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Pansear #15 (Pokemon Next Destinies | Pokemon Cards) prices are based on the historic sales

And these two cards have something that few cards that don't have - the iconic status - and it's very hard to take out a card like this. So, with Pikachu Illustrator having set a new high bar for the value of Pokmon cards - and achieving increasingly record sums despite not being as hard to find as other cards - could any card ever surpass the TCGs Holy Grail

Pikachu Illustration Rare #173: ~$93 The mascot's IR sits around $93, but this is the one card on the list moving the wrong way: eBay sold prices have slipped about 20% in the past month (recent solds near $69 against higher listed markets)

The mechanics include: Transforming Double-Faced Cards - cards that can transform into a different card Disturb - Cards that can be cast from a graveyard that transform into a different card Meld - Combine two cards into one more powerful card Emerge - Sacrifice a creature to reduce the casting cost of the Emerge creature Madness - Cast the card for its Madness cost when the card is discarded Escalate - A modal spell where you can pay extra for each mode beyond the first Flashback - Cast the spell from your graveyard for its Flashback cost Investigate - Create Clue tokens to draw a card Blood tokens - Create Blood tokens to discard a card, then draw a card Undying - Return the creature to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter Miracle - Cast the card for its Miracle cost if it was the first card drawn this turn Soulbond - Pair two creatures together for additional abilities Thats a lot, and on top of all those mechanics, there are multiple versions of the transforming double-faced cards