind from the SeaSplit EarthMysterious Mountains WesternExpeditionAquapolisSkyridge
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Final chapter sets
Crystal
Tracked as variant
Crystal Charizard — Skyridge, 2003
Skyridge · #146/144 · 2003
01/06
61 sets · 4,500+ unique cards
PSA grades 1–10 · Every edition variant · Updated daily from live sales
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Our flagship

The Guide Price: one number you can actually trust.

Most trackers show a single static price from one source, weeks out of date. Karpfolio's Guide Price is a proprietary weighted score aggregated live from six verified sources, each weighted by recency, reliability, and volume. The price your card would realistically sell for today, not three months ago.

Sources eBay completed sales Fanatics (PWCC) Goldin Heritage Auctions PriceCharting TCGPlayer
Guide Price widget on a Pokémon card detail view
The tools

Built like proper instruments, not dashboards.

Most trackers throw every metric at you at once. Karpfolio gives you a small set of sharp tools, each one built for a specific collector's question. Nothing more. Nothing less.

01 / Portfolio

Know what your collection is worth, right now.

Total value, profit/loss, ROI, all recalculated live from the Guide Price. The trend chart shows performance over any window: one month, one year, since your first card. No more spreadsheets. No more "I think my cards went up."

Live valuation P&L ROI Trend chart
Portfolio dashboard
02 / Card Intelligence

Every card, seen through six market lenses.

Guide Price, last sale, purchase ROI, PSA population, market cap, all on one screen. Then scroll: the complete sales trend with dozens of real transactions, rate of growth, price range. Not a price tag. A full market picture.

Guide Price PSA pop Market cap Real sales
Card intelligence
03 / Real Sales

Every price is a transaction that actually happened.

We pull completed sales from eBay and the leading auction houses. Not estimates. Not "market averages." Real cards that changed hands for real money. Filter by timeframe. Read the trend. Make decisions on evidence, not hope.

eBay Fanatics Goldin Heritage
Sales history
04 / Analytics

Your collection is an asset. Analyze it like one.

Concentration risk. Grade distribution. Value by set. Top gainers, top losers. Not vanity metrics, but the same lens you'd apply to any serious portfolio. For serious collectors with something worth analyzing.

Concentration Grade mix Set breakdown Top movers
Analytics
05 / Set Browser

Browse the whole archive, owned or not.

Walk through every card of every set. Track your completion percentage at a glance. Tap any card, even the ones you're hunting, to see its full market data. Research becomes effortless. Purchases become informed.

Full catalogue Completion % Instant research JP & EN side by side
Set browser — series navigation across Base, Gym, Neo, e-Card
Pricing

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FAQ

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A portfolio tracker built exclusively for vintage Pokémon cards. Add your graded (or raw) cards and get live market data aggregated from six real sources: analytics, sales history, PSA populations, completion tracking, and more. 61 sets total, from the 1996 Japanese Expansion Pack to the 2003 Skyridge final print run.
Vintage cards are a distinct market, with distinct variants (1st Edition, Shadowless, Reverse, Box Topper), distinct dynamics, and a community with specific data needs. By covering only vintage, we deliver accuracy and depth that generic trackers can't match. We may expand to adjacent vintage or collectible categories, but we'll never dilute the archive with bulk modern sets.
Yes, properly. From the October 1996 Japanese Expansion Pack through the 2002 Mysterious Mountains e-Card expansion, plus the pre-TCG Topsun and Carddass collectibles. Forty-four Japanese sets in total, with native Japanese card names alongside English equivalents where they exist.
Real completed sales from six verified sources: eBay, Fanatics (PWCC), Goldin, Heritage Auctions, PriceCharting, and TCGPlayer. Every price you see traces back to a transaction that actually happened, never an estimate or algorithm output.
Karpfolio is currently optimized for PSA, which dominates vintage Pokémon secondary markets. BGS and CGC support is on the roadmap, prioritized based on collector demand.
Seven days of full, unrestricted access. No credit card. No feature limits. Add cards, explore analytics, check prices, everything. After seven days, you pick monthly ($12.99) or yearly ($89.99, effectively $7.50/month). If you pass, nothing happens, no charge, no pressure.
Karpfolio is a mobile-first web app: open karpfolio.app on any device and it behaves like a native app (add to home screen for the full experience). A native iOS app is in beta; Android is next.
Magikarp. The most underestimated Pokémon ever printed. It only knows Splash, but with patience, it becomes Gyarados. Same energy as a good vintage collection: conviction, time, and a splash of faith.

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