The Pikachu Illustrator PSA 10 holds the record as the most expensive Pokmon card ever sold at $5,275,000, purchased by Logan Paul in July 2021
Paying just that cost for Emarkul is madness indeed
The adventure has some minor value, but if you can cast the main 7-mana spell, you can triple all of your basic land mana
It wasn't just in one deck, it was causing a diverse set of designs all of which existed largely to make use of it
I expect the price of this card to go down sharply in the face of multiple successive reprints, which is always a positive
With its Blizzard attack, it can deal 80 damage to the opponents Active Pokemon and an additional 10 damage to each of their Benched Pokemon