Originally released in Japan in 1998, two years after the OG base set first hit stores, Pokmon Trading Card Game blends elements of the core RPG series and physical tabletop game to tell the story of Mark, a young boy from the imaginatively named TCG Island
Bulbasaur appears to be expensive for the same reasons Squirtle is
Kethek is a merciless goliath who uses the flamethrowers built into her body to melt her enemies into slag
However, when the dust settles and her rider claims their reward, Keleth vanishesonly to reappear on a different battlefield sometime after, searching for a new rider
It had stellar art, awesome reprints for people just cracking boosters (Demonic Tutor, Natural Order, Tainted Pact, Time Warp, etc.), and most importantly, it played perfectly with the main theme of the set, injecting a ton of great instants and sorceries into Strixhaven s wonderful world of wizardry
Stonehoof Chieftain and Lightning Greaves are the only other pieces at the $10+ range, notably with a very different level of reprints