pokemon black white booster box B&W Base Set Pokémon Other Format Title Pokémon TCG: Scarlet & Violet—Black

"Volume7: Double Trouble Duel"

Pikachu ex (A1 285) A Basic Lightning-type Pokmon with the ability to deal 30x damage based on your Benched Lightning Pokmon

Since this card was released in August 2024, its TCG career hasn't had much time to blossom, but Mew still saw its price skyrocket from roughly $40 to over $100 before settling in at the current market price

It was then changed to be free if it was the first spell you cast, which is similar, but felt like a slightly different mechanical space

Without the Dryad Arbour trick it is pretty weak early and although I don't really like either card I had seen them used to good effect recently and felt compelled to give them another chance

But I learned the game from one of those fold-out How To Play cards in 2012 that covered the bog-standard basics, combined with reading the cards and playing with new people