Featuring the Rain Dance ability and a potentially high-damage Hydro Pump, plus classic Ken Sugimori art, Blastoise is highly sought after by both collectors and competitive players
More importantly, everything else that triggers on the end step also goes again
"Now I don't have a single Pokemon item in my store at the moment," he said
Market data shows prices climbing from 20,000 to 40,000 a 100% gain driven by sustained collector demand and Pikachus evergreen popularity
Thanks to their place in history and extremely limited production, the PSA 10 graded copies are marked around $50,000 , placing them among the most expensive Pokmon cards of the era
But theyre also good for: Deciding who gets first turn in the match Simulating coin flips for The Gold Saucer (call odds/evens instead of heads/tails) Randomly choosing a card for Sin, Spiras Punishment Tracking the mana in your mana pool (if a card like Esper Terra makes a lot all at once) Representing the numbers (and/or stats) of tokens you create Keeping count of random statistics that your cards care about, like how close you are to transforming Emet-Selch or how many times Sephiroth has triggered this turn Helping you remember important upkeep triggers like Dark Confidant or Seymour Flux (place a die on top of your deck every turn so you cant draw a card without stopping to remember why its there) and plenty more
