Golden Chocobo Sells For Staggering $78,000 in Mere Hours

Last updated on August 7, 2025

Traveling Chocobo | Illustration by Toni Infante

Those golden turkeys are still at it, it seems. The chase for Final Fantasy‘s golden Traveling Chocobos continues well into the lifespan of the next set, with the most recent recorded sale of Chocobo #53/77 going for a cool $78,000.

Counting Your Chickens

Quick recap: There are 77 serialized Golden Chocobos exclusive to Final Fantasy Collector boosters, which are one of the main reasons that those boxes are as expensive as they are. You hit one of these in a box, it's an instant payday.

Source

FFMTGCollector on r/mtgfinance has cataloged the most recent sale of one such Chocobo, which capped out at $78,000. This was #53/77, originally posted by Nathan Lucas of Ohio, and with that sale, half of all the possible Golden Chocobos have been accounted for.

The Golden Chocobo Tracker app displays 38 out of 77 of these golden birds with confirmations from original openers and sellers, and also shows the most recent sales associated with each one. The prices range anywhere from $40,000-$80,000, with varying degrees of protection and grading being used.

FFMTGCollector's Reddit thread documenting all the known chocobos also includes valuable information about the grading involved with these collector's items. Currently, 22 of the known 38 Chocobos have been graded across a wide variety of services.

One particularly interesting Chocobo worth tracking is #63/77, which sold for $50,000 very soon after going up for sale, but is now being listed with an asking price of $250,000 by that buyer. It's the only known Chocobo to be graded as a Pristine 10 right now, though time will tell if anyone bites on a quarter of a million dollars for it. The wealthy among you can find the golden bird listed on eBay.

So What's Left?

Traveling Chocobo | Illustration by Ashley Mackenzie

Thirty-Nine feathered friends remain out in the open, but as FFMTGCollector cautiously warns: “Not all 77 will be found.” Some number of serialized birds will end up in sealed purgatory in stockpiled collections of Booster boxes, and may not see the light of day for quite some time. Others might go unreported to the masses, though people seem pretty eager to share and sell these when they open them.

There's also the question of whether some numbers are better than others when it comes to serialized cards. For example, 1/77 and 77/77 have a bit of an alpha-omega feel to them, #69 is always in hot demand because of course it is, and some of the numbers associated with the entries in the Final Fantasy franchise might put up premium numbers, so anything that remains between #1-16 might sell at a higher rate. Though this is all mostly buyer speculation that hasn't fully panned out (#69 was already discovered and sold for $46,844, one of the lowest sales so far).

As far as numbered FF games go, #2, #5, #7, #8, #9, #13, and #16 are all still out in the wild somewhere. Of those numbers, #7/77 would likely fetch the highest price, not just because of Final Fantasy VII‘s wild popularity, but also because of the aesthetically pleasing round of 7s. Otherwise, anything else that gets discovered is going to depend on condition, buyers, etc. There's a bit of precedent out there for how much people are willing to pay for one of these now, and many collectors are “locking” up a copy whenever possible. We'll just have to see how many of the remaining 39 chocobos get opened, and how these sales pan out over time.