Even ungraded copies of the card have sold for as much as $750, with mint condition cards usually selling for thousands of dollars
excavate cards from the top of your Deck, equal to the number of your opponent's unused Spell & Trap Zones, and you can Set 1 excavated Trap to your field (but send it to the GY during the next End Phase), also place the rest on the bottom of the Deck in any order
TCG Dark Crisis (DCR) set, containing every card released in the Dark Crisis expansion, including all commons, rares, super rares, ultra rares, and the secret rare
actually casting Sylvan Reclamation with impactful targets
Whether this happened or not is up for some debate, but it makes for a great story, and likely contributes to its high price
Those starting gems might dry up faster than you expect, and if you cave and decide to buy gems, 2,000ish of them will cost you about $12 USD, and that's the special deal right now