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Melmetal's vibrant full artwork can also be pulled as a Secret Rare Rainbow variant

The way this genius deck from @janky_as_heck wins is less unique: Turn some big green creatures sideways, fly over would-be blockers for big damage, and copy your best creature to dominate opponents

The purchase broke the previous Pokmon card record of $190,000, which also belonged to an Illustrator Pikachu card sold in 2019

Later Unlimited prints are more common and less valuable

The best targets are Expanded Anatomy and Academic Probation (Probation in particular is very good as another way to push through damage that triggers magecraft twice for only three mana)