A Yu-Gi-Oh card that only has one copy in existence, making it easily the rarest in the world, is being sold in an auction next month.
Card collecting is quite the business these days, with some cards going for ridiculously high prices. Rarer cards obviously go for more, and Tyler the Great Warrior, what is undoubtedly the rarest Yu-Gi-Oh card ever printed, is currently planned to be sold off this coming April (via Kotaku). The reason the card is so rare is because it was made for Tyler Gressle, who in 2005 received it as part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a non-profit that attempts to make the wishes of children with “critical illnesses” come true.
In 2005, Gressle was suffering from a rare liver cancer that only had 200 cases reported in the whole of the US. In a video talking to Yu-Gi-Oh content creator Alex Cimo, Gressle quipped, “I wanted a Porsche, but I wasn’t old enough.” So in turn, he had a Yu-Gi-Oh card made just for him, where he was flown out to New York to meet Kazuki Takahashi, creator of Yu-Gi-Oh, as well as the voice cast for the anime.