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Stunning Starter Illustration Rares Revealed
Sealed Saturday features Sun and Moon Base
Lloyd
June 09, 2023
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In today’s episode
Starter lines secret rares revealed
Full 165 cards revealed from Pokemon Card 151
Big W online sales
Rare products sell out on the Pokemon Center website
Sealed Saturday featuring Sun and Moon base
Starter Line Illustration Rares
Illustration Rares for the first 2 evolutions, and Special Illustration Rares for final evolutions.
And oh boy…
 | [G][C] Leech Seed: 20 damage. Heal 20 damage from this Pokemon. Bulbasaur 166/165 Illus. Yoriyuki Ikegami |
 | [G][C] Leech Seed: 30 damage. Heal 20 damage from this Pokemon. [G][G][C] Vine Whip: 80 damage. Ivysaur 167/165 Illus. Yoriyuki Ikegami |
 | Ability: Soothing Bloom [G][G][C] Potent Whip: 150 damage. Your opponent’s Active Pokemon is now Poisoned and Confused. Venusaur ex 200/165 Illus. Yoriyuki Ikegami |
 | [R] Burn Down: Discard a Stadium in play. [R][R] Steady Firebreathing: 30 damage. Charmander 168/165 Illus. miki kudo |
 | [R] Combustion: 20 damage. [R][R][R] Fire Blast: 90 damage. Discard an Energy from this Pokemon. Charmeleon 169/165 Illus. miki kudo |
 | [R] Resolute Wings: 60+ damage. If this Pokemon has any damage counters on it, this attack does 100 more damage. [R][R][R][R] Detonating Vortex: 330 damage. Discard 3 Energy from this Pokemon. Charizard ex 201/165 Illus. miki kudo |
 | [W] Withdraw: Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent’s next turn, prevent all damage done to this Pokemon by attacks. [W][W] Skull Bash: 20 damage. Squirtle 170/165 Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita |
 | [W] Free Dive: Put up to 3 Basic [W] Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand. [W][W] Spinning Attack: 50 damage. Wartortle 171/165 Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita |
 | Ability: Solid Shell [W][W] Twin Cannons: 140x damage. Discard up to 2 Basic [W] Energy cards from your hand. This attack does 140 damage for each card discarded in this way. Blastoise ex 202/165 Illus. Mitsuhiro Arita |
They all have a sort of elegance in their own artworks.
Personally I will be chasing the Venusaur line.
What about you?
Big W Online Sales
These sales are online only. There’s more on sale, just click on the image to be taken to the specials.
Rare products on the Pokemon Center website
These were put up yesterday. As quickly as they appeared, they sold out.
Prices in USD
Who knows, they might find more random boxes in corners of their warehouse they forgot to check! Keep an eye out ;)
My hat is off to those who were able to score some.
Sealed Saturday
Featuring Sun and Moon Base from 2017
There aren’t many great chase cards from this set.
The most popular is Lillie, which we looked at last Trainer Tuesday.
And then Umbreon, who pulled past Espeon now at $35.58 average, and Espeon at $34.36 average.
The next 4 popular cards are gold trainer item cards, and a gold energy.
That pretty much tells you how popular the cards are in this set.
But the not so popular set is still above the price of most Sword and Shield sets (you could probably guess which set pulls ahead).
We are at the point where this set almost feels nostalgic. Give it a couple more years I’d say.
In the memes
