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as of August 2019 the Pokemon TCG has sold a total of 27.2 billion cards worldwide.
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Cumulative cards shipped, as of Aug 2019 snapshot (labelled by forum poster)
27.2 billion cards As of Aug 2019 snapshot (labelled by forum poster)
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