When you apply Nephalia Academys effect, the card was still discarded
The standout names span every era: the 1st Edition Shadowless Base Set Charizard, the record holder the Topsun Blue Back Charizard, the earliest of them all the Gold Star Charizard from EX Dragon Frontiers the modern Mega Charizard X ex cards 1st Edition Shadowless Base Set Charizard The 1st Edition Base Set Holo Charizard is the most expensive Charizard ever recorded, with a PSA 10 reaching $954,800 at Goldin in February 2026
However, the Shinra Company has monopolized mako production, and in doing so established a powerful hegemony, its influence reaching the far corners of the globe
Okay, but what the heck are the 1999-2000 Base Set cards
Although they are great Merfolk lords they are incosistent as finishers because we may play against decks with no blue color
Japanese Pokemon cards use a rarity system that looks familiar on the surface C, U, R, SR but adds a whole second tier of modern rarities (AR, SAR, UR, MUR, CHR, CSR) that dont map cleanly to the English Scarlet & Violet system most Western collectors learned first