The card game would come shortly after the video game's initial release, but only came to America at the end of 1998
On the table it was a menace, with its Psychic attack scaled with the Energy attached to your opponents Active Pokmon, while Barrier let it shrug off an incoming hit entirely, a maddening combo that decided more than a few kitchen-table games
Four mana for an unsummon and a card before you get your creature is more than reasonable
For example, even for the same Pikachu promo, the budget and number of candidates will change significantly between looking only at PSA 10 and including PSA 9 as a candidate. Deciding your tolerance line first reduces wasted comparisons
You gain life equal to that cards mana value
Chart shows the price of Bulbasaur #1 at the end of each month going back as long as we have tracked the item.