The Pokmon TCG became more than just a game
The illustration combines the finales of Gen 5 main series video games Pokmon Black and White in which N summons Reshiram and Zekrom respectively
A Charizard was the rarest holographic in the Base Set, so pulling one from a pack was like winning a mini lottery. Only 4,000 to 10,000 cards were produced, most of which were played with and are now dogeared so to find one in mint condition like this one, which has a grading of 9 (out of 10), makes it all the rarer. The shadowless version was only printed in the earliest production run of Pokmon cards, with the holograph version even rarer
The former, even when he was growing up in the slums, wore a hoodie jacket in his youth, which then turned into a duster coat, which then got traded out into the obligatory trenchcoat
If youve read or played the Risen Reef U Devotion lists I talk about on this blog you will see a lot familiar