only 2% of the copies ever sent to get graded
you can play these directly from your hand, just like Event cards, but they remain in play until a card effect removes them or you play another Stage card to replace it
The total $220,574 figure may even make the shiny Charizard the most valuable Pokmon card of all time, as it exceeds the $195,000 paid last year for a mint-condition copy of Pikachu Illustrator, currently listed by Guinness World Records as the most expensive Pokmon card sold at auction.
According to TCGplayer , Aurora: Dreaming Guardian is worth roughly $199 , although that number would no doubt have been higher if the glimmering foil design had made Aurora's dress change from blue to pink based on the angle
Most Constructed formats have players begin at twenty life
Yet just how the system works in practice has created confusion, frustration, and a lot of questions that have gone unanswered