With turnaround times at major grading services ranging anywhere from a few days to over a year, I didnt want to absorb the risk of buying cards, sending them off to get graded, and then have to watch helplessly as the price point/support that I bought the raw card at get decimated as card values were to fall (and I didnt have my card back from the grading service yet)
The latter turned out to be very influential for future chase cards like Alternate Arts and Illustration Rares
So lets take a look at all of the different special conditions in alphabetical order, learn how to mark them, how each affects your Pokmon, when or if it deals damage, and perhaps most importantly, how you cure your Pokmon of each different condition
It is not a concept they ever revisited or imitated in any way
Market Value (based on PriceCharting.com ): Ungraded: $385.00 Grade 7: N/A Grade 8: $357.50 Grade 9: $414.67 Grade 9.5: $456.00 PSA 10: $1,154.00 2 Sylveon ex - 156/131 Prismatic Evolutions Special Illustration Rare Unsurprisingly, Sylveon ex manages to bust into the top two most valuable cards of 2025
Magmortar can be obtained from Space-Time Smackdown: Palkia pack in the Space-Time Smackdown set