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The text on it is "The Pokmon Card Game Official Tournament Battle Road Spring 2002 champion is recognized here, and his honor is praised.", which makes the card exclusive and valuable

Determined to prove their mettle, Mega Heracross ex, Mega Lopunny ex, and even more Pokmon line up to give it their all in the Pokmon TCG: Mega Evolution Phantasmal Flames expansion.

Only 41 copies of the card are verified to exist, with only 39 in circulation, with even fewer sales recorded in PSAs database

First-edition cards, marked with a first-edition stamp, are more valuable than reprints

A key release came in 2013 with the release of Modern Masters, the first set reprint set released for the Modern format and gave birth to the Masters reprint series, and in 2019 with Modern Horizons, which was the first to bring mechanically new cards that skipped Standard legality

Collectors werent bidding on cards they could see but on the tantalizing possibility of pulling a trinity of holographic legends: Charizard, Blastoise, and Venusaur