The first-edition Base Set Charizard #4 card sold for $264,000 on July 24th, joining a rare Pokmon-Magic: The Gathering hybrid card and sealed Base Set booster box sold for similarly staggering sums on the same day.
The basic conceit is this: youre a mighty wizard (player) and you use your book of spells (deck of cards) to battle your opponent until their health is depleted (their points are at zero.) With over twenty thousand cards at players disposal and almost 30 years of history, its a game with a high level of variance and replayability
Blade of the Bloodchief Blade of the Bloodchief might not be as striking as some other cards, but its cheap and it likes vampires
I'd still be wary, though, I've heard from different sources that Walmart used to have fake packages for sale
These have different outputs, but they're still fresh enough off the presses that they could climb up this list in time, or drop off completely
What makes the card so valuable beyond its recognizability from the video game series