Recent November 2025 sales include a PSA 9 example at $1,545.00, with earlier 2025 transactions between $638.00 and $1,435.00
Twenty-four years later, I wore it out to my Wrestlemania debut after it set a Guinness World Record for the most expensive Pokemon card ever sold--the only perfect PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator in the world
Counterpunch is where it started
If your commander itself is a source of card advantage, then you can get away with a lower number here
High Class Packs (HCPs) are premium Japanese sets with boosted pull rates and curated card pools drawn from multiple standard expansions
Thankfully, the deck comes loaded with a few ways to start pinging your opponents, punishing them for doing everything from tapping lands for mana from Barbflare Gremlin, to having creatures die from Blood Artist