Beyond just being rare, thanks in part to the limited-run printing of Secret Lair drops, and their Bonus Cards, Mana Vault is insanely strong
The Bobblehead cards, for instance, are pretty good, but having only two Bobbleheads in the deck and their main effect relying on more is a reason to cut them out
Pikachu is just chilling in the cross-promotional cap that well undoubtedly catch far too many of in Go, and there's another walking by its trainer in a real-life setting
Its ability allows you to tap your Treasure tokens rather than sac them, gives your Food tokens extra utility, and essentially turns all your Squirrel tokens into mana dorks
It is the only PSA 10 Illustrator in existence.The unique pen rarity symbolWhat this sale says about the Pokmon card market right nowThe $1.4 million sale lands at an interesting moment for Pokmon Trading Card Game collecting
Granted, Kamigawa had a lot of synergies with both ninjutsu and artifacts to make Virus Beetle stand out in the way that it did, but its still going to be a good and highly sought-after common in Edge of Eternities
