gold legendary pokemon cards PULLING A HYPER RARE GX!! (Rarest Card in Set) Colorless Outrage (20+) Does 10 more damage for each damage counter on this Pokémon The Five Most Valuable Cards

Building up your boardstate, cutting down your opponents, and potentially restocking your hand with a huge amount of cards, Birth of the Imperium can completely turn a losing game around by the time its fully resolved

Which may have explained the higher valuation later on, when compared to before that date as the profit stream would be higher (depending on how much they paid for it)

This essentially gives you three different spells for the price of one card

Iono became one of the strongest Pokmon TCG cards because it can win games on its own by disrupting an opponent at the perfect time

That mana can be poured into Orthion, Hero of LavabrinkOrthion, Hero of Lavabrink to make more tokens, or Sneak AttackSneak Attack to cheat out creatures