pokemon trading card game 25 cards 25th Anniversary Collection Special Set 4 Pack plus Promo and card display. Celebrations - Elite Trainer Box

this card aged out of the rotating Core Constructed format, and its not played in the non-rotating Infinity format

By itself, this is a Turn 3 win with no need for Turn 1 acceleration (unlike the Heliod, Sun-Crowned combos, for example) and only requiring two cards that are each quite versatile, making it more compact and modular than any other creature combo in these colours

and when it got pulled by an anonymous collector just days later, everyone wondered what would end up happening to it

However, even with the damage this card is a powerful play for a two-ink cost, especially at the very start of a game where ruby players often thrive

But if history is any guide, today's Japan-exclusive promo is often tomorrow's impossibly expensive collector's item.