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not only is it a striking visual making for some beautiful cards, particularly with the alt and full art in recent years but it often deals high damage with its attacks too
don't neglect the IR tier as a spending category Join TCGPlayer waitlists for the Elite Trainer Box if your local store is sold out secondary market ETBs were running 30-50% above MSRP at launch but normalize faster than booster boxes Master set including all 165 reverse holos brings total to 409 cards a dedicated 4-inch D-ring binder handles this comfortably, but budget $200-300 for sleeves, holders, and organization supplies If you only want the top three: Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex SIR, Cynthia's Garchomp ex SIR, and Ethan's Ho-Oh ex SIR are the three cards most collectors display from this set and together they cover the villain-vs-hero framing the set is built around Market Insights Top chase values (April 2026): Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex SIR $484-537, Cynthia's Garchomp ex SIR $193-278, Ethan's Ho-Oh ex SIR $143-226, Team Rocket's Moltres ex SIR $115-142, Team Rocket's Nidoking ex SIR $100-125 Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex SIR represents 26% of total set value by itself one of the more top-heavy distributions in the SV era outside of Prismatic Evolutions
I can say that the lead time between when WotC placed the order with the print facility, and when each set was released, was about 3 months when these cards were made
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