{"id":29354,"date":"2026-01-23T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=29354"},"modified":"2026-01-24T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T01:04:50","slug":"released-in-2014s-pokemon-xy-flashfire-this-m-charizard-ex-69-quickly-became-the-chase-card-of-the-set-collectors-could-only-acquire-it-by-pulling-it-from-flashfire-booster-packs-where-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=29354","title":{"rendered":"Released in 2014\u2019s Pok\u00e9mon XY: Flashfire, this M Charizard-EX #69 quickly became the chase card of the set. Collectors could only acquire it by pulling it from Flashfire booster packs, where Mega Evolutions were introduced as a new, high-impact era of Pok\u00e9mon cards. More than a decade later, this card remains a benchmark for modern Charizard collectors, elevated even further as a Pop 1 #BGSBlackLabel \ud83d\udd25"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Released in 2014\u2019s Pok\u00e9mon XY: Flashfire, this M Charizard-EX #69 quickly became the chase card of the set. Collectors could only acquire it by pulling it from Flashfire booster packs, where Mega Evolutions were introduced as a new, high-impact era of Pok\u00e9mon cards.<\/p>\n<p>More than a decade later, this card remains a benchmark for modern Charizard collectors, elevated even further as a Pop 1\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=%23BGSBlackLabel\">#BGSBlackLabel<\/a> \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beckett Collectibles (@beckettcollect) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beckettcollect\/status\/2014862523074544071\">Jan 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released in 2014\u2019s Pok\u00e9mon XY: Flashfire, this M Charizard-EX #69 quickly became the chase card of the set. Collectors could only acquire it by pulling it from Flashfire booster packs, where Mega Evolutions were introduced as a new, high-impact era of Pok\u00e9mon cards. More than a decade later, this card remains a benchmark for modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":29356,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[51,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-29354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grading","8":"tag-beckett","9":"tag-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29355,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29354\/revisions\/29355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}