With people sleeping in tents outside of Walmart waiting to buy cards and sports card stores selling out frequently
New infamy aside, the card was a prize for a Japanese art competition, and this card specifically the 1998 Pocket Monsters Japanese Promo Illustrator Pikachu of which there are only about 41 confirmed copies in existence, with only 27 graded through PSA, and only one at a PSA 10 rating Of course its not the only expensive Pikachu card, as PriceCharting shows recent eBay sold listings, and PSA shows others through action, and a combination of both can be indicative, if not exact, of the amount of money spent on cards at the moment
For collectors looking for cards with unique origin stories, this is one of them
Psychic is a three Energy attack that starts at 60 damage and then scales up for each Energy on your opponents Active Pokemon
Within that extremely limited slot, Cynthias Garchomp ex 87 (SAR) rarely appears, especially competing with the other SAR's in this set
